New MacBook Air
So I finally dipped my feet into the Mac ecosystem and bought myself a MacBook Air. Yes, I know it’s 3 years old but what the heck – it was the cheapest Mac I could buy! Went for the 8GB/ 256GB i5...
View ArticleSony WH-1000MX2
So, Sony’s WH-1000MX2 successor the WH-1000MX3 was released yesterday. As usual there’s plenty of reviews praising it and how it could dethrone the Bose QC-35 II and how it’s slightly better than the...
View ArticleHappy Diwali!
Yes, I am still around. :) Been a hectic few weeks. A lot of work. My eyes hurt, my right hand hurts. Too much screen time and typing. In non-work news though, I am now a Mac user. Yay yippee yay! It...
View Article[Aside] Mac Mini 2018 Teardown & RAM Upgrade
I could never bring myself to open up any of my Apple devices! :) This video is cool though and gives you an idea of what the Mac Mini internals look like. (via)
View ArticleApple Watch & macOS
Useful things you can do with the Apple Watch I was’t much of an Apple Watch fan to begin with. I owned a Pebble and was quite happy with it. It showed the time, let me control media, and when paired...
View ArticleRetina Monitors
I know I touched upon this in passing in some previous post but I thought I should highlight it again. This past month I learnt that monitors resolutions aren’t the only thing that matters, the pixel...
View ArticleBluetooth stutters? Use wireless!
I prefer Bluetooth keyboards and mice to wireless ones because that’s one less adapter worry about. Most keyboards & mouse I used so far were wireless though as that’s popular but after switching...
View ArticleGoogle search for Apple Music is better than Apple Music search!
It’s annoying how good Google search is. Many a times I search for a song in Apple Music, don’t find it, and think it’s not there. But then I do a Google search for “<song name> iTunes” and bam!...
View ArticleThoughts on the Magic Mouse 2
Background: I purchased the Magic Mouse 2 today. I had been vary of purchasing it initially because I saw it with a colleagues and also the Apple Store and was concerned the flat nature of the mouse...
View ArticleFrom iPhone 7 Plus to iPhone 11 Pro Max
So I bit the bullet and upgraded from my trusty iPhone 7 Plus to the just released iPhone 11 Pro Max. I was having second thoughts about going to the Max size but I am glad I did. It suits my hand...
View ArticleThe new AirPods Pro
I bought the new AirPods Pro yesterday and returned them today (I didn’t return them; see the end of the post for an update). That’s not coz I hate them or anything, just that they had one very...
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LG Ultrafine 4k (the newer 23.7″ version) compared to LH 24UD58
I had previously alluded to the LG 24UD58 in a post from 2018. It was my monitor of choice ever since I shifted to using macOS due to its high PPI. At that point while I was aware of the LG Ultrafine...
View ArticleMoving macOS (Big Sur) to a new drive
In a previous post I mentioned I was trying out the Big Sur beta. This was actually on my iMac with a fusion drive that I wasn’t using for much else, but now that I had Big Sur on it I started using it...
View ArticleCarbon X1 and poor Thunderbolt display performance
I was given a Thinkpad Carbon X1 7th Gen (2019 model) from work couple of weeks ago (which is what prompted a rejiggle of my home setup and led to me trying the Raspberry Pi as a desktop as detailed...
View ArticleSynology Hyper Backups to Wasabi
Tried out Wasabi today. They are a cloud storage provider to which you can store and access data as if it were Amazon S3. I am not too familiar with AWS as I have worked more with Azure so this was...
View ArticleTroubles booting Big Sur from an external disk
The title’s kind of misleading, but I didn’t know what else to put there so … Also, the events below happened a month ago and I have a very bad memory so a lot of the details are a little fuzzy in my...
View ArticleSurface Laptop 3 first impressions
After a long time I am using a Windows laptop. New job, got a new laptop – a Surface Laptop 3 – and I am quite excited about it. In the previous job I had a Lenovo Carbon X1 but I wasn’t that much...
View ArticleOn Apple TV (the hardware)
Inspired by this Gruber blog post. I have an Apple TV 4K (not the latest one) and while I don’t use it too much as 99% of my media needs are satisfied by the Fire Stick 4K (which is way cheaper and I...
View ArticleKeychron K2
I bought myself a Keychon K2 keyboard yesterday. I had an eye on this one for a while but I was wary of spending money on keyboards (I have spent lots of money on keyboards and headphones in the past...
View ArticleThe M1 MacBook Air speakers are amazing!
Every time I work on the MacBook Air and I have some music on I just get blown away by the sound quality. Sure it supports Dolby Atmos, but it impresses me even with non Dolby Atmos tracks. The sound...
View ArticleThat Apple Event
Phew! That was a sigh of relief from me after watching the Apple Event. No product that brought in me an impulse buy feeling… my money is safe! Thank goodness. I liked the M1 Pro and the M1 Max and the...
View ArticleBliss! (Update: not so much)
I have a pair of HomePod Minis in my home office room. Yesterday I bought an additional pair and put one each in the bedroom and living room. Initially I was going to pair them in the living room, but...
View ArticleSony WF-1000XM4
I bought myself a pair of the Sony WF-1000XM4s yesterday. And today I am returning them. It was a short lived love affair but I feel I should blog about it so it’s saved for posterity. I bought them...
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Poor man’s iPhone macOS continuity mount
The Belkin continuity mount for iPhones so we can use it as a camera with macOS is not out yet (though some YouTubers have got their hands on it in Aug 2022). I have to attend a meeting today for which...
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Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II – this is the one!
So I splurged some of my hard earned money and bought myself the new Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II. It was, of course, a question between these or the latest AirPods Pro 2. I didn’t go for the latter...
View ArticlePowerBeats and Windows
I started using my work Windows machine for “work” stuff this week, moving on from Mac. I have a now discontinued pair of PowerBeats (bought two of them in fact, before they got discontinued, as I like...
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Adieu, Twenty Twenty Two
As the year comes to an end I took this last week off from work. It’s only been a few days of holiday so far, but I am glad I took it. I really needed a detox from work as it has been a hectic few...
View ArticleManually launching the Plex setup wizard
I messed up my Plex server today. It wasn’t connecting to any of my libraries, and in a moment of frustration I removed the Plex server from within the Plex server UI hoping it would let me add it back...
View ArticlePSA: Useful iPhone stuff to do
(PSA == Public Service Announcement) Came across this WSJ article in my news feed the other day. That’s behind a Paywall, so best to check out this YouTube video by the authors. The long and short of...
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Touch ID keyboard for Mac mini
Long time no posts, just been busy with work. I came across this post by Jason Snell the other day. I think I was Googling for it – some way of having Touch ID with my Mac mini. I don’t want to use the...
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