Technology

Home Alone for a New Age

Google released a new commercial today that hits right in the nastalgia. It’s an updated version of Home Alone with Google devices all around ready to activate the Google Assistant. I’m not a Google fan, and I’m not sure that I would want them in my house (but really what would they be getting from […]

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The new iPad Pro 2018

The State of Apple’s iPad in 2018

2018 has been an interesting year for Apple’s iPad.  Last year, Apple made a split between the iPad and iPad Pro lines.  The standard iPad lacked some of the speed of its Pro brothers, couldn’t use the Apple Pencil nor did it have a Smart Connector to use the Smart Keyboard Cover.   This year,

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Robinhood Cash Management

Robinhood Checking and Savings – too good to be true

Last Thursday, Robinhood announced that they were going to start offering a checking and savings account that had no fees and offered 3% interest.  Things have pivoted and Robinhood’s Checking and Savings is now Cash Management.  I wrote about it last week because I thought it was an amazing deal.  I read a couple of articles

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iOS 12.1.2 update

iOS 12.1.2 released – fixes eSim issues and more

Apple released iOS 12.1.2 today.  The update deals mainly with eSim activation issues and problems affecting iPhone XS, XS Max, and the XR. eSim allows you to use an additional phone number with the same or different cell phone provider on the same phone, without a Sim card.  The sim card would be digital. Some

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The Nintendo Switch

My Top 5 Nintendo Switch Games

The Nintendo Switch is on track to sell so many units this holiday.  Variety even reports that over the Cyber Monday sales of the Nintendo Switch climbed 45%.   That means there will probably be a good number of new Nintendo Switch owners come Christmas.   While some of the new owners probably have a

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A12X bionic

Intel Announces New Chips and what does this mean for the Mac?

Intel announced new CPU chips today, Sunny Cove but does this news mean anything to the Mac? Sunny Cove is a new micro architecture built on a smaller 10 nano meter size.  Generally, the smaller the chip size, the faster and more power efficient the chip can be.  The processes and electrons have less space

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The iMac 2018

The Next iMac: 4 things I’d like to see

The last few months have been a whirlwind of releases from Apple.  They started in July with updated MacBook Pros and followed that up with 3 new iPhones, a new Apple Watch, new iPad Pros, an updated MacBook Air, and new Mac Minis. Almost the entire line has been touched this year – except the iMac.

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ECG app

Apple hasn’t submitted the ECG on Apple Watch to Health Canada

According the Health Canada’s twitter account, Apple has yet to submit any kind of approval for the ECG on the Series 4 Apple Watch. When asked whether or not it had received a medical device application for the Apple Watch Series 4 EKG functionality, Health Canada explained that it has not yet received any such

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The State of the Apple TV 2018

One of the devices I haven’t written much about is also the device that gets used the most in my house, the Apple TV. So what is the State of the Apple TV in 2018? Design The design of the Apple TV hasn’t changed much since the 4th generation.  The Apple TV is a small

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iphone apple watch ecg

watchOS 5.1.2 coming today

Apple has announced that 5.1.2 will becoming today with the ECG reader, as mentioned last week. The update is not yet live, but it should be some time today.  I will report back more once it’s launched and I’ve had time to go hands on with the ECG app.   To update your Apple Watch,

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