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News, Rumors and Other Speculation

As I relaunch this website, I’ve decided to add a regular news & rumor feature where I curate the overwhelming amount of daily tech news for those who use tech, but aren’t tech geeks like myself. My goal is to find a few notable news and rumor items weekly that may be of interest. In that I have a bias toward Apple products, I primarily plan to share news and rumors concerning iPhone, Mac and apps for these devices. Please …

Knights of Columbus Daddy / Daughter Dance 2023 Photos

This link will take you to an album on Google Photos containing all of the photos from the evening: View and download photos from the Knights of Columbus Daddy / Daughter Dance 2023. To download all the photos, or individual photos, use the “kebab” menu (3 vertical dots): Download all photos:   Download single photos:

Apple’s WWDC 2020 Announcements: What You Need to Know

Apple had some very big announcements last week at WWDC (WorldWide Developers’ Conference). These announcements were all about Apple’s new operating and application software that will make the iPhone, iPad and Mac easier to use, more compatible and more powerful. They also announced a new direction for the Mac, running on all Apple-developed silicon in about 2 years. This transition from Intel’s processors and other vendors’ chips to proprietary Apple Silicon is expected to give Macs more speed and power, …

New iPhones and iOS 13 Updates – So Much Goodness!

Many have asked me if I got the new iPhone 11. Yes I did, the Pro Max model! Why? Primarily because of its amazing cameras (3 of them) and the underlying software that allows them to take the best images you have ever seen on a smartphone. I’m not kidding. Here are my first photos showing the focal length of each of the three camera lenses (click an image to enlarge it):     There are MANY other reasons to …

Another Satisfied Client

David hired me to upgrade his aging MacBook Pro. Its performance was so slow due to its lack of sufficient memory to adequately support the latest MacOS. It also had the original hard disk drive, which by today’s standards performs woefully slow. I upgraded the computer’s memory to 16GB and replaced the spinning hard drive with a fast solid state drive (SSD). All of his programs, settings and documents were migrated to the new SSD. The result? This 2011 computer …

The Geekiest Credit Card Ever!

Apple is rolling out its new credit card and I’m so excited to have received mine! It is a white titanium card with only my name on it, nothing else except the Mastercard, Apple and Goldman Sachs logos. Yep, a METAL credit card…so cool! The process for getting one is simple, as long as you have an iPhone. Request the card by entering your Apple ID email address on the Apple Card page of Apple’s website (near the bottom of …