As 2023 is soon upon us, I wanted to give a shout out to what I think are the top macOS apps going into the new year. One of the reasons why I'm a fairly recent Windows to Mac convert (about 3 years ago) is the quality of the ecosystem...
I just migrated my home firewall to a Firewalla Gold Plus (4x 2.5GbE ports) and configured it to use NextDNS. For quite some time I've been running NextDNS with my old OPNsense firewall. NextDNS is a cloud based DNS service that is very security and privacy oriented. It lets you configure...
Introduction I've been a remote worker for the last 7 years, and during that time my office setup has evolved. So when COVID hit, nothing changed for me in terms of my work environment. However, what has changed for me is my at-home desk setup. Over the past few months...
For a couple of years now I've been using the Hubitat Elevation C7 home automation hub. I was doing some tweaking this weekend, and I wanted to setup SMTP and SMS notification channels. I had been using Twilio for SMS, but it wasn't a free service. And I also wanted...
A few months ago I saw several people I follow on Twitter exclaiming about their Stream Deck. I'm not a "streamer" nor do I do Twitch, but the concept of physical buttons to run commands on my Mac was very interesting. My button configuration is ever evolving, but I thought...
I'm a fan of the Microsoft Edge browser for the Mac, and I use it as my daily driver. Sometimes you want to open an InPrivate session directly from the Mac dock. While not difficult to do, it took some research to do it exactly how I wanted. Other tutorials...
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the app OpenIn, the developer, nor did anyone ask me to review the app. I just liked it so much, I wanted to spread the word.The other day I was on Reddit and saw a list of top Mac apps for 2021, and someone...
As a permanent remote IT professional I've had a dual 27" 4K monitor setup for Intel based Macs for a number of years. A few weeks ago I upgraded my personal Mac to a new 14" M1 Pro, and wanted to keep using my dual monitor setup. However, I ran...
Update: Dec 12, 2021: I discovered a new must-have app called OpenIn. I've added it to the list below.--Very recently I purchased a new Mac, a 14" M1 Pro running Monterey. I did a clean install of all my apps and data, and thought it would be a good time...
For many years home labs, and even in some production environments, booting VMware ESXi from a SD card or USB stick was an easy and simple way to deploy ESXi. For example, up until today I booted my Dell Precision 7920 ESXi 7 host from a high endurance SD card...
Hot off the press is Nutanix Collector, v3.4. What is Nutanix Collector? Nutanix Collector collects the cluster statistics such as usage data of the allocated resources from AHV, ESXi, and Hyper-V clusters. Nutanix Collector provides a simple method to quickly capture configuration and performance metrics of your virtualized environments and...
Hot off the software press is Nutanix AOS 5.20 LTS (Long Term Support). This is a major new release, that rolls ups new features and bug fixes from AOS STS (short term support) releases 5.16, 5.17, 5.18, and 5.19. AOS 5.20 is a maintenance branch from 5.19. You can directly...