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Apple is not known for making their devices easy to repair and changing the battery on a MacBook Pro is no exception. To keep their hardware right, they hook, screwed and glued the battery into the MacBook Pro. You can still change the battery yourself, but you will need to Read more…
In this video we demonstrate how to easily install Windows 11 on a mid-2012 Intel based MacBook Pro. There are two things you will need to make this happen: Windows 11 Installation wrapper – This comes from AveYo’s GitHub site and you can download it from him HERE or you Read more…
If you are shopping for smart light bulbs 💡 you may have seen a choices you did not expect. Specifically, we had one client looking for LED light bulbs that would work with Google Assistant and a month before that we had a different client looking for smart bulbs they Read more…
If you are considering a Google Assistant clock in your bedroom or kitchen, you should consider the Lenovo Smart Clock with Google Assistant, Lenovo Smart Clock 2 with & Lenovo Smart Clock Essential. We unbox, walk you through the complete setup and then demonstrate a number of useful voice commands. Read more…
In the video below we show how to remove the 3.5″ spinning hard drive from a Seagate Expansion USB kit using everyday tools you have at home. Usually, the disks inside USB kits spin at just 5400 RPM where are nearly all internal desktop drives rotate at 7200RPM, making for Read more…
If you have ever worked on a fully configured PulseSecure (formerly Juniper) device, you know the security setup can be a bit confusing to navigate the SIGNING IN, ADMINISTRATOR REALMS, ADMINISTRATOR ROLES, USER REALMS, and USER ROLES. To create, edit or delete a local administrator in PulseSecure: Sign into your Read more…
At URTech.ca we focus nearly all of our effort on Windows, Microsoft 365 cloud and Android issues, but we recently had a requirement to connect to a web server and run some Linux commands. The process of connecting and running those commands with Putty was not as straight forward as Read more…
We often need the SMTP email configuration for different services and are tired of searching all over the internet for them. Here is a list of email server configurations from services you might use (in alphabetic order) APPLE MAIL SERVER SETTINGS Incoming Server: imap.mail.me.com Incoming Port: IMAP 993 Outgoing Server: Read more…
If you are a Windows administrator dealing with the Junos command line requirements of a Juniper network switch can be daunting. In particular the EX2300 and EX3400 switches have a peculiarity in which neither of them have enough memory to complete a firmware upgrade. We demonstrate how to make more Read more…
If you have a Juniper switch that is up for sale or being scrapped, it should be factory reset. We assume you know nothing and show you which cable you need, what software you need and what commands to run: Connect your computer to your Juniper switches console port (on Read more…
If you are an Windows admin that needs to periodically deal with network gear, you may be overwhelmed by the complexity of the Juniper firmware upgrade process. We have the video below that goes through the entire process, including how to source the firmware. Below that video are all of Read more…
We have been using Virtualdub to stabalize video and make changes to other aspects like compression for more than a decade now and we rarely have errors that do not have obvious solutions. Today, however, our stabalization errored out in Virtual dub with the error: vdffvideosource – decodeframe – discontinuity Read more…
In 2020 we compared several video stabiliztion tools including Filmora and NCH Videopad and settled on NCH Videopad as the best solution. 1: Free Video Stabilization with NCH Videopad: A few days ago we revisited the stabilization options as we had more video to correct and we found that NCH Read more…
We recently sourced an Nvidia Quadro P1000 half height video card to install in our small form factor (SFF) Dell Optiplex 5070. Here we explain what the big differences are between the P600, P1000, P2000, P4000 and P6000 and then show how to change the plate from full height to Read more…
It is often promoted the VPN’s are the great saviour of privacy. However, most people really don’t understand what a VPN is doing. For home users, VPN’s (Virtual Private Network’s) are just private tunnels through the internet that let you APPEAR to be at in a different city. After you Read more…
Recently we created a video explaining and demonstrating how to use How To Animate Old Photos Into Movies For Free using MyHeritage.com‘s artificial intelligence system. We did this using their free 14 day trial and now we need to cancel that trial so we don’t have to pay $125 for Read more…