All My Gear

Last updated February 16, 2023

This is a list of all the technology I currently OWN and USE, day in and day out. I picked them for very specific reasons.

The Gear	Category	Why I bought it	Gear_Image
15LED Flood Lighting, RGB	LED Lighting	Super affordable, powered/corded, LED lights, perfect for adding colors to any photo/video shoot. Comes with IR remote controls.	Check Price
Manfrotto MTPIXI-B PIXI Mini Tripod	Tripod	This is my favorite MiniTripod. I almost always have it with me. It is small enough to fit into my jacket pocket. It works great as a vlogging grip and can instantly prop open to place my camera on a table for hands free photos and videos! $20, VERY well spent!	Check Price
LG 42.5" 4K (43UD79-B)	Monitor	For a productivity monitor, this thing blows the competition away. 4K resolution with at this size is PERFECT, I can use 100% dpi scaling, and all my texts are crips and easy to read. Colors are perfect (after calibration). The price is a real bargain, in my opinion. NOTE: It has a relatively slow refresh rates that makes it a no-no for high speed gaming.	Check Price
Canon 85mm F/1.2 Mark II	Camera Lens	The most beautiful Portrait Lens out there! This lens is responsible some of my most proud wedding photos! The lens is very slow to focus, and really requires a skill to use effectively, but over the years, I've learned to capture some great photos with it! I ALWAYS bring this lens with me when I photograph wedding. It's one of my 3 most important lens as a wedding photography.	Check Price
Sennheiser EW 112P G3-G	Microphone	Top-of-the-line Wireless Microphone systems that I've been using for years, they are well worth their cost! Love how versatile these are!	Check Price
GoPro HERO6 Black	Camera	Perfect for anything that requires capturing footage in a rough environment. I attach these to cars for awesome videos, and I use these underwater without any additional housing needed. Audio quality is really bad on these guys, but the extreme footage is what these cameras are known for. They also have a timelapse mode that I can leave running the entire day on a single battery (based on the photo capture frequency).	Check Price
Canon G7x Mark II	Camera	Perfect little camera for vlogging and traveling. It's small, compact, has great low light capabilities. Can record beautiful video at 1080p and has a flip out screen that I enjoy using to frame myself, take low angle shots as well as over head shots with ease. The audio recording capabilities is the weakest link, but I don't mind given how compact and travel friendly this camera is!	Check Price
Canon 100mm f/2.8 L Macro	Camera Lens	Great for close up product shots for UTECHPIA's video and awesome for taking photos of rings, at weddings.	Check Price
Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 IS Mark II	Camera Lens	One of the most useful lens I have to shoot wedding photography! This is a MUST have lens, along with the 24-70mm f/2.8 L Mark II and the 85mm f/1.2 L Mark II.	Check Price
Canon 24-70 Mark II	Camera Lens	Simply one of the most used lens to record all of UTECHPIA's Videos and is a workhouse for wedding photography.	Check Price
Canon 1Dx	Camera	We bought these cameras when they just hit the market, years ago, and although there is a version II out now. The original ones are still amazing for shooting weddings, action photography, and used to record all of UTECHPIA's videos!	Check Price
2015 iMac 5K 27"	Desktop	As a Final Cut Pro user, this is probably the BEST priced computer for the job. I also love pairing it with my MacBook Pro as well. Both are very comparable in performance and price.	Check Price
2017 MacBook Pro	Laptop	This thing is amazing, yes, it's expensive, but it's an extremely well built laptop that has solid performance. It's the most compact and lightweight 15" laptop out there; given the level of performance it offers!	Check Price

Best iPhone X Cydia Tweaks for iOS 11 Electra Jailbreak

Last updated April 12, 2018

These are my personal favorites:

SneakyCam – Not a free download, you need to pay $4 to get this, but it’s so worth it, it’s my TOP favorite Jailbreak tweak! You can record and take photos without turning on the screen of your phone! This is PERFECT for vloggers! REPO: http://beta.sparkservers.co.uk
EclipseX – you can FINALLY have dark mode on your iPhone 10! This is currently in beta, and the beta is free to use. REPO: http://gmoran.me/repo
NoMoreSmallApps – Make ALL your iPhone Apps open to completely fill up the screen of your iPhone X, even if the developer of the app didn’t design it so! It works great! And it’s free! REPO: http://beta.sparkservers.co.uk
MusicDockX – Not a free download, WOW, this is an awesome widget for any music lover. You can swipe up from the bottom of your phone to get access to a nice music player control panel. http://beta.sparkservers.co.uk
CCMusicArtwork – Not a free download, but this is another cool app that lets you show the album artwork in the notification’s music widget. REPO: http://beta.sparkservers.co.uk
ForceInPicture – Enables a feature that is native in the iPad (apple just disables it on the iPhone). This allows you to effective watch a video (from Safari, for example), while multitasking on your phone! This is sweet!
BatteryPercentX – This will replace the battery indicator (on the top of your iphone) with a battery percentage! You can also tap & hold the battery percentage to quickly respring your device! REPO: http://beta.sparkservers.co.uk
TapTime – You can tap the clock on your status bar to see the current date! You can do this while you are in any app, and it is very convenient! REPO: http://beta.sparkservers.co.uk
EasySwitcherX – Simply switch up on apps in the switch to kill them. Instead of having to press and hold first. This feature *SHOULD* have been how the iPhone X natively works! REPO: http://beta.sparkservers.co.uk

My current favorite list of Cydia Repositories (repos) that are iOS 11 Friendly.

Add these to your Sources in your Cydia store. Enjoy!

http://beta.sparkservers.co.uk

http://gmoran.me/repo

https://dannyglover.github.io/repo

http://beta.cpdigitaldarkroom.com

http://packix.ioscreatix.com

How to jailbreak the iPhone X and Should I jailbreak? Is it Illegal? Is it Safe? Is it Worth it?

Last updated April 12, 2018

https://coolstar.org/electra/
http://www.cydiaimpactor.com/

Wow, I can’t believe this day is finally here! In this video! I’ll be showing you how I jailbreak my iPhone X! This also works on all iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and iPad mini models running iOS 11.0-11.1.2

I really like the iPhone X, but without a jailbreak, there’s hardly any customization available. With jailbreaking, there are lots of 3rd party apps that I can install which can provide new functionalities and tweaks that apple does not allow.

jailbreaking is 100% legal. Thanks to the exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 2012 which made jailbreaking phones legal. The exemption as later expanded in 2015 to include tablets too!

Although jailbreaking is 100% legal, you lose the security you get with Apple Products, because with a Jailbroken device, you’re pretty much trusting all these 3rd party apps which haven’t been approved by Apple.

This jailbreak is provided by Electra and it works for all iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and iPad mini models running iOS 11.0-11.1.2. I’m extremely thankful for the developers of this jailbreak, they’re awesome!

There have been several versions out, and this is the MOST stable one, by far. (Version 1.0.4). Check the link in the description for the latest version.

REQUIREMENT TO Jailbreak:

#1) Your device MUST have a iOS version of 11.0 to 11.1.2. If you don’t already have this iOS version; there is no way to download it now, sorry. If you have iOS 11.2 through 11.2.2, there is still a chance that they will have the jailbreak for newer iOS version soon!

#2) You need a computer running Windows, OS X, or Linux. Go ahead and download the Electra jailbreak IPA file and the Cydia Impactor. The Cydia Impactor is a tool that we will use to load the Electra jailbreak IPA file on to your iOS device). Links to the files are in the description below.

#3) You need a USB cable to connect your phone to your computer.

Alright, moving forward! Let’s get my iPhone X jailbroken.

So my iPhone X is on iOS 11.1; which is compatible with this jailbreak.
I’ll be using my MacBook Pro to install the jailbreak, but you can do this with a computer running Windows or Linux.

Step 1:

Plug your device into the computer and TRUST the device. If iTunes opens up, make sure you close it.

Step 2:

Open the Cydia Impactor. Drag the Electra jailbreak IPA onto the Cydia Impactor application.

You’ll be prompted for an “Apple ID Username”. (It does NOT need to be associated with a developer’s membership license. If you’ve enabled Apple’s Two-factor Authentication, you’ll get this error, just like I did.

Simply go to appleid.apple.com, login, and go to the section on “App-Specific Passwords” and generate a password. You can enter anything for the password label, I’ll use UTECHPIA.

Now you have the password you need to continue.

Let’s try this again: drag the jailbreak IPA on to the Cydia Impactor, enter your apple ID , and then for the password, use the app-specific password we just generated.

This loads the Electra jailbreak app on to your apple device.

Step 3:

You should now see the Electra jailbreak App on your Apple device. Go ahead an open it and run the jailbreak. The version that I’m currently using is version 1.0.4

After the jailbreak is complete, it will restart the apple device. Once it restarts, you should now have Cydia installed.

Go ahead and open Cydia. It will ask you to upgrade essential packages, select to “Upgrade Essential” Option. From what I’ve heard you do NOT want to do the Complete Upgrade, as this is causing problems for a lot of people. Once the essentials are done installing, it will close out of Cydia. Open Cydia back up, the final step is to search for the “Tweak Injector” by CoolStar and upgrade to the latest version.

Congrats!

You’ve now got a jailbreak iOS device! There are TONS of tweaks you can install.

If you search the internet, there are tons of Repositories that you can add to your Cydia store, and download awesome 3rd party apps!

If you want to know more, go to www.utechpia.com/repos to see a list of my favorite repositories as well as my favorite for jailbreak tweaks for the iPhone X.

Have you jailbroken your Apple device? If so, let me know in the comments below what is YOUR favorite jailbreak tweak!

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