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Page Rank 6
Woohoo! Tongfamily.com is now Pagerank 6. Finally up to where “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com is.
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iMac G5
Apple – iMac G5. I have an old Pentium Xeon desktop at work (a cast off from a failed EIR project) and an old iMac (another castoff), but I’ve been thining that getting a real iMac might make sense. Asked my buddy Rob over at Apple, and he recommended the iMac G5. It is a…
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DxO image correction
DxO – Simply better images. This is software that corrects for optical defects in lenses of cameras. Pretty amazing what you can do post a shot. Reminds me of Tom Clancy’s Hunt for Red October, back in 1984 (is that really 20 years ago!), he wrote about a secret technique where spies would take a…
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This message is used to carry data
BlackBerryForums.com : Your Number One BlackBerry Community – Unwanted network messages – repost. Connie went to Canada and started getting these bizarre messages from Blackberry that looked like this… From: network@etp01.etp.na.blackberry.net Subject: RIM_bca28a80-e9c0-11d1-87fe-00600811c6a2 This message is used to carry data between the BlackBerry Handheld and an associated server. Please do not delete, move or respond…
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Verbatim DatalifePlus 52x CD-R
Folks don’t seem to review media very much anymore, but I’ve had good experience with the Verbatim DataLifePlus in 48x, this is the 52x version. “Pricegrabber”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=987018 shows them with prices of $50 for 100 pieces since it is discontinued now. The Verbatim part number is 94594. Instead, you can get the 50-pack version from “Pricegrabber”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=699647/blsrt=1…
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Lightscribe
LightScribe: Getting Started. _Wow, HP invented this. What a great idea. The Benq 1625 seems to be one of the first drives that will have it._ Burn your tracks onto the data side of the disc. Flip the disc over to the label side and put it back in the drive. Burn your label by…
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DVD Guide for Dummies
AfterDawn.com: Guides and articles. A great list of articles on how to copy anything to anything.
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Verbatim DatalifePlus 16x DVD+R
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Blackberry 3.7
BlackBerryForums.com : Your Number One BlackBerry Community – 7230 3.7 os upgrade. _Now that I’m stable and back to the original 3.7 from 2003, it would be nice to get some of the later features like calendar sync. Here is how…_ This is because there are so many different versions of 3.7. Some of them…
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Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Amazon.com: Books: Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2). Alex just loved this and I did as well. Amazing since it was written orginally by a 16 year old. Here is the second of the trilogoy coming in August 2005.
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Eoin Colfer
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Audacity
Audacity – Reviews and free downloads at Download.com. The most popular freeware MP3 and audio editor in general. The only issue is that while powerful, it edits in uncompressed WAV file and so recompressing is a hassle. Ideally, an editor would keep the MP3 in its encoded form and edit from there. Saves time and…
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Volvo Upgrades
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TomTom GO 700
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Sportrak Pro Update
Magellan Sportrak Pro. It’s been nearly a year since I’ve used this. A blown knee took a lot out of the season. Anyway, for those of you who have it, here are the update instructions. It is pretty arcane and not very clear on the Magellan site what you need to do, but presuming you…
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Catastrophic Error and Error 365
Tong Family Blog: Prefetch Exception and Abort Exception. I’m developing a negative attitude towards blackberrys đ Since we last chatted about it, I’ve had more problems with the Blackberry 7230. First, I started to get Java Exception Errors when dialing and the phone application would crash. Scott then tried to reload the software and the…
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Scion xB Upgrades
When I actually drove the Scion xB, it was cheap and great, but it had a couple of pretty big drawbacks. Fortunately, the thing is so customizable, that a quick visit to various enthusiast sites got me to the fixes for in order: # Low Power. It is only 108 hp so it is sloooowww…
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Transport Recommendations
Had a chance to drive the Prius and the Scion, the Scion is a pretty cool car. In depth in 2005, here’s my recommendations for cars. The main criteria are a) reliable, b) fuel efficient (30 mpg or more), c) seats 5, d) can carry a bike easily, e) can get me and the kids…
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Using Bit Torrent
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Blackberry 4.0 Problems
We just upgraded to Blackberry 4.0 clients at “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com. Works for everyone but me. Here are my problems: * I can’t keep more than 50 or so emails. They just scroll off the bottom. I have never expires set, but it keeps happening. I’ve also noticed that I have only 100KB or so of free…
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ATI 800XL
AnandTech: Price Guides, April 2005: Video Cards bq. Considering the fact that we were recommending X800XL video cards over GeForce 6800GTs a month ago, and the Radeons took a nose dive in price, we would be ridiculous to not call the X800XL cards our top graphics card pick this month. We do commend NVIDIA for…
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Opera swim
THE 1 !>http://www.opera.com/img/swim.jpg! MILLION DOWNLOAD CHALLENGE – Opera Web Browser. _Wow, 1M downloads in 4 days and now he swims to the USA. I have to say one of the best get close to the customer on the web pushes that I’ve seen._ Before the weekend, Opera’s CEO, Jon S. von Tetzchner boldy proclaimed at…
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Windows 64 Bit Upgrade
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Pentium D vs. Athlon X2
AnandTech: AMD’s dual core Opteron & Athlon 64 X2 – Server/Desktop Performance Preview. _A very interesting set of comparisons. The D’s are so inexpensive and if only we could invent some software at “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com that would exploit dual core, now that would be cool_ !
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State Tournament Results
!>https://richtong.org/chess/chess2005-2a.jpg!:https://richtong.org/chess/chess2005-2.jpg It was a great tournament. A brilliant cloudless day with a terrific view of Mount Baker. The team up at Whatcom County did a great job at Lynden. Kudos to you all. The results are alread up Rating report for State Tournament. Some really impressive players. Congrats to all! Kudos to all the UCDS…
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nvmcp.sys installation
Tong Family Blog: Simcity 4 crashes nVidia Sound drivers. Never could get the latest 4.57 drivers to install because nVidia has no installation instructions. Hat tip to “Guru3d”:http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=938, they have the instructions: 1. Uninstall old AUDIO ONLY drivers via Add/Remove Programs out of the nVidia installation program. Reboot the system. 2. Upon reboot and redetection…
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Washington State Elementary Chess Championship;s
!>http://www.chessenrichment.org/Images/image002.gif! Rich Tong on Chess: Washington State Chess Tournament. These are this weekend. You need to checkin either online or in person. I’d really recommend online first. If you don’t checkin, you are hosed.
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What is TONG?
Geekfishing Blog: What is TONG? TONG!. OK, I admit it, when you query on yourself, what fun to find a game named after you. It’s free and a great mix of Pong and Tetris.
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It's all gone Pete Tong!
!>http://www.channel4.com/film/media/film/2l/I/its_all_gone_pete_lg_02.jpg! Channel 4 Film – It’s All Gone Pete Tong film review, interviews, filmographies and more. My brother is going to be distraught to know that his name is about a screwed up rocker đ
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Seatac Parking
With Seatac parking rates running at $30/day, it seems like there have to be some alternatives. When I have time (which ain’t often I admit), I do use off-airport parking. There are amazingly few sites that cover recommendations for this. Last recommendation by a human is from 2002 in google! If you can believe that.…