Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

Well somehow things just keeping getting more annoying, but here are the gotchas if you have your own generic IMAP account: MacOS seems to get confused about the default account. And you get this strange, cannot move message to (null) message. What this means is that you need to go to…

Ok this is a good one. If you use the chase portal and your Chase Freedom card on hotels and car rentals, you get 10 points (worth about 22%). go for it!

Well these are confusing results: T-Mobile is first in OpenSignal and last with Root Metrics. Makes some sense if you think about it. One is weighted by people. So there is a bias where most people are on the cities. Root metrics is by region. So the best plan would…

Well, we’ve been using Verizon for a while (mainly because coverage in house was just so poor with AT&T). But two years ago, GoogleFi shipped and the ability to pause the service and the roaming with T-Mobile and Sprint actually worked pretty well. And of course the zero roaming charges…

How maddening is this, with traditional Mac Apps, it is pretty simple. Got to Edit/Emojis & Symbols. Find the arrow or whatever and then double click. This however does not work with Gsuite at least on Safari: Google Docs. You cannot double click, you can however drag and drop the…

I haven’t ripped a DVD in a very long time, but sometimes I see these VOB files. I have used Handbrake in the past to get my old DVDs of the kids over to a modern format, but somehow the latest Handbrake fails me and stops after the first segment.…

Wow been binge watching quite a bit and some of these new series have just awesome soundtracks. Tunefind.com is wonderful as it is a place where these get aggregated and you can play with Apple Music from there, so some great soundtracks. I wish the thing would just make a playlist…

When you want to read, here are the great sources beside the usual suspects (Amazon Kindle and Audible that is): Overdrive. They connect to your local library. They have ebooks and audiobooks and the app works well. Mobilism.org This is another great source of hard to find books

OK, so I think I’m on the right track. This sudden shutdown is likely due to bad memory. There is nearly 32GB of memory in the iMac 2009 and it is third party, so could be bad. But figuring out how to diagnose it more a riddle. The main problem…

With prices and hardware changing there are so many different choices for a good developer setup. Here are some of the edges assuming a relatively modest $6k budget: A monster gaming laptop. Today for $6k Ok got it so that’s a $6k box that weighs 13 pounds. And it sure…