Tong Family

OK, I figured out that you can’t use the very fast Apple Compressor unless you don’t have the proxy and do have the optimized (eg ProRes 422) files, but what(Continue Reading)

I was thinking about buying a Spyder X because the Spyder 3 software no longer works, but then I found DisplayCal which seemed to crash the last time, but since(Continue Reading)

Wow, what a great two days Amazon Prime was this year. Normally, I don’t find many things to buy, but this year, I see, but here is a post-mortem on(Continue Reading)

OK, time to look at Comcast bills again, my fairly reasonable bill at $100/month for 1.2Gbps/50Mbps has jumped to $133 so time to look at it. The big problem with(Continue Reading)

It’s raining development completion tools. I’m still using vi (as the switch to code is delayed as I figure out how to use a GUI code editor, I’m so used(Continue Reading)

OK, for those of you with the Nexus card that allows expedited travel between the US and Canada, here are some things to know (in other words, don’t be me!)(Continue Reading)

Well, I bit the bullet today and upgraded our Apple Home to use the new protocols. The main issue is that it keeps complaining that one of my Macbook Pros,(Continue Reading)

OK, getting a Direct Attached Storage (DAS) is useful if you run out of storage and your Network Attached Storage (NAS). The main reason for this is bandwidth, if you(Continue Reading)

OK, this is a strange, but amazingly wonderful thing, there’s a WordPress plug-in that converts every post from a WordPress site into a Mastodon one. So now if you search(Continue Reading)