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Continue reading →: Lost my old site…
WordPress seems to hide old files of mine, so although I have my complete MovableType site, when I type for instance “https://richtong.org/mt.index.php”:https://richtong.org/mt.index.php, even though the file is there, I get a 404 not found. This seems to a problem with rewrite rules as changing thename to mt.index.html lets you see…
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Continue reading →: Cool State Facts
50states.com – States and Capitals Did you know the state song of Washington is Washington my home? On this site you can even find out the state tools of any one of the 50 states and much more
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Continue reading →: arrghh Plaxo really didn’t work!
OK, I thought I was back in business. I synced my Mac Address Book to Plaxo and then had Plaxo create an Outlook Express CSV format file which I imported into Outlook. Bad news. It shorn off all the mobile phone numbers. So back to the drawing board. Also, Plaxo…
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Continue reading →: TomTom POIs
While TomTom has a bunch of these points of interest in their TomTom Home, it takes forever to download them. “TomTom Forums”:http://www.tomtomforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33 makes it way easier, just download the file and then copy the files onto your TomTom into the directory /North America. There should be a .ov2 file and…
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Continue reading →: Blackberry Rebuild and TomTom 720 Rebuild
Been torqueing lots of hardware lately. After my sync catastrophe, my Blackberry refused to sync more than 3800 or the 7100 contacts on Exchange. So I had to wipe and rebuild it. Forgot a bunch of lessons, but to review, if you have to do this: # Download the latest…
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Continue reading →: Downgrading from Mac Office 2008 to Office 2004
This isn’t as straightforward as it seems, you first have to run Office 2008 uninstall. Then install Office 2004. However, you then have to go to Auto Update as the libraries uses by Office 2008 are newer and you will get the “Error when loading Microsoft Framework Library”:http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Board=OfficeX&Number=745129 message. You…
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Continue reading →: New Music
!>http://images.nutsie.com/mcs-file/r03/3280187/21! Hey I’m not on the board anymore, but Bob has done an incredible job with “Nutsie”:http://nutsie.com. It works on the Mac, upload your iTunes playlist (not the songs), it then plays them for you in a random shuffle and recommends new songs for you based on it.
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Continue reading →: Recycling Print Cartridges
With our color printers, I seem to have dozens of empty BCI-6 cartridges and CLI-8 cartridges and feel sad about throwing it away. The top two recyclers, “freerecycling.com”:http://freerecycling.com don’t however recycle these, but they do higher runner bubblejet cartridges and also HP cartridges. So, it seem like they need to…
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Continue reading →: Arrgh my contacts are gooneee!
There seem to be some huge bugs with syncing. I’ve been trolling the web and apparently iCal’s new sync for Leopard is completely different and buggy. Also Entourage 2008 and Leopard do not get along. I’m trying to sync Entourage to iCal and Address Book and the sync eventually deleted…
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Continue reading →: February Photos
They are really good looking, so see the February photos and this is an experiment. Eventually I have to figure out how to password protect all this, but for right now, here goes… [album=6,extend]
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