Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

OK, I had some trouble getting an iPhone (jailbroken, but locked) to work and now it is always in recovery mode. After much searching, “iphone.unlock.no”:http://iphone.unlock.no/#recovery-restore-mode seems to have the answer, which is to downgrade to 1.1.1. The biggest problem is that I forgot that you have to recover the firmware…

When hacking away at iPhone software many times, you need old versions of iTunes. “Filehippo”:http://filehippo.com/download_itunes/ keeps track of all old versions. Very handy! In general, they have a great “list”:http://filehippo.com of common freeware likeAd Aware, etc.

Well, “iphone.unlock.no”:http://iphone.unlock.no seems to have the best advice for what to do and it is a great FAQ. In short: # If you have 1.1.2 unlocked and jailbroken, then there is now an official 1.1.3 jailbreak. You don’t need to re-unlock since 1.1.3 didn’t change the baseband firmware. Main thing…

Well, the Macbook Air shipped today and everyone from “Engadget”:http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/macbook-air-review/ and on are running reviews. Not much new to report except that folks love the keyboard, the screen and the thinness and folks really don’t like: # Battery life is only 2.5 hours. I only get about 2.5 hours with…

It’s been a while, but if you want to backup an audiobook that is on a CD, you don’t have to record it in full 44KHz glory, instead, you can use reduced settings. Here’s a guide for doing it with iTunes…. # Choose iTune/Preferences on the Mac (on the PC,…

Finally got a replacement TomTom 720, here is what you do if you corrupt the software on it. This is very easy to do with the TomTom software. So, before you do anything, you should first connect the TomTom and copy the entire contents of the “Internal Drive” folder to…

Hey I actually googled my dad’s name and found his “patents”:http://www.wikipatents.com/de/2750000.html. He worked on data communications. Kindof cool to have patents. Kind of a cool site “wikipatents.com”:http://wikipatents.com Powered by ScribeFire.

Well just about everyone is going to be headed up there the february break, so here is a compendium of notes: # Unless you have a Nexus card, don’t just go to Blaine and pray. Consider taking one of the alternative like the Aldergrove-Lynden crossing which is about 10 miles…