Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

“Bob”:http://bobsplanet.com asked me about backup as did Richard, so here’s a quick review of how to do backup. There has been a long evolution here for me. Originally, at home I bought a tape backup that did a mammoth 5GB, but I just never used it. Then just had a…

The first of these, the Nikon 18-200 is an amazing lense. Only for digital cameras, it is the only lense that most folks are going to need most of the time. Cost is high, but the quality is very good. $800 buys a lot. Plus it is image stabilized and…

Often times I’m watching CSI or especially Cold Case and I just love the songs. Most fans have sites for this stuff, but “TuneFind”:http://tunefind.com/show/CSI seems to do the most professional job of this. Powered by ScribeFire.

We have one of these at work and you need a little update to the color profile ICC and also they have really fixed their setup “guides”:http://www.redrivercatalog.com/profiles/downloads.htm so you can set all the arcane parameters. The short of it is to set: # Photoshop to let photoshop determine colors #…

iPhones uses a much narrower plug, so most headphones and cassette adapters won’t work. I’ve cut away the plastic on my Etymotic 4 and 6is and this seems to work, but when I do it on my Sony cassette adapter, it causes the whole thing to break. A non-intrusive fix…

Intel has been leading on the desktop for a while now and now with the new Barcelona coming out from AMD, it is more equal on the server. So, if you are trying decide whether to buy a notebook or a desktop, what’s the scoop? Is there a new processor…

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!>http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/screenshot.png! Folks have been busy figuring out to install third party applications on the iPhones (and presumably the new iPod Touch which uses the same software). “Installer.app”:http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/ is one such attempt. It downloads over the EDGE network directly so that’s pretty cool. Can’t wait until Apple supports this directly. You…

The day was coming where folks realized that with things like iPhones or Blackberrys that you should just be able to use your mp3 as a ringtone. Blackberry just lets you do it. In Apple’s case, they want $0.99 for the track and then another $0.99 to make it into…