Tong Family

OK, this is going to sound nerdy, but doing things around the house or going to a construction site, you should think about these things, so from head to toe, what should a person get: Work Gloves, if you are doing really heavy work then the big leather gloves are great, but if you are…

With the pandemic, we got serious about air filters and measurement, here are some notes after using some key tools in the last two years: Air quality monitor. We actually have two of them the Eve and the Kaiterra Laser Egg Plus which was one of the first monitors. There are now lots of them,…

We just love the TeslaCam feature on our car. You plug in a high-reliability miniSD card into the USB hub and. you get continuous loop recording, you get recording on honk so this is just great. In fact, you should probably have a Dash Cam for all your cars, so the big question is what…

Well, we just spent three days out of cell phone coverage in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies, so here are some lessons and things to bring for that situation: Whistle. This is a location that is completely out of cell phone range and there are lots of bears about it, so safety is a…

Ok, this problem has really been bothering me, but I use four levels of python virtualization. I don’t need all of these but they are from history, so they are: Homebrew installation. YOu can install multiple versions of python with brew install python@3.8 for instance. I don’t use this that much, but it lets you…

Well, it’s an interesting time in the Apple lifecycle, basically, the next generation chips are out, so the iPhone 14 Pro gets the new A16 in 4nm and the low-end MacBook Air and Pro 13 get the new M2 in 5nm. So the performance improvements are massive, about 20% for M1 to M2, but still…

Well, I’ve already written how you can edit and shoot an entire wedding video on the iPhone 12 Pro Max with the included iMovie, but just this week, I did a series of “dailies” from a hiking trip that went really well. We were completely off the grid, so all the photos had to be…

OK, we had a six-hour-long power failure here. Fortunately, Seattle City Light does a great job keeping people informed if you have access to the Internet at their outage page. You just call (206) 684-3000 to report one. And in our case, we were down from 930-1630 or so. The other interesting thing was that…

OK, early this year, I did some research on how to get HDR and Spatial Audio working on the Mac and iDevices and things have gotten a little better but to remind people, there are two cases, dedicated applications that are available on the iPhone and then on the Mac, there are dedicate applications like…

Ok, there are times when I want to organize a collection of MP3s as a single anthology. That is I want to override the individual album names and also rename the files so they all go together. As an example, if I want all the Billboard Hot 100 songs of 2000 in a single place,…