Just did this transition and there are some things that are a little tricky, here’s a list: There isn’t an easy way to migrate mail. Assuming you aren’t a big company, the easiest way is to just have individual people open up mail in their Outlook or Mac Mail clients and copy the mail back […]

Ok, you have a placeholder name for your startup, but then a brilliant flash and suddenly placeholder.com becomes cool.com so how do you make the switch. Well, there are two places where this needs to happen. First is with Gsuite so that your email comes from the right place which is technically called, changing your […]

Ok the third major episode. Really a test. A quick 12-minute review of how to get your companies online https://anchor.fm/richt/episodes It’s also on Spotify check us out https://open.spotify.com/show/ And then Google as well. https://www.google.com/podcasts

It’s been a while, but reading from last week, the main focus has been getting a website up and running. From finding a new name on Namecheap to connecting it to Digital Ocean or AWS Route 53 and then GSuite. See https://tongfamily.com for the text posts. For the Amazon book list Send in a voice […]

I’ve been slowly moving my organizational stuff to either AWS or Digital Ocean and just had a strange thing. Normally it’s pretty simple. If you have Namecheap, you just to to Route53 on AWS, choose create Hosted Zones. This is their name for a Domain Name. You will get some NS records which are four […]

I hit this bug at just the wrong time. But with two factor authentication turned on (and you really want 2FA for something like 1Password), I was getting a strange hang. Fortunately, their message board is awesome and you just need to upgrade to the latest Mac App Store version 7.4.3.

If you have a small startup or a family, 1Password is an awesome tool. For $5/month, you get a very secure zero-knowledge system for storing passwords. The main issue is that it is pretty complicated to figure out how to use it properly. So here are some tips: You are allowed five user accounts with […]

Well if you are on a desert island or recovering from a surgery, what a great time to catch up on reading (or if you are like me, listening to a book tape while driving). Here are some great sources: Readings on philosophy. Hat tip to Keith for this one, but from Massimo Pigluicci Rich’s […]

Ok I’ve been buying a bunch of domain names for folks. Namecheap makes it makes it super easy to buy new domains and there are so many new top level domains that it’s never been easier to find a good one. So how do you transfer a domain well there are the easy steps First […]