Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

If you are doing a podcast or a YouTube channel, you oftentimes want to take a short clip (which is a free use for editorial purposes), but what’s the easiest way to get a short clip. Here are some instructions 1. Do you have the movie already? If not, then you need to find a…

Well if you have a project, you are inevitably going to have some external software. Whereas most folks just say, copy in a file into your own project, this works and is easy, but it means that if there is an update you won’t get it. The other option is to have buckets of random…

Wow what a strange application SONY has written. I’m not sure why they did it this way but it is sure confusing. First of all setup is really confusing: You first download the Imaging Edge application from the AppStore You then must connect via WiFi. This requires you navigating to the Ctrl w/Smartphone entry. Going…

I had not realized it, but while pathogen is pretty awesome for managing bundles, it doesn’t have any update mechanism, so you have to recurl the ~/vim/autoload/plug.vim and also do a git pull for all your ~/vim/bundles which is kind of a pain. Maybe time to switch vim bundlers and folks like vim-plug and vundle particularly vim-plug. These…

Well trying to get (finally!) through the CS223 class on Coursera and actually do the homework, etc. One of the nice things is that Coursera let’s you run the entire course offline on your phone. But one of the big issues is that they only let you run a version of MATLAB on the server,…

Well time once again to update how to process photos and videos. Life is a little more complicated when the inputs are: iPhone X. For most daily shots and really it is the easiest way to shoot panoramas and they come out pretty good looking at least for casual sharing. Sony A7R Mark III. This…

I didn’t realize this and the wrong card got charged for the annual Amazon Prime membership. Make sure you have the right one at Amazon Prime page, this is not the same as your regular orders page. You also want to turn on renewal reminders as well so you can look at it before it…

It is such a pain to create email alias with Gsuite. They have tried to fix this with some simplified things, but here is what you need to know: There is now a simplified UI to create an internal “Group”, this is what they call an email alias. They actually merge two ideas, the first…

With Excel when you want to concatenate strings you just use the overloaded plus sign, so =A3 + ” Hello” whould add the string hello to whatever is in cell A3. With Google Sheets, this doesn’t work, you need the use the ampersand, so =A3 & ” Hello” makes sense given the different heritages. One is from…

When you are a startup, your name and your website are going to change quite a bit. Here’s a way to make it all easier. First of all if you use Gsuite, it will be easier since it supports the idea of multiple domains. You can actually have the same person attached to multiple secondary…