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

Well since I’ve been doing way more documents lately, it’s time to take a look and see what fonts are available. Extensis has a great set of tools that you can loads as an add-on to Google Docs that let’s you browse and see what is popular and trending: Noto. This is one of the…

Well time for an update on keeping yourself safe from viruses on a Mac and all the bad folks out there. While the defaults are pretty good, you can always do better, here are the recommendations in a nutshell: Automatic Operating system. This is probably the most important one, but while there the risks of…

Well, I’ve been writing way more in Google Docs than anything else these days. The collaborative features makes it way easier to create documents, but there are still some things that you need to make it a world class environment. Here are some notes: Templates. The basic ones are pretty good, but they don’t really…

There are way too many bulbs in the world. In this case it’s a case of just unscrewing it. And then looking at the bulb type. It’s a wide base e26 base and it is a HR26 reflector. Hard to figure but it turns out I bought six the last time 🙂 — Read on…

Well most phones have this built in and there is a basic one in every copy of Lightroom and Photoshop, but I’ve found those ones are pretty basic. I’ve also used the open source Hugin. This seems to work pretty decently, but for a while, it wasn’t even working on the Mac, but the 2018…

I always seemed to have trouble with certain sites especially advertising ones. My main machine worked fine and my backup phone. At first I thought it was content blocking. Or maybe cross site tracking. Then I cleared the history. Turns out it was Safari Experimental Features. I had wandered in there and enabled them all.…

Well they have been sitting around unused for quite a while and for some reason I decided to get them working again. I also have an old receiver, so why throw away speakers, yes they are 20 years old, but they also have 12 inch subwoofers in them and 1kW of power each. Here’s the…

itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ride-the-lightning-tesla-motors-unofficial-podcast/id1025399574 The very last tip from Ryan is mine about supercharging pairing 🙂

Wow, the world has certainly never stopped providing the power nerd with cool products. Apple’s latest announcement provides ever more expensive and ever cooler technology for every day use. Here are some notes on things to get the person who has everything this Christmas. In order of coolness to value ratio. iPhone XR Red 128GB…

Wow it’s just gotten so much easier to write machine learning applications. A great case in point is bringing up your very own chatbot that understand natural languages whether it comes in on SMS messages, via Google Assistant or Whatapps or any of a zillion of other places. Looking at various tutorials, most or them…