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

In a massive OS X Mavericks upgrade over at this shop. I’m sure more memory will help, so for our older machines, how much more can they handle: Mac Mini 2010. 16GB of PC8500 (DDR3-1066) memory. OUr has 8GB  right now and I wonder if there are the usual issues with PC8500 vs PC10800 and…

I’ve been a fan for a while, but as they’ve raised rates, it does make me think that eventually people will move away from cable to over the top internet access.  For instance, right now you can either pay a huge bundle increase ($65 to $149) just to get HGTV or watch it on hgtv.com…

Say what you want about Apple, but if you are someone (like me) who wants simple, amazing and well built, it is hard not to lust for these many, many new products, in order of desire: I can’t decide if I want the iPad Mini more now that it has a Retina display or the…

OK, I’ve been trying to use Spider Oak as a secure and private replacement for DropBox and it is a big weird. Here are the things to know: It is sort of similar to Dropbox in that there is a Hive where all files are synced between machines But, each machine has a notion of…

I’ve been using DxO for years now and have faithfully paid the upgrade charges from DxO 4 -> 6 (skipped 5, really poor quality) -> 7 -> 8, but now it seems like everyone is moving to Lightroom and the key feature of DxO (for me anyway) was lens correction, but Lightroom caught up with…

For everyone that is considering to buy the new Sony a7 camera – you may want to wait a little bit since Nikon is rumored to announce a new full frame hybrid camera with the following specifications: Nikon FM2 like design 16,2MP 36×23,9 full frame sensor (same as in the D4?) SD memory card 2016-pixel RGB image…

I don’t normally think of Google as a responsive company, so see my surprise when I got this note from a map correction we just did… From: Google Maps Re: Your report near Luritja Road in Petermann (10/8/13 7:13 PM) Hi Rich, Thank you for reporting this problem. We’ve reviewed your problem and you were…

I just loaded the latest build (3.2.3) and it basically works which is amazing, to actually get it running right takes a few tips and tricks: There is this funky thing called HDMI-CEC (what a name!) which let’s the Samsung remote control the XBMC on Raspberry Pi. This sort of works and XBMC says HDMI…

One of my favorite sites just did (photoreview.com.au) of the A7 (but not the A7r yet). It is sad as an aside that even the guy who runs canonrumors.com is buying one (and Canon has no more announcements planned until April of next year!). Here are the interesting facts: The Sony A7 is about the…

Suddenly there is a file /mach_kernel visible. This is probably the actual kernel of OS X as it uses Mach as its basis. It’s easy to fix as you don’t want to delete it, just make it invisible by starting Terminal and typing in: sudo chflags hidden /mach_kernel