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

It is just a 1080p 27″ monitor and is an older TN panel but that means it is very fast. We are using it for 3d and standard and there seem to be quite a few tuning parameters: Lightboost.This pulses the LED backlight in 3D mode so it looks brighter. This buried in the color…

If this isn’t the hardest category to figure out, I don’t know what is. The first thing to figure out is what you want: Midi keyboard. This doesn’t have any ability to produce music, you hook a computer up and the computer makes the sound. Very cheap. Keyboard. These are the classic synthesizer device, lots…

A good time to get toasters and things for the home that has everything: Brevet BOV800XL. Cook’s Illustrated likes it, Consumer Reports likes it and the Amazon reviews are great. It’s just amazingly expensive at $250. AMCO Houseworks Model 06-0354. A $11 juice squeezer that works 🙂 Vollrath Cookie Sheets. These are really solid and…

Seems like everyone wants one for this Christmas and the price spread has never been wider. Like sunglasses, these are hugely marked up item, so you can literally pay from $10 to $10,000. Wirecutter has a pretty good handle on it. (personally I’ve always like the Etymotic ER-4i and ER-6, but that’s another story). Headroom.com…

Just what I need. Now that we’ve made a mongo (12 gallon tank) monster PC that is running at an amazing 150fps on Black Ops II and 1GBps disk access on an overclocked 4.5GHz Ivy Bridget 3570K processor and dual GTX670 SLI overclocked by 72Mhz and 200MHz on memory, time now to look at smaller…

You can build an amazing tiny PC. I’d just change his build to put in a bigger power supply and a gtx-690 to really have a rocking system and probably cut back to a 3570k as its $100 cheaper, add a noshua nh-14 cooler, goto a Samsung 840 ssd as the only drive and drop…

If you want to backup all your expensive Blu Ray disks, there are two tools, first MakeMKV which takes the raw video and audio down and then Handbrake to compress the Blu Ray a bit more for convenience without (too much) loss in quality. How to Rip a Blu-ray Disc With MakeMKV | PCWorld If…

Amazing, I pretty much accidentally plugged it all in right. But if you have a late model generation 7 motherboard (we have a P8Z77-V Deluxe from ASUS) and you do things magically right before you submerge the thing in mineral oil, you can get amazing disk performance: 1. Get the fastest SSDs you can. They…

Seems like if you want to admire Canon (and use your EF lenses), then you have to go to their professional like like their 4K Canon C500 (shoots at 4x more pixels than 1080p! in RAW (or 120fps in half-RAW whatever that is) and with 10-bit color wow! FYI 2K is the sames as 1080p…

The Canon EOS 6D – beta test footage – as good as mark III? » cinema5D news The EOS 6D has a full-frame sensor that gives you the typical full-frame look at almost half the price of the 5D mark III. That sounds like a bargain. But for HDSLR the beta model of this camera…