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

Well the cheapest blu ray player in some ways is the Sony Playstation 3. You get for $250 a Blu Ray player with 3-D plus games. But if you just want a simple player, both wirecutter.com and hometheatermag.com agree that the Panasonic DMP-BDT220 is the best. It has Bluray, does 2D to 3D conversion. What…

Well, its raining and another season is starting. Now that Skiing Magazine has changed their review criteria and doesn’t print any numbers at all, so our traditional system of using them doesn’t work. Freeskier.com Atomic Bent Chetler. Editors choice for powder ski. to still does though and here are their 123mm underfoot but with its reverse camber…

Now that we’ve gotten our gaming rig more or less stable, its been time to look at the other pieces. We cobbled together a nice three display system with a set of the best monitors of the mid 2000s (:-). So we have two old 4:3 19″ flat screens and an old 24″ flat screen…

Well besides reading this site, noticed The Wirecutter (an ex-Gizmodo guy) does these kind of recommendations. Good stuff. Here were some interesting recommendations: Monoprice 8320. I’ve bought a bunch of $3 headphones which have been unreliable and have broken, but Wirecutter likes the $10 headphones. The monoprice guys are pretty smart by the way, if you…

After the Olympics, our TiVo Premiere started to crash. That is, it would stop and not respond to web requests. I’ve tried a full reboot and even a full restart. The TiVo forums show 28 pages of problems with TiVo Premiere hangs which is a bit daunting. It sure feels like the hard drive is…

Four more cities has been added where you can get Xfinity on demand on your Tivo. Wow! Minnesota* Seattle/Tacoma, WA Kansas City, MO Olathe, KS via Xfinity on demand – TiVo Community.

20MHz channels at 2.4 GHz (Channels 1, 6, 11) Now that I have a pair of Ubiquiti UAP Pro access points and an Airport Extreme, its time to look at the right frequency design given that all of these use huge 40MHz channels to get 300-450Mbps, but this diagram from wikipedia is instructive. It’s worth…

Apples Lightning Cable Contains TI Chip Likely to Have Security Features – Mac Rumors. We were debating how small a computer can be. Well here are some of the answers, there are no fewer than four chips inside the tiny little connector inside a the new Iphone 5 charging cable…

Why build a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro and not a Retina MacBook Air? | 9to5Mac It turns out there are a few reasons, but let’s start with the Retina display: the Retina Display on the 13-inch MacBook Pro will be 2,560-by-1,600 (for those scoring at home, that resolution is the same as the discontinued 30-inch…

Privacy Fix is instructive.?Who knows how accurate it is, but I bet it is directionally correct. And it says that FB makes about 5 cents a year off ads delivered to me, whereas GOOG makes about $32. I have most of my privacy settings cranked up (on both GOOG and FB), so maybe FB does…