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

The difference between a .dmg file…: Apple Support Communities explains a bunch to me. Basically, if you want to get a disk image, the Mac way is called .dmg. The PC way is called .cdr or .iso (they are the same). The Apple Disk Utility has a conversion that lets you swap. Just double click on…

Well that was quick, got one of these units. Supposed to be amazing on range and manageability. Has 3×3 MIMO at 2.4GBHz and 2×2 at 5GHz. Also it uses POE, so I should need a power cord. We have an old Netgear GS748TP switch and it is supposed to do power over ethernet automatically. The…

How apple innovates. They are trying to get incremental but important things like thinness or a smart connector done. Really admire them.

The big Photokina show happened and had a chance to look at the Fuji X1-Pro and talk about cameras, here’s the scoop on what looks good: Big dSLR With a Canon 5D Mark II already and a big investment in Canon glass, it is hard to switch systems, but I’d say that right now, it…

Well if you want to do composing and music, it is great to have a keyboard that plugs into your computer. Here’s what you can think about getting thanks the well named musiconmypc.com: Decide how many keys you need. A smaller 49 key will take you well into intermediate, but if you know how to…

I don’t play with Android phones too much, but had a chance to use an older Samsun Vibrant SBH-959T. So how to upgrade it as as usual, it is complicated as heck and hackable which is wonderful. There is no recent Ice Cream Sandwich release for it, but hackers have been busy: Fully rooted T-mobile…

Well, we’ve been working hard on getting the kit from Puget Systems to work. It is for true experts so needlesstosay, the instructions for it are pretty unclear as is the parts list and so forth, so here is a guide for dummies who want to build from it as we collect it. This assumes…

Wow that is pretty incredible…