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

At a hotel which blocks port 25. Of course, there is no way to find their SMTP server to send email. The solution is that many mail servers also accept mail on port 26, so you either have to find the SMTP server that works on the network (good luck). Or reconfigure your client to…

The last missing piece for the iPod Touch is a microphone plus headphone and then use Truphone or Fring and then use the $15 microphone

Apple – Support – Discussions – suddenly can t load iPhoto 08 again … What happened with me is that I was running iPhoto ’09 on a Hard Disk that was going bad. I decide to migrate the OSX boot to another volume, and then did a ‘migration’ of all my users, docs, etc to…

I have an old pair of K2 Axis XP Pros from 8 years ago now and I’m getting clobbered in the moguls. So what’s a person to do? Upgrade skis of course 🙂 The conventional wisdom is that a mogul specific ski is narrow and also very flexible at the tips and tails. Short too.…

My buddy Jon needs a cool telescope. Also on my list. The new ones are so wonderful because they don’t need as Ed Ting says at scopereviews.com: If you are just starting out and aren’t sure if you are serious then a good pair of binoculars. 10x50s. This means 10x magnification and 50mm wide lense.…

So these seem to be the two notebooks that http://blog.laptopmag.com/10-inch-netbooks-fight-for-dominance, so lets look at ASUS, MSI as the early leaders and Samsung and Acer as newcomers. Laptop Magazine did a shoot out. The net is that the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE scored highest except hard disk transfer time. In November 08, their comparison had the…

I never have time for that anymore, but during dinner: Washington DOT uses twitter. How amazing and cool. Another way to get closure information. Now that is modern government. John told me that twitter is replacing RSS. Makes sense. Follow http://twitter.com/wsdot Never could get jailbreak to work. How frustrating. Couldn’t get QuickPwn to work on…

The last missing piece for the iPod Touch is a microphone plus headphone and then use Truphone or Fring and then use the $15 microphone

Well, the folks have finally figured out how to unlock an iPhone 3G. You just have to make sure you *do not* upgrade to 2.2.1. You need firmware 2.2 with baseband 02.28.00. The source is at dev-team blog. The short notes are that it only works with the baseband you get with 2.2, so *don’t*…