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Things of Beauty
A dear friend said some of these photos were good, so I thought I’d share with everyone. I put the public photos that anyone can look at in my “Art Gallery”:https://richtong.net/art. Here is a shot right down Boston. It was taken at 8:30 and had remarkably few cars in Beacon Hill. The three layers of…
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Mail.app Outbox stuck mail
This seems to happen really often with the latest OS X update. I get lots of stuck mail. Just restart Mail.app doesn’t seem to help nor does hitting resend. I have tried deleting the mailbox folder and doesn’t help. macosxhints.com – A fix for messages stuck in Mail.app’s Outbox also tend to send messages while…
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Amazing Day
LA, Boston and NYC were all beautiful this week. LA had clear weather. I’ll post some photos. Found some great hotels as well, the “Nine Zero”:http://ninezero.com is in Beacon Hill hotel that is small and convenient. Better than the mega Marriott. Also in NYC, the “Empire”:http://empirehotelnyc.com is on the upper west side. Way funner neighborhood…
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iTunes gadgets
OK, if you want your iTunes to work like your iPhone or iPod touch then there is this application called Cover Art which does it. Does quite work right in that the lyrics don’t scroll but are incredibly tiny, but the cover does shimmer which is cool! “Simplehelp”:http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/05/22/top-10-itunes-addons-and-plugins/ has a cool list like: iTunesMyWalkman which…
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MP3s need nice tags, album art and lyrics
After you download an MP3, it is amazing how many don’t come with everything you need. Like file names and tags that are right. Embedded Album Art and lyrics for each song. So here is how to get your MP3s up to snuff so you can give really use them on your iPhone or give…
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Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs 1958-2008 looking for sad songs
When I’m sad, I do listen to more music. Rihanna’s Take a Bow is my single favorite for runs, but “Billboard”:http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/specials/hot100/charts/top100-titles-00.shtml has their top 100 of all time. Thanks to YouTube, you can easily listen to all the hits. It is kind of cool the songs thye picked. I wouldn’t have thought so here are…
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Kit Kittredge
I must be getting sentimental, I just loved this American Girl movie, “Kit Kittredge”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0846308/ which was so sweet. Abigail Breslin from Little Miss Sunshine was great, but actually Julia Ormond, Joan Cusack were really great as well. Anyway, too many things going on in life these days, but this depression story was terrific. I loved…
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Obama Wins!
Alex showed me an amazing site “newsuem.org”:http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default_archive.asp?fpArchive=110508 has the front pages from everyday, but the one’s from November 5th are really terrific and worth keeping! It really brings a tear to my eye to see the headlines :=) !
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Mac Mail has stuck messages in Outbox
Apple – Support – Discussions – Mail stuck in OUTBOX … The problem is a corrupt Outbox. I read about this onthe ATT trouble shooting site. Delete the Outbox andmail will create a new one. This solved my problem withemail sitting the Outbox forever and never being sent.To be safe, I dragged my Outbox to…