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

Seattle used to be pretty baron of great places to eat, but now the number of new trendy restaurants is getting hard to keep track of. Beside “Lark”:http://www.larkseattle.com/ which just won Best Chef in the Northwest from James Beard, there is also “Purple”:http://www.thepurplecafe.com/ in downtown which has great cheeses and lunches. Last night, thanks to…

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Got this game on a whim. It is actually pretty fun and even somewhat realistic. There are of course lots of sites that cover it and the strategies. The 2004 version as http://www.morrisongames.com/ explains had lots of rules changes. The main thing though is to figure out what strategies work. There are lots of strategies…

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After reading reviews from “gpsreview.net”:http://gpsreview.net, I finally caved and got an el cheapo $300 GPS for our old Volvo. It cost about $3000 for the DVD Navigation unit in new cars, so its interesting to see how good the add-on products are. I have to say I’m amazed. The thing really is not much a…

One of the truly cool things about iPhone applications (assuming you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch) is that the user community is amazing. Most folks now use Apptapp which downloads applications over the internet automatically for you. You get Apptapp pretty much automatically if you use “jailbreakme.com”:http://jailbreakme.com for 1.1.1 firmware. They include a…

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“Creativetechs.com”:http://www.creativetechs.com/tips/quicktips_43.html helps when you accidentally type the same PID into two computers. Basically, you have to delete the files: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/ – OfficePID (normally an invisible file) Users/[Username]/Library/Preferences/Microsoft – Carbon Registration Database – Office Registration Cache – Microsoft Office Settings Then Mac Office acts like it has been reinstalled and you can reenter the…

The rumor is that in January (Christmas just a month late) at Mac Expo, we’ll see the new “ultra-portable”:http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/12/ultra_portable_apple_notebook_to_splash_down_at_macworld_expo.html that I’m already drooling over. The big give is that it won’t have an optical drive. This used to be a big deal for me when I thought I would watch lots of DVDs on airplanes,…