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

I’ve heard of companies not liking modders, but wow, Apple is certainly taking it to extremes. If you have unlocked your iphone, their latest firmware 1.1.1 actually makes “bricks” or makes the phone useless if it detects it. Talk about extreme measures. They actually will make inoperable something that cost $400-600 just by a simple…

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I keep forgetting how to do this, so here are the instructions again. They are a little arcane: # “Download”:https://www.blackberry.com/SoftwareDownload/index.jsp?client=cB5RB4aRB from the Blackberry CSL download site both the desktop manager and the 8300 Chinese input version Powered by ScribeFire.

Ryan has given all of us some great tips about taking the very hard to take night cityscape shots and firework shots. I’ve been reading quite a bit about these techniques, but he really has some great tips. Here they are for the next time you need to take an impressive night time display: #…

“Bob”:http://bobsplanet.com asked me about backup as did Richard, so here’s a quick review of how to do backup. There has been a long evolution here for me. Originally, at home I bought a tape backup that did a mammoth 5GB, but I just never used it. Then just had a big PC with lots of…

The first of these, the Nikon 18-200 is an amazing lense. Only for digital cameras, it is the only lense that most folks are going to need most of the time. Cost is high, but the quality is very good. $800 buys a lot. Plus it is image stabilized and paired with the Nikon d40x,…

Often times I’m watching CSI or especially Cold Case and I just love the songs. Most fans have sites for this stuff, but “TuneFind”:http://tunefind.com/show/CSI seems to do the most professional job of this. Powered by ScribeFire.

We have one of these at work and you need a little update to the color profile ICC and also they have really fixed their setup “guides”:http://www.redrivercatalog.com/profiles/downloads.htm so you can set all the arcane parameters. The short of it is to set: # Photoshop to let photoshop determine colors # Set relative colormetric (and try…

iPhones uses a much narrower plug, so most headphones and cassette adapters won’t work. I’ve cut away the plastic on my Etymotic 4 and 6is and this seems to work, but when I do it on my Sony cassette adapter, it causes the whole thing to break. A non-intrusive fix is to buy a dongle…

Intel has been leading on the desktop for a while now and now with the new Barcelona coming out from AMD, it is more equal on the server. So, if you are trying decide whether to buy a notebook or a desktop, what’s the scoop? Is there a new processor refresh around the corent. Here…