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

Scoop || What is Scoop? Now that the search has begun, it is incredible how many blog and near-blog tools there are. There are photoblogs (see previous entry), there are bulletin board like things like PHP NUke and then there are things like scoop, which I’m just understanding… Scoop is a “collaborative media application”. It…

Photolog in MovableType FIVE STEP PHOTOLOG. Ah ha, this is how you do a photolog using MovableType. It is amazing how clever people can be. You basically overload the fields in MovableType so that the main image is in the main entry, description is in additional entry and the Thumbnail goes into the Excerpt. This…

Web Services are real OK, I admit it, I don’t understand the gigantic .net initiative at all, but I do get it when certain sites really do begin to act like services I can call. Here are a few: Google Web APIs – Home. This is very cool, you can programmatically call Google via an…

Movable Type Installation Help. These are great instructions for how to turn blog templates (called blogplates) into MovableType compatible layouts. You can find these kind of layouts at Blogplates or from Miz Graphics

Blog Templates Ludwig has given me the mission to become an expert of MovableType. There is alot to learn. I’ve through a.lifeuncommon.org which is probalby the most well designed site I’ve seen in a long time and stumbled onto these blog template sites: Miz Graphics!. A general purpose site for templates. . This is a…

MSN Hotmail – Message AT&T Broadband is an amazing company. They cut off my service two weeks ago when they silently updated their system. Had to spend a couple of hours figuring it out, then a journey to their service center in north Seattle. Told me I should have gotten something in the mail. Now…

Rain Tire Recommendations From the Roadbikerider.com web site, some more winter tires to look at HEY UNCLE AL: I’ve decided to start criterium racing a little early in the season. I live in California, so the weather is usually just wet, not icy or snowy. I’d like a recommendation for a tire that would have…

Bicycle Tires Updated Here’s an update from the bike tire explorations: TUFO | Product Line. Saw this first on Sdeals. This is a tubular tire that fits on a clincher rim. Interesting idea. Weighs 335 grams but this includes the tube, so it compares with say 180 grams for a Veloflex Pave plus 70 grams…

PHP password protection Here is something that Michelle has asked for. When I convert Tongfamily.com over, I’m going to add this as well. By adding one line to each page, you get password protection. Cookie Password Protection in PHP. This is freeware for the simple case, but costs $20 otherwise. List of password protection scripts.…

Mailing List Servers Another thing I’ve been looking for are mailing list servers. Right now I’m using Arrow from Jadebox which is Windows based, but does require you have your client up and running all the time. This is limited to 50 users I’m going to try EZMLM – Easy Mailing List Manager which is…