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

lifehacker.com/zip-together-two-freezer-bags-to-make-one-large-one-1839012018 explains that you can make a double sized ziplock really easily, just turn one inside out and you can put a double length thing inside. Really smart.

Wow such a small change, such a big nightmare. The Unifi Controller is dependent on the right Java runtime. Oracle has been constantly tightening their licensing, making it harder and harder to just run Java. So in the last few years, Apple stopped shipping the JRE. So Ubiquiti took up…

Wow, well as usual, Apple announced their latest iPhone and their focus on the camera and battery life are pretty incredible. The new iPhone Pro supports simultaneous video recording with a feature called Multicam. In fact with the Pro, it can record four video stream simultaneously. This is super cool…

Many of these providers now have a regular security update and I just got one from Github. So if you use it and have sensitive code up there, here are the things to do by browsing to the Github security page. https://github.com/settings/security Authentication recovery. They have a new place where…

You have to still use USB and iTunes to do this or pretend your book is music. Apparently, if you have a set of MP3s that are book from outside of Apple, then here are your choices if you don’t want to have this problem: Remark the type from Audiobook…

Now that everyone has an iPhone. I’ll cover dealing with Android next Take Photos Live and Airplane Mode OFF The most confusing thing is the number of different ways to share things. But assuming that you have IOS 13 on your iPad here’s what to do. This assumes that you…

apps.apple.com/us/app/exif-metadata/id1455197364 Well amazing, it seems like it is impossible to actually look at the EXIF or meta data in the JPEGs and photos that you have. That makes it hard to really detailed editing and to see the resolution of photos. Instead, you have to use a third party application…

Well this is always a little complicated, but some notes on doing this: If you are non-profit, Github actually provides you with a free organizational membership. You just send them an email and then a copy of your IRS tax status and you get upgraded. When you create your first…

Talk about strange interaction. We have a bunch of IP cameras (Ok, we have two, but one is completely dead, not sure why). And I tried to access it from the Synology NAS. First of all, make sure you are using Chrome, it doesn’t seem to work with Safari, but…