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

About 5 minutes after you buy a cable you will probably forget how much data and how much power it can carry. Unlike all previous generations there are all kinds of limitations as and differences that you can’t see. The basic problem is the amount of amperage and the data…

I don’t know about High Sierra but with Sierra, the latest encrypted PDFs just show up as greyed documents in the MacOS Preview and even if you file open in Safari. They do work in Adobe Acrobat Reader and also in Chrome. Seems like Apple needs to update their encrypted…

Well the Anker 60-watt USB C Charger with 3 USB A ports is half the price and seemed to work well. Sadly, it just “loud popped” and failed. You can actually hear the capacitor that blew up rattling around inside. Sometimes half the price with more features is not the…

Ok if you are outfitting a new apartment, there are so many things to get, here’s a quick summary: Tools. Well, if you want to get fancy, you can get either a basic kit from Home Depot for $20, a bigger kit for $60 from Amazon or if you want…

Every time they change iTunes there is a change to how you look at things, the latest is that when you create a Playlist, it comes up in Playlist mode and you can’t change the track order. Also the track order for recently played is by Artist which makes no…

OK here are a list of dumb things: If you want to connect it to your wifi, make sure that you have 802.11/bg enabled. I had it turned off because I literally can’t think of device that needs it and it slows down 802.11n as I recall. Best to have…

For some reason this is one big blind spot for Ubuntu and the like, getting these dongles to work is a pain: On Ubuntu 14.04, I got the DWA-182 working by installing drivers. It uses the rtl8812au driver and you have to modprobe that in actually find a repo by…

Figuring out charger you should get at home is pretty complicated and if you want to charge from a variety of different locations away from home at grandmothers or at a shop, this is even more confusing. There are three steps: a) figure out the maximum intake rates of your…

Wow, Mike, thanks so much for the Hook Up to T-mobile. I can’t quite believe how well it has gone. Basically we pay half as much as we did with Verizon and the features seem endless, but if you are a T-mobile subscriber, then you do need to get on…

This actually works for any Cherry MX keyboard with Cherry MX stabilizers on the big buttons. I’ve been trying to figure out the ideal keyboard. The Cherry Green has an awesome click, but my fingers literally got tired from the 0.65N force required. So I got $15 Cherry dampeners. These…