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

It seems like once a month, I get asked what to install in typical home (that is where nerds to do not live 🙂 so here is the advice: Make sure you have a great access point. There is such a temptation to just get a $50 router, but with…

OK with a few months now of Nexus 5X, MacBook Pro (late 2016) and the new Logitech Brio, here’s a recommendations based on the longer article on long term cords to get in this conversion to USB C connectors for your every day carry (EDC), with the goal being to have…

It’s been a few years since I’ve really had to shoot a big event, but next month, I do need some neat gear. Lensrentals.com (they are having a 10% discount if you order for the summer)  has been a great site for getting things like sport telephotos TL;DR Shooting Canon…

Well, I don’t know how well Apple has really debugged their iCloud Photo Library but here is what I see: Even though I have several phones, iPads and MacBooks set to iCloud Photo Library, they all show different versions of files store on top. When you get to a particular…

We’ve had this bug on several Macs so far, but the symptoms are, the Mac refuses to synchronize up to iCloud, it says you need gobs and gobs of space, but when you look at the photos, there are not nearly that many . Even if you completely deleted everything…

Well, for a variety of reasons, I’m using the Windows 10 and SurfaceBook with Performance Base (what a name?!). Anyway, here are the key learnings: The gooseneck thing is a little weird to use in actual practice. It doesn’t fold down flat and you want move the screen all the…

Well now that we don’t have privacy, here’s a quick review of what to do to harden your Mac: Install 1Password using Dropbox because it’s a pain to remember all the passwords. Turn on System Preferences/Security & Privacy/FileVault. This encrypts your hard disk, so in evil hands, they at least…

OK, I admit it I mainly use Vi for editing mainly because it is just so fast to edit things from the keyboard. You don’t ever need to leave the keyboard when moving around. It is arcane and terrible yet, I actually got running (thanks syntactic) an coding environment that let’s…

Not simplest thing to find because instruction seem to vary, but on the latest vuescan, here is all you need to do: Put a page in and press preview when it looks good press scan For each succeeding page press preview and then  scan + When you are done you don’t have…

I’ve got now five homes where I’m helping folks run their networks. Unifi is pretty awesome because you can configure the AP at home and then take it to someone and it is completely configured for them. It is so unlikely that a regular human can figure out the access…