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

Well why waiting the new Canon 5Ds to try and also for the new Sony A7/9 announcements coming, so since I need to shoot a regatta, seems like a good time to try the Nikon system which seems to have gotten amazing color depth and noise reviews. Not surprising since…

OK, I’ve tried this something like a zillion times (and also for Ubuntu). Here are the mistakes: Do Not use Mac Unetbootin Finally if you try to use unetbootin on the Mac, it has been broken for three years (?!!). The things you have to do manually are to mark the partition…

OK, Maybe I’m getting nerdy (OK maybe more nerdy), but here’s a list of Fuji 35mm film codes from Gastonline.free.fr so you can read the edge codes on the film and map it for later processing or color correction: Superia 100: S-100 Superia 200: S-200 Superia 400 X-tra : S-400 Superia…

Well the world is changing, with so many pixels, I’ve been using Hugin to stitch things together. GoPro just bought autopano and it feels like panoramics are going to be much more common, so what to recommend via Quora: For stitching, there are have been two long time pay choices,…

Wow the new hardware these days isn’t so much about the processor as about the peripherals, here’s what’s in store this year in order of what will warm a power geek’s heart in David Letterman style based on real world speed you will get and when: More out of nVidia.…

I’ve been using a VPN for privacy particularly on wifi networks (Starbucks). I’ve been using Tunnelblick for a while, but in the most recent releases on Yosemite it has become pretty unstable. Seems to hang and then OpenVPN underneath breaks and network access stops. So I’ve flipped to privateinternetaccess.com’s own…

OK, if you are really into nerdville, then you know that the DNS queries (what tells the computer where google.com is) is easy to spoof and hack. This let’s people divert traffic from google.com to their own servers. Bad, bad, bad. So there are three solutions: DNSSec. This essentially means…

Now that there are so many cloud providers, it’s actually pretty complicated to figure out which set to use. It is pretty clear that you have to use a set and when you are in the cloud, you also have to think about privacy and who can look at what,…

Well, Adobe keeps getting more powerful and with the latest Lightroom, they added panorama and HDR, still it does seem like staying out of the way of companies with a lock on the market isn’t a bad idea. Here are some alternatives: Photoshop This is a product I don’t use…

Well a bunch of things definitely break when using your Mac in a secure way. I have two problems. First is with Tunnelblick, the open source VPN connection. It keeps hanging Yosemite. I finally uninstalled it and am trying privateinternetaccess.com’s own client. Also. I’ve been having trouble with iCloud and…