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

Well we’ve got everyone in our extended family air filters. We ended up getting a HEPA filter made by BlueAir called the Blue Pure 211+ for $300 at Amazon. I can’t actually tell if it works, but it is quiet. The other company that has gotten buzz has been Molekule.…

I don’t know if this will work for other displays but I’ve never been able to get an LG to scan properly. This has worked without adjustment for most Samsung television that I’ve used. While some folks on Reddit say to turn Pixel Shift off, this is called Screen Shift…

Well it’s been nearly a year since I’ve done a podcast, but Paul asked me for a link so I thought I would start again for 2021. If you want to see the test casts I’ve been doing, they are up on Apple Podcasts. For some reason when I did…

Well, I finally tried a way more expensive docking station. It is the $220 CalDigit TS3 Plus at Amazon and is way more than the typical $30 USB C Dongle and $30 powered USB hub, but it was getting so frustrating having intermittent connections. The CalDigit TS3 Plus is really…

Well a nice Christmas present during this Pandemic season is a nice mechanical keyboard. Here are some of the things to think about when you are buying a keyboard that I put in order of importance to me 🙂 Arrows keys yet compact. These are normally the 78-key or 68-key…

OK, with the Mac things are super automatic, so I normally just plug a webcam in and it works. I’ve been using the Logitech C920 forever and it just about perfect. But with all this pandemic time, I finally got a Logitech BRIO which is a 4K camera. There are…

Ok, this is such a pain, Google force added Google Meet as the default conferencing add-on to every new meeting invite. This is terrible for two reasons. The first is that, at least for us, Google Meet just doesn’t work very well, it uses lots of CPU and is very…

This is the first time I’ve ever seen this message Disabled for Security Reasons. It appeared on our Apple TV last night. It was strange because all our other Apple devices were working fine. The thing said to go to “https://iforgot.apple.com” which is a pretty scary URL. The last thing…

Argh, I can’t believe this has gotten so hard. We just want to record a video segment on the local news. Here are the steps: If you have a DVR from Comcast or someone, this is pretty simple. Just hit record. But what if you have cut the cord and…

OK, when I first started using 1Password, it was pretty straightforward, there was a third party store like Dropbox or Google Drive and then you encrypted a file with your master password. However, they’ve since introduced the concept of their own storage which is great. Now you can have multiple…