Tongfamily (Richtong.com Sync)

And didn’t have the foresight to preorder. Well, use Zoolert or Nowinstock to get a notification. Amazing that things sell out online in 3 minutes!

An offhand remark about why some code was going to get implemented as a sea of events and handlers and wouldn’t a state machine be a better way. So what is it anyway? A few months ago I saw a great little blog post about state machines on the Shopify…

Sigh, becoming more dependent on Netflix and got this error: netflix an error occurred loading this content Not too much help, but folks suggested: I was having the same issue with Netflix and HBO GO. Go to Settings > General > Restart. That worked for me. If that doesn’t work,…

With 4K displays running at $3K (?!!), the sweet spot in displays looks like the so called 2560×1440 display (compared with the 1920 x 1080 of 1080p fame). We are in the funny phase where the move to 4K is still too expensive with a gap to the 1080p which…

OK, learning lots in the evenings and gotten some horrible crashes. This is the best yet! I got an ” Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSUnknownKeyException’ See… Here’s what wasted 2 hrs of my late night time: I had connected an UIControl outlet in the interface builder to the…

Argh. Going through Ray Wenderlich’s tutorials and I keep missing the custom class creation. And the custom class doesn’t seem to work. It looksl ike an xCode 5 bug…Just reopen and try again or manually type the name of the class in. Make sure to select the entire controller. See……

Well, I finally have a little time to think about security and 1Password seems like they are more open than Lastpass (their source code is closed), so I’m going to try it. The big issue is how to import 816 passwords (?!!) from one to the other. The confusing thing…

Well I’ve been using OpenPGP for a while with Enigmail on Thunderbird and also with OpenPGP and Mac Mail, they actually work quite well and the nice thing is all the private keys are self-created, so you don’t have to worry about some certificate authority having access to all your…

Well now that one of my 32GB SanDisk Extreme’s has failed and there is apparently a lifetime warranty, but in the mean time, I need a few more SD cards, so the Sony UHS-1 at $19 for a 32GB looks like a pretty good deal and UHS-1 does seem like…

Yes, you can definitely develop a negative attitude towards the “2nd tier” sites and their security systems. At least now people are telling you waht is happening, but in short over the last two months four of my accounts have been compromised. Which means that people got my email and…