Tongfamily (Richtong.com Sync)

Well there seem to be two choices. First are the cards that just give you dollarls back and then the second are award cards. Personally, I have an older card, the United Visa Select because it gives you 3x miles for trips booked with United or Continental which is great…

Ugh, I have a Vodafone sim and an Optus one. Optus seems cheaper, but man are they an incredible amount of trouble. First I got something called connect4less which is a special SIM and they lock you into a program. And nothing works well on the web either. Maybe I’ll…

Well I have to say apple customer service is amaZing. Have a Mac problem overseas. U can download the apple store app on your iPhone. It finds the nearest apple store. U can set an appointment and look for other genius bars nearby. And then it has mapping to find…

Well, the world keeps moving, just when I thought I had a NAS picked out two things changed: 1. The Synology shipped their DSM 3.2 which supports Lion so it is now OK to buy 2. The first 4TB (!!?) drives are now being released and there is a move…

For learning Chinese, I’m using Qingwen on the iPhone quite a bit. It has really good recognition, but mainly it has word lists which are great. It also gives example phrases and the ability to use Handwriting for Chinese is terrific. On the Mac, there are a host of resources…

Well, my buddy Scott recommends the NAS from Netgear I think, but when I look at reviews, folks seem to really like the Synology. They have their new DSM 3.2 which is finally Lion compatible so it can emulate a Time Machine. That is very useful for doing restores directly.…

Now with a choice of three carriers for an iPhone, its interesting to see if it makes sense to migrate off the AT&T network. In particular, if you go to Verizon or Sprint, then they will unlock your phone for GSM overseas. Great for us international traveling folks and no…

Ludwig is so terrific, need a web camera to monitor things and he recommends Izon. Expensive at $130 but it looks wonderful and all it needs is USB power and it connects automatically to wifi and streams things up to a private location on the internet so you don’t need…

Give it to your kids with a cheap prepaid plan 🙂 Also as another aside, if you just want a cheap data plan, then you can enable your old  iPhone 4 with a prepaid account according to osxdaily.com by calling AT&T and then giving them your old iPhone micro-SIM number. To get…

Well besides Siri, the other big reason to upgrade from an Iphone 4 to a 4S is international travel…it is a dual mode CDMA/GSM phone, so potentially you can use the very good Verizon network here (or Sprint if the coverage is good for you and their prices are much,…