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LG and Audrey Hepburn

I saw an ad on the subway in Shanghai recently, featuring Audrey Hepburn and LG phones…and i saw the fine print and yes, it seems that the images is legally kosher…but one wonders about these things. It reminds me of … Continue reading

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An internet speed test in Shanghai

This shows the result of the internet speed test I just took on Speed.io and it looks like that although the PING speed isn’t hot, the rest is OK. I have noticed, and this is a purely subjective judgment, that … Continue reading

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Onion interactive maps doesn’t have Shanghai

…but it does have Beijing. I learned about this interactive map from Lifehacker (source of all good information in the universe), it’s kinda nifty, for example in the Beijing one the usual suspects are featured — the Bell and Drum … Continue reading

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Google translate in Chinese: some preliminary tests

I just spotted the Google China translate and tested out of some its functions. Obviously, I don’t know well it translates traditional Chinese into Arabic, because I don’t know much Arabic, but I did try some stuff with English and … Continue reading

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Kwout–a cool way of quoting stuff on the web

OK, so first there were screenshots, and then there were programs that DropimageURL that just turned the whole web page into a picture–and now Kwout (think: QUOTE), where you can screen capture part of the web page—while keeping the links … Continue reading

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