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The Outlook of 2008 China's Economy

tochern@gmail.com (Poducate Me) — Fri, 9 May 2008 09:16:00 -0700

http://forums.chinatimes.com/report/special/RealTime/9705082.htm

Read a person like a book

tochern@gmail.com (Poducate Me) — Fri, 2 May 2008 15:15:00 -0700

Here a very interesting but short audiobook. You may listen to the book by playing back right here, or you may subscribe to the iTunes podcast at

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Create your PC Entertainment Center

tochern@gmail.com (Poducate Me) — Mon, 7 Apr 2008 20:54:00 -0700

Retire your old Karaoke machine and make your Media PC as the total entertaiment center. The new High Def Sound Effect Manager by Realtek is a good Karaoke machine. Go to Realtek Download and get the latest High Def Audio Codec/Manager.

The how-to is shown in the screencast.

Get the right tools

tochern@gmail.com (Poducate Me) — Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:01:00 -0700

There are tens of thousands of softwares available and very difficult to tell what is what. In order to suvive the world of information explosion, I have selected the following tools as the Basic Cyber Survival Kit:

To write in Chinese Google Pinyin
To translate using translate.google
Instead of archiving, use google desktop to search locally
To use less buggy browser Firefox with del.icio.us sidebar addon
Free anti-virus AVG
To unzip with WINRAR
To global file rename with Better File Rename
To talk free and connected with Skype & X-lite to VoipDiscount
To have the PC read email or book Microsoft Speech SDK - Neospeech Kate & Paul
To create screencast - instantdemo
To FTP (client) Filezilla
To extract (e.g. Youtube and RealMedia) video or audio clipRealPayer
To take your PC anywhere LogMeIn
Simple keyboad/mouse automation - jitbit
Adobe Keygen

To choose the level of convinience you need and download and install from the hyperlink onto your PC. More advance software and feaures are to be posted in this blog shortly.

Web Tools and Servers
To put away, and share large files anywhere - megaupload
To share messages and blog - blogger
To share videos - youtube
To share audios - divshare