Overseas Chinese Web Guide

Category: Tech

  • Cathay Pacific EmPower Laptop Charger

    Traveling across the Pacific Ocean used to be a grueling experience. However, the long flight can be made more tolerable with an iPhone or an iPad in hand. However, what if you run out of juice half way across the ocean? From the Cathay Pacific website, I thought I needed an EmPower charger, so I…

  • Website Banned in China

    Whenever I read about the Great Firewall of China, I always assumed that it was blocking the other guy. However, during a recent visit to China, I discovered that I was the other guy. I tried to access the Overseas Chinese Web Guide from multiple locations within China and simply could not reach the website.…

  • 24 Hours with an iPad

    I just spent 24 hours with the “magical and revolutionary” iPad. What’s so magical and revolutionary about the iPad? First, start with the battery life. Absolutely amazing! The iPad is still going strong 24 hours after its last charge. After a full day of browsing the Internet, watching videos, and running apps, the battery is…

  • iTunes Audiobooks Do Not Show Up in Books

    iTunes had stored some of my audiobooks under Music instead of Books. Actually, I had not realized that these were mutually exclusive lists under I wanted to transfer some audiobooks to an iPhone and realized certain titled did not appear under the Books tab. All this time, I had been flagging titles as Audiobooks under…

  • Chinese Google Maps

    Today, I recognized the connection between literacy and computer literacy when I reset the default language on a MacBook Pro to 简体中文. Within the Language & Text settings under System Preferences, a user can select a language for the computer. I had thought that selecting a language other than English would only alter the language…

  • Pages: You Need a Newer Version of Pages to Open This Document

    Today, a co-worker asked if I could open .pages document. Of course, I thought. Send me the document. After all. I have iWork installed on my MacBook Pro. See. Even though we have just entered 2010, the latest version of iWork is iWork ’09. And, my version is iWork ’08. Surely, a version of iWork…

  • Omron Pedometer HJ-112: Step Currency

    I love my Omron Pedometer. I am constantly checking it throughout the day just to make sure that I am on track to meet my fitness goals. With pedometer secured, I am totally focused on “step currency.” That’s a term for my personal game where I earn steps (or points) throughout the day for completing…

  • Omron Pedometer HJ-112 / HJ-113

    I recent purchased an Omron HJ-112 Digital Pocket Pedometer. Amazon also sells the Omron HJ-113 Digital Pocket Pedometer, but only through a third-party. Besides the obvious color difference, the HJ-112 has a front reset button to zero out your stats, and the HJ-113 does not. First, I am a reluctant adopter of a pedometer. I…

  • Loss of Supermajority – There’s an App for That

    On the day that Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat went to the Republicans, the White House launched its new The White House iPhone app. However, parents beware. The White House is not safe for children because it may display “infrequent/mild realistic violence” and “infrequent/mild alcohol, tobacco or drug use or references.”

  • Transmit: Finding Files on Your Server

    I have been using Transmit for a long, long time. For some reason, I just discovered today that Transmit has a search box. Odd. I use the application every day, but had not noticed it until just a few minutes ago. At some point, I must have developed some form of user blindness where I…