| 10 Technology & Ang Pow Tips for Chinese New Year Posted: 05 Feb 2010 07:15 PM PST Chinese New Year is just around the corner. With the help of current technology, this Chinese New Year will be a special one. Let's see what current technology can do for you for the coming CNY. 1. GPS Pai Nian (Visiting friends and relatives house) for Ang Pao is the most important activity during Chinese New Year. Without Pai Nian, the whole CNY will not be meaningful because no Ang Pao = No CNY. With the help of GPS and Satellite software like Garmin and Tom Tom Navigator, you're able to locate your friends and relatives house without any hassle. Especially for friends and relatives who stay far away from the city or friends that you've lost contact for years, you can simply request for their GPS coordinates and your GPS device will guide your Ang Pao route. 2. Facebook If you're wondering what Facebook can do for you during Chinese New Year, here's a suggestion… First, wish all your friends happy CNY regardless of race and send them a virtual gift or ang pao. Second, create a RSVP event, gather all your friends to discuss and plan for group visit. An ang pao hunting event! Third, update your status. Tell others where you are and what are you doing so that your friends are able to join you. More people = more fun! Fourth, after visiting a friend's house, don't forget to upload the photos you've taken and don't forget to tag them! Fifth, if you hate being visited by relatives and friends (or if you're anti social) Facebook can help. Ignore them, turn on your PC and start Facebooking (play games). Start Facebooking only after you snatch your Ang Pao. 3. Twitter Just like what you did in Facebook, you tweet your latest location and event with your iPhone. Let your followers contact you and join for Ang Pao hunting. 4. Digital Photo Frame Visited by relatives and friends during CNY is pretty usual. Don't just chit chat with small talk. Share your stories and impress them with your digital photos. A physical photo album is good but not as good as a digital photos frame that can store thousands of photos and stream photos from your computer through bluetooth or WIFI. Forget about your dusty photo album, Digital Photo Frame FTW! 5. Google Latitude Google Latitude gives you the exact location of our friends and family. With Google Latitude, we able to locate and notify friends and relatives near our place so that we can pay them a visit or visit a place together. 6. Ipod / Mp3 player / Media Player For those who're going back to their home town for CNY, a long and boring journey is unavoidable. If you plan to relax or sleep for the whole journey, an MP3 player like iPod or iPod Touch is your best companion. 7. PSP / NDSL If you plan to stay awake on the way back to your hometown, a portable gaming console is a must! For serious portable gaming, there's not much choice out there. Try PSP (normally for guys) or a casual game oriented portable gaming console such as NDSL (normally for girls). If you're bored with your PSP, you can always transform it to a portable media player. 4.3 inch screen for movie FTW! 8. Wii / PS3 / Xbox360 If you have kids visiting you, a gaming console is a must. Keep the kids and teenagers entertained. I'm not advocating violence but fighting games like Tekken and Street Fighter are always fun. Better live with the noise than the kids breaking all your other stuff. 9. PayPal for Angpau If you can't visit your kids or relatives during CNY, the least you can do is transfer some money to them. Besides Western Union and Maybank2u, PayPal is simple and fast, but note there is a 3-4% charge. 10. Skype / GTalk / MSN / Yahoo Messenger Unable to visit your friends and relatives – Fret not! Audio and Video Conference with Skype, GTalk, MSN or Yahoo Messenger… do an online virtual Pai Nian (visit) and renew your friendships    |
10 Technology & Ang Pow Tips for Chinese New Year
Download Nero lite Alternative. Best CD DVD Burning Software For Windows
| Download Nero lite Alternative. Best CD DVD Burning Software For Windows Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:42 AM PST
No wonder, Nero has been popularly known for their successful commercial products like Nero backitup, Nero Mediahome and Nero Lite. However, the basic version of the paid tool – Nero Lite is available for free download. There is a catch though, to download Nero lite 9 for free, you need to install ask toolbar, of course the free version comes with limitation and has been remarked as an dubious software by softpedia. The basic Nero lite 9 is available for free download with serial key but it's bloated with advertisements. In anyway, if you're not willing to download the free nero lite or don't want to buy license of Nero lite then we have listed some of the best nero lite alternatives that you can use for effectively burning CDs and DVDs on windows. Best Nero Lite Alternatives While the CD/DVD burning softwares that's mentioned here are not exactly the clones of nero lite but they serves the purpose of burning CD and DVD instantly on your machine. If you've any used any other tool similar to Nero lite and feel that they deserve to be here then name them through your comments.. So, let's check out the free Nero lite alternatives. 1. CD Burner XP Software A flexible burning utility to burn CDs, DVDs, Blu rays and HD Dvds on windows – CD Burner XP allows you to import M3U, erase disc and do almost everything that Nero Lite does. Interface is quite easy and simple to use, no complex buttons to confuse your burning process anymore. Check out the screen shots..
From my side, CD Burner XP is the best yet simple kick ass utility when compared with Nero lite. It's free and works flawlessly! Download CD Burner XP 2. InfraRecorder Burner Apart from providing wide range of powerful features; Infra recorder is another best claimed cd dvd burning software. Creating custom data cd, audio cd or mixed mode dvds are easier with this free burning tool.
Recording disc images, erasing information and rewriting just gets easier with infra recorder. Go ahead and give it a shot (Works with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 2000) 3. ImgBurn Burning Software Known as the ultimate and lightweight burning application, Imgburn is a must have app in your toolbox. Wide range of image files can be burnt with ease, the support for advance burning features is worth an applause concerning they charge you $0 for using the utility.
Imgburn is an perfect windows burning application software that works perfectly straight out of the box. Download the latest version of Imgburn from here. Of course, there are many more alternatives but these were the best and it's features closely resembles Nero Lite burning application. Another efficient commercial tool is Ashampoo burning studio, you can obtain free license key that works for a period of 1 year. However, it's always advisable to go with the above freeware burning softwares as they are not bloated like Nero lite and has been very much popular among the users.     |
Listen GrooveShark Music – Best Fast Streaming Music Website
| Listen GrooveShark Music – Best Fast Streaming Music Website Posted: 03 Feb 2010 09:30 AM PST
There are couple of legal websites to listen free music, somehow most of them are affected with the streaming issue. Not all the websites that provides free music streams the music quickly! Although this online music streaming depends on several factors like the concurrent users on the server (server load) and your own internet connection, but here is one of the music website that has managed to provide reliable music streaming, all this for free! This is Grooveshark – An easy and fast streaming music website which is perhaps the best among the best services for listening free music online! Listen Grooveshark Music Songs Online
To listen music, you don't have to register but if you do choose to register (which is free) and make an account at Grooveshark, then you can restore playlist and customize the player depending on your needs. You can favorite a song, check out the latest popular music hits and the recent hit songs of this week or this month, of course you can build your own playlist from it's super easy and attractive interface. You can organize playlist, search for your favorite artist or check out similar songs. All this can be done while you are listening to music! Grooveshark streams faster with a much better loudness and sound effects which is one of the impressive work from the team. Also, Grooveshark offers premium music service that charges 3$ per month which is quite reasonable, but most of the time free version would be enough to suffice your music needs! So, listen Grooveshark music and get rolling now     |
| Download HD Youtube Videos With Youtube Downloader HD Software Posted: 03 Feb 2010 08:42 AM PST
The ability to watch any videos right from the browser is one of the best feature of the internet. Thanks to YouTube and similar websites like YouTube, we have many tools that can save and download videos for offline viewing. Similarly, the addition of high definition videos (HD Videos), also known as HQ videos (High quality) have enhanced the video viewing experience, although there are many different ways to download HD videos off Youtube, in this post I'll be sharing one of the easiest and working method which I've used it for quite a long time now. Download HD Youtube Videos Whether it's an movie video on YouTube, music video or any random clip in high quality mode, get this freeware youtube downloader software by clicking here and finish the installation. Once you've finished installation, run the Youtube downloader HD software from your computer. It looks like this The process to start instant downloading of HD or HQ youtube videos is quite easy. Visit Youtube and search for your favrouite clip, copy the url (the web address on the address bar) and paste it in the Video url box of this program. Click on Start to begin downloading the videos. Unlike other programs, Youtube downloader HD freeware has been very much faster in terms of downloading the videos with variety of options. You can save youtube videos in FLV, AVI or Mp4 format (Useful for PSP devices) or you can also download HD Videos in 720p and 1080p resolution which is absolutely awesome. With this technique, you can also download the vevo videos and save them on your hard disk as well. One of the handy and free youtube downloader that does what exactly what it says! Go on and give a try..     |
Sony Ericsson Announces ASPEN Touchscreen Phone With Full QWERTY Keyboard
| Sony Ericsson Announces ASPEN Touchscreen Phone With Full QWERTY Keyboard Posted: 02 Feb 2010 08:57 AM PST Sony Ericsson has today announced its first Windows Mobile OS 6.5.3 powered touchscreen handset ASPEN Smartphone that offers maximised message experience with its full QWERTY keyboard, finger friendly touch screen interface, rich user interface and powerful productivity tools. Weighing 135 gms, the Sony Ericsson ASPEN phones is Sony's latest addition to its eco-friendly GreenHeart product [...]    |
| Dell Announces Studio 15 Laptop With Intel i3 Processor and ATI Radeon Discrete Graphics Posted: 02 Feb 2010 04:32 AM PST Dell has launched its upgraded version of Studio 15 series laptop which is powered by new 2010 Intel Core i3-330M processor and it features 15.6 inch WXGA Widescreen display powered by ATI Mobility Radeon HD discrete graphics hardware. The new 2010 Intel Core i3 processors features 32nm dual-core processing, Intel hyper-threading [...]    |
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