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iPhone Video Panorama App
The Video Panorama application for the iPhone offers a simple method for generating panoramic photos. First, use the app to take a video across a panorama. The app then generates a panoramic photo presumably by stitching together still images from the video. When Video Panorama works, it generates a decent panoramic photo, such as the…
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2010 Expo ä¸Šæµ·ä¸–åš Dining
Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China offers many dining options. However, because the expo grounds are so expansive, I found it difficult to plan for a meal at one of the famous restaurants featured at the expo. Instead, when a meal time arrived, I just opted for the closest dining option. This meant a cafe for…
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Expo 2010 ä¸Šæµ·ä¸–åš Drinks
If you are attending the 2010 Expo in Shanghai, China, you are not permitted to bring liquids into the facility. If you are cost conscious, you may bring an empty water bottle and refill it for free at many of the water stations located through out the Shanghai World Expo grounds. Alternatively, Coca-Cola is selling…
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Marketing, Propaganda or Marketing Propaganda
During a recent trip to China, I stopped by a store in Wuxi that displayed this slogan: Wuxinees Admire Virtues and Wuxi is A Trustworthy City For Consumption I am certain that the sign would have been better off without the English translation. The sign isn’t suffering from the typical “Chinglish” problem. Instead, the slogan…
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Bose QuietComfort 15 Noise-Canceling Headphones
Before the iPod and iPhone came along, I never carried around my own set of headphones, especially on a plane ride. I just used the airline-provided set of headphones to listen to the airline-provided entertainment options. However, the first time I brought an MP3 player aboard a plane, I discovered that I couldn’t hear the…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Biased Americans
I spotted this funny line in the San Francisco Chronicle: But [the Chevrolet Malibu], in this country, should be outselling the Camry and Accord. It’s surprising to me how much bias there still is among U.S. consumers against their own country’s car brands, and in favor of the Japanese models. Merriam-Webster defines bias as “an…
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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…