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Let It Go in Chinese
If your child has already watched Frozen several times and has already memorized the lyrics to Let It Go, here’s a challenge. Learn the song in Chinese. Disney has a Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese Mandarin version. I like éšå®ƒå§ by Bella Yao the best of all the Chinese versions.
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Free Wi-Fi v. Verizon Jetpack 4G LTE
I’m sitting in the bleachers at a local ice skating rink on a Saturday morning wondering how fast the free Wi-Fi is. Speedtest.net reports the download speed as 1.25 Mbps and 0.35 Mbps as the upload speed. My experience is that the connection is perfect for reading text, but struggles with video. Fortunately, I also…
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TurboTax Business
I think every Mac user must have a love-hate relationship with Intuit. I still don’t understand why Intuit had dumped Quicken for Quicken Lite a/k/a Quicken Essentials for Mac. Ugh. But, I’m glad that I jumped on iBank instead of waiting around for the long-rumored Quicken Deluxe for Mac. I’m sure it is still just…
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Musée des Arts Forains
On January 1st, I was in Paris. The only problem was that almost all the regular tourist attractions were closed. Fortunately, a few searches on Google along the lines of Paris open new year suggested the Musée des Arts Forains. Despite visiting their website and viewing their numerous photos, I still could not figure out…
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EyeTV 250 Plus and Winegard FlatWave Amped
I’ve been looking at an EyeTV for a long time. Almost too long. A few weeks ago, a family member inquired about recording a television program for later viewing. I did not have a post-VCR solution for that. When I returned to the ElGato website, I couldn’t find any of their relevant products. Nothing from…
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AT&T DSL to Sonic.net
I’ve been with AT&T DSL for several years at the 6.0Mbps tier, which wasn’t bad at first. However, now that software is distributed almost entirely by Internet, I just got tired of the waiting. I could have switched to AT&T U-verse, which offers downstream speeds up to 45 Mbps, but I hate the introductory pricing…
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iPhoto Missing EXIF Data After Crash
Lately, iPhoto has been crashing quite a bit on me. Usually, it occurs after I had imported some photos and was browsing from photo to photo. The bad news is that the photos would disappear from iPhoto, which led me to this tip to Repair/Rebuild the Database. That usually worked to restore the lost photos,…
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
I have long been a fan of books by Grace Lin. Her children books feature a Chinese theme and include delightful illustrations. I’ve checked out all her picture books from the library and read them to my children. Now that my children are school age, we have moved on to her novel Where the Mountain…
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Bay Area Discovery Museum
Located across the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Area Discovery Museum offers an engaging experience for young children. During our visit, the museum offered a Framed: Step Into Art exhibit. Basically, the exhibit displays a work of art with the usual description of the artist and the work. However, the exhibit also brought the art…