Jan's Tech Posterous

Appledaily Animation News Go Global

Appledaily is famous of reproducing news in 3D animation. It draws huge attention, both positive and negative, in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Thanks my pal Wanszezit, who is working in Appledaily, sent me new products from his team -- Animation News in English. Thanks to the heated love drama of Tiger Woods, Appledaily re-interprete the news in a totally perspective. The move let the new journalism presentation go beyond the Chinese-speaking Internet communities.

English version of the animation news received rave review. The New York Times, Business Insider and some English media have covered the video stories.

Wondering how the 3D news videos look like? Here you go!

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Posted 2 days ago

Google Visual Search

Take a photo with your cell phone, then put it to Google, it will show you the search result!

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Posted 5 days ago

Kindle Experience - Upgrading Firmware

Having enjoyed the first week of trial of Kindle, the reading experience of Amazon's books, especially those optimized for Kindle, has been quite good. The e-ink-powered ebook reader is slim and lightweighted, so it's very portable. My books in my bags are much bulkier than the Amazon's new hit product.

During the weekend, I upgraded the firmware to version 2.3, which offers extended battery life as well as PDF support. The upgrade is fairly easy. I plugged a USB connecting Kindle to my PC and copied the new firmware to Kindle. Then I could do the upgrade through pulling down the settings menu.

I put some PDFs to my Kindle - in the document folder. Upon unplugging the USB cable, I found my PDF files in the hoome screen. I could rotate the screen, so as to optimize the view of PDF files.

However, seems that I have no way to zoom in to details of contents on PDF files, which makes me difficult to read clearly the contents. Am I missing anything for the zoom-in-zoom-out feature?

Now I'm searching some tips about the ebook reader. This blog post is extraordinary! If you love the ebook reader, you'll love this post: Top 25 Kindle Hacks.

Click here to download:

Kindle_Experience_-_Upgrading_.zip (454 KB)

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Posted 11 days ago

Price War!

Netvigator has joined the price war for broadband internet access service. It's offering HK$99-a-month plan for local public housing residents, as Hong Kong Broadband and Hutchison have both kicked of the HK$99 plan for a period of time. Their plans seems greatly eroded the market. Now Netvigator is responding to their price cut, but the offers are only limited to public housing residents. Would the tactic be able to rescue Netvigator?

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Posted 14 days ago

Kindle Arrived!

I went to Mainland China for a short trip this weekend. When I arrived home tonight, I found an Amazon box waiting for me! Thanks Text100 people for arranging the opportunity of reviewing this brand new way of reading.

I deliberately placed the ebook reader next to my Vaio P, so that you could see how portable is it.

From now on, I could have 2 weeks to review Kindle. I'll post my share here later.

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Posted 19 days ago

Revive the memory of Punch Party HK 3!

As I said before, not many people from the English blogging community covered the local blogger-initiated event - Punch Party HK. Thanks to Lisa and Hungjai, one of a great lady blogger, we could always enjoy the great moments of the party. Here are some of the clips I think you would enjoy.

People waiting for registration

Karen Tam of Harbour City gave an introductory speech

People donated for Greenpeace

Greenpeace presented their works

Fred Lam's presentation

Ryan Ng's presentation

Haka Dance Performance brought by Air New Zealand

Haka Dance Contest

Some of you might not be able to understand the Cantonese speech, it still worth watching the videos to feel the atmosphere. If you feel interested in the party, my post "Random Thoughts on PPHK3" might be a good reading for you.

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Posted 25 days ago

Win an LG cell phone

What are on your Christmas gift wishlist? A game console? A diamond ring? In case you really want a new cell phone, come enter the LG Holiday Survey - which asks you who is your hero.

Seems LG love to do this kind of festive survey. Last year, they did a project on the favourite Christmas gifts.

By filling in 14 multiple-choice question, you could enter their lucky draw, which could earn you a brand new LG phone. LG will announce the result on 30 Nov 09.

However, if I were LG, I'd avoid to survey about the topic "hero" this year.

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Posted 1 month ago

Pseudo Notebook... or Real Notebook?

My friend bought these two "notebook-shape" notebooks from a local shop. One is IBM; One is Sony. The Pseudo Notebooks are actually real ones... I mean real writing pads.

I especially love the "Sony" one, as the notebook is named "Wow". compared with the original Sony notebook name "Vaio", this name is particularly interesting.

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Posted 1 month ago