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The problems of Olympus u760

March 5th, 2008 | No Comments »

Today, I am trying to help John about his Olympus u760 problem. Here is the comment:

Hi. Need some help… I got few photos save inside the favorite, but I wanna take it out from my camera (olympus 760) but there is no way to take it out, is there any way to do that?

I never used the favorite function of my u760, so I took some photos afternoon, and marked some photos to favorite folder, then connected it to my computer via USB. (Connecting u760 and computer in USB, not put the XD card in card reader).

Then, system found the device, and openned it with explorer. Yeah, there is no problem, I can copy, move, delete all the photos, the favorite photos and normal photos all could be moved or deleted from the DC.

So, Join, I think you should try again, or tell me more details about your operations.

Acturally, I can not copy out the photos in these cases:

1. If I take out the XD card from u760, and put it in my card-reader, then it is no way to find device;

2. If connecting Olympus u760 to my Mac Mini, also can not copy photos; Review of OLYMPUS u760.



Cannot be displayed from Farm4 Flickr Server

March 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »

When I upload the newest photos to Flickr, the photos are not displayed. I found the server No. is changed.

farm4.flickr.com

All my old photos are loaded from farm2.flickr.com or farm3.flickr.com, but the newest photos are uploaded and loaded from farm4.flickr.com.

The farm4 server is not affecting any of mine and my friends or contacts photos.

In fact, the photos on farm1 and farm2 servers are not allowed displayed in China, so I have to install the access flickr! plugin in my firefox to read them. But farm3.flickr.com is fine, and I found farm4.flickr.com just now.

I think farm4.flickr.com is a new server-group for Flickr, is it right? Flickr upgrade their servers again? So, may be the new server-group have some bugs, or the new server-group is banned in China.

I searched farm4 in Google and can not find any infomation about it. Is this an issue for anyone else?

More about Flickr:

- Find out the ways of traffic source in flickr
- More than 200 photos in my flickr
- What Is This Mean at Flickr?



The temperature at Beijing February 2008

March 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »

February 22nd I blogged All kinds of keywords in my blog, there is a question that asked the temperature at Beijing march 2008, I said no one can answer the question.

temperature at Beijing February 2008

I still can not answer the question but I can tell you the temperature at Beijing February 2008.

This year is a leap year, so February has 29 days, I recorded the real-time temperature day by day, 8 data per day, so there are 232 records of last month.

From the data, the highest temperature there is 15.3 degrees that happened at 2008-02-28 14:00:00, and the lowest is -8.4 degrees that happened at 2008-02-12 08:00:00.

Nearby the end of February, as the day went on, Beijing became hotter. Young guys leave off their winter underwear when the warm weather comes. But the old people has not leave off their winter clothes, they said “Be sure to keep warm in spring and less in autumn”.

Be sure to keep warm in spring and less in autumn? I can not make sure… I don’t how to translate it to English, there are some other’s traslations of this old word:

- Wrap up when comes spring, to Autumn little clothes bring.
- Wear more clothes in Spring and less in Autumn.
- As to clothing, more in spring, less in fall.
- Keep covered in spring and do not wear too much in autumn.
- Warming spring and freezing fall.

How to cover Centigrade to Fahrenheit?

Centigrade to Fahrenheit: ℉ = ℃ * 9 / 5 + 32
Fahrenheit to Centigrade: ℃ = 5 / 9 * ( ℉ - 32 )

The temperature data of last month:
(The data be wrote in the comment, click here to read the data details)



Reading Today: 3 Steps to an Organized Desktop

February 29th, 2008 | No Comments »

3 Steps to an Organized Desktop - It is an useful tips, I like the clearly desktop, because it can help me improve my work efficiency.

Does Google Read Email Attachments in Gmail for AdSense Ads? - I think if Google spiders read the email text to determine relevant AdSense ads that are displayed next to the content of the Gmail messages, it must be read the attachments too.

Social Networks And Online Communities Around The Globe - There is two good pictures that shows the Social Networks and communities around the world, but no China data there.

A Look at Social Network Popularity Around the Globe - The same picture, the differ contents, from another blog’s reviews of the Social Networks and communities around the world.

Monday Time Waster: Sushi Go Round - A flash game that very interesting, it is really a waster game, funny and recommend to you :D



Social media tools in China

February 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Curt wrote a comment at Popular softwares differences between China and Foreign:

Social websites logos

I wonder what the most popular social media tools & web apps are in China and how they differ from, say, the U.S.?

There are a lot of social media websites in China, but most of them are not very good, they all were copied from Alexa Top1000. The other word, if there is a new website successful in Alexa, you will find another “Chinese version” in few days.

There are 5 good social media in my option:

1. Websites: http://www.xiaonei.com/

Xiaonei likes facebook, you have to use realname to register it, the users of xiaonei are mainly of the students and IT workers.

2. Websites: http://www.taotao.com/

Taotao likes twitter, taotao is developped by QQ company, there a lot of spam messages are created there.

3. Websites: http://hi.baidu.com/

HiBaidu likes MySpace, it is high speed and supports many custom-templates, I like this social apps very much.

4. Websites: http://www.zhuaxia.com/

Zhuaxia likes Google Reader plus Digg, you can share and digg the articles, and read the others’ recommendations.

5. Websites: http://www.douban.com/

Douban likes… I don’t know what is it likes, douban is a social website that let users share the book-reviews and movie-reviews.



The elementary grade curriculum

February 26th, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Someone says that we Chinese are clever, Chinese overseas usually gained full marks in the examination, I don’t agree full marks equals clever, I think clever means the comprehensive ability.

List of pupil

The most Chinese believe examination is most important for students, so Chinese pupil lack of physical exercise in the school often.

I asked my little brother for his sixth-grade curriculum, there has three sport classes per week, two music classes per week, and only one art class per week.

Chinese pupil lack of physical exercise in the school.

Look at the curriculum, the classes of Chinese, English and Math are the major classes everyday, my little brother just a kid, he should be filled with sports, music and arts in his life. How painful it is.

Another suprise is the Polity Class, pupil, can little boy (ten or thirteen years old) understand what is polity? Why there is no history and geography of our motherland, but two polity classes per week, I am afraid I can not accept that true.