Oli's Shanghai Blog» technology http://www.djod.co.uk Oli's Shanghai blog - facebook emoticons, photos, chinese, tech, life, girls, jokes and food from Shanghai, China. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:12:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 This is almost beyond a joke… (不是开玩笑的…) http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/11/12/this-is-almost-beyond-a-joke/ http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/11/12/this-is-almost-beyond-a-joke/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:35:56 +0000 Oli http://www.djod.co.uk/?p=2021 I hate spam as much as anyone, but come on man…give me a break!

我比谁都痛恨垃圾邮件，可是……放过我吧！

nocaptcha

Is that pi?!?!

这是派吗？！？！

]]> http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/11/12/this-is-almost-beyond-a-joke/feed/ 20 31.230708 121.472916 Acer A1 Liquid Preview http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/10/15/acer-a1-liquid-preview/ http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/10/15/acer-a1-liquid-preview/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:55:54 +0000 Oli http://www.djod.co.uk/?p=1954 Several months ago I was the proud owner of the Google G1 Android phone, but through inexplicable means (alcohol+ bar) I lost this phone and have had nightmares about it ever since. That is…until today, and the announecement of the brand new Acer Liquid A1 Phone. This is the smartphone that will make all others obsolete, and that includes that crappy iPhone 3GS that Appe fanboys worship so profoundly.

acer liquid

So what’s so special about Acer Liquid phone?

First of all it’s made by Acer, the cool Taiwanese company that is the largest laptop manufcaturer in the world and the second largest computer manufacturer in the world (behind HP). So straight off the bat, you know they’re not playing games. While the Acer Liquid phone series is their first serious venture into the smart phone world, they certainly have what it takes to compete with the big boys.

The Acer Liquid A1 not only competes, but pretty much destroys any competition out there. It’s packed full of hardware goodness that you’d normally expect to see on a Netbook. I’m not gonna geektease you with all of the details, but here’s a list of what we know about the phone so far:

  • 1GHz Snapdragon Processor
  • WVGA Screen (800 x 480 resolution)
  • Capacitive Touch Screen
  • 5MP Camera with Geo-tagging
  • HSPA Connectivity
  • Android 1.6 Donut
  • New UI including access to entertainment/bookmarks
  • Spinlets – Free music/video streaming that can be shared with friends/family thruogh web/email
  • Social Network Integration… Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr
  • Acer Sync
  • Comes in Red, White or Black

The first thing we see is that it’s got a Snapdragon chipset which gives you 1GHz speed. I remember not too long ago my desktop was running around those speeds! And then you have the high definition WVGA Screen at 800 x 480 resolution that will allow me to watch Blogstar.TV in high definition – you KNOW I’m all about high def. I like the 5 megapixel camera that comes with the Acer Liquid, and it even has ISO levels and autofocus along with geo-tagging techonology that identifies in each picture where you where when you took it.

What’s probably most interesting is that it runs on the Android 1.6 operating system that has been both the cause of extreme optimism and intense annoyance. The Android operating system is a like a vampire, it sucks life juice at no mercy and leaves you battery-less before you realize it.

On the other hand a 1GHz processor, HD screen, and the Android market place sounds like a match made in heaven. You can be sure that there will be some very amazing Acer Liquid A1 apps and games to come in the near future.

Other features of the Acer Liquid include the Spinlets application allowing you free streaming of videos and music, the ability to integrate your social networks into your address book and HSPA speed internet access.

Overall the Acer Liquid looks pretty strong when compared to the iPhone and even my poor Android G1 Phone that is know probably being dissected in an abandoned warehouse in the outskirts of Shenzhen.

The Acer Liquid A1 release date will be sometime in Q4 of 2009 and probably at a price none of us can afford, but hey at least its made me start dreaming and stop having nightmares.

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wow cataclysm

Thinking about the new Warcraft expansion makes me really excited (even if I’m not going to play it). A lot of people were wondering whether the new wow cataclysm info expansion would have new races, new maps and zones and new world events. It turns out that a lot of the features of Warcraft have been tweaked and improved to make the player experience better than ever. I almost wish I had a WoW Cataclysm Beta invitation!

So which new races are available in World of Warcraft Cataclysm? You guessed it – Horde can play as Goblins for the first time and Alliance can play as Worgen! Worgen in the woods will never be the same again…

Are there any new race and class combinations (racials) available in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm? You bet! The new WoW Cataclysm racials are Orc Mage, Night Elf Mage, Dwarf Mage, Blood Elf Warrior, Dwarf Shaman, Undead Hunter, Tauren Paladin, Tauren Priest, Gnome Priest and Troll Druid…but of course the most important one…Human Hunter! If Human Hunter had been available when I first played WoW…oh my God…I would still be hooked…

Anyway, there is lots of info out there about the new WoW expansion so if you want to check it out then click here -> . You won’t be disappointed (unless you value your life!).

For more information about WoW Cataclysm, check out www.WoW-Cataclysm.info!

]]> http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/08/24/wow-cataclysm/feed/ 5 31.230708 121.472916 Worst virus ever? (有史以来最糟糕的病毒?) http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/08/22/worst-virus-ever/ http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/08/22/worst-virus-ever/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:15:12 +0000 Oli http://www.djod.co.uk/?p=1766 Our computers at work got a virus recently. We had a little popup message which said that it had been removed…

我们公司的电脑最近中了病毒.总是会有个小对话框跳出来说此文件已被移除…

…but when I checked my personal web folder, I had a strange sensation that not EVERYTHING had been completely removed…

…可是当我查看我的私人网页文件夹时,我有种奇怪的感觉就是并不是所有的东西都被移除了…

hemo-blog

…but I didn’t know hemorrhoids were viral?!

…但是我不知道痔疮是不是病毒引起的?

]]> http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/08/22/worst-virus-ever/feed/ 3 31.230708 121.472916 How to contact me in China at the moment http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/06/25/how-to-contact-me-in-china-at-the-moment/ http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/06/25/how-to-contact-me-in-china-at-the-moment/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:09:26 +0000 Oli http://www.djod.co.uk/?p=1601 Censorship 2.0: China Blocks Google Search, Apps, Gmail, And [...]]]> Since 9pm last night, access to a number of Google products, including Gmail has been disrupted in China.

There are conflicting reports as to why, by whom and for how long. Techcrunch was fast to report the situation (see their Twitter sceencap for a little suprise!) -> Censorship 2.0: China Blocks Google Search, Apps, Gmail, And More and Danwei offered a fast response (some might say too fast?), then a just as fast retraction (some might say too just as fast?) and then a just as fast as fast half-un-retraction – AND GOOGLE’S BACK – OR NOT – previously entitled ‘Google.com blocked in China’.

People (mostly on Twitter) offered some solutions to circumventing the blocks, including:

Yauba – anonymous access to Google – http://www.yauba.com
Sneakme.net – web proxy that supports flash – http://www.sneakme.net

What this means for me right now is that I don’t have access to Gmail (temporarily), so if anyone needs to contact me for whatever reason (hot pixxx) then you can send to

djod at djod dot co dot uk

, or direct message me on Twitter or Facebook.

Otherwise, let’s hope this is resolved soon…before I lose any more sleep!

]]> http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/06/25/how-to-contact-me-in-china-at-the-moment/feed/ 3 Getting ranked on the Bing search engine http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/06/02/getting-ranked-on-the-bing-search-engine/ http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/06/02/getting-ranked-on-the-bing-search-engine/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:06:27 +0000 Oli http://www.djod.co.uk/?p=1497 This post is for webmasters – the new Microsoft Bing search engine has been launched, and a lot of people have found that their websites are not listed or ranked! Microsoft have promised that their new search engine will be a ‘decision engine’, which will become more important to people than Google. Is this true? Getting a high rank in Bing might be huge in the future, but getting a listing right now is just as important. We will see how it turns out – but they have also said they will invest $80m in advertising for their new search engine, so you better make sure you know how to get ranked on Bing SERPS.

There’s a lot of different things to remember if you want to get a high ranking on Bing, but luckily they’re all listed on this website – How to get listed in the Bing search engine so check it out and if you haven’t got listed on Bing yet then do it now!

]]> http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/06/02/getting-ranked-on-the-bing-search-engine/feed/ 6 Strange massage fetish hits Shanghai Twitter (奇怪的癖好侵袭上海) http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/05/20/strange-massage-fetish-hits-shanghai-twitter-%e5%a5%87%e6%80%aa%e7%9a%84%e7%99%96%e5%a5%bd%e4%be%b5%e8%a2%ad%e4%b8%8a%e6%b5%b7/ http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/05/20/strange-massage-fetish-hits-shanghai-twitter-%e5%a5%87%e6%80%aa%e7%9a%84%e7%99%96%e5%a5%bd%e4%be%b5%e8%a2%ad%e4%b8%8a%e6%b5%b7/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 09:57:20 +0000 Oli http://www.djod.co.uk/?p=1416 In the #Shanghai channel of Twitter, there are often ‘adult’ messages advertising nocturnal services, generally aimed at men looking for something special for the weekend.

在Twitter的上海站经常会有一些’成人’夜间服务广告信息.通常都是针对周末寻找特殊服务的男人们的.

These messages tend to be quite samey. Hot girl / Big boobs / 500rmb per hour / XXX / Call me. This afternoon, however, I was disturbed to read the first fetish message in my Twitter feed…and this one is freaky.

这些信息相当无聊.辣妹/大胸/500块一小时/XXX/电话我.可是今天下午我突然看到了第一个引起我注意的信息…很奇怪的一个.

shanghai massage service back hair

Well, as long as she waxes her top lip…

恩~~只要她为她的上嘴唇打蜡…

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好,事实上这是2个大概50多岁的人,在一辆助动车上,还撑着伞,穿着很正式的衣服,在90度的高温天气…这样有感觉凉快吗?

doublebikeumbrella

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If you are reading this, chances are that you’ve been infected with the Twitter worm/virus called Mikeyy (or Mickey, Mikeey, Micky…there are many variants). Here’s how to remove the worm and get your Twitter account back:

1) Go to Settings (http://twitter.com/account/settings)
2) Update your Name, Username, More info URL, One Line Bio. Press ‘Save‘!
3) Click the Password tab and change your password. Click ‘Change‘.

There you go! I will update this with more info when I get it.

ps, If your account is sending the following messages, then you are infected with the Mikeyy virus:

  • This is all Twitters fault! Don’t blame Mikeyy!!
  • How TO remove new Mikeyy worm! RT!!
  • Twitter, freaking fix this already. >:[ – Mikeyy
  • ALERT!! 4TH GEN MIKEYY WORM, USE NOSCRIPT:
  • this is Bill Gates -Mikeyy
  • This is all Twitters fault! Don’t blame Mikeyy!!
]]> http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/04/13/how-to-fix-mikeey-mikeyy-mikey-or-mickey-worm-on-twitter/feed/ 2 31.230708 121.472916 Facebook’s new design brings amazing hidden feature (新的facebook设计带来了神奇的隐藏功能) http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/03/14/facebooks-new-design-brings-amazing-hidden-feature-%e6%96%b0%e7%9a%84facebook%e8%ae%be%e8%ae%a1%e5%b8%a6%e6%9d%a5%e4%ba%86%e7%a5%9e%e5%a5%87%e7%9a%84%e9%9a%90%e8%97%8f%e5%8a%9f%e8%83%bd/ http://www.djod.co.uk/2009/03/14/facebooks-new-design-brings-amazing-hidden-feature-%e6%96%b0%e7%9a%84facebook%e8%ae%be%e8%ae%a1%e5%b8%a6%e6%9d%a5%e4%ba%86%e7%a5%9e%e5%a5%87%e7%9a%84%e9%9a%90%e8%97%8f%e5%8a%9f%e8%83%bd/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:09:29 +0000 Oli http://www.djod.co.uk/?p=1266 Lots of people have been impressed by Facebook’s new design, but surely nobody could have foreseen this fantastic hidden feature – Future messaging!

许多人欣赏新的facebook设计，但肯定没有人会料到“未来的信息”的神妙功能！

facebook-hidden-feature

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