Wow, finally a site that has it all for us lousy Chinese speakers at ChinesePod. I found it via iTunes and it has it all and it is free. For instance, look at the most popular intermediate lessons, it has both an MP3 podcast you can download as well as a PDF with English, pinyin and simplifed chinese. And the vocabulary is pretty useful and real world. Thanks guys!

Alex and Calvin are both learning to program. Here are some geat modern ways (as opposed to Basic that I learned): Alice. This is a 3D programming environment that is used to put people into the graphical world. EA is underwriting the development and will use Sims 2 characters for...

Many sites are now tuning for the iPhone and also TUAW does a good list of free downloads from iTunes. Many are from foreign countries, so what you have to do is to logon and then you have to buy a gift card and enter an address from that country....

Playing different video formats on the Mac is a real pain. Animemusicvideos.org has a nie list of, if I need to play a format, here is what I need to do with the short answer that beside Quicktime, the main thing you need is VLC: FormatPlayer NeededMP4VLCAVIVLCWMVVLCRMVBRealplayer 10 for MacOGMVLCMKVVLC...

Arrgh, this is so complicated. I love the small resorts like Sun Peaks and who likes the fact that the US dollar is now less than the Canadian dollar, so prices are 30% higher, still the kids friends are all going up there, so I have to follow them. Here...

Legoland is something younger kids like. 8 is about the perfect age. The cost of the place is simply amazing at $60 for an adult. Fortunately, Mousesavers has some amazing discounts. Right now, you can get $7 off with just a coupon. Or book with Costco to get 25% off...

Hey Apple is actually offering discounts on the day after Thanksgiving. Small, but makes some difference, the new iPod nano is $138 and $10 off on iLife to $68 from $79. One cool thing is the very sleek Apple Bluetooth headset is now $108 from $129, although I think the...

Well, 1.1.2 is out and that means hacking begins, the main feature for all us Chinese users is that it "finally" has Chinese input. I just wish that they would fix Contacts so it can gracefully handle 7,000 contacts. There i for instance now way to do a text search,...

Finally got around to going through clippings, here are some from Macworld: Imagewell is a nice photo resizer. A little faster than the 30 seconds it takes to boot up Photoshop CS2 :-) Powered by ScribeFire....

With the Canadian dollar actually above the US dollar, going to Whistler has gone from being really cheap to going to London. The fate of those with lots of American dollars I fear. One way to save is the EDGE card which gives you some discount. The 1 day ski...