Gadget: Google Navigation for Android 2

Mobile phone is getting more powerful these days — including navigation. For Apple’s iPhone, there are built in navigation engine to do the job, but for Google’s Android platform, the new Google Navigation system can do the work (while your 3G/wireless connenction is alive?). Watch the video for more info:

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Money: No-Tax vesus Credit Card Cashback

Although the economy seems to gradually recover, money-saving ideas are still prevalent. Recently, I found that by paying cash, some stores provide 10% discount and some stands are tax-free. Since the CA tax rate is greater than 8%, both means more than 8% of saving in that purchase. In contrast, if I pay by credit [...]

Gadgets: A Customers’ Complian to Amazon’s Kindles 2

I read an interesting article regarding a guy who accidentally dropped his Kindles 2, thereby making it un-usable. He is not happy with the robustness claim of the Kindles product advertised by Amazon.com and filed a letter to request for a settling fee. Amazon.com replied in a month after they received the mail and agreed [...]

Gadget: Magic Mouse from Apple

Apple have re-invent technology in many ways … this time is the mouse we use (almost) everyday. However, it costs $69USD for this magic mouse! See Apple magic mouse page for more detail.

Life: A beautiful National Park Photo

那天我看到這張照片
http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np-image.chis20527.html
我想說 這是哪個國家公園 如此美麗, 原來就是我每天在實驗室站起來，往窗外眺望，就可以看到的國家公園啊!
只能說攝影技術真的太重要了。
去過了七個國家公園，結果最近的還沒去過，一定要找機會去才是!!

Entrepreneurship: Pandora Founder’s Talk at UCSB

http://www.tmp.ucsb.edu/extracurricular/keynote_lecture_tim_westergren.html
This afternoon, I attended a talk given from one of Pandora’s founder, Tim Westergren. It is absolutely fantastic to listen to one of the major websites that renovates the music industry in the recent five years. In addition, Tim, as a true Entrepreneur in himself, sets a great example for young Entrepreneurs.
Tim graduated from Stanford [...]

Fun: Barcode 57th Birthday

Today (10/7) is the 57th birthday of barcode. Thanks to this invention, many tracking become very convenient. More information on barcode can be found on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode
Interested readers can generate their own barcode from the following website:
http://www.morovia.com/free-online-barcode-generator/
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBarcode&ei=NqrMSsvWC4jSsQO9idCPAQ&rct=j&q=bar+code&usg=AFQjCNEWPL1T7B4Wk85y2jkfWIyR9Qjl5w&sig2=lOxO4qYYqUJbjS-wiRlzTQ

Info: 搞笑諾貝爾獎

2009 年的 Nobel Prize 在這幾天將陸續揭曉，而一年一度的搞笑諾貝爾獎(Ig Nobel)也已經公布。今年有滿多有趣而實用的主題，大家可以參考這個文章有詳細的報導。
List of Ig Nobel Prize winners from Wikipedia

Food: Starbucks’ New Instant Coffee

Starbucks has recently announced their new product – Starbucks VIA, which is a instant coffee without cream and sugar added. They are having a taste challenge these days at all US Starbucks stores — they will prepare a brewing version and a instant version for you and, after tasting them, you will guess which one [...]

Life: Beautifully Imperfect

A very touching video

(originally posted in Youda’s blog)