Posted on November 16, 2009 by hmchang
There are increasing large amount of ways we can contact with friends or know their latest status. MSN, GTALK, EMAIL, FACEBOOK, TWITTER just to name a few. Digsby is a handy software that can centralized all these onto your desktop. Watch the vedio for more detail:
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Posted on November 11, 2009 by hmchang
I have found that I used up the free space provided by Google – it is great to know that starting Nov. 10, 2009, they are offering new storage plan:
20 GB – $5/yr
80 GB – $20/yr
200 GB – $50/yr
400 GB – $100/yr
1 TB – $256/yr
2 TB – $512/yr
4 TB – $1024/yr
8 TB – $2048/yr
16 TB [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2009 by hmchang
Amazon finally got their own reader out for PC users: (download here). It features several free books and the option to sync with your Kindle. It might be interesting to give it a try!
Note that you will need your Amazon account to login to their service.
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Posted on November 10, 2009 by hmchang
PDF file format is almost a standard now for document sharing and for papers. This file format can be read using the reader provided by Acrobat.
Lately, I have been trying to read research papers on the screen so as to reduce the need of printouts. To do this, I feel like having a marker or [...]
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Posted on November 10, 2009 by hmchang
記得六月坐飛機回台灣的時候,在我身邊坐了一個馬來西亞華僑,她英文講得讓我覺得像是美國人一樣。我們討論到關於英文發音的問題,她說我的英文發音是比較「netural」,雖說有accent但不會特別知道是台灣來的。不過我我自己知道自己的英文發音當然還是有進步的空間,有時候還是會被實驗室的美國人糾正發音,不過至少暫時在溝通上沒什麼問題。
上週六,朋友給我在Youtube的Accurate English頻道,內容是教非美語為母語的人,正確的發音。網址如下:
http://www.youtube.com/accurateenglish
記得在國中的時候,教KK音標,其中[i]有分長音跟短音。不過在這系列影片當中的「Beach」與「Bitch」那堂課,我才知道兩者的差別是一緊一鬆,如此念出來的感覺果真不同。
發音跟唱歌滿像的 — 如果自己覺得聽起來 OK,就不會嘗試去改變了。所以要加強發音(或唱歌?),也是要加強自己耳朵的辨識能力,這樣對於自己的發音才能夠更精確的辨識與改進。
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Posted on November 4, 2009 by hmchang
在2009年金曲獎獲得最佳新人以及最佳作曲的盧廣仲在10/30推出了他的第二張專輯:七天。這張專輯一開始聽起來,跟他以前的風格感覺有小小的差異 — 似乎少了一點「雜湊」的味道? 至少整個專輯聽起來是很舒服的!不過,這些炸聽起來很簡單的歌,其實並不好唱。就比如說下面這首「Oh Yeah!」裡面,有許多轉音、壓音,以及盧廣仲自己特殊的口氣,這絕對是一般人所唱不出來的味道。
另外,這個版本的「七天」也滿生動可愛的,雖然不是盧廣仲唱的,不過唱的還真不錯!
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Posted on November 3, 2009 by hmchang
This morning I had a 30-minute on-campus interview with Microsoft. My interviewer, Winnie, is a very nice lady from China. She has been working in Microsoft for nearly 15 years and had experienced several positions as program managers, developers, test engineer etc.
The interview process is unlike other interviews that I had before. In the whole [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2009 by hmchang
星光一班的冠軍林宥嘉在10/30推出了第二張專輯–感覺這次的曲風變化沒有上一張專輯多,但是他的歌唱風格更是明顯了。用他迷幻的聲音唱出來的歌還是那麼有味道。
第一波主打為輕快的「看見什麼吃什麼」,第二波主打為「說謊」 — 兩首歌的風格在上一張專輯中都有表現過,但在唱歌的技術上似乎更純熟了。
看見什麼吃什麼:
說謊:
更多的介紹請參見華研音樂網頁!
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