This month, I review two electronic learning aids developed for people learning Chinese. This time, however, they are produced by Asian companies.
Read the reviews here:
XCome Dictionary for Asus EeePC & Dr Eye Han Easy (html page) (pdf)
Enjoy!
Tag: Taipei Times
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Taipei Times – Chinese Learning Technology 2
Taipei Times – Chinese Learning Technology
It’s two in two weeks, as I am introducing the mobile section of my Chinese language review series.
I do aim to catch up with developments in my new job but I have barely had a moment to think thus far – it is making DEM seem like a holiday, so far. Enjoy.
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Taipei Times – Asus Eee PC & HTC Touch Dual
Here’s the latest installment of my monthly technology review for the Taipei Times. This month, I take a peek at the Asus Eee PC and the HTC Touch Dual. Take a look here!
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Coldcut in Taipei
Coldcut came to Taiwan as part of HP’s ‘Art in Motion’ tour, and totally blew me away. I was asked to provide the write-up for the Taipei Times, so rather than say the same thing again, here are my words from the newspaper:
Last night saw the Taipei instalment of the HP-sponsored ‘Art in Motion’ tour at Luxy, featuring British legends Coldcut, Jurassic 5’s DJ Nu-Mark and VJ support from Berlin crew Pfadfinderei. Ostensibly a fusion of music and live visuals, early on the show seemed like an extended advert for HP’s personal computers, and with guidance from the most irritating emcee in Asia was beginning to unfold into some kind of hip-hop-themed ‘wei-ya’ end of year party.
However, things began to improve quickly when Nu-Mark took to the decks and wowed the crowds by mixing sampled beats with a selection of increasingly unlikely musical children’s’ toys. Innovative, and unlike the local beat-boxing warm up act, not a bit self-indulgent, the crowd responded with a mixture of laughter and butt-on-the-floor boogying.
With the audience now suitably warmed up, Coldcut entered stage right and took no prisoners with a ballistic delivery of hip-hop, dub and electronic beats, all synchronised with nine projectors beaming video and images around the room in an awesome display of digital showmanship. Jumping from the more obscure references of their own back-catalogue, they never allowed themselves to alienate the newcomers and regularly dropped in samples from sources as diverse as Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf”, Run DMC and AC/DC. Taipei barely knew what hit them.
With Nu-Mark resuming control, the entire room bounced the rest of the night away to the sounds of a thousand house parties, and the best music Taipei has heard in several years.
Colcut – to the limit
Nick keeps it nice and sleazy
And some other words from Tom, as featured in ‘The Vinyl Word’ last week: -
Taipei Times – Mac v Vista
My latest article for the Taipei Times is out, and hopefully this gives me a few weeks of relaxation – the last couple of months have been rather overloaded (in more ways than one).
One thing I hoped to do was introduce very briefly some of the changes to the Chinese input systems on both of the product – but this is potentially an entire article in itself – now there is an idea! Enjoy.
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Taipei Times – GPS
Here is my latest article for the Taipei Times.
This month I have mostly been testing … GPS
Find it here.
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Taipei Times – Back Up
Latest Article in the Taipei Times, this time talking about different back up hardware. Enjoy!
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Taipei Times – Lamborghini V Ferrari
My second piece published for the Taipei Times, evaluating the Ferrari Acer notebook and Williams Optics binoculars, versus the Asus Lamborghini notebook computer.
I am rapidly running out of cool Taiwanese technology to review, so if anyone has any ideas do let me know!
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Taipei Times – Technology Review
I have not been posting much of late – mainly because I have been writing more for print, and today I have my first newspaper article to write home about!
It’s a piece about Taiwan’s response to the iPhone, and you can read it at the Taipei Times – the biggest English language newspaper in Taiwan, and one of the largest ‘native Chinese’ newspapers in the world: