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How to watch Beijing Olympics Games live overseas online

Beijing2008Since only NBC has the exclusive authorization to broadcast all Olympics 2008 games in America, and it only shows American team games at evening prime times. It is very hard to watch some interesting games at real time if they do not have American team participation and not take part in American prime time. I thought I could do it from the internet like before. But this time unfortunately the normal way of watching stream video online does not work since all official Olympics partner websites only open to China region users. That means these video sites block all overseas IP addresses from watching games live.

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How to home network with your Cable and DSL broadband services

Comcast I tried to write up a 3-step How-Tos for getting VOIP through broadband 3 years ago, but never got a chance to finish them. Today, one of my friends asked my help on setting up his home networking over Comcast cable broadband. Then I decided to use some time now to point out one or two important things in the should-be-published-early first step - "how to set up a home network over your broadband without paying extra to your provider".

Usually the broadband providers only provide one computer network service with the regular price and will charge extra for residences to get more than one computers online. But if you already have purchased a router, you should be fine to get the home networking by your own. Just remember some extra steps you need to pay attentions to.

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Street View, a cool feature from Google Maps

Google MapsHave you recently used Google Maps? Maybe you already noticed its new feature from the maps, yes, it is called Street View. What can it do? well, when you browser the maps (of course, on the website of http://maps.google.com) and click the Street View button on the map. You will see a little man icon on the map, and some street view photos will appear when you drag “you” (the little man) on some blue line highlighted roads. These photos just like what you can see when you walk or drive on the road of the Google maps.

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A very good Chinese Airline ticket price comparison website

Smart consumers in USA will go to price-comparison websites (Such as expedia.com, sidestep.com,  travlocity.com etc. ) to find good deals on airline ticket, hotel price before their trips. Sometime, we can find good International travel deals on these websites as well. But as for the airline ticket pricing information for Chinese domestic travel, I would like to use some Chinese websites. One of them I like most is Qunar.com whose name means "Where are you going?" in Chinese. It is a search engine which can search prices from most travel (airline tickets, hotel) service providers’ websites based on your search query, and then filter, sort for you. Then you can purchase such services by clicking the links in the search result (sounds more like sidestep.com).

Based on my recent uses, the prices on the search result is the best price I can find on the Internet. So I recommend this web site to you if you are going to travel in China cities next time.

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Do you want to get paid for your interview?

On the web, there are a lot of new ideas coming up everyday. Yesterday, I heard about that there is a web to pay people for their interviews. According to Clark Said, now a website allows you to name your interview price. Since this website believes that it is cheaper for employers to pay targeted candidates to interview than to wade through a ton of unqualified applicants.

Here’s an odd one for the job seekers among you. There’s a new website that pays you to go on interviews. So far only technology-geared companies are making use of NotchUp.com, which is in beta. Here’s the scoop: It’s very expensive for companies to use classifieds and online job sites to find new employees. NotchUp.com, however, is free to employers. They find it’s cheaper to pay targeted candidates for their interview time than to go the traditional advertising route and have to sort through a ton of unqualified applicants. Will NotchUp.com be around a year from now? Who knows! But if you’re seeking a new position, pursuing this opportunity can’t hurt you. …..

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Website Recommened: How to watch Speed Traps

Speed Traps WarningDid you get too many speedy tickets? Well, of course you should driver more carefully as it should be. But if you want to get less tickets when you can maintain the most driving safety, you might check this website for the Speed Traps list.

I got this from one of my co-workers in email, who validated that it was not joke since one of the places got him a ticket already. So I decide to share here with you guys. Hope you can drive safe and caught by Speedy less. Have fun.

The URL of this website is http://www.speedtrap.org/speedtraps/stetlist.asp

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How to download YouTube videos to your local machine

I like YouTube since I can share my videos with my family and friend from everywhere the world on it. And I also can watch a lot of interested videos uploaded from everywhere the world. But sometimes I just want to watch some video offline. So how can I download video from YouTube?

Well, there are a simple way and a complicated way as well.

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How to input Chinese without installing any IME software on your computer

chinesemainlogo.gifAnyone using English or Non-Chinese version OS has to install something on PCs to input Chinese language. Before we had Windows 2000 OS, we had to install some software like NJStar. Now with Windows 2000, XP, we can install IME from Regional and Language Options in Windows’s configuration. But it will not easy for anyone to install IME on the public computers. How can we input Chinese anywhere without installing IME software?

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The scam you need to be aware which is asking you to secure your .cn domain names

Internet_Scam Today I received an email forwarded by one of my co-workers. In this email, the sender said he is from a China-based domain name register company, and basically he asked for a confirmation whether they should dispute a registration of some domain names similar as our TLD name.

First of all, our Post master told me that it looks like a phish asking for the confirmation so that they can sell our email addresses. But I called the phone number listed in this email, surprised I got an answer and confirmed that this is a real company and doing real domain name business. Later on, with Google search, we found out this is an old scam on the INTERNET. So I post the original email here and hope it can help you if you receive the similar email too. (I edited some information with xxxx to protect the privacy)

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Put IE into your favorite browser - Firefox

I love Firefox, not to say its charming security features and I already felt hooked up especially after a long time playing. But life is always hard to be satisfied. There are still a bunch of website which were not designed well so that they can not perform well in Firefox but good in IE. Like some websites under Micro$oft domain, and one of my favorite online radio site KissRadio. I used to fire these two different types of browsers and busy with switching between them. Life gets better now when
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另外一种下载好东东的方法 - 新闻组 (newsgroup)

What is Usenet, and why should you pay extra for a premium usenet / newsgroup server service?

1) Usenet started as a huge, distributed discussion forum and became a huge, distributed uncensored file trading network.
- Not only can you trade MP3’s, movies, and Warez binaries (not that we condone these practices) but you can also make requests that other usenet readers may fill.
- Compared to Kazza, eMule, and all the other file-trading networks, you have much better completion rates and ability to make requests.

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What is netiquette and why should I follow it?

“Netiquette” is slang for “Internet etiquette”. It refers to the accepted behaviors and practices regarding interactive online activity such as discussion forums, chat rooms, and e-mail. Your adherence to these guidelines will help make the online community in which you are participating easier and more enjoyable for everyone to use. Please note that the points discussed here provide general suggestions; for more specific information, you should read the guidelines for the community in which you want to participate.

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