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Google voice in Gmail

I had spent some time in Taiwan this past five days. But my lovely wife and daughter didn't come with me this time. Thanks for the technology we have in this era, I was able to see my love ones through Skype. But when they were not home, I had talked to my wife by using Viber. But sometimes the 3G/4G quality was not good. So I took advantage of the Google voice which embeded in Gmail to make a free call to the states.

The voice quality is perfect, no delay, no echo. That makes me wondering when Google is going to make Google voice as a true VOIP service.

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Jan 25, 2012 10:59:36 PM

Hands on with the World’s First Power Folding Stroller

via mashable.com

OMG, this stroller is awesome, why can't it be available a year sooner? However its awesomeness, the price tag is a little steep!

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Jan 11, 2012 11:39:41 PM

停電記

過去兩天，經歷過了一次人生短短三十四年來沒有經歷過的停電經驗，在我們把源源不絕得供電當作家常便飯，突然來了一次停電整整兩天半的手足無措，才再一次讓我深深感受到，這現實的無常！

寒冷的冬天，完全沒有電，夜裡伸手不見五指，必須仰賴蠟燭和手電筒微弱的光線，來完成一些簡易的家事。不滿一歲的女兒，更是得包成跟愛斯基摩人一樣睡覺，做父母的我們才稍稍可以成眠。

仰賴高科技的現代人，停了電，就幾乎與外界斷了聯絡，行動電話無法充電，就算有電，偏偏附近的基地台也沒電，所以還是呆機一支，一點也感受不到什麼智慧型手機的智慧。家裡空有電話線，可是電話主機需要電力，還是無用武之地。早已被我拋棄許久無需插電的電話機，又讓我懷念起它來。

車庫的大門也需要電動起重機來開啓，沒了電，就得天天練練二頭肌，三頭肌，不然就無法開車上班。上了路，短短十來分鐘車程的距離，瞬間變成了一個小時通勤時間，這電力真是跟現代人與社會的順暢運作，有著密不可分的關係啊！

冰箱沒了電，一堆的食物，也至少有一半必須丟棄，另一半還得感謝冬天的寒冷氣溫才免於腐敗。這以上的種種不便，都是在供電正常的生活中不會想到的。非常感謝辛勤的電力公司工作人員的努力，能夠讓我們的生活重新回到軌道。

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Dec 3, 2011 10:19:20 PM

Official Google Blog: Google+: Popular posts, eye-catching analytics, photo fun and...

via googleblog.blogspot.com

G+'s adding functions like crazy and most of them are very cool and useful.

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Oct 27, 2011 3:23:11 PM

One day without my Nexus One

Don't have my phone with me doesn't cause a life change moment. Not at all. But the thing is it takes out some flexibility of my daily life. Normally I can check my emails and my social network services from my phone.

Since my company blocks "ALL" services it can possiblly find out there, which means no Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail. But for some reason, it doesn't block the Blogosphere at all. I can log in to my blogger, wordpress, tumblr and of course posterous. So that I can semi-rant a little bit.

Thanks to Google voice. I'm still able to text my wife, receive missed call information and voice mail. In addition, I can read the news and articles from Google reader. So I guess, besides I can't read the emails and my friends' news feed. The life without my N1 isn't too bad.

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Oct 25, 2011 11:41:19 AM

Make multiple calls in Gmail - Official Gmail Blog

via gmailblog.blogspot.com

It's awesome!! Again, nice work Gmail team.

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Jul 20, 2011 6:55:04 PM

“Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android - Official Google Mobile Blog

via googlemobile.blogspot.com

Extremely useful option!!!

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Jul 7, 2011 9:26:55 AM

Google Chrome Blog: Faster than fast

Faster than fast

Thursday, June 16, 2011 | 1:00 PM

What if a waiter handed you your meal, hot and fresh, the instant you ordered it? What if the elevator doors opened onto the eighth floor the instant you pressed the eighth floor button in the lobby? What if a web page appeared in your browser, loaded in its entirety, the instant you clicked on a search result?
Well, you might have to wait for Instant Restaurants and Instant Elevators, but Instant Pages is available today in the latest beta release of Chrome. Thanks to Chrome’s new prerendering technology, some Google.com search results will appear to load almost instantly after you click on them. You can see this feature in action in the following video:

Although Google.com is the most high-profile site to use this new prerendering technology, it can be used by other sites since it’s been designed as a web standard. Web developers interested in learning more can see our post in the Chromium blog.
We’ve added a few more features in this release that users have been eagerly awaiting for some time. First, we’ve added some awesome to the omnibox by suggesting partial matches for URLs and page titles from your browsing history. For example, say you’ve listened to the song “Zorbing” by Stornoway a few times on YouTube, but you can’t remember the full song title or band name. Now, when you type just part of one of the words, like “orb,” you should get a suggestion due to the partial match: “YouTube.com - Stornoway - ‘Zorbing’ Official Video.”
Second, we’re happy to announce that issue number 173 in our public bug database, which has collected more than 900 “stars” from users around the world since it was filed in 2008, has been implemented on Windows and Linux (the Mac version is coming soon). That’s right--we’ve finally added Print Preview! Print Preview uses Chrome’s built-in PDF viewer to display the page you want to print, and it updates automatically as you adjust your print settings. You can also choose to save any web page as a PDF file, using the “Print to PDF” option that’s automatically included in the printer list. Thanks for being patient with us on this one!
Posted by Chris Bentzel, Software Engineer

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