Phone Rates to China
It is amazing how rates have really fallen. Now with AT&T, calling a mobile number in China is $0.16 a minute. With...
View ArticleChina Disaster Relief
We’ve been trying to efficiently donate as a group to help all those poor folks in China. Our Chinese affiliate, “Qiming”:http://qimingventures.com is giving through the Chinese Red Cross, but if you...
View ArticleMusic Galore
Spent a day thinking about nothing but music in the US. Strange to just have a meeting about music in China and then go directly to the US. Interesting sites: * “lala.com”:http://lala.com. Spirit of...
View ArticleAT&T new international data plans
When you go overseas, AT&T has a $65/month unlimited Blackberry dataplan for their EDGE phones. For the iPhone, you can’t escape high international voice roaming calls, but there are four very...
View ArticleUtilities in Seattle
It is amazing how easy it is to setup all your utilities from your coach in Seattle. You literally don’t have to talk with anyone. The only problem is that URLs for signup are so buried in information,...
View ArticleDialing code
Wow, I can never remember how to dial from China to the US (001) is the answer, but “howtocallabroad.com”:http://howtocallabroad.com has the general list. The post Dialing code appeared first on...
View ArticleChinese Translation Tools
Well since I’m learning Chinese in earnest here are the tools that I use. All are free and publically available and here’s the order: If I see a Chinese word or sentence and don’t know the translation:...
View ArticleWatch Shopping in China
According to Roland, if you want a fancy watch, you should go to Hong Kong. There is a 30% luxury import tax in China, so it makes more sense to go to Hong Kong. The post Watch Shopping in China...
View ArticleNonstop US China flights
If you can believe it, there are only seven daily nonstop flights between the US and China and three via Tokyo. But it is really harder than heck to actually figure out the right flights using expedia...
View ArticlePhone Rates to China
It is amazing how rates have really fallen. Now with AT&T, calling a mobile number in China is $0.16 a minute. With...
View ArticleChina Disaster Relief
We’ve been trying to efficiently donate as a group to help all those poor folks in China. Our Chinese affiliate, “Qiming”:http://qimingventures.com is giving through the Chinese Red Cross, but if you...
View ArticleMusic Galore
Spent a day thinking about nothing but music in the US. Strange to just have a meeting about music in China and then go directly to the US. Interesting sites: * “lala.com”:http://lala.com. Spirit of...
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Utilities in Seattle
It is amazing how easy it is to setup all your utilities from your coach in Seattle. You literally don’t have to talk with anyone. The only problem is that URLs for signup are so buried in information,...
View ArticleDialing code
Wow, I can never remember how to dial from China to the US (001) is the answer, but “howtocallabroad.com”:http://howtocallabroad.com has the general list. The post Dialing code appeared first on Tong...
View ArticleFirefox Translation tools
Two great translation aids. The first is is Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:Chinese-English-Japanese Character Hint Bar - All Releases. This is a freeware and a shareware version. It creates...
View ArticleLearning Chinese
Iv'e ordered a bunch of Chinese language programs and texts. Wow, things have gotten wayt better than the old days of just learning from a book. Here are some of the tools and an early review: *...
View ArticleChinese Text to PinYin
Well, I use Google to translate Chinese characters to English which works OK, but I really need something that also translates to Pinyin so I can read it. "Ping Asian...
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