Tuangou, or Group buying, is hot at the moment. The whole internet seems to be destined to become one Tuangou.
In the end though, whatever you buy now, you only need to join one Tuangou and you’ll sail away in 2012 on Noah’s Ark leaving behind all those Tuangou’ers that were happy with getting a 10 Rmb discount on their next meal.
Sure, it’s not cheap, but it’s real ticket.
Hurry up, only a bit more than 5 days left.
Boarding time is 12 ‘o Clock December 21. 2012, see you then.
It’s time for a backup of your Gmail account(s) if you live in China.
Google has announced it’s contemplating leaving China and the ramifications might well be that in doing so their Gmail service will become unavailable as well. There’s no certainty but don’t be naive and think it could not happen. Stranger things happened in China regarding the Internet.
How to backup Gmail with Gmail Backup
Program: Gmail Backup
URL: http://www.gmail-backup.com/download
Platform: (Windows & Linux)Simple program that stores all your emails in a folder of choice on your hard disk
Includes option to set the date from where to start backing up
How to backup Gmail with Imap
On the help pages Google provides info on how to configure several email clients to back up your mail using IMAP
Among the email clients are:
Thunderbird 2.0
Apple Mail 2.0
Outlook Express
Outlook 2007
Windows MailSee for an overview of all email clients here. For the Chinese version see here
How to backup Gmail with Pop
On the help pages Google provides info on how to configure several email clients to back up your mail using POP
Among the email clients are:
Thunderbird 2.0
Apple Mail 2.0
Outlook 2007
Outlook Express
Windows MailSee for an overview of all email clients here. For the Chinese version see here
Better do it now, VPN connections will get slower once we all have to start using them.
If anyone knows better ways, please add them in the comments.
The Chinese firewall had an active day. Twitter blocked, Flickr blocked, Microsoft’s new search engine Bing.com blocked.
In general the average Chinese user won’t give a a hoot. Twitter….. Flickr….. and that pancake search engine.
It’s mostly the foreigners here that will have to find other ways to express themselves. Should be good for productivity, although there’s still facebook.., at least for now.
But blocking Hotmail…, that does affect the average Chinese user if not many Chinese business that still use Hotmail.
How for example will Mr. Hou cope with the fact that he won’t be able to read all inquiries about becoming an urban farmer.
No surprise then that today the hottest searches on Google.cn are all about “logging in to Hotmail.
and for some strange reason all those people seem to search only for it on Google.cn as Baidu’s visitors have other things on their mind or maybe they don’t use email.
Let’s see which one of the above will be the first one to make it back. My bet is Hotmail.
Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and co-founder, who officially retired has made it into the Baidu Logo. Click the logo and you will get to his profile (in Chinese)
He is the second American who makes it to the top of the page of China’s most popular search engine. US Presidential candidate Barack Obama was the first.
To see more person logos, click here
Google and Kingsoft launched today a free Chinese-English-Chinese dictionary.
Now go and read the Chinese bbs yourself to really find out what’s going on in China.
If you install it on a non-Chinese operating system you probably see a lot of weird symbols (not Chinese but more machine language like), on the first page of the install, tick the box (you probably agree of giving away your privacy to Kingsoft and Google and whoever else is listening in) and then continue with clicking wherever it shows a (n) on a button.
You can download it here.
t/t (Twitter Tip) to Tangos for referring me to the Sina article with the link to the download.
Here’s a screen shot.
Update
Mystery solved, it was a typo and it has been corrected, see comment by ESWN.
While getting updated on the latest in China I visited the always very informative EastSouthWestNorth blog to read the translated essay by Huangfu Ping.
Suffering slightly from professional deformation I didn’t start reading the text of the article right away but looked first at the top left corner where the title tag is displayed.
EastSpitjWestNorth, it reads. Is it a typo, was it hacked or something else?
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