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Just recently, Gmail starts its free call service in the North America, for sure this service doesn’t work in China, but there is a good news, you can now send free text-message to mobile phone to following countries…US, Ghana, Israel, Palestinian, Senegal and Zambia.

First step: Login into your Gmail.

Second step: Go to settings – labs – and check these 2 options – click save, then back to your Gmail.

Third step: Now at your Gmail page, you can find this icon at the left bar:

Click at the “phone number”, input your number then “Return”, it pops up something like this way:

Choose from the country list, input the name of the recipient, then here you go:

As Google says, initially, you’re granted a quota of fifty messages, with each message you sent, it decreases by one, but when they reply you (you can get their message from here as well!), your quota will increase by five, for detail please check here.

Enjoy it for now!

I am now on a 2-weeks trip in the U.S., coming back with more photos.

I will go to Honolulu, San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego, New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC, pretty busy for the next 2 weeks.

Right now I just past over Honolulu, the clouds and sky impressed me a lot.

Ok, finally Google is gone from mainland China this morning. I am waiting to see what is going to happen to Gmail, Google Maps, etc. Hope it will not get the same luck as Facebook and Twitter.

Fortunately before I get used to the Google Dot Cn searching, the service now is finished today.

Good Luck !

This page offers a summary of Google service accessibility from within mainland China.

Suppose there is a big cornfield, and you are asked to pick up the biggest golden ear of wheat, and the condition is that there is only one to pick, and you can only go ahead without return, what you will do?

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About 2 hours ago, Apple just released their first so called IPAD, it is about 9-inch tablet, starting price at $499, 16G, for 3G products charge another $130 more, the new toy will be in the market in 60 days…

I am sure, there will be another rush for this.

For more detail, check the engadget site here, or just go to Apple’s site here.

A visit to the Ruins of Yuanmingyuan after the first snow of 2010.

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Panjiayuan Flea Market is located at the south east of the 3rd Ring Road. It is an open air market, opened 7 days a week, but the best time to go is on weekend. The market was famous for antique dealings about 10 years ago, today it is famous for the big collections of handicraft works from the neighbouring provinces, but not entirely in the sense of antiques, you can still get some real stuff, but not very easy.

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Dear Guest,

I’m happy to introduce our new personal tour “To Be a Beijinger for a Day”. This 1 day tour focuses on the axis of Beijing. The tour will guide you through the various periods of Beijing’s history, from the 1400’s to present day.

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Today I get my book from the amazon.cn, I ordered it some 3 days ago. The name of the book is “A la Recherche du Temps Perdu”, very beautiful name isn’t it? Its English translation is “In Search of Lost Time”, the author is Marcel Proust, I like the book very much, firstly because it is very thick, and secondly, I borrow this book last month from library, and I like to read it, and to be frank,  it is very effetive for my sleeping , and I have another pretext, I know it is a little ambitious, for picking up my French.

The book is in Chinese, but I got the French version online from Gutenberg, no problem, you can download it if you want to pick up your French. And if you want the English version, it is also avaible from here. I hope it will be good for your sleeping as well.

This is the first day without air-conditioning, even a little cool in the afternoon.