If you hadn’t heard, Google cried foul after it was hacked and fled mainland China for Hong Kong. When this happened on March 22, users visiting google.com were automatically directed to its Kong Kong site, google.com.hk. From there searches worked just like anything else in the mainland – results are censored for anything deemed objectionable [...]
Filed under: China, Technology, Weather | Tagged: censor, Google, google.com.hk, internet, Kong Kong | 3 Comments »
Can you call a hard drive a gadget? I’ve been keeping my eye out for a solution to my hard drive problem, which is that it’s too small. I have a Western Digital passport external hard drive that I got in the biggest size back in the day, which back then was 40GB. Now that’s [...]
Filed under: Technology | Tagged: 500GB, external hard drive, FireWire, Iomega eGo, Mac edition, Zhong Guan Cun | 1 Comment »
I’ve written here and here about the problems with my 2007 MacBook CrackBook, which I have affectionately dubbed the iLemon. In it’s two-year history, the entire casing/keyboard/touch-pad has been replaced three times (so far) and the motherboard and sound card have been replaced. Thank goodness I bought Apple Care, although one would hope that after [...]
Filed under: Technology | Tagged: Apple, Apple repairs, cracked case, MacBook, white case | 2 Comments »
