Han’s Gibberish

I got an iPod Shuffle a couple of weeks ago for free by joining HBA for my health cover. Since I got bored by music easily, and I heard about podcasting alot, I thought about giving it a go.

Podcast, if you don’t know yet what it is, is a way to get audio files easily from the internet. Some easy programs to use to download podcasts are iTunes and Juice.

So, after searching from iTunes, I found some really useful podcasts. For example, I listened to podcasts for learning Mandarin/Chinese language:
ChinesePod.com this starts with really basic conversation, and lately I think this has some intermediate lessons.
Chinese Survival Guide this teaches a lot of words right from the start.

Matthias Media also has a podcast with short sermons from John Chapman, Phillip Jensen, etc. Really cool.

And it’s all for free.

From the maker of Final Fantasy, Square-Enix will sell potions to recover lost HPs.

I’ll wait until they sell Elixir and Mythril Blade before I go on monster hunting.

As Trisnadi mentioned in his blog, Firefox 1.5 is out and indeed it seems faster in loading the webpages. Nice. Though the startup times is not that much faster for me, maybe because of the many extensions I use.

Then I came across Lifehacker, quite a useful site for people who spends lots of time in front of computer like me. They mentioned foXpose, a feature like Mac OS X’s expose, but for Firefox’s tabs. More eye-candy than being really useful, but it certainly has a WOW effect. Expose for Windows, now that will be useful.

Still waiting for Charamel theme to be available for Firefox 1.5.

If you use Firefox and don’t like moving your hands away from the keyboard to use the mouse (characteristic of a true programmer), here’s a page about Firefox shortcuts with keyboards.

I’ve been using Firefox since its early stage (was called Phoenix at that time), and already know about most of this shortcuts, but found out that you can switch the search engine by pressing Ctrl+Up/Down. Very useful indeed.