How to change between IMEs

Well, now you can make your computer show Chinese characters. But that is not enough, right? What you want to do is typing, but not just watching. By default, you can switch to the IME you use with Ctrl + Space when writing something. But it seems that this does not work correctly all the time. I myself met this situation several times. I do not know why this happens. I consider this a bug in Windows. I’ve tried some ways to make it work, but they are all too much troublesome. Here is a better and easier way, try Ctrl + Shift. Ctrl + Shift can switch between different IMEs, And Ctrl + Space can turn IME on and off. Now you do not need to turn IME on, you just need to change between IMEs. But there is one more thing you need to do, delete En IME, as show below:

• Select En IME, and press Delete:

• And the final setting is like this:

How to make my computer work with Chinese

Want to learn Chinese? Especially with a computer go with Windows? But there is a problem, there’s no Chinese character shown on your screen. Why?

Well, Windows works very well with Chinese, in fact. The reason why your computer gets nothing is that you did not install the East Asia Language Support. I made a flash file to show how this works, but I do not know how to make it shown on my blog. Maybe Youtobe is a good choice, but I made the video with Wink, who get a special compress method, and this makes that it does not work well with Youtobe. So I make this file a exe file, and upload it to Divshare. You can download it see how to make your computer work well with Chinese.

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Lingoes- the best free translation software

There are always some friends ask me how to use Google Pinyin. Google Pinyin is really a good IME software, but maybe the Chinese interface is too hard for someone who just start to learn Chinese. Maybe an English version of Google Pinyin is much better, but as Google Pinyin is mainly used by Chinese people, There’s no English version of Google Pinyin, at least now. If you also face such a awkward situation, Lingoes is just the software you need now.

Lingoes is a free translation software. Developed by Kevin and published free of charge, everyone can use this software for free. Although free, the quality is not poor. It is the best translation software I ever used. By adding different dictionaries, you can use lingoes translate not only from Chinese to English or English to Chinese, but also French, German and so on.

So now, you can download lingoes from it’s official website, and the correct dictionaries you need. After installation, you need to do some settings to make lingoes meet your need. For users who want lingoes work with Google Pinyin, here is a screenshot:

When you point you mouse to the word in Google Pinyin, Ligoes will translate the word to some different kind of other language, but I can only understand English-_-.

Well, why not try it now? Lingoes will make your learning Chinese an easy way!

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Stop writing Best Life

Best Life is my first English blog. I wanted to make this blog a door for foreigners to China, introducing some interesting stuffs to everyone. But now I find I have already lost my passion in this thing. I am really busy, and I made many aims to do, but writing an English blog is too much troublesome. I will have to spend about one hour for each post, because of my poor English.

Maybe this is a good way to practice my English, but I find I seldom can use English. English can be my free time interest, who is not worth so much time and effort. I should spend more time at my work or other useful skill.

So I decide to stop writing this blog. Thank you for these guys who visited my blog. And if there are some body who want to study Chinese more, can contact with me, maybe I can help you. Or if there are some body who come to Changchun city, Jilin province, it is welcomed to contact with me, I can be your guide in China.

How to contact with me? Well, the best way is email my gmail, whose user name is jetorz. Or you can find me in QQ, with number 123208327.

QQ, The Most Popular IM in China

QQ is a instant messager software just the same as ICQ in the USA or some other countries. We can register a QQ number, and chat with other people in QQ. Maybe ICQ or MSN are the most popular IM softwares in the world, but QQ is more popular in China. Most Chinese people seldom use ICQ for chat, and only some white-collar use MSN, but nearly everybody who plays computer has one or more QQ account. Jetorz have two QQ account, one for family or friends I know in the real world, and one for e-friend in the internet. QQ is especially popular in the young people.

With the growth of internet in China, QQ is more and more powerful. It is not only an online chat software. You can also call video phone, transform file from peer to peer , share files with other QQ users, get online hard drive, get QQ mail and so on with a single QQ account, and all of them are for free! But of course, only limited function for free users, if you want better service, you will have to pay for it.

If you are from countries other than China, and want to get friends with Chinese by internet, QQ may just be your choice.

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About IME go with Windows

We have talked about IME for some time, like "Google Pinyin, Way to Learn Chinese", "New Version of Google Pinyin". The reason why we talk so much about IME is that it is very important to choose a good IME software in inputting Chinese character.

There are also some IME softwares go along with Windows, like ZhiNeng ABC and Microsoft Pinyin and so on. If you do not like to find and install softwares, maybe Microsoft Pinyin is your choice. The latest version of MS Pinyin is 2007, but I suggest using 2003, which is installed automatically when you install Microsoft Office 2003. The interface of MS Pinyin is going with the system language you use. If your Windows is English, interface of MS Pinyin is English. This is good to someone who just start learning Chinese. ZhiNeng ABC may be good long time ago, but It is not so good recently, because there's no progress during these years, while other softwares are trying their best to develop themselves.

I am so sad

I used to use Wordpress.com as my blog, but I just find that it is unable to access Wordpress any more. I know the reason, well, the famous GFW, known as a matter of fact"Great Fire Wall".

China is a great country. It is old, it is mysterious, and it's economic condition astonished the whole world. But China is really not so democratic. At least, we Chinese people can not access the internet world freely. We can not enjoy Flickr, Google Group, Wikipedia...which I do not like very much.

I tried many ways to access blogspot, because I like writing something, and I want to write something in English to practice my English. I am so sad that I will have to try very hard to do so.

User Experience

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is a very good Anti-Virus software for personal use. Totally free, and very powerful, I use it as my only software to protect my computer.

But these days I found something with AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition make me very uneasy. Every time AVG updates itself, there will be a window shown up like picture below:

In my personal opinion, update should be very silent. A balloon notification is already too much, a dialog box? Why do you think I should be so much awared that my software is up to date? I do not think so. May there should be a notification to me that my anti-virus database is out of date, but not up to date.

Well, I think it must because this is a free edition. Maybe AVG just want to do some advertise in such a way, just some ads. I am think of changing to another free software, maybe AVS?

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What Friendship Should Be

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Power Menu, Enhance Your Right Menu

Power Menu is an utility to enhance your standard Windows right menu. You may encounter some condition that you have too much windows in your task bar that you want to send them to the tray with only  small icons shown, or sometime you just want some windows to be shown on the top of your screen, no matter if them are active or not. But with standard Windows right menu for applications, you can not do it. Power menu is just this kind of tool to enhance your right menu for Windows. You can minimize nearly any applications to the system tray, or send any application windows on the top of your screen. There are some more functions, like set transparency, or set priority for applications, but I seldom use them. For me, what are useful are "Always On Top" and "Minimize To Tray".

Power menu is a free software, any green software, which means you need not to install it. Just copy it to anywhere you like, and run it. That is great, right?

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