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Wednesday, 26 October, 2011

Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall

Photos of my visit to Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall

Tags: Singapore, China, history, Photos, 孙中山, 晚晴园


Posted in Chinese-中文 , Photos , Personal


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Saturday, 13 November, 2010

HowTo Transfer Files Between Linux and Android Phone

In Android 2.2, we can just connect our computer to the phone's Wi-Fi hotspot directly without accessing a separate wireless network. The instruction below will describe the use of the phone's Wi-Fi hotspot although it is not required. (It is sufficient that your computer can access your phone through a network)

  1. On the Android phone, Select Menu > select Settings > select Wireless&networks
    Wireless&networks
  2. Select Tethering & portable hotspot
  3. Select the Portable Wi-Fi hotspot checkbox to share your data connection
    Tethering&portable hotspot
  4. If this is the first time the Wi-Fi hotspot is turned on, you should configure your phone's network SSID and password. To do that, select Portable Wi-Fi hotspot settings > select Configure Wi-Fi hotspot, then enter the values and save it.
  5. From Linux, assuming you are using NetworkManager, you can select your phone's network SSID and enter the password you have set earlier on your phone to connect to Internet via your phone's Wi-Fi hotspot. Subsequently, NetworkManager will by default auto-connect without requiring the password to be entered again.
    NetworkManager
  6. Open a terminal, and enter the route command to check your phone's IP address. In my case, the default gateway 192.168.43.1 for my wireless network interface (ra0) is my phone's IP address.

    lcm@skywind:~$ route
    Kernel IP routing table
    Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref   Use Iface
    192.168.43.0    *               255.255.255.0   U     2      0       0 ra0
    link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     1000   0       0 ra0
    default         192.168.43.1    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0       0 ra0

  7. On your phone, download and install SwiFTP. It is FTP server for Android.
  8. Run SwiFTP. You will need to set the ftp user and password. By default, it listens on port 2121. SwiFTP
  9. Using the Linux Gnome File browser, select File menu > select Connect to Server menu, and then enter the ftp user, server and port. You can add the ftp connection as a bookmark so that you only need to enter the password subsequently.
    Connect to Server
    The File browser will prompt for the ftp user's password. Enter ftp password
    The File browser is displaying the Android phone's root folder. FileBrowser
  10. You can now use normal file operations: cut, copy, paste to transfer files between your phone and Linux. (If you prefer to use a Ftp client software, you can use that also.)

Tags: Linux, Ubuntu, Android, internet, wireless-network, user-guide, resource


Posted in Photos , Mobile , Linux , Personal , Open-Source


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Monday, 8 November, 2010

Ideos Android Phone

I bought this Ideos Android Phone on Oct 9 (Singtel upgrade). There are 2 main reasons: it comes with Android 2.2 which includes the Wi-Fi hotspot feature, and it is cheap.

I cracked the phone screen on Oct 26, after about 2 weeks usage. :(

Read a Huawei Ideos review (CNET UK)

Ideos

Below is list of downloaded and installed Android applications on my phone: (The links are clickable on the Android browser)

I find out that some applications can be seen on the Android market website, but they are not available or cannot be found using my phone's Android market application.

Replica Island is an Open-source app, but the Android market app cannot find it. I download it from apkfile.net

Tags: Google, Android, internet, testing, installation, resource


Posted in Photos , Mobile , Personal , Open-Source


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Saturday, 24 July, 2010

Universal Studio Trip

Photos of trip to Singapore Universal Studio with my brother's family. (courtesy of Megan)

Tags: Photos, Singapore, family


Posted in Photos , Personal


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Thursday, 25 June, 2009

Hanging Temple photos


View 悬空寺 photos (shared by Swee Fun)
(link to a Google Doc slideshow, hit spacebar for navigation)

The Hanging Temple (simplified Chinese: 悬空寺; traditional Chinese: 懸空寺; pinyin: Xuánkong Sì) is a temple built into a cliff ( 75m Above the ground )near Mount Heng in the province of Shanxi. The closest city is Datong, 65 kilometers to the northwest. Along with the Yungang Grottoes, the Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is unique not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it includes Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian elements.

Related: 悬空寺 (百度百科)
Wikipedia 悬空寺 (Hanging Temple)

Tags: China, history, Photos, religion, architecture, design


Posted in Chinese-中文 , Buddhism , Photos , World


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Saturday, 28 March, 2009

50 New Species Discovered in Papua New Guinea

From thedailygreen.com. (photos)

Funded by Barrick Gold, Conservation International leads expedition to find new frogs, geckos and jumping spiders.

Related:
24 New Species Found in Suriname.

Tags: nature, wildlife, Photos


Posted in Animals , Photos


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Monday, 23 February, 2009

Rare Jaguars Spotted in Arizona and Mexico

From livescience.com.
The once-common jaguar has become a rare sight in North America, thanks to hunting and habitat fragmentation.

Now two were spotted in exceedingly rare and unrelated events this month.

The Arizona Game and Fish Department caught and collared a wild jaguar in Arizona for the first time, officials said Thursday. While a handful of the big cats have been photographed by automatic cameras in recent years, the satellite tracking collar will now help biologists learn more about this animal's range.

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In 1997, a team was established in Arizona and New Mexico to protect and conserve the species. The Jaguar Conservation Team (JCT) began working with Mexico two years later, recognizing that the presence of jaguars in the United States depends on the conservation of the species in Mexico.

Interestingly, the project set up to do all this is funded by Arizona Lottery ticket sales.

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"The photographs provide information about new recording sites, and allow us to deduce that the area where the animal was observed may be a corridor connecting jaguar populations," Monroy-Vilchis said.
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Jaguars can live in several types of forest, grassland and dry habitat. They prey on a variety of animals, including fish, birds and reptiles. The largest contiguous area of habitat now remaining for jaguars centers in the Amazon Basin.

Related:
Amur Leopard Near Extinction.

Tags: extinction, nature, Photos


Posted in Animals , Photos , Science


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