Use QQ with Adium for Mac OS X
As most of chinese Mac users know, we don’t have a lot of choice to ue QQ. We have the basic official QQ 1.0 Beta1 desktop client, but it’s still a very poor interface, and seem to have no development on it. We also can use the web client, it’s very complete, but it’s not a desktop application.
I use Adium for my other account (msn, jabber, facebook, gtalk,..) but the login with QQ was nonfunctional with the lastest version of this software. But we are lucky and now there is a way to use QQ on Adium.
First you should download the beta version of Adium (1.4b17 actually), install it, and configure your QQ account. Then you should go to the Options tab, and modify like this:
- Login server: 219.133.49.215
- Port: 8000
- Uncheck the TCP connection
- Select the 2008 client version.
Then you can connect to QQ with Adium, there is no special option for QQ, but it’s still better than the basic client provided by Tencent.
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The Bund of Shanghai reopened
The Bund of Shanghai (外灘) reopened Sunday after nearly three years of renovation designed to improve the landscape and facilities for visitors to the World Expo. The revamp increases the area for public activities by 40 percent, allowing local residents and the World Expo visitors to experience a more beautiful and functional Bund, which is famous for its aesthetic buildings built in the early period of the 20th century.
The Bund, Shanghai
Geely signs with Ford to acquire Volvo
Sunday, the chinese car company Zhejiang Geely Holding (吉利汽車) concluded an agreement with Ford, to acquire the car activities of Volvo. A transaction of 1,8 billion dollars; Li Shufu, chairman of Geely said “China is the largest car market in the world, will become Volvo’s second home market. Volvo will be uniquely-positioned as a world-leading premium brand, tapping into the opportunities in the fast growing China market“.
Ford bought Volvo in 1999 for 6,5 billions dollars. Volvo have 22.000 employees in the world, including 16.000 in Sweden.
Geely and Volvo
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Cangjie input method (倉頡輸入法) – Part 1
First of all, many people think there is only way to input chinese, and this is completely wrong. Different place in China can have different input method, for example the mainland China use the pinyin (拼音), Taiwan use the zhuyin (註音), Wubi method (五筆字型輸入法), for cantonese we use jyutping (粤拼) and.. Hong-Kong people mostly use the Cangjie input method.
We will only talk about the difference between the pinyin and the cangjie, because they’re the most common for chinese input. The pinyin is based on the phonetic representation, for example “你好” is “ni hao” and pronounce in the same way. The cangjie is based on the graphological aspect of the characters, for example “你好” is “onf vnd“; we will see just after what is the meaning of these letters.
Let see with the character 胃 (pinyin: wei4, cangjie: WB):
胃 (wei4/WB)
So you will tell me, “okok easy, but how to know that W is 田 and B is 月 ?”. With Cangjie, we have a correspondance between the classic keyboard (QWERTY/AZERTY) and the cangjie characters (You can use a special keyboard (or stickers) if you don’t want to learn them):
- A (日): Sun
- B (月): Moon
- C (金): Gold
- D (木): Wood
- E (水): Water
- F (火): Fire
- G (土): Earth
- H (竹): Bamboo – The slant and short slant, the Kangxi radical 竹
- I (戈): Weapon – The dot
- J (十): Ten – The cross shape
- K (大): Big – The X shape
- L (中): Center – The vertical stroke
- M (一): One – The horizontal stroke
- N (弓): Bow – The crossbow and the hook
- O (人): Person – The dismemberment, the Kangxi radical 人
- P (心): Heart – The Kangxi radical 心
- Q (手): Hand – The Kangxi radical 手
- R (口): Mouth – The Kangxi radical 口
- S (尸): Corpse – Three-sided enclosure with an opening on the side
- T (廿): Twenty – Two vertical strokes connected by a horizontal stroke; the Kangxi radical 艸 when written as 艹.
- U (山): Mountain – Three-sided enclosure with an opening on the top
- V (女): Woman – A hook to the right, a V shape
- W (田): Field – Four-sided enclosure
- Y (卜): Fortune telling – The 卜 shape and rotated forms
- X (重/難): Collision/Difficult – disambiguation of Cangjie code decomposition collisions, code for a “difficult-to-decompose” part
- Z: Auxiliary code used for entering special characters
Next part we will see the rules to write characters, strokes of characters are traced according to a certain sequence. Write 胃 it’s easy, but how to write 線 or 課 ?
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