Taken on my Dell laptop over the past year.
Category: China
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Top 10 apps for visitors to China
If you’re planning a trip, or maybe living there as an expat, these are the apps you’re going to want to have installed to your phone to get the most from your experience.
They are my
Top 10 apps for China
1) Hanping Camera
Takes pictures of text and converts them to English language. Used it quite helpfully on the train to Guangdong, it will have problems if your phone doesn’t have a good camera or if you’ve got shaky hands.
I went through the entire interpretation of the Chinese menu with a Chinese girl, and it got them all correct.
Can’t be bad!
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Samsung GT-7566 – Photos’ from the last 6 months
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Flickr doesn’t work in China
Some time ago. Flickr changed the design of their photo-hosting service to what is know in the industry, as a JSON platform.
Under most circumstances, this adds a lot more user functionality. However, you must remember that FLICKR by it’s nature is not a bandwidth light site. It’s bandwidth heavy.
All the images come at the cost of the JSON code not functioning at all.
I ceased using the site in July last year.
In CHina it wasn’t possible. Flickr simply doesn’t work in China. I’ve tried it using a VPN.
The functionality was so restricted, that when Paypal put the renewal through this year, I contested it and won on the grounds that it wasn’t ‘fit for purpose‘.
I know many of you photo-sharers out there must have encountered problems.
I missed Flickr and being able to share my photo’s online with friends and family.