Archive for January, 2005

10 Places of Corvallis, Oregon

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Oregon State University - 奧勒岡州立大學- 美麗的校園, 優良的風氣, 學生佔了整個城市人口的25%. Corvallis (谷心鎮) 算是道道地地的大學城吧. 光是OSU就可以舉出十個地方, 可是要講的不是學校而是這個小鎮.
Downtown (1st and 2nd Street) - 這算是比較老的商店街. 一街就靠在河畔, 所以風景很漂亮.
Bento - 在這裡最道地的中國菜館. 小小的一家裡面只有四張小桌子, 裡面有十個人的時候就算超擠了. 價位比其他的餐館低, 給的菜也比其他的多, 做出來的菜也比較類似台灣的. 這家小餐廳就在學校的旁邊
Tarn Tip - 也是另一家餐館, 是泰國菜. 除了好吃好吃真好吃以外, 真的不知道怎麼形容. 如果你有機會到的話, 一定要點Crispy Chicken. 這家餐廳也在學校旁邊.
Dutch Bros. Coffee - 位於學校旁邊的一家新開的咖啡廳. 氣奮跟Starbucks完全不同. […]

Gmail’s Strategy of Breaking into the Webmail Territory

Last year in April Fool’s Day, Google announced the rumor of Gmail, and due to the coinident date of announcement, most people thought of it as crazy idea and didn’t take it seriously. As already we can see, Gmail has changed and reshaped the free* email services; and forced Yahoo! and MSN to make a lot of changes. So how did Google manage to give everybody 1GB of webmail spaces without server panic?

Oh really….


Outlook + Hotmail = $60!?!?

So M$ release their new strategy against Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, but has their brain been washed away all the $$$? Outlook Express used to be able to connect to Hotmail for free, but with Yahoo! and Gmail’s improved service, how did Microsoft figure to go the opposite way?
Break down:
GMail: Free 1 GB […]

News Website Banner Comparison

Being a person who is bored most of the time, I spend a vast amount of time reading news here and there. However, there is something about Taiwanese news website that I don’t like; for the longest time I didn’t know what it was, until one day I was switching between a US news […]

Less is More? New Trend in Web Search Page

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