Wednesday, October 10, 2012

巧虎真厲害!

    幾年前,小表妹才三,四歲,那時舅媽訂閱了巧連智給她,當時是第一次感受到巧虎的影響力,”巧虎“都是這樣,”巧虎“都是那樣。不過,想一想,我們小時候不也是也有看小百科或小牛頓嗎? 巧虎,也應該就是那樣的產品吧!

    開始工作後,周遭的朋友也都成家有了小孩,隨著他們的長大,經由從旁觀察或是閱讀朋友的部落格發現,“巧虎”,又成為了他們小孩學習各種知識的最佳來源,”巧虎“都是這樣,”巧虎“都是那樣,又開始在耳邊環繞。

     現在女兒快兩歲,偶而也會跟著我們看電視,但與其讓她過早受到成人們電視節目裡的“羶腥”,“暴力”的影響。不如給他看些小朋友的節目,此時巧虎開始在我耳邊呼喚,於是就在YouTube上找尋巧虎。一開始也抱著高度懷疑,不知道女兒會不會看巧虎,或是瞭解巧虎在講些什麼,但是等到好動的女兒,開使乖乖的坐在沙發上,目不轉睛的盯著電視裡巧虎的一舉一動,甚至會跟著巧虎一起跳舞,才瞭解我是一整個的杞人憂天!

     由於女兒也開始長牙,為了預防蛀牙,太太跟我想盡了辦法想要教她刷牙,不過都是無功而返,一個禮拜前開始讓她看巧虎教刷牙,終於到了今天,問她要不要把拔也幫妳像巧虎一樣的刷牙,終於得到了她的首肯,興奮之際還是小心翼翼地模仿巧虎裡的情節幫她刷,總算是邁開了小小的一步,在此必須要說,”巧虎“我對你是心服口服了!

小記:女兒今天是用她最愛的"無嘴貓“牙刷刷的,所以,雖然人在美國,還是躲不掉日本的影響啊!

   

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Google voice in Gmail


I had spent some time in Taiwan this past five days. But my lovely wife and daughter didn't come with me this time. Thanks for the technology we have in this era, I was able to see my love ones through Skype. But when they were not home, I had talked to my wife by using Viber. But sometimes the 3G/4G quality was not good. So I took advantage of the Google voice which embeded in Gmail to make a free call to the states.

The voice quality is perfect, no delay, no echo. That makes me wondering when Google is going to make Google voice as a true VOIP service.