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Cute Nicknames

December 29th, 2009 · Geek

Here are some cute Chinese nicknames of Athletes http://www.nba.com/features/chinese_playenicknames_070329.html

Team Player Chinese Nickname Translation of Chinese Nickname Explanation
Chicago Ben Wallace 大本钟 (Da Ben Zhong) Big Ben

Wallace’s size and ability to defend

Cleveland Zydrunas Ilgauskas 大 Z ( Da Z ) Big Z

Da means “big” and Z is the first letter of his first name

Cleveland LeBron James 小皇帝 (Xiao Huang Di) Little Emperor

Direct translation of English nickname “King James”

Charlotte Emeka Okafor 猫王 (Mao Wang) King of the Cats

Meaning leader of the Bobcats

Dallas Dirk Nowitzki 德国战车 (De Guo Zhan Che) German Racecar

Dirk’s ability to roll on court like a racecar. And he is a player from Germany.

Denver Carmelo Anthony 甜瓜 (Tian Gua) Sweet Melon

The nickname “Melo” resembles “Melon”. “Sweet Melon” refers to Carmelo ‘s sweet and cute appearance

Denver Allen Iverson 答案 ( Da An ) The Answer

Direct translation of his English nickname

Detroit Chauncy Billups 光滑 (Guang Hua) Smooth

Direct translation of English nickname “Smooth”

Detroit Richard Hamilton 面具人 (Mian Ju Ren) Man in the Mask Hamilton’s habit of wearing a mask on court
Detroit Tayshaun Prince 小王子 ( Xiao Wang Zi ) Little Prince

Direct translation of his last name “ Prince ”

Houston Dikembe Mutombo 非洲大山 (Fei Zhou Da Shan) Africa’s Big Mountain

Mutombo’s ability to block shots. And he is a player from Africa

L.A. Clippers Elton Brand 船长 (Chuan Zhang) The Captain

He’s seen as the leader of the Clippers

L.A. Clippers Cuttino Mobley 老猫 (Lao Mao) Old Cat

Direct translation from English nickname “ The Cat”

L.A. Lakers Kobe Bryant 小飞侠 (Xiao Fei Xia) Little Flying warrior

Bryant’s ability to jump

Memphis Damon Stoudemire 小飞鼠 (Xiao Fei Shu) Little Flying Mouse

For his speed and the ability to pass through opposing players

Miami Shaquille O’Neal 俠客 (Xia Ke) Warrior “Xia Ke” means righteous and respectful warriors in ancient China
Miami Gary Payton 手套 (Shou Tao) The Glove

Dir Payton’s ability to defend, like a glove stuck on the opponent

Miami Dwyane Wade 闪电侠 (Shan Dian Xia) The Flash

For his lighting fast style of playing

Miami Jason Williams 白巧克力 (Bai Qiao Ke Li) White Chocolate

Direct translation of his English nickname

Minnesota Kevin Garnett 狼王 (Lang Wang) King of the Wolves Meaning leader of the Timberwolves
New Jersey Vince Carter 飞人 (Fei Ren) Flying Man Carter’s ability to leap and make amazing dunks
New Jersey

Jason Kidd

发动机 (Fa Dong Ji)

The Engine

Kidd is the “engine” behind the Nets’ offense
New York Steve Francis 特权 (Te Quan) Special Rights Direct translation of the word “ Franchise”
Orlando Grant Hill 好好先生 (Houhou Xian Shen) Mr. Nice Direct translation of English nickname
Philadelphia Andre Iguodala 小AI (Xiao AI) Little AI “Little” is placed before the initial to differentiate between Allen Iverson and Andre Iguodala. “Little” also refers to his short years in the league compared to Allen Iverson.
Phoenix

Boris Diaw

法国魔术师 (Fa Guo Mo Shu Shi)

French Magician

Diaw’s ability to play basketball as if playing magic. And he is a player from France.
Phoenix

Amare Stoudemire

小霸王 (Xiao Ba Wang)

Little Lord

Amare is young and dominates in the paint
San Antonio Tim Duncan 石佛(Shi Fo ) Stone Buddha Duncan is very strong and calm just like the Buddha.
San Antonio Emanuel Ginobili 阿根廷飞人 (A Gan Ting Fei Ren) Argentina’s Flying Man Ginobili’s ability to jump. And he is a player from Argentina
San Antonio

Robert Horry

关键先生 (Guan Jian Xian Shen)

The Key Man

Horry’s ability to make clutch shots
Seattle

Ray Allen

绅士 (Shen Shi)

Gentleman

Allen’s gentlemanly manner on court
Toronto

Chris Bosh

龙王 (Long Wang)

King of the Dragons

He’s seen as the leader of the Raptors
Utah Derek Fisher 小鱼 (Xiao Yu) Little fish Loose translation of his last name “Fisher”
Washington Gilbert Arenas 大将军 (Da Jiang Jun) General Arenas is peerless and commanding in the league.


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Stream to your Xbox or PS3 with Vuze

December 26th, 2009 · Geek

Forget Apple TV, Stream to Your Xbox or PS3:
If you’ve already got an Xbox 360 or PS3 (who doesn’t?) there’s no
reason to bother with another media streamer, even if you’re ditching
Windows. The programs Connect 360 and Rivet will stream music, movies and photos from your Mac to your Xbox for $20. For the PS3, there’s MediaLink,
from the guys who make Connect 360, which does pretty much the same
deal, but with slightly better integration with iTunes and iPhoto. The P2P app Vuze—which
is free—also streams videos to Xbox 360 and PS3 from any OS it
runs on, but obviously it’s a little less feature-rich.

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Time Machine on any NAS

December 26th, 2009 · Geek

10.5: Set up Time Machine on a NAS in three easy steps – Mac OS X Hints

Here’s a three-step process to create a Time Machine backup on a network-attached storage (NAS) unit.
  1. Create a sparsebundle image on your local system.
  2. Create and set permissions on your network share.
  3. Copy the sparsebundle to the network share root.
10.5: Create a Time Machine size limit for networked disks – Mac OS X Hints
First, when you use Time Machine with a SMB disk, it creates a .sparsebundle disk image to put the backup data into. The disk image has a capacity of 2.75 TB. Since my SMB disk has only 1.5 TB of capacity, the disk image shows that 1.25TB is used and 1.5TB is available. The trick is to create another sparsebundle disk image of a given capacity (I used 300GB) on the SMB disk. Use ‘Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)’ as the volume format in Disk Utility. Name the volume the same as the volume used by Time Machine (it should be Backup of computerName), and save it to something like test.sparsebundle.

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FLAC to MP3 via WAV

December 23rd, 2009 · Geek

you want to convert the .flac files to .mp3 to take with you on your
iPod or MP3 player. This tutorial will walk you through the steps to do
just that, using OS X. Read on ..

First things first, make sure you’ve downloaded and installed xACT and iTunes, both of which are free.
Actually it turns out that MAX does this directly. Takes a FLAC file and converts it to an MP3.

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Songbird

December 23rd, 2009 · Geek

Previously mentioned
Songbird, the open source, Mozilla-powered, supposedly iTunes-killing
media player has updated to 1.4.2, bringing a host of new features,
including AAC metadata support, a new feather (skin), CD ripping, and
support for many mass storage devices.

Apart from the
snazzy new purple feather, the biggest features in this release are
definitely CD ripping and mass storage syncing (both available as
add-ons for 1.4.2 by the Songbird team). The CD ripping tool can look
up metadata information on Gracenote (or other services if you prefer,
via other add-ons) and can rip songs as FLAC, OGG, or, if you’re using
Windows, as WMA as well. In addition, Songbird can now sync to more
than just iPods—you can now sync any MSC (Mass Storage Class)
device, as well as manage firmware on certain devices. Both CD ripping
and MSC support, though, are currently only available for Windows
users—Linux and Mac users will have to wait until at least the
next release to test them out. Download Songbird.

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MagicPrefs for Magic Mouse

December 22nd, 2009 · Geek

Ever since the release of Apple’s multi-touch Magic Mouse
just a few months ago, one of the primary complaints from users has
been a lack of support for Exposé and other functionalities
given the limited options available in System Preferences for
configuring the mouse.

Addressing these issues, Gizmodo today points to a new menu bar application, MagicPrefs, that greatly expands the customizability of the Magic Mouse.

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If you still have CDs

December 21st, 2009 · Geek

See Final Mac Ripping Workflow | Tongfamily Website as it is still the best way to get a high quality MP3 encoding on your Mac. You basically use a free tool called iTunes-LAME instead of iTunes itself and then you use two widgets Harmonic to find lyrics and Amazon Art Finder to find album art. The main problem is that Harmonic seems to fail much more at finding lyrics now. Don’t know why. And Amazon Art finder now costs $15 :(

I also us nlyric, but this really only works well when I’m in China. The servers must be closer :
)

Softonic has a list of free ones with Lyrics Via LyricWiki 2.3 (discontinued) and
Album Artwork Assistant 2.5
being the most downloaded. The Album Artwork Assistant is a real app that basically is doing google image searches for you. So it works more quickly than scrolling through each song.


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3G Microcell not yet in Seattle

December 20th, 2009 · Geek

This would solve a huge number of problems. Get a box that gives you 3G in your home. Amazing that AT&T wants us to pay for it, but its the only game in town with the iPhone right now ;-(

AT&T 3G MicroCell™

AT&T 3G MicroCell acts like a mini cellular tower in your home or small business environment. It connects to AT&T’s network via your existing broadband Internet service (such as DSL or cable) and is designed to support up to four simultaneous users in a home or small business setting. With AT&T 3G MicroCell, you receive improved cellular signal performance for both voice calls and cellular data applications like picture messaging and surfing the Web.


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Popular Free Mac Apps

December 16th, 2009 · Geek

Lifehacker has put together their list of the 15 Most Popular Free Mac Apps of 2009. Keep in mind, these are Mac OS X apps, not iPhone apps. The list is based on the popularity of apps they’ve covered in 2009 and don’t represent total download numbers.

Here are some of their choices (in no specific order):



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Free Holiday Songs

December 16th, 2009 · Geek

AppleInsider | Apple offers free taste of iTunes LP format with ‘Holiday Sampler’

Apple is promoting its new iTunes LP format with a free downloadable selection of 20 holiday songs from a variety of popular artists.

The free iTunes Holiday Sampler download includes a variety of artists from wide-ranging genres, such as Toby Keith, Weezer, Glasvegas, Barry Manilow, and comedian Stephen Colbert. The iTunes LP collects the songs from a variety of albums and compilations, with Christmas classics such as “The First Noel,” “Silent Night, “Twelve Days of Christmas, and “O Holy Night.”


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