曾经号称“终生邮箱”的雅虎中国[CN]

http://www.pconline.com.cn/pcedu/softnews/yejie/0709/1101355.html

China Yahoo Mail Will be Shut Down

Online Entertainment That’s For The Taking

By Katherine Boehret |wsj.com

For all the money people spend on technology gadgets, it’s about time they got something without spending a cent. In this week’s column, I’ve compiled a cheat sheet to some of the most popular free digital content that isn’t always easy to find. This includes books, music, movies, TV shows, catalogs, magazines and apps, available on mobile devices as well as computer desktops.

This guide is divided into the four major content companies you’re likely to buy from: Apple, Amazon, Google and Barnes & Noble. The free offerings include content people will actually want to download, such as songs from new and established music artists and hit TV shows. I also included some broader-based websites that aim to help people sort through vast collections of free content.  

Best App: MiniPad 2

Another very good free software for GTD and notepad is Minipad2 programed by Mr. Xu Liand. Minipad 2 is as excellent as Memped I intruduced last time, but with some more useful functions, like Reminder, Calculator, and so on. With a bit more knowledge of Mr. Xu’s background, majored in Chemistry and is good at Chinese medicine, you must be surprised by such a marvelous work.

Below is the introduction and download link from the offical site:  

Best App: MemPad

I have tried most of Note& GDT tools. Comparatively,MemPad is an excellent one.

Pro’s: Free; Portable; Lower RAM usage even than Winpad; Light (160KB); Tree structure,good for simple GTD and diary.

Con’s: No sync with Mobile and Cloud.

Below is the offical description and download link: 

How to Have OPERA Copy with Formatting

1. Search for ‘standard_menu.ini‘
Normally it’s under C:Program Files\Opera\ui

2. Open ‘standard_menu.ini‘ and seach for ‘Hotclick Popup Menu‘

3. Add below code below ‘Item, M_COPY_TO_NOTE=Copy to note’ :

Item, Copy with formatting=“Go to page, “javascript:function sS() {var s = window.getSelection();if (s.getRangeAt && s.rangeCount) {return s.getRangeAt(0);}return null;}function rS(range) {if (range) {var s = window.getSelection();s.removeAllRanges();s.addRange(range);}}”,,”Copying with formatting” & Go to page, “javascript:void(tmp=sS());void(document.designMode=’on’)” & Delay, 300 & Go to page, “javascript:void(rS(tmp))” & Delay, 300 & Copy & Delay, 300 & Go to page, “javascript:void(document.designMode=’off’) ““

4. Save

5. Restart Opera

6.  Select text and from Right-Click context menu choose “Copy with formatting“. Done.

一分钟看懂西方近现代美术画派

http://www.cicaf.com/x/portal.php?mod=view&aid=12080

Christmas Day in the Morning

By Pearl S. Buck

He woke suddenly and completely. It was four o’clock, the hour at which his father had always called him to get up and help with the milking. Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still! Fifty years ago, and his father had been dead for thirty years, and yet he waked at four o’clock in the morning. He had trained himself to turn over and go to sleep, but this morning it was Christmas, he did not try to sleep.

Why did he feel so awake tonight? He slipped back in time, as he did so easily nowadays. He was fifteen years old and still on his father’s farm. He loved his father. He had not known it until one day a few days before Christmas, when he had overheard what his father was saying to his mother.  

“世界末日”的来历[CN]

刘跃生|BBC

起源

2012年12月21日将成为世界末日的传言起源于曾经兴旺于中美洲的玛雅文明。

历史学家认为，玛雅文明活跃于目前的墨西哥南部和危地马拉、伯利兹、萨尔瓦多北部和洪都拉斯西部地区，有数千年的历史，在公元250年到900年发展到鼎盛状态，但是随后突然神秘衰落。

据古代玛雅文献记载，人类目前生活在第四世界。神在此前曾经创造过三个世界，都没有获得成功，只是在第四世界获得成功，并且有了人类。    

玛雅历与西历之间的换算[CN]

玛雅时间观

随着使用进位制的长纪历（一般认为是由其他中美洲文化衍生而来）之发展，玛雅人有了能以线性关系纪录不同事件的绝佳系统。理论上，这个系统可以很轻易地表示任何所需的时间长度，只需增加代表更高位的数字即可，而借此产生无止境增加的天数乘积，使序列中每一天都能占有一个独特的长计历数字。实际上，绝大多数的玛雅长纪历碑文中只局限以系统中的后五项系数表示（使用b’ak’tun单位来计算），用来表示历史或现代日期早已绰绰有余（周期大约5126个太阳年，始于西元前3114年8月11日或前3113年9月6日（儒略历）^[7]）。即便如此，目前残存的若干碑文样本揭示抑或暗示有更长的序列存在。此表示玛雅人相当暸解线性（过去、现在、未来）的时间观念。