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No wonder why Nikon HK is raising the prices of their stuff.

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Happy user of Sony Vegas Studio Platinum 8 (cheap, not Pro version, only does 4 video tracks), and just upgraded to version 9 for ~HK$400. Comes with some extra software and a better AVC encoder (for encoding MP4 movies) so no longer need to go thru all the acrobatics. If you use one of those [...]

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from Henan Zhengzhou. Room in Weilai Conifer stinks of smoke. I have been told they are all the same in this city. Nonetheless, avoid.

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I had my (the other) wisdom tooth extracted last week, and took a day off resting. Between short naps I put in a total of a couple of hours of playing Half Life 2: Episode 2, and I must say it was a lot of fun.
I picked up The Ship (some killer game staged on [...]

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In a side project I have been putting up half-hour-long video files for a small group of colleagues to view over the Internet (using the really excellent JW Flash Player), and I am seeing the limitation of my puny HKNet ADSL 1.5Mbps down 640Kbps up line. In reality I can only push around 40KB/s up [...]

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The Lady expressed interested in a dual-head computer, so last weekend I bought an ATi 3850 video card (the newer current-technology 4850 was also available, but at a little over 50% more expensive) from a local shop, installed it and added a spare 19” LCD panel to the gig. I’ve also switched over to DVI [...]

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雖然Scribus有中文menu items，不過唔識避頭點，做唔到中文DTP，唔合格。

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Test.

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