Eeecast #1
It’s our first Eeecast! Woohoo!!!!! CES rumors of 2nd gen Eees, change your dictionary to English, and Eee PC accessories are here.
Eeecast Tip - How to change your dictionary from Chinese to English
- Open the dictionary
- Click on the wrench on the bottom right corner
- There are two menus written in Chinese. Click on the top one.
- There are three choices. Choose the top one that has a smaller number of characters. This is English. The other two are Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.
- Click the OK button. Now your menu items are in English.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:26 am
A very nice podcast to start with! You have a pleasant voice and excellent articulation, and you covered a lot of interesting features.
The “tips” section should be very helpful, especially for those who do not go beyond the “Easy” mode of the desktop. I, for one, wish there was an easy way to tweak the mouse settings. (I can do it if I load an advanced desktop, but I see nothing in the Easy mode.)
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 am
[…] ist es endlich geschehen: Der vermutlich erste Podcast zum eeePC – wenn auch in Englisch – ist online gegangen. Produziert wird er von der Australierin Jacqueline („The Geek Girl“) und wird nun […]
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Congratulations and Kudos. You have a perfect voice for this and you presented yourself in a very professional way.
The dictionary tip was a real bonus which I will use, thanks for your hard work and I look forward to many more EEECast in the future.
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I really liked the podcast! Great start and I’m sure it will get better. I’d also be interested in contributing to the editorial.
January 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Excellent show!
I really like that you’ve decided to keep it short and to the point. It occurred to me that it might be possible (in the future) to record guests on the show with skype (though, you probably already thought of that).
The tip on switching the dictionary menu’s over to English was great. Perhaps on the next cast, you could talk about some of the other software that comes with the standard installation. For example tips on maximizing the screen real estate when using Firefox/Thunderbird.
Best Regards,
Gord
January 6th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Great podcast just purchased a 4GB white cannt wait till i get it. Enjoyed the tip keep em coming …rob
January 7th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Everybody (including me) is getting excited about Eeepc-NG (NextGen) with the 8.9″ screen & WiMax. My only thoughts are “I wonder how much M$oft will have knuckled in to squeeze out Linux?”
The Eeepc is/was possibly one of the biggest threats to their market dominance, and I’m not convinced that linux will officially survive, as the 8.9″ model will the ‘clincher’ for a lot of folks out there who just can’t cope with a 7″ screen.
I reckon by the time the new model actually *ships*, the default OS will be M$ & Xandros will be gradually squeezed out…Asus will be under way too much pressure from M$ to allow official support for Xandros to continue. It won’t disappear overnight, but it will be the usual case of drivers & updates not appearing so quickly for linux, if at all. We see this already in the new Asus 500T 3G card: it *is* supported under linux, but NOT voice calling…..so it’s partly a disabled device under linux, but fully working under M$oft. The EeePC-NG will be attractive to millions, potentially hundreds of millions of mobile users out there, most especially because it will ship with an emerging next-gen mobile internet.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m sure Asus would LOVE to be completely free of M$ - but as far as M$ are concerned, they can’t afford (literally) to let the EeePc pull the rug from under their feet. I so hope I’m completely wrong. But I don’t think so somehow.
January 9th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Thanks!, great podcast!
January 21st, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Hi There,
I’m excited to hear about your podcast, I plan on listening to each of them but discovered that the download link to Eeecast #1 links to a 1k file, I think you may have an error there. Please let me know when this episode is again downloadable (is that even a word).
February 8th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Thanks for your 3 podcasts - I hope there are many more to come!
Re your tip to change the dictionary from Chinese to English, please note that the version that came with my eeePC in Australia did *not* change after following your instructions. However, after I updated the dictionary, via Settings|Add/Remove Software, the tip worked as you state above.
Thank you for all your efforts concerning the eeePC.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Great podcast… Waiting for more!
Just got my eeepc, and I thought surely they’ve fixed the dictionary problem, but no. So one of the first things I tried was this tip on fixing the dictionary. I followed the instructions, but when I got to #4, there were only two options, and neither of them changed it to English.
Now however, I have gone back into my eeepc to check, and the icon for the Dictionary seems to have disappeared. How do I get it back?
March 16th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Do you have an iTunes feed set up? Can you add one?
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