Dropbox is great, gives you the freedom to work on any of your computers and always have the files you need. Let’s say you’re editing a document at home. As soon as you click ‘Save’, Dropbox will sync this same file to all your other computers (as well as your iPhone!) instantly and automatically. It’s as if you saved the document to all of your computers.

Dropbox has lots of other features to automatically backup your files and keep files synced between computers too, it also enables you share files easily with your friends and colleagues on Dropbox website, here’s Dropbox tour which you can learn all it’s features how to sync your files and store your files securely.

Besides all these things I am talking above, Dropbox officially posted some Tips and Tricks as well as some add-ons on their wiki, which give you the ability to use Dropbox services efficiently and creatively. You can visit those pages yourself and look for a way how to use Dropbox in different situations better. Well, after I saw their add-ons page I found a great trick to turn Dropbox into a powerful online photo gallery site. Ah, yes, Dropbox is so powerfull to do anything which you can hardly imagine.

See those screenshots above, this is a cool and full-featured photo gallery, right? Please do not doubt, it was built by myself, using My PHP DropBox Gallery php script, all those photos in the screenshots are stored in my own Dropbox account in Dropbox severs.

To generate your own photo gallery on your own web sever is easy, register a Dropbox account (skip this step if you already have one), creat a folder in your “Photos” directory of your dropbox and upload all your photo files there which you want to share with others, and then download PHP Dropbox Gallery scripts here, decompress it, and rename the file “config.example.php” to “config.php” which located in “upload/gallery” directory, change its content to meet your situations. And at last, upload all the files in the “upload” directory to your own web sever, that’s it.

Here’s my own PHP Dropbox Gallery demo, which make photo gallery and photo sharing more easier.

http://huzuofeiwei.com/php-dropbox-gallery/

This is a song by Nicholas Tse called “So Beautiful when You Smile“, which was uploaded to a Chinese video sharing website Tudou in 2006 by myself, I almost forgot this MTV since today I visited my Tudou hopepage again, I like this song, this is one of the best songs sing by Nicholas.

Having listened this song again and again for lots and lots of times this morning, it reminds me of a girl, whom I like when I was in XFU, I like being together with her, and, I like most her smile, yes, really beautiful.

Time flies, however, I couldn’t be able to see her since July 2006, but her face when she smiles are always in my mind…

Well, I uploaded some great music files to Tudou in 2006 as well, these are Disco Dance Music, I forgot when I downloaded them and how to download them again. Thanks Tudou, they are all there. OK, try to listen these musics and see if you like it either

Some fans of my blog took to the streets in San Francisco, and spelt out “I ♡ CHARLES” with Google Latitude. Thanks them, please click here for their video: http://services.google.com/latitudevideo/view.html#n0BGZQKDR5m0H-GDZQS5z0BGZQKDR5s0BgZqkdr-Odmf5s0BgZqkdr-Odmf

Frankly speaking, my blog is writen in English, so most of my blog visitors come from the United States, and Europe (especially United Kingdom), and some other English-speaking countries (Except China).

According to another of blog statistics, it also says most of my blog fans come from the North America. That’s why they gathered together in San Francisco, and spelt out their feeling with their mobiles.

Oh, this video is only for fun, you can make your own here http://services.google.com/latitudevideo/ , thanks Google Latitute.

Last month, a girl, who was my class mate when we studied at XFU, said she got married. It was a great blow to me when I heard this news.

We have been graduated from university for almost 3 years, many of our schoolmate have been married, and most of them have had a child, but, I’m still single, what’s worse, I never had a grilfriend. I’ve been 24 years old now, I want to get married too, it’s time to look for a girlfriend, perfectly a nice girl.

I bought a new BlackBerry 8310 mobile device in May 2nd in the city Digital Mall when Linda came and visited me during the holiday. She planned to buy a nice netbook, and came to look for me for suggestions. At the 2nd floor, I saw all kinds of mobile phones, and, I found some BlackBerry phones were sold there, this was for the first time that I knew they sell BlackBerry mobiles.

I am currently using an old BlackBerry 7100V, too old not to meet my requirements. Compared with 7100V, 8310 has much more features that I live and need, for example, EDGE network, it’s faster than GPRS, and, GPS, 8310 has a GPS receiver, so I won’t get lost wherever I am. What’s more, it has a media player which I can play musics in my spare time.

One of the most important feature that I think a mobile device must have is Camera, with a camera, I can take pictures whenever I want, although it has only 200 mega pixels. With a BlackBerry 8310, I don’t need to take my DSC-T500, it’s so big and heavy, don’t you think?

When I got this new 8310, I tested all of its features, it works just fine. It costed me only a little, but its quality is just good. Oh, I wanted and planed to buy a Nokia E71, but I think this BlackBerry 8310 can do all its job, but price is very lower than that.

These pictures were taken by my 8310, pictures quality is just good.

Linda in the Digital Mall

Linda lying on the bed in a hotel

Boiled Fish with Pickled Cabbage and Chili / On Sunday, before Linda went back to her school, I took her to a Sichuan Restaurant, this is what we eat.

A good mobile phone helps a lot if you don’t have a computer at hand. Last time, when we went to a small city nearby to prepare customers goods, the list I printed was not clear enough, but I didn’t have a computer at that time, I called my customer, and told that to send me picture to my mailbox, I logged in my mailbox with BlackBerry’s default browser, and I downloaded the picture in seconds. If I don’t have a mobile, or the mobile doesn’t have this kind of feature, I don’t know what I can do, really.

I got two orders this morning, about 1k usd each, these are small orders,  just trial orders for my customers. Anyway, I think I’ve done a good job

I’m already bored with this job working here for one year and half, things are harder and harder as what I didn’t meet before, goods can hardly be sent through Chinese customs, and there’s always a risk that the goods might be held at customs in any other countries. That’s a headache for me all the time.

I don’t want to deal with people from South America, Turkey, and lots and lots of other non-English speaking countries any longer, I can hardly understand them, and they can hardly understand me, although both of us speak English, but their English is so difficult to get a generally idea what they’re talking about. For a lot of times when we were talking about a little thing for a very long time, I had to repeatedly ask them over and over again. I think I am driven crazy.

I like this job, I am lovn’ this job, I am doing things that I like, I like being online all day, to surf on the net or do whatever I like. And honestly speaking, I work on the internet and spend most of my time on the net doing lot of things other than working, but I can get my orders, even if I read others’ blogs for the whole day and the whole week, I reply an email, there will be an order.

It seems that this job is quite easy for me, yes, I think so, that’s truth. And compared those people who are struggling for a job opportunity all day, I’m satisfied. Working while doing things of my own, that’s what I always want.

Feb 19th is my birthday this year, as all of you know in China, we have two calendars, one is Chinese Lunar Calendar, and another one is the Gregorian Calendar, we uses Gregorian calendar in newspapers, TVs, computers, and even paying us salary in a Gregorian Calendar one month time cycle. But most rural people uses Lunar Calendar to arrange farming. I’m from a rural area in Hanzhong, China’s northwest Shaanxi Province, I always spent my birthday on Chinease Lunar Calendar customarily.

I added a GTD event in Google Calendar in Advance so as not to forget celebrating my birthday, but on Feb. 18 th, I received an SMS from Google telling me it’s my birthday, oh, it was so late for me to get to know that day is my birthday, it’s been nearly 17:00, and one hour later, I would be able to get off work. But I didn’t know that day is my birthday and prepared nothing, I am a stranger here in Taizhou, and I have little friends, only a few people knows my birthday, and of course  it’s so late to call some of them and held a party together.

After super as usual, I didn’t know what to do to have a celebration for my birthday. Walking on the street, I felt so lonely, “Why not go to a Leisure center?” , I went to one nearby, but I didn’t go in as  I was a little bit afraid, because I was alone. After that, went to another one by taxi, but I didn’t enter too, I didn’t know why I didn’t enter, only wandered outside for a lont time and left to home.

Three days after that, when I opened Google Calendar again, I found that day was not my birthday, I still didn’t know why I received an SMS ahead of time, I marked in the correct date and time, It’s very strange, but my real birthday date has been expired. What a awful birthday this year!

The 100th photos on my Flickr Pro account

I bought my self a Flickr Pro account as my birthday present in the night of Feb. 14th on Feb. 15th at 1:00 o’clock, I thought  although it’s been  1:00 am of Feb 15th, but it was Beijing time, it was still Valentine’s Day in USA (Flickr is an USA company owned by Yahoo), Valentine’s day is a special day for me to buy myself a present and it’s also a good day for me to refund my account as it’s so easy to be remembered. But, when I made payment, Flickr showed me a date I made payment on Feb. 15 th, I was so stupid, Yahoo knew my local time, it’s terrible.

With this Flickr Pro account, I can be able to upload all my favorite photos and share with friends on the net, and I have a good camera too, I bought a Sony DSC-T500 during the Chinese new year holiday, with it, I can take some good pictures and share it on Flickr.

Well, this is my 24 year old birthday, I am one year older again.

Valentine’s Day is coming in 2 days, here’s some nice wallpapers that I found on my friend’s blog, and I saved it as my desktop wallpaper, it looks good(click here for the large screenshot).

Valentine’s Day is a great traditional holiday for your western people, a day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine’s cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery.

Want to show your love to your other-half? Just decorate his/her desktop

We moved to a new office in the center of the city at the end of October last year. It’s a regret that I was so lazy and I didn’t write anything about it in the last months, I’m really sorry for that. Now I’m back and celebrated our Chinese new year (ox year), it’s time to write something about my last year, to summarize the past year 2008 and exceptions of 2009.

Charles Peng in the new Office

Looking back over the past year, I can say it has truly been an eventful one. I can not find the pleasure of work, the working conditions is too bad, I don’t want to say anything about it, just see those pictures. I tried and planed to look for another job for times, but I surrendered, because I think there are no job opportunities that I’m completely satisfied, I’d rather continue working here than look for another one.

About in May through the beginning of July, I got a salary about 10,000 RMB plus commission. It’s for me for the 1st time I made so much money, just in 2 months. I became more confident in overcoming difficulties. And went back home to Xi’an and saw my parents in Hanzhong…

All things are difficult before they are easy, I agree with this. After working here for about 5 months, I became more and more familiar with the products I’m selling, and  knew more and more how to communicating with our products, learned a lot of my business processes. I made nearly 10,000 RMB during the last 2 months last year, it’s a great amount of money for me, I bought a Sony DSC-T500 camera, and spent the rest in the Chinese new year holidays. Although I didn’t go back home for the Spring festival, but I spent the holiday happily.

The new year is ox year, my year of birth considered in relation to the 12 Terrestrial Branches, It’s a lucky year for me, I got a big order at the beginning of the first week after the holiday. I hope I can do my best and earn much more…