Tuesday, September 18, 2012

My Digital Life

Before talking about my digital life, I have to tell you what I love very much:
  • Quotes (with pictures or photos)
  • Photography
  • Fashion
  • Shopping
  • Music
  • Computers

And to find what I love, I have discovered that I will always go to the following websites:

1) Tumblr
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I always find Tumblr fascinating because of the creativity of its bloggers and their skills of editing pictures. To find quotes, stunning photos as well as latest fashion news, Tumblr definitely helps a lot. Its "reblog" function is also really amazing that I use it quite often to share quotes and photos I have found from other blogs while attracting my followers to keep following me.

For example, I usually reblog things like this:

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2) ASOS

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I admit that I am really addicted to online shopping and I love looking for things that I can't buy in Hong Kong. And ASOS.com gets me tempted because of its free worldwide shipment. I think most of the girls in Hong Kong do know about this site. All we have to do is just making a few clicks and after two to three weeks, our lovely clothes, shoes and bags will be delivered right to our apartments.

Online shopping has actually become a habit and I know it's killing me somehow... But I'm a woman! Therefore online shopping is actually a therapy for me to release my pressures and it's free (if I'm not buying anything...) !!!


3) iTunes


(Screen shot by me)

To look for music, I always go to http://www.apple.com/itunes/. I like it mostly because it always shows the album artwork and they are sometimes really creative and beautiful which attracts me to find out more.

Most importantly, I always look at the "Customer Review" to see whether the album is worth to buy. People who rate the albums always add comments and they sometimes recommend other music with similar styles that I actually have known a lot more other amazing artists from them!

Apart from music, you can also find TV shows, movies, podcasts and ebooks there which is basically a very resourceful website to me.


4) Files Tube

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My friends always ask me where I can find all the resources I want for computers, especially some useful softwares and I would tell them to go to Files Tube. It has a huge database including music, videos, games, softwares, lyrics... you name it! It functions like a search engine, just like Google, but it helps you look for specific files while you can determine the format you want to find out from the bar (see the picture above).

Usually official websites of most of the softwares online would only provide the newest versions. That's why I use Files Tube where I can search for older versions that are compatible to my own computer. And sometimes, maybe you wouldn't believe it, but actually the older versions may work even better than the newer ones so I need to find them out using Files Tube.



So why would I say that "new media is my valentine"? It's because it has become part of my life and I cannot live without it. It fulfils my need and I can develop my interest while learning and working with it. Therefore, I must say this virtual world has actually given me a lot of fun so far!!





Sunday, September 16, 2012

Hello!

Hello! I'm Gigi and welcome to my blog!