The ramblings of Age

Thoughts on IT, business, life and stuff.

At last! This is some of the best news I’ve heard in ages. iPhone 4′s with 3g and WiFi  will now be freely allowed for sale in China in the Apple retail stores and from China Unicom. Until recently, only models with WiFi disabled were available on the mainland, driving people to purchase uncrippled models [...]

Flashcards are the go

I’ve tried a whole bunch of iPhone flash card applications to help me with my Chinese studies and the vast majority suck. Badly. I’ve even shelled out real cash for some of these. I just wish there was a refund button in the App Store. So believing I’m not the only one who doesn’t like [...]

One of the reasons I setup this blog was to diarise the journey for this new business I’m starting – to create absolutely the intuitive, most effective and down right funnest language learning application ever devised – for iPhone.

After taking Chinese lessons twice per week at 2 hours per pop at RMIT University for the last 12 months, I realised a few things about how I learn…