Bau Cua Ca Cop Game.

I wrote this Bầu Cua Cá Cọp, game for Cafe75.com using Flash. I really enjoy the game and the backgound music. Give it a try.
You can play the game in full screen by click here.

Online Vietnamese Keyboard

If you ever want to type in Vietnamese and the system you're using doesn't has Vietnamese keyboard suppport, try this online Vietnamese keyboard. To use it, type your text then copy and paste it over whatever application you're working on. The Javascript just bascially filter some assigned keys and convert them to Vietnamese characters using Unicode. It's a pure and simple tool to get Vietnamese characters into any application. All thanks to the popularity of UTF-8 encoding and Unicode. I tested the Javascript on IE, Netscape, and Firefox browsers and it works fine.
Try out the VietCali's Online Vietnamese Keyboard.
Nếu các bạn muốn đánh tiếng Việt mà computer của bạn đang sài không có cài phần mềm cho bộ gỏ tiếng Việt, bạn có thể dùng bộ gỏ online của VietCali viết bằng JavaScript. Xin mời các bạn dùng thử.

Q.E.V.P Flash

There is a flash version of the famous Quick English Vietnamese Phrases. With this version there will be no more waiting for the sound to download. Just click on the Vietnamese words and hear the sounds instantly. You can find this at Cafe75.com website under card-n-games. Or click here to go to the page.

Taekwondo Forms

My sons are taking up Taewondo at Than Phong Martial Arts. The forms they're learning are from WTF (World Taewondo Fedearation) which are all new to me, not like the ITF forms I learned at Than Phong long ago. Compare to ITF forms the WTF form are much more simpler. Anyway, I like to archive all the forms they learned for future reference. Taeguk Oh Chang.

A new Vietnamese and friends social networking site.

There are still a lot of visitors visit this site mainly for Vietnamese translation help. So I've decided to keep VietCali.com domain for this site and create another domain cafe75.com for my new "Vietnamese and friends" social networking site. The site is in beta stage and ready for visitors. So please come to cafe75.com and join as member so you can interact with many Vietnamese friends. As a member you can share music, video, post articles, create your own blog, chat or IM to other members, classified ads, games, and many other features. Oh, we will also create a special Vietnamese-English forum so you can post your Vietnamese help to all members for faster help. Click here to check out cafe75.com. Please join and also invite your friends to join and help build our new Vietnamese friends gathering space on the Web.

Future of VietCali Blog

As you can't see I can't keep up with VietCali Blog anymore. I don't have the drive to write new article and help you with yours request. This will be the last Blog that you see. So what will happen to VietCali? I will start remodel VietCali.com in the next few weeks. I want to change it to a social networking portal type of web site. It's like mySpace but aimed specifically to Vietnamese friends. This way the site is more useful to you because as a member you can contibute to the site, not just me. I will try to keep the popular Quick English-Vietnamese Phrases alive in the new site. The new VietCali.com is not about me but about Vietanmese friends community. Hope to see you soon in new VietCali.com.

System hang with blinking cursor

Good to be back and post some computer tip to VietCali.com. This time I want to share with you a fix to a computer problem I ran into last week: a corrupted MBR or Mater Boot Record. The symptom on my case is the system no longer boots into WinXp. All I see is blinking cursor on upper left conner of the monitor. How do I know it's corrupted MBR? Because I can boot the system from bootable USB so there is something wrong with my hard drive boot sequence and it only point to MBR. So if your system suddenly blinking on you, just try to fix the MBR on your hard drive. How? 1. Put the Windows XP installation disc in the disc drive, and then start the computer. 2. Press a key when you are prompted to boot up from CD. 3. Press "R" to start Recovery Console. 4. Enter your Administrator password. 5. At the input prompt, type FIXMBR and confirm with Y 6. Choose EXIT to reboot the system. 7. Remove the CD, and the system should now boots WinXp normally. No more blinking cursor on my case.

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Quick English Vietnamese Phrase 2

I finish the QEVP2. This is an ehanced version of my older QEVP. With this new version you can hear the audio for the Vietnamese phrases just by placing the mouse over them. No more tedious file downloading. I hope you find this new version more easier to learn some common Vietnamese phrases. Hope you enjoy it. Please leave comment if you find something wrong. Click here to go the page.

Scecret to making money online.

If you're searching the web trying to find a way to make some money online please be careful. There is no such thing as easy money. It's not that easy to make money online as most the ads want you to believe. Sure you will make some, but the amount is not that significant compare to the work that you put in. I'm not saying there is no opportunity there. I just want to warn you first so you won't got cheated out of your time and money. [more...]

Don't pay any money, even one dollar, to people that promise if you want to get rich send in the money. Theirs ideas is just try steal a little from a lot of people. To you $10 might mean nothing, but if you add it up like 100 people a day, that mean big bucks. Usually, the information they send back are worthless or just some endless motivational stories. You need to research thoroughly before invest on an online opportunity. Don't click or reply to any email that promise you rich. Those kind of emails potentially contain spam-ware and virus. Theirs main purpose is spam you with ads or steal yours passwords and identities. Just delete those on first-sight. Don't even bother to read them. So what really is the secret to making money online? Just like with real estate's slogan "location, location, and location", to make money online I think you need "traffic, traffic, and traffic". Traffic here means number of hits on a website. If you have a killing product but nobody can find you on the web, then it really mean nothing. There are tons of way to make money on the net and most of them have to do with what they called affiliate program. The idea is you get pay by refer customers to theirs online business. If you have a personal homepage about your hobbies, it's very good chance you can find a affiliation program out there. For example, if you are into flowers just Google for "flower affiliate", choose the most popular one out there, signed up for an affiliate id, PROMOTE that site, and collect your money on the mail box :). So easy right. The key here is promotion, traffic. This is the only one true ingredient to making money online. So how do you improve traffic to yours web site? This is where the hard work come in. Remember I already told you there is no easy money. You need to be patient and consistent with one gaol in mind: improve traffic to your site. Sometime it cost money to make money. You might want to pay money to get on first on the search engine. This is about search ranking and very specialized subject so I don't discuss it here. You can Google for "ranking optimize" to read more about it. So if you already have a website with good traffic, you're on your way to make money online. Now it's time to promote VietCali.com's affiliate website. You know there will be a catch to this article don't you. Anyway, trying helping out VietCali.com if you can by visiting these sites the next time you need a tshirt, phonecards, air ticket or hotel booking. VietCali designed tshirt: vietcali.spreadshirt.com Vietnam Phone Cards: vietphonecards.com Cheap Airline ticket and Hotel: cheapairhotel.com Thanks.

Happy Valentine

February month is a lovely month. Don't worry if you didn't have a chance to send any special gift to your love one. You always can send a love message. Internet is open 24 hours a day.

My friend sends me this rare flower. A lovely bird couples. I never see this flower before. When I receive this picture through my email, I'm feeling so relax from a stressful day. I love to share this to VietCali readers.

Have a Happy Romantic Valentine day to all VietCali readers.

Love from VietCali