Well this is all over the blogs this morning. Google’s reviewing its China ops and will stop censoring google.cn search results - announced on the official Google blog, which is on blogspot, which is blocked in China…

Last week we took the office to see Avatar. Purely for research purposes of course. It’s a good movie in that it, helped by a very drafty Shanghai cinema, keeps the viewer engaged for 2.5 hours. Probably should have spent a bit of the budget on the story though rather than re-hashing Pocahontas. We saw the movie on the morning of its first day in Shanghai for RMB 45. Since then Shanghai has gone Avatar crazy. CCTV reported that the Imax cinema would increase its price to RMB 200 from RMB 150. However, following online outrage, the Imax…

The New South China Mall is the second largest mall in the world and largely empty. (It used to be the largest mall in the World until the Dubai Mall came on line. But it’s still the largest empty mall in the World.) PBS have made a haunting documentary short about the mall that is well worth a look.

QuickCursor is a cool Mac utility that lets you easily edit the text in a web page via a real editor application. You just select the text box in the web page, click the QuickCursor MenuExtra to select an editor, QuickCursor will copy the contents of the text box to a temporary file and open the file in your editor, hack on your text and when you save the text is copied back to the text box in the browser. Doesn’t seem to work in Firefox but Safari works fine. It’s open source too. Very cool. See the…

Playing around with the Sony Ericsson S500c, I tried out the built-in MusicDJ app. Similiar to GarageBand it allows the user to build up a song in blocks. It’s a bit fiddly trying to compose on such a small screen and it’s really something that you need to do either with headphones on or away from other people. MusicDJ uses MIDI rather than real audio clips to keep the file sizes small but it is possible to convert to audio as follows. I transferred the file to my Mac (by emailing it to myself from the phone)…