Flytouch 8, Superpad VIII, Allwinner A10 manual & instructions

I bought Superpad 8 aka "Flytouch" from an Ebay seller, the full (counterfeit) name is:

10.2 Flytouch 8 superpad VIII 24GB Allwinner A10 cortex A

The actual model code is:  BC1003

The hardware problems aside (a topic worth another blog post), I have been looking for a full manual for this Superpad. In the end, I found it on a password protected producer's site. I am copying it here for your enjoyment:
Download 10.2 "Flytouch 8" Superpad VIII manual
Chinese source of the Superpad 8 manual

Synchronizing Outlook contacts with Google account: Go Contacts Sync is the solution

Master data

After migrating my semi-public contact list (an address book with official company contact details, already available on the Net) to Google Contacts, for ease of access on my mobile, now I had to tackle the thorny issue of synching some of such lists with Outlook, which I still use, mostly for privacy's sake.

After trial and error, I settled on this GNU product:  Go Contacts Sync Mod, a fork of the previous equally useful Go Contacts Sync daemon.

Go and try it. If you like it, there is the donate page... Feed the hungry programmer! ;)

Here is a more extensive review.

Tips

• Before you sync anything, create a backup of your data, both in Outlook and in Google
• Apart from a lump complete backup of your PST Outlook file, create folder with a copy of your contacts that you want to sync.
• Test syncing on an empty Google account

Alternatively, you may use Microsoft Contacts, aka Hotmail, to synchronize the semipublic part of your contact list. Here's the MS article with the procedure.

Fun with n-grams

Summary: Some fun with Google n-grams


Background? Watch this TED n-grams video.

We are more and more obsessed with the times:


while some years were more important than other:




As you may well guess, 2000 was in vogue much before we lived through it:


We are more and more obsessed with time:


especially in the 1990s, when we were discussing... the 1980s - the most acute (nomen omen) period to date:



Interestingly enough, as far as future is concerned, in the 1960s we did not think of it, living in the present, while nowadays, we mostly care about the 2080s:



[tbc]

See more fun n-grams e.g. here and  here.

Quick discoveries:
citizen vs consumer vs client,
Islam vs Christianity (from 1870, as before Christianity was winning hands down)
pederast,homosexual,homoerotic,homophile,
paederast vs pederast vs pederastic vs pederasty
homosexual vs lesbian vs heterosexual (all subjects most in vogue in 1990s, now people do not write about it that much)
my short list of objectively most discussed phobias
(PC) terms for Negroes
Euphemism treadmill:
lame,crippled,handicapped,disabled,physically challenged
shell shock,battle fatigue,posttraumatic stress disorder

...