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妹妹的貓2013-07-03
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妹妹的貓,

幫妹記錄一下, 沒記錯本周一是我妹兩條貓的開始之日。

這樣我也算有外甥貓了。哈哈哈!!

樓下是我的小虎二號機,

這三隻虎斑要相見最快的方式就是從金門把小虎二號偷渡回家了 (當然是開玩笑的! 哈哈)

Upper Peninsula2013-10-08


Upper Peninsula U.P. 密西根上半島之旅

10月第一周, 麥大叔請了一天假, 組成了三天的週末,

前往密西根上半島 (英文簡稱為UP) Road Trip...

超簡易行程如下:

Day 1: Madison, WI -> Munising, MI

  • HIWATHA National Foredst

  • Pictured Rocks Cruise


Day2: Munising, MI -> Sault Ste Marie, MI

  • Tahquamenon Falls State Park

  • Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum


Day3: Sault Ste Marie, MI -> Madison, WI

  • Sault Ste Marie City: Soo Locks, Historical Tower

  • Mackniac Bridge at St. Ignace

  • Manistique Lighthouse

  • Palm Books State Park


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以後每年秋天都要去一趟才行, 真的超美的! 不虛此行。

Afternoon2014-04-27
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Afternoon at Starbucks, Madison
Ting-Li photography exhibition2014-05-05
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Ting-Li exhibition in 800 UBD gallery.

Best wishes!
美國環狀國家公園之旅2014-05-06
Oring trip

計畫下一個9天8夜之旅:

Day1 Salt Lake City -> Arches Natl park (Camping)
宿: Devils Garden Campground No.32 $20

Day2: Natl Park -> Cortez, CO
宿: Motel


Day3: Mersa Verde -> Monument Valley -> Page -Horseshoe Bend
宿: Camping


Day4: Page -> Horseshoe bend -> Antelope Valley -> Page
宿: Motel

Day5: Paria Canyon -> Grand Canyon
宿: Camping


Day6: Grand Canyon -> Hover Dam-> Las Vegas
宿: Motel


Day7: Las Vegas -> Zion -> Bruce Canyon
宿: Camping

Day8: Bruce Canyon -> Salt Lake City
宿: Motel

Day9: Salt Lake City -> Madison

 
Michigan Stadium2014-05-13
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Max is in the center of M
KTV2014-06-22
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吃完飯後, 聽老婆唱歌
返台2014-12-29
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回家一趟
Yolas coffee2015-01-03
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跟老婆在咖啡廳吃早餐
Why Realtors need a floor plan2015-07-29

A floor plan makes your real estate listing unique


As a successful Realtor, you may already know how important the listing photos could help you in attracting buyers’ eyes, and make them move to you. It is no longer a secret in the real estate market. But, do you ever see a floor plan was included in an MLS website? Rarely. I would say only 1 out of 500 listings would have a floor plan. Frankly speaking, expense to create a floor plan is the reason that why a Realtor could not be able to provide one, although, according to Realtors.com, there are still over than 80% of home buyers would like to have a floor plan of those interested properties on hand, and would love to see an interactive floor plan with little icons with pop-up photos. Luckily, if you are the Realtors in south central Wisconsin, your problem is solved. As a professional engineer, I am able to create relatively precise floor plans with a low cost at $99 (per floor or 1,600sqft) that can be included in your listing material. Follow up, let me tell you how a floor plan could effectively increase your selling power.


On an open-house day


Printed floor plan will be a very impressive handout for home buyers on an open-house day. A buyer may consider much more than you thought. He may think about where to relocate his piano or fitness equipment, or is he able to move his large items to the basement? What dimension is the kitchen? What width is the hallway or the stair? All these kind of questions reveals that why a floor plan on hand will be helpful. By answering these questions with a precise dimension, will definitely reveal your professionals. People will be impressed by you. Moreover, buyers with a floor plan can explore the home on their own. Just figuring it like exploring a corn maze in your childhood. It can provide a unique customer experience for quiet customers. After the open-house event, people will remember the property because you were the one who hand them a specific floor plan other than a brochure, and then, you will be picked up. This counts for everything.


Interactive floor plan


Buyers are not able to picture the layout of a property if photos are the only content provided. Beautiful and bright photos have become a standard marketing tool in this market, so you must create an unusual user experience on the internet to help you market a property. Providing a visual tour with slideshows and videos is an option, but do you know that most visual tour services are outdated. Nowadays, people tend to use mobile devices to surfing on the internet even when they are at home. This is also a reason that why as a Realtor need to reconsider about implementing an interactive floor plan on their website. Just browse your visual tour service with your mobile device, and compare it with ours here. The snowforest.co interactive floor plan embed with photos is the best among all visual tour services. Prospective buyers will be able to know where and what this photo was taken, and it help them to build up a visual sense of a whole property, and then the most important of all, the interactive floor plan bring buyers to you.



Again, why do you Realtors need a floor plan? Is it worth to invest? An analysis done by Redfin Corp., a Seattle-based brokerage, indicated that listing better photos is worth than $1,000 or more. There is no official study that tells you how a floor plan will be worth at, however, being able to provide a mobile friendly visual tour and help home buyers to decide whether to keep or eliminate a property on their “wish-to-see-list”. If a virtual tour service, such as snowforest.co, has done very well, it is much more likely that the property will be kept in the list, and you will be called. This way develops a positive cycle, not only buyers and you will be able to save tons of time, and benefit you in multi-ways, including customer sanctification, website statistics and average time in the sell. So, why not include a floor plan in your marketing material?


 

Max Chen2015-08-01

>> 中文版

Hey~ Nice to meet you~

I'm Max Chen <u870820@gmail.com>, an engineer, backpacker, photographer, web programmer, and blogger.

I have an M.S in Industrial System Engineering from UW-Madison, and I've worked at ASUSTek Inc., PEGATRON corp., and now Hankscraft Inc.. In the past, I did research in the UW-Madison Naturalistic Decision Making and Simulation Lab with Dr. Douglas Wiegmann , and at the Waisman Center. My research interests were focused on User Experience, Aviation Safety and Patient Safety.

I am a professional in project management and quality engineering, and I enjoy working on "complex problem" projects with hard to identify root causes or projects involving with cross-functional teams. I make a living by utilizing my knowledge and experience in both the quality and manufacturing fields. I am also a certified six sigma black belt of the American Society for Quality.

I was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and I have lived in Prague, Czech for 2 years, Shanghai, China for 3 years, and I now live in Madison, Wisconsin. Traveling and seeing the world is what brings excitement to me in life. While traveling I found a passion for photography. Taking photos and sharing what I have seen has become my treasure. In 2003 I launched a blog to present my photography.

In my free time, I like to do web programming. After not finding a photo album service I liked, I decided to code on for myself, it is called Max Chen Photo Database. It was just a start, my other web application could be found here(mandarin). In addition, my latest web project isPlace.Report which utilized Google Maps API and Facebook Graph API, a data-mining informative service.

In mid 2015, I started a new adventure with Ting-Li Lin. We set up Snowforest, a company specialzing in architecture photography and beyond. Snowforest's mission is to deliver artful images and to ensure every customer is satisfied. Snowforest is a new challenge and a new chance to us, and I devote myself in it and like to picture a wonderful future with it.

In my leisure time, I enjoy swimming, running, reading, watching movies, and playing games. I am not good at writing, but I will try my best to record thoughts, studies, and stories in here. I would like to share my life experiences with my friends and future generations. Someday, we will become someones' memory, and here is the best place to remember me.

Below is a list of social medias I am using. Let's exchange our thoughts via:

twittertwitter

twitterfacebook: mandarin

Edited by Max Chen on Oct 10, 2016. Thank you Tara for proof reading.


Max and his camera.
Max was waiting to take a sunset


Max in Grand Canyon.
Max in Grand Canyon.

Tingli and I were at Grand Teton
Max and Tingli were at Grand Teton.

Reedsburg downtown2015-08-04

f5.6 1/640sec ISO100 [at 70.00mm]Canon EF24-70L, Canon EOS 5DS

A colorful downtown.
Mobile Friendly2015-08-08

I've been working to add the responsive website feature to ymc2.com.
And finally, it's online. WOO-HOO~
縮網址開發2015-08-13

前兩天花了一點時間寫了一個縮網址+轉址的功能http://g.ymc2.com/
然後還加上了PHP QR Code的函式。雖然還不是很明白 QR Code 能有什麼幫助。
不過想想還是先準備好, 以免不時之需。

下一步想擴充一個機能: 加上網址的預覽圖。
Virtual Tour Mobile-Friendly2015-08-15
This post also posted in Virtual Tour Mobile-Friendly Test

This article is going to compare 5 visual tour services using five common mobile friendly test tools on the internet. These 5 virtual tour services are the most common marketing providers in the North America real estate industry, including: Circlepix, Paradym(VisualTour) ,matterportMy Visual Listingtruplace, TourBuzz. And the 5 mobile friendly test tools will be used are: W3C mobile Checker, MobiReady, Google Developer Tools: Mobile-Friendly TestPageSpeed Insights and Wave.

Result

After reviewing the result, I would rank these five virtual tour services as: truplace, matterport, tourbuzz, paradym, my visual listings and the last, circlepix.

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Applebot Found2015-08-17

Appebot identified!

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)

Just found out an applebot recently crawled my website. But, why?

Is Apple trying to build its own search engine? Interesting...
Street View | Trusted Photographer2015-08-22
Street View Trusted | Trusted Photographer

Do you want to apply the Google Street View technology to show your business to the world? Try below sample:

Jade Mountain Café
2611 E Johnson St, Madison, WI 53704

Ting-Li Lin and Max Chen (myself), who founded Snowforst.co, are helping Wisconsin local business to spread their visibility! Although they are both Google Trusted Photographers, their photography capabilities is way beyond than this.

I am currently marketing Google Street View services in most towns in Sauk county, like: Sauk City, Baraboo, Reedsburg and Wisconsin Dells area. If you see me stop by your business store, don't be surprised. I see your potential and would like to help promote your store. I believe Street View for business is a great marketing tool for local business for the below reasons:

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Hasselblad icons2015-08-23
Hasselblad icons

Just developed two Hasselblad icons using my 203FE as sample. Too bad that its blue stripes symbol of Hasselblad-FE series are on the other side...

These icons will be used on my website.


Viewfinder Up



Viewfinder Close


Missing the moment to view through the viewfinder of Hasselblad 203FE.
不可能的任務 失控國度2015-08-23

Mission Impossible 5 - Rogue Nation

周末終於到AMC看了不可能的任務第五集。
阿湯哥仍是寶刀未老, 整體而言算是一部爽片, 女角選的都蠻正的, 耐看!

劇情雖然就是傳統諜中諜的老戲路, 不過放空去看還是可以的。


Hermione Corfield, 一開始就領便當的頗正書店員



Rebecca Ferguson, 擔任英國IMF特務的瑞典籍女主角
Embed Google Street View on the webpage2015-08-28
Here is an instruction which shows you how to embed a google street view tour on your website.

Step 1. Open the Google Map on your browser, and Key in your business name on the Search tab.
Step 2. Click the See Inside tab, and then guide the Street View screen to your prefer initial view spot (the default screen of your Google Street View).



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