Do you keep track of your sitelinks? Is there any difference? Well.. yes in my case. If you compare the new sitelinks with old sitelinks on the screen shot below, except link to ‘blog resources’, other links are totally brand new link .

How to get sitelinks?

Before that, let’s take a look at what GoogleWebmaster says about sitelinks.

“We only show sitelinks for results when we think they’ll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn’t allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don’t think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user’s query, we won’t show them.”

Well.. it’s still pretty much unclear to most I guess, but what it’s trying to say is “keep your hands off sitelinks”. Then “It runs fully automated and there is no chance to game it.. ” Sort off, but you can try it.  I found this post (need to be translated) clearly explaining about sitelinks, as well as providing quite comprehensive tips on how to get sitelinks.

Ok, back to this blog sitelinks, I’m not sure what Google really think when it made these links as sitelinks. I have no argument on other links except for ‘Celebrity’ and ‘Politics’ which has very limited coverage in this blog. But 1 thing for sure, it has something special that Google thinks these contents are very ‘useful’ to you. What do you think?

• Google - One of the most topics that I blogged

• Yahoo Mail - This blog has pretty good rank with this key phrase

• Celebrity - Only 1 post. Does this caught Google attention because of Bill Gates’s daughter post?

• Politics - Only 2 posts

• Blog Resources - One of the earliest page I published.

Anyway, you can block any sitelinks that you think  irrelevant from Google Webmaster Central.

November 2009 Sitelinks

July 2009 Sitelinks

Tips to get sitelinks for Wordpress blog

Base on my own sitelinks, if your blog runs on Wordpress platform,  there are a few points to note.

• Google lovew Wordpress ‘page‘, not posts.
• Google no longer pick single post as one of links in sitelinks
• Sitelinks are made from pages, tags and categories
• Write pages with quality and comprehensive contents.
• Minimize changes on your blog - Theme, categories, tag, sitemap & etc

What should you do if your sitelinks disappear?

Sitelinks tend to disappear and then reappear on its own. Do not panic. If you think that you have not make any changes on any part of your blog at the time when the sitelinks disappeared, let it be. Sometimes, it is Google’s own algorithms that changes, not because of your blog. Furthermore, we have very little control on what would be your website sitelinks.

However, if you think it’s the changes that you have made before might be effecting the sitelinks, revert it back to the original one if you feel uncomfortable without it. Unless the change is meant for better SEO, ranking or what so ever that is positive, you have to think it very carefully.

If the sitelink disappeared followed by drastically dropped traffic, watch out, you’re in crisis. Google may has penalized or slapped your blog for some reason.

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Why Dell?? Inspiron Mini is among the first netbook running on Windows 7 in our market. Furthermore I’m used with their notebooks before. The day I purchased this model, no HP and Acer netbook run on Windows 7 just yet, so it’s a direct decision actually, because I want a netbook running on Windows 7 in the first place. To sweeten the deal, it comes with freebies too (optical mouse, USB hub, headphone).

Generally, Inspiron Mini 10v is an average netbook, with quite sleek & sexy design. The round edge and curve in Inspiron Mini is gorgeous. It is not the thinnest or lightest netbook in the market, but it grips firmly on your hand. You’re not bound to agree with me about this

Performance wise, as I just use it for few hours, it is a little bit sluggish, and intermittent when I browse the internet (could be the connection). It is noticeable especially when I’m typing this post on Wordpress. Other apps seem to work just fine. But overall, it’s fair to say that I’m satisfied with what I pay for. If you’re curious how much it costs, it is RM1299 ( a week ago priced at RM1199).

Other main points on the netbook and Win 7.

• Weighs only 1.17, I can hold and twist it with 1 hand
• If you’re looking for fancy color netbooks, Inspiron Mini offers 6 colors
• Keyboard size is 92% the size of a full size notebook keyboard, quite comfortable
• 6 cells battery that can last about 5-6 hours
• Win 7 Starter pack does not allow you to extend the view to more than 1 monitor.
• Feel a little bit slow, and lagging when many apps open simultaneously
• The touchpad is quite small compared with my huge palm.

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While that could be seen as the sign that Blackberry popularity grows in this part of the world, other South East Asian countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and Philippine are still without the access to that apps inventory. That’s pretty much disappointing news, especially to the new comers who just come aboard from other smartphone platform that offers massive apps.

Mobile applications or knows more as apps, has become crucial part of smartphones in the recent years, and probably determine the success and longevity of any model in the market. It’s add more values to the smartphone beyond it’s basic function, as communication tool.

Although RIM continue to roll out Blackberry App World to more countries, but the pace is unacceptable to increasingly demanding users. The growing threat from other smartphones should be looks seriously by RIM, in order not to be seen irrelevant. As such, please.. please open Blackberry App World to everyone.. now.

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U-Mobile making foray into the internet broadband market with numbers of of attractively crafted packages caters to not so heavy usage consumer. While the internet package for laptop started at RM20 has contender from the like of Celcom broadband prepaid, the packages for mobile phone is the most value for money package I have seen so far.

With as low as RM10 permonth for UB10 package (below), you get 100MB data at 384 kbps. While it looks little, but U-Mobile has cleverly illustrated what you could do with that amout of data. I reckon 100MB is suffice for my 2nd phone, iPhone (after BB Curve 8520 taking over that role beginning this month). The most expensive package is offered at RM68 per month, with ‘unlimited’ data that subjected to fair use policy which means, it is capped at 5GB per month.

Whereas the price is very competitive, but the biggest drawback here is, the U-Mobile network coverage is very very limited at the moment. Just look at the coverage section in the broadband page. Apart from Klang Valley, Ipoh, Seremban, Melaka and Endau Rompin National Park (really) and Johor Bharu are among the areas that has got the coverage at the moment.

In the very competitive market, it is race against the time for U-Mobile to grows its coverage in order to gain more customers. Can it match the pace that others players currently has? We’ll see in couple of months.

p/s : I can only wish that Celcom/Maxis has similar RM10 package per month.

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Here you’ll find the list of Twitter accounts belong to Malaysian telecommunications related companies and industries.  I have grouped all of them in Twitter list, which can be followed via my Twitter account or you can follow any of Twitter accounts below, by clicking on each link.

The list will be updated from time to time, as to make it relevant.  As of today, no Twitter account found from TM, Streamyx, Amax and Redtone Broadband.

Umobile

http://twitter.com/umobile018/

Celcom

http://twitter.com/MyXpaX

http://twitter.com/BlueCubeCelcom

http://twitter.com/celcom_malaysia

http://twitter.com/xpaxsays

Maxis

http://twitter.com/maxiscomms

http://twitter.com/maxisbroadband

http://twitter.com/maxis_iphone

http://twitter.com/HotlinkYC

Digi

http://twitter.com/DiGi_Telco

http://twitter.com/digibroadband

http://twitter.com/digi3g

P1 Wimax

http://twitter.com/p1w1max

http://twitter.com/P1Media

http://twitter.com/MichaelLaiP1

TuneTalk

http://twitter.com/tunetalk/

Blogs related to Malaysian telecommunication industries

Scamboy of  Telco Talk

TM, Streamyx, Amax, Redtone Broadband,

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It is quite surprising when there is no Windows 7 pricing listed on Microsoft Malaysia website, when they’re running full-force Windows 7 roadshow in Malaysia at the same time. In internet age era, wouldn’t  that be easier for users who wish to upgrade for Windows 7 to check the price online, rather than calling Windows reseller?

Probably that is marketing decision that I don’t understand.. Well.. but that made your brain work slightly harder to figure that out..by googling.. yep. This is what I found on the net.. not from Microsoft Malaysia… If you notice Windows 7 OEM price is cheaper, but what I understand is, OEM comes with hardware, and cannot be use with other machines? I’m not sure, so before you decide to purchase it, make sure that it can be used legally.

Via Amanz (price from Windows 7 launch at Lowyat Plaza)

• Windows 7 Home Premium – RM525.00
• Windows 7 Professional – RM855.00
• Windows 7 Ultimate RM903.00

From traders at Mudah.my

Microsoft Windows 7 Starter OEM -RM 149
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium OEM - RM 369
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate OEM - RM 649
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional OEM - RM 478

Price at Tech Hypermart

Microsoft Windows 7 Starter OEM -RM148
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Basic - RM278
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium OEM - RM365
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional OEM - RM 480
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate OEM - RM648

From traders at Lelong

Microsoft Windows 7 Starter OEM -RM148 - RM 149
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium OEM - 365 - RM 369
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional OEM - RM 478 - 480
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate OEM - RM648 - RM 649

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3 years old TV is still quite new in my standard. When I was kid, we watch the TV that my father bought 7-8 years back. I’m not sure if you know SINGER branded TV, where the TV’s body made from wood, and comes with the ’sliding’ door (I can’t figure the exact name to call it), where you can fully close it.It has 4 ‘leg’ so you don’t need any TV rack to put the TV higher from your kid reach.

Well, what happen actually is,  that TV works just fine.  Not until our Luqman learn how to climb a top the TV set, smash his ‘vehicle‘ to the TV and know where the on/off button and how to use it. All these skills contribute to an end of the pity Samsung TV. He seems unhappy after we took away the old TV, because he knows where all the hidden buttons are, whereas he need some time to figure out where the buttons are hiding on the new TV.

We bought this TV from Seng Heng, which currently run promotion and contest to mark its 20th anniversary. We end up with Philips LCD TV, mainly because of it’s price and specification which is good enough for our needs. It has Video Input Output, 2 x HDMI, VGA, PC Input, USB and many others. You can read the full spec here.

It’s just an average LCD TV, but we’re quite satisfied with our catch. So good bye blueish Samsung..

At the mean time, enjoy the photos of the TV which still wrapped in it’s thin plastic cover.

The box

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It is everyone’s dream to have big earning from Adsense. That’s when integrating Google Analytics into our Adsense comes to the picture, providing more statistical data about your Adsense income, to help you achieve that goal.

Google Analytics can only track Adsense for Content data, meaning that,  Adsense for Feeds, Adsense for Search, and Adsense for Domain  is not traceable. But that’s more than enough when Adsense for Content represents most of your Adsense earning.

What will you discover about your Adsense from Google Analytics?

Top Adsense Contents

This is the most important of all, you wanna know which contents generates income the most, right? Pretty straight forward, having identified these highly income contents, you can

• Optimize that post (on-site optimization).

• Identify the topic with most income based on the top content, and focus on that in your future posts.

To go into details, click on one of the content links . Clicks, revenue, CTR , eCPM and etc is what you really want to know about.

Filter the Contents

Back to the ‘Top Adsense Topic’ screen, use ‘Filter’ function (at the bottom of the screen) to analyze how certain keyphrases perform in your ads.  Keep in mind that filter looks for the content’s title only, not the whole content.

Filter is extremely a useful function, because it allows you to group posts with certain keyphrases together,  and how much it has generated income so far. This is one way to identify the topics that bring you earnings the most, besides the Top Adsense Content list. On the sample below,  I filter key-phrase ‘Celcom’ which generate $15.16.

Top Adsense Referrers

Besides knowing the top contents, knowing where it comes from is equally important. Although Google is dominant in internet world, you’ll be surprised on how other websites contribute significantly to the number of visitors that click ads on your websites.

This is more towards off site optimization. By identifying the websites that bring the visitors that click your ads, you can concentrate to that website, looking what visitors from there looking at your website. If it is search engines, optimize the SEO. If it is a forum, make sure you become an active member over there. These are just few examples that you can do if you know where they come from.

Back to the stats, by default, it will show you the ‘Adsense Revenue’ graph,  but if you click on the small arrow beside it, there are more graph options to choose, such as Adsense Ads Clicked and etc.  If you have Goal setup, it will be visible here as well.

Clicking on referral link will show you further details about it. In this example, I would like to know how Google Image Search (imgres) brings revenue to this website.

Adsense Trending -

This part lets you view the trend of Adsense in a variety of view. Adsense revenue is the default option, but you can choose other trends by clicking on the small arrow beside ‘Adsense Revenue’ button.

The view of Adsense Revenue per 1000 visits

The only thing that Google Analytics isn’t willing to reveal to us is, what keywords that bring them to your content that leads to the click. That is the biggest secret that Google won’t reveal so that their Adsense and Adworks ecosystem will run well.

Integrating Google Analytics with Adsense lets you discover a lof of things from your Adsense, towards achieving greater result from your Adsense Ads. I myself, really appreciate information that I gain from Google Analytic.

Head to this post to learn how to integrate your Adsense with Google Analytics.

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Maxis has sweetened their Blackberry Curve with prepaid package after being out-shined by Celcom which ofer better deal. Well, not long, because Maxis strike back now.

From 6 November until 31 December, you can get Blackberry Curve 8520 at RM488, but you must subscribe to Maxis BIS premium at RM98 for 6 month. In total, you only pay RM1076, and you have full BIS service for 6 months. I’m not sure what happens after 6 months, and if you’re free from any contract with Maxis.

What do you think? Good deal huh?  Head to promotion page to know more.

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Blackberry Media Sync as this function called, will sync the music kept in iTunes and Windows Media Player. I’m not sure if music stored in Zune can sync with Windows Media Player and subsequently sync with Blackberry devices, but iTunes work just fine.

From the Blackberry Desktop Manager’s main menu, click on the ‘Media’ menu, which bring you to media screen. Under ‘Blackberry Media Sync’ section, click the ‘Launch’ button. If this is the first time you using it, it will prompt you to install this application. Wait until installation to complete, before relaunch it.

Another small windows will appear on the screen, which shows the current state of your devices, such as your disk space, as well as what type of file you want to sync. Click ‘Option’ menu to view other options available. Click on ’sync’ button if to start the sync process.

Option menu let you choose which music library you want to sync, how much memory you want to keep and etc. Click on OK to return to the sync screen to start sync.

For those that need their music to sync across multiple devices, obviously Blackberry Device Desktop is what you need.

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• A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages.
• Various user interface refinements and bug fixes
• New Comments interface, with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment list
• Passwords are now stored in the keychain
• Posts are now automatically saved and restored if network connection is lost during publishing
• Added persistence, so the app re-opens in the blog you last used
• Added an interface for manually entering the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups
• Fixed rotation-related visual glitches
• Fixed errors where malformed XML prevented access to XMLRPC endpoint
• Fixed edge case where local drafts were sometimes not saved
• Fixed the order of photos so that they’re displayed in the order they’re uploaded

My experience using Wordpress in iPhone is limited due to my preference of larger screen when I’m writing something complex. Managing comments is the most frequently used function, it’s handy because I can manage comments whenever I want and it saved my times a lot when I’m in front of computer.

To me, Wordpress in iPhone is undoubtedly a great application, but it suit most for photoblog or personal blog, that require less writing and research. Not to forget the person on the go, that have litle time to put their thought into the piece of post called internet.

Wordpress 2 front screen

Comment section.

Posts section

Page sections

Write new post.

To view other screen shot, head to Flickr

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While we left the rest of the 2010 budget for experts to discuss, it bring some good news related to internet broadband that left the consumers nothing but to cheers with it! Let’s take a look at them.

- Tax relief for broadband subscription of up to RM500 from 2010 to 2012. Simply the cream of the day. It will surely bring the new users in, and existing wired internet broadband users might spending for wireless internet broadband as the second option.

- Netbook with free broadband package for local universities student for 2 years period with payment as low as RM50 per month starting Jan 2010. Oh my… this is just what every students nowadays really wants. Notebook/netbook with internet connection so that they can hang on to the internet 24 hours a days..

- RM5,000 computer loan for civil servant once in 3 years. Not something really new, because even before this, this scheme already in place but it is limited  once in 5 years. I wonder how many civil servants really use this loan to fully buy a new computer? With RM5,000, you can get really high end machines, such as Macbook Pro or Dell Adamo.

To give you an idea what the current state of Malaysia’s internet broadband is, the penetration rate stood at just 28% . We’re behind the likes of Singapore and South Korea who has penetration rate of 88% and 97% respectively.

Back to year 1999 when we just have our first internet broadband network (Streamyx), we’re on par with South Korea and slightly better than Singapore. But since then, there are very little improvements (or stagnant) in term of speed and service over the years, and it is not surpriseing to see how far us now behind these countries.

But thanks to the competition and the entrance of the new players, 3G and WiMAX technology, the price has gone down slightly now. We have more options nowadays as compared 2-3 years back. The bandwidth is greater as well. Don’t you feel lucky now?

The timely incentive announced by government should boost the broadband usage to the new level. As such, new infrastructures are required to cater the additional users.  This is crucial because without the enhanced services, we’re nowhere to reach the target expected from this incentive.

One of the good news is, the High Speed BroadBand (HSBB) project is ready to be launched by the first quarter of 2010,  and available at Tun Dr. Ismail, Bangsar, Subang Jaya dan Shah Alam.

I’m expecting  internet service providers (ISP) such as Streamyx and Jaring, telcos such as Celcom, Maxis, Digi and Wimax providers such as P1 will tailor their offering to looks as attractive as they can in order to take advantage of this. Just my thought..

• More notebook/netbook/dekstop plus broadband package with installment plan available on the market.
• Aggressive marketing strategies from these companies to attract more customers. By now I believe more users will start flocking to them or have it in mind. Price war perhaps after this?

What say you?

p/s: The upcoming PC Fair will surely be crowded again with internet broadband agents.

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PC users tend to buy new machine to enjoy new operating system, because it’s cheaper to do so. OEM vendor like Acer bought the OS in bulk and then bundle it with their hardware. But how about if you’ve already owned many systems (notebook & desktop) left idle. Do you still prefer to get a new one, while the one in use still works fine?

So here is what upgrade meant for (Upgrade rarely practiced for PC). Before upgrading, Microsoft has prepared Windows 7 Compatibility Centre to check the software and hardware compatibility of your devices with Windows 7. Make sure you check this out.

There are 2 sections here. The first section allows you to check your software compatibility online. Type the software name that you have, and it will return the results on whether your software is compatible or not.

The second part is hardware compatibility check. First you have to download and install so called Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor agent into your machine. This Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor will scan through your computers (with all other devices connected as well) and recommend if your computer is upgradeable and which Windows 7 version suits best.

It will also provide compatibility report to other devices connected, as well as utility program that your devices used.

If you find your computer upgradeable, it is time to shop for Windows 7. Look out for a good deal, whether it is wiser to buy the OS itself, or shop for more powerful PC with Windows 7 installed. Check out Windows 7 requirement carefully before you make any decision. Finally, enjoy your new OS!

Yay, lucky me,my 3 years old Acer run on Windows Vista is upgradable. Lets move on to older HP notebook run on Windows XP.

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Not all smartphone capable of displaying such interface within their web browser. For other smart phone, Wordpress still provide mobile friendly looks to the Wordpress.com blog as well, using Wordpress Mobile Edition plugin. Although it still have better readability, but its looks less beauty than what WPTouch can do.

Apart from beauty and better readability (font is big, hiding original theme) its load faster in mobile browser as well.

Wordpress hosted blog who wish to have similar looks like their peer in Wordpress.com, cab grab the plugin and activate it. Just make sure you aware that,unlike Wordpress.com blog,  if your blog viewed on non iPhone or Android smartphone, normal view will be showed instead.

Enjoy the screen shot taken from this blog on iPhone.

p/s: for those who don’t know, Wordpress.com is free blog hosted by Wordpress.com using Wordpress as the CMS as well

Home view -top

Home view - bottom

Single post view

Comment Section

Drop down menu beside the header

Click the small arrow beside the title to expand the post

Option to switch to normal view

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You might have seen some warning ‘this site may harm you‘  such as this one on the search result page, when you performing search in search engines. When you click the link with harmful message, another warning will be displayed, details the possible treat to your computer. Visitors absolutely stay away from this kind of websites, resulting decrease in visitors and earning.

As a webmaster, this is nightmare. Even worst if the webmaster not even aware that their website is infected by harmful malware.

When Google Webmaster came with it’s own lab feature, one of the first lab feature introduced is Malware Details. Malware Details will tell you which pages are infected with malware in detail including type of treat and the URL, or if it is clean from any treat, you’ll get the result as mine above.

The easiest way to know if your websites are effected or not, is by performing search using your website name as the key phrase by your own, but I doubt many of you do that often, including me.

I found this tool very handy because I logged more often to the Google Webmaster Central monitoring my websites rather than perform search on the search engines.  You’ll get to know any issue happen to your websites, before being informed by someone else, or when you already start losing money.

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Apple on Tuesday announce an update on the entry level Macbook. The biggest improvement is on the physical look, now with unibody enclosure, similar with what can be found on the aluminum Macbook Pro. The update also incorporate LED-backlit display, Glass Multi-Touch trackpad and the new battery which lasted about  7 hours.

The price dropped to RM3599, from RM3699 on the previous model, an RM100 difference, quite steep discount considered that it is now equipped with better spec. The standard configuration comes with 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB DDR3 memory and 250GB hard drive (improvement from 160 GB on previous model).

It comes preloaded with Apple’s latest OS, Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

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As most iPhone users already know, by holding the ‘home’ button followed by ‘Power/Sleep’ button in iPhone,  the screen shot of the current screen will be captured and saved it into the Photos menu. From there, there are few options to transfer the file including email.

CaptureIT work exactly the same way. But it is one step better in the sense that the beside email, photos can be send to Facebook, Twitter and Flickr directly, provided that those application installed prior that .

Talk to why certain screen capture apps is failed to impress is, it require extra work to get it work. And then you have to connect your Blackberry device to computer in order to copy it somewhere else, which is way to old in the year 2009.

So Blackberry users, read the steps by steps guide if you still looking for screen capture tool for your hand held device. You’ll like it.

Same screen shot samples taken on BB Curve 8520.

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image via

Meet the new Android based smartphone from Motorola, Motorola Droid. The phone which is an instant hit news among tech blogs, is collaboration between Motorola , Verizon Wireless and Google that run the operating system (OS) of phone via Android 2.0. Yeah, you read it right, this is the first smartphone run Android 2.0.

Physically, the design itself is taking cue from the most popular smartphone on the market right now (almost all smartphones does) . It got extra huge screen, touch screen, high resolution screen but Droid is equipped with QWERTY keypad which can be slide in and out beneath the phone.

Certain quarter arguing, that this is the what the other smartphones are missing, and it seems that I’m quite agree with that, personally.

Heads on to BGR for hands on review and more photos. Its look awesome at the glance. But until this smartphone hit the street, I’m not dare to say this phone gonna be killed other smartphone in the market. It tend to fail in the past.. often.

via

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It is free application that you can use to view and manipulating files inside iPhone. Imagine that, it is like Windows Explorer, but for iPhone. You can drag and drop the files from and into your iPhone, backup , manage and restore files in your iPhone as well as preview the file. More detail about each feature can be viewed here.

iPhoneBrowser’s user interface is typical to any file browser. The tree structure is placed on the left side, and the content on the right side of the app. Notice the status of iPhone, eg: ‘Iphone is connected and Jailbreak‘  at the bottom left of the screen? Yeah, that indicate if iPhone is connected properly and the current status.

The simplicity does not overshadow the usefulness of this app. A must have application for  iPhone user who interested to get to know inside their device.

p/s :  If you’re looking for more advanced application, a friend of mine recommend DiskAid. It is free for the first 14days, but you have to pay $9.99 to use it further.

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My first post to spread awareness about printing habit is an instant hit. It become of one of the top post in this blog. The ‘Please Consider the environment before printing this email’ campaign is campaign to remind people not to print unless it is absolute necessary to do that.  The campaign itself has spread to the whole world, and it can be seen on email more often that before.

If you still unsure how to setup that signature, head to ThinkBeforePrint.org. They have dedicated web page with an easy and better way to have that signature in your email or web page on their .  Check out their guide and together we make our world a greener place to live forever.

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So finally after months of rumors and speculation, Blackberry Storm 2 officially unveiled by RIM. This is the first official video by RIM to show what Storm 2 has to offer. Pstt.. it has WIFI.

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Forgive me for the bad quality video, taken from iPhone 2G.

Performance may vary depend on various factors such as location, coverage, type of website you’re loading and etc. On both test, I’m keep the default setup without any tweaking.

In the first video, I use Techmeme.com as the sample, simply because it is one of the website that I visit frequently before.

It took 23 seconds before you can start seeing the web page to load and it is completely loaded in 42 seconds. For comparison, using my notebook run on Wifi (streamyx), Techmeme.com loaded in less than 9 seconds.

Move on to the second video, I choose Google.com as the sample which also the default search engine in the browser. This test to shown how fast Google return the result upon query.

Google has massive resources that powers its search engine from behind, and you can expect the page to load faster than the previous video.

Using ‘Blackberry’ as the search term, the page completely loaded in 17 seconds.

What I’m trying to show in this testing is, different websites with different resources,  will return different outcome. Other factors such as the existence of multimedia such as Flash, Silverlight should be factored as well.

So what do you think about Celcom EDGE network? Fast? Slow?

I’m pretty much satisfied with the speed, although sometime I wish that it could go faster, but the lack of 3G support dampen the hope. Anybody else has run similar testing? Mind share your experience?

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Don’t forget Bob - Once you pick some email recipients, Gmail suggests more people you might want to include based on the groups of people you email most often. - Unlike Outlook where we can create distribution list to include the list of email address, Gmail does not have that feature. You tend to memorize the email address, or list down it somewhere else. This is where this lab came in handy, it will remind you to include the list of people that met condition described above, in case you missed them.

Got the wrong Bob? - Doh, have you ever addressed an email too quickly, and included Bob (your boss) instead of Bob (your friend) by accident? If you’re emailing more than two people at once, Gmail will check if you meant to include Bob Smith rather than Bob Jones based on the groups of people you email most often. - I bet you have experienced this before,  I just wish Outlook to have this feature as well!

Both Gmail lab plugin has to be enabled before it can be used. From within GMail, go to Setting >> Lab and looks for the plugin name above.

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Till then, check out the new pricing below.

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Being dominant in online advertising, Google is open for anyone to advertise their own service

On the other side, Yahoo is taking the bold move to have this advertisement, considering that, Gmail users are most likely use Yahoo Mail or Hotmail, including myself before. Yahoo Mail has received numerous enhancement over the year, including introducing AJAX based interface, open application and become even more social-like website, with hope to gain back the market share it is losing so far.

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I’m among the first few users who bought the Blackberry Curve 8520 that day, after weeks of long wait. The fact that the phone is priced at RM888 (although they were ‘forcing’ us to buy RM50 top up) made the decision easier. With Celcom, you’re not bound to any contract to enjoy full Blackberry services such as BIS and internet from RM2.50 perday.

Before that, this is not a phone review (although couple of friends ask me to do so), merely the due ‘unboxing’ post supposed to be posted over the weekend. But Eid Mubarak Open House had delayed that till today.

So here is the first image, the whole packaging with blue color plastic bag.  Hard paper bag will give more exclusive looks for the phone, but yeah, this is budget Blackberry.

The Blackberry Curve 8520 in a black color box. Finally I own one… honestly Iphone packaging is superior than this one..

I was too excited and forgot to shot the very first moment, when the box is opened, and reveal the plastic wrapped phone. Anyway, the phone is a beauty even at the first glance.

Nothing special with the accessories, you got charger, USB cable and earphone. The black leather holster is free for those who purchased the phone during that event. Another freebies, the ‘exclusive’ phone skin is going to be posted later. There are bunches of guides as well as a CD inside as well.

Other Blackberry Curve 8520 photos, shot from a different angle.

Front view

Left side view

Top view

Right side.

Back side view

I include this image to show how to setup your Blackberry browser to enjoy Blackberry internet service, because some first time users, including me had experienced the credit dried out immediately such as at this post.

Overall, physically Blackberry Curve 8520 is a one beauty smart phone with slightly cheap built. But it was compensated with awesome Blackberry service. What would you expect from Celcom’s EDGE connection and does it fast enough and sufficient to get you online?? Stay tune.

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I’m surprised that Bing Webmaster Centre is not fully functional after much hype surrounding Bing recently. What’s in the mind of MS team that develop Bing Webmaster Centre?

The screen shot above is my account, where Blogjer.com has been listed since ‘LIVE’ era. It was migrated here when Bing introduced, although I notice some websites went missing. No idea why.

But to my disappointment, an attempt to add new website failed with message ‘We could not find the page you requested‘. That’s odd if Bing team does not realize that something is broken somewhere under their custody .

Webmaster tool is crucial for webmaster who want to have their websites indexed and ranked better in Bing.  Why? Because webmaster can tell Bing what should you looking at my website, and what shouldn’t. Or how and where should you find decent content in your website.

The webmaster who ranked well and earn big as the result of having decent ranking there, will naturally praise bing. As the result of word of mouth publicity, it will bring more webmasters to Bing to explore what potential Bing has for them.

But apparently, Microsoft does not really paying attention to their own tool. Before I decide to post this article, I’ve been waiting for a week, with hope that Microsoft will fix it. The wait is over.

With Microsoft, nothing is impossible.

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