I signed up for Maxis Mobile Internet 500MB data plan for RM58 per month, but after a month of usage, I can hardly reach the 500MB limit usage. I turned on push email, push Twitter via Tweets60, sent a lot of picture email to awayfromcomputer.com, chat on Nimbuzz and surf the net, but the total usage was only around 240MB.

So guess, I’ll do YouTube surfing too to fully utilize my data plan. =D

DiGi offers a RM48 unlimited data plan which I think is better than other because it’s unlimited, somehow cheapest of all. Too bad, I am a Maxis postpaid user, I can’t change to DiGi, it’s a company line.

If you are running on a slow computer, with only a GB ram or less and you don’t want to to install desktop Twitter client because it will chunk up your computer memory usage, web Twitter client is best for your, all running just in your favourite browser, Firefox, Chrome, Safari or whatever.

Brizzly is a new web Twitter client, it features real time update, multiple account, Twitter serach, DM chatbox and more just like a desktop client. For sure it’s better than updating via twitter dot com. Unfortunately, it’s still new on the web and the registration is on invitation-based at the moment.

Since @icednyior invited me to Brizzly, I am thinking of giving out the invites too. I have 9 invites left, one given out to my friend. So, do follow me on Twitter (@nicholaschan) and drop your email address and your Twitter account at the comment area, then I’ll send out the invite to you guys. Happy Twittering!

The blocked Twitter, Facebook and other social networking site, then the Chinese themselves release clones of these site. One of which is Renren (formerlly Xiaonei) which is a Facebook-clone using the old Facebook theme.

The latest finding is Komoo, a Twitter-clone. It just look exactly the same as the Twitter interface that was two years back when it first launched.

Since I got nothing to do and I was so free, I went to sign up for an account at there, but for sure that I wouldn’t use it because Twitter is still the best for me.

You can follow me at Twitter @nicholaschan.

PPS.tv was doing fine, downloading from Megaupload was good, but then international site like Google, Yahoo, Gmail, Twitter, Plurk, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and even our local most popular tech forum Lowyat.NET too, were really very slow.

I found out that this problem was only happening to Penang’s Streamyx user only. I found a proxy site Vtunnel to access Lowyat to check the status of other user, other state was doing fine.

Besides that, other service provider like Celcom, Maxis, P1 were doing fine. Since I have a 500MB mobile data plan on Maxis, so I plug in to the computer and tested the connection, it’s true that Streamxy was shitty for the past two day.

If you own a MP3 device which transfer music via drag and drop from folder to folder or a mobile phone which uses the similar method, you can try out iTunes Agent which allow you to manage your music with iTunes.

You just need to drag and drop the music to the dedicated playlist in iTunes created by iTunes Agent then you press sync on iTunes Agent, the music will then be transfer to your device. In my own opinion, I prefer this method than using Nokia Music or the traditional drag and drop.

I can manage my music later when I am not connecting my device, it will then sync according to what’s in the playlist when I connect my device. Simple and easy.

Download iTunes Agent.

In case you don’t know, I tweet and send a lot of photos to my mobile blogging site, Away From Computer. You can check it out too.

Because that my line is under the SME business plan, it troubled me a bit for to subscription and activation, I have to write in and call them for the activation, it’s pretty troublesome, but afterall, it’s activated and I am on.

I ran some speed test today via mobilespeedtest.com.

The first result I got was pretty shocking and suprised. The speed was rocket high to 8.5mbps. That was freaking cool but I realized that I was running the test through Opera Mini and Opera Mini has some sort of proxy to minimize site loading.

I re-run the test with the normal Symbian browser and the speed was not so satisfying for a 3G connection. It’s supposed to be 3.5G, running on HSPDA, with speed up to 3.6mbps but I didn’t see it goes near to it.

How’s your mobile internet speed? By the way, ignore the ugly keypad of mine, I am a heavy text user.

Haven’t been to Queensbay Mall for quite a time and I went there last weekend, only then I know that the whole building is hooked up with free wifi hotstop, that’s a good thing for geek like me, but I didn’t get a chance to try it because I only saw this poster when I was going to the car.

Have anybody tried it yet?

Windows 7 is coming out soon or you have already using the leaked version or the Release Candidate? One of the changes in Windows 7 is the new startbar with Vista’s start orb and list of opened program thumbnail. I am not on Windows 7 but I’ve just found a way to have the start bar on my Vista.

It’s ViGlance by Lee-Soft. It grouped your programs of the same thumbnail into one and there’s live preview too. However, navigating around the thumbnail is a little bit slow and sometimes, you may miss some of your flashing IM conversation window like I do.

Easy to install too, download the program and run it. Then you got your Windows 7 startbar on your XP/Vista.

Download ViGlance and enjoy.

One of the thing that Apple announced in their Rock and Roll event last week in San Fransisco is the release update of iTunes 9. Well, it’s not very interesting to hear about software update at such event, I would like to see more on gadgets. =)

Since the Internet was so good lately, so downloading the new update just took a while for me. You can actually spot some different if you are on Windows. On my side, it’s faster than before on my machine, I’m not sure whether do you notice it or not, some told me that it’s still the same but it’s really faster on my side.

Home Sharing is a new thing which allow you to share your iTunes Music Store downloads with few computer of the same iTunes account. I don’t really use this because I don’t buy music or anything from iTunes Music Store.

iTunes Music Store redesigned, better looking now. I login just to look for podcast and application, I am still on the no-side for buying music online.

One thing I like is the Applications management for the iPod touch and iPhone. You can now pick which app to sync and which page to place your app. Good one.

There’s still some other update like Genius Mixes and I-don’t-know-what-else because I don’t really bother a lot about it, I only use it for music andsyncing my iPod. But iTunes is the best music software in the world, true.

Download iTunes 9.

I think 10 out of 10 among my friends never heard of the social blogging site, Tumblr, after launching my Tumblr site, AWAY FROM COMPUTER, introduced to them, they still can’t really remember the long URL of mine, so I bought a .com domain for it. Another reason is to make me look cool-er. Haha.

It’s Godaddy advertisement everywhere, most likely to see it in video podcast but I still decided to stick with my first domain registrar, Namecheap because of its fast and cheap service. My domains registrar are very spread out, some on Namecheap, some on Godaddy and there’s a few too on Mydomain. New domain on Namecheap is US$8.81 using the coupon for September 2009 (DREAMTIME).

It’s really fast, it took me less then 10 minutes to set everything up and running. Forgot to mention that another good about Namecheap is that it takes Paypal, but I believe a lot of domain registrar now takes Paypal as a form of payment.

Setting up the domain to work with Tumblr

Setting up is kinda easy afterall but I did google for how-to and here’s my how to. Just key in the Tumblr host address as above with record type set to A (Address). Click save.

Then you can test your domain with the Tumblr custom domain test page. As easy as one, two, three.

You can visit my Tumblr site @ www.awayfromcomputer.It’s a site where I share from my mobile device but not the PC.