Top 3 Prediction of Blogging industry Future

1. Part time blogger will over shadow full time celebrity

Main stream blogging community and alternative production house will eventually see their similarity and joint effort to create a new stream in entertainment industry.  This will further narrow the gap between online and offline content.  Popularity of nobody has become much more hotter than somebody.  Although nobody falls as quick as the rise, but the users and the advertisers do not really care ... as long as the volume is there and its entertaining.

2. Travel Blog will surge to new hike

3. Food Blog will deteriote by massive Advs.

2009 01 03 ... I just came up with a daring prediction.  KennySia blog will suffer from significant drop in readership but he soon recover it before end of the year !

Maxis Broadband Re-Review December 2008

This time I am testing Maxis Broadband again mainly because of the device that comes with it - B932.


  Size : 159 x 105 x 27 mm
  Weight : < 250g 
   HSDPA 3.6Mbps Download 384Kbps UL 
   UMTS 900/2100M 
   GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800

Maxis center itself doesn't have this device.  Only a handful agents grab ALL the devices before it was released to the market hence you may only get it from those agents.  Unfortunately I don't know who they are but you can always ask for it.

At first glance, I saw the power adapter is a USB compliant port. So I was thinking this device can be used anywhere with a power supply USB cable.  It would be bulky but rather cost effective.  However, when I finally got the right cable plugged in, it won't power up !  I would guess I may need to configure using 2 USB ports to power this device up but I didn't think its worth while for me to spend that much time and money.

These are the accessories comes in the box. One big missing thing is the antenna, however, the device functions ok without one. Which is also a plus point.


This is how the device look. Quite a lot of blinking colors at front makes it quite cool. This button at the corner is to on / off


The SIM slot is accessible without taking any part of the modem off. This makes it hot plug and play. However, upon testing with Digi broadband with the correct settings, this device still won't work with Digi Broadband.  So I assume this device has been locked for Maxis only.


At the end,

. It cann't power up without power adapter so its not portable ( not that they claim it is )
. I cann't use it with other broadband services so its not a long term device I should keep

With that, there is really no reason why I should keep this package.  Read previous post about limitation on wireless telco broadband service and I could have bought a much better device at lower price and less contractual commitment.

So I had to return this to Maxis again within 7 days.  The difference is this time the return went through quite smoothly.  They didn't give much hard time nor any nonsense excuses.  The staff even 'make up' the reason as 'drop connection' in the form without asking me what the problem was.

How to use Google Chrome as a better browser

Google Chrome has been released for some time now but for some reasons Google didn't really push too hard for it.  Quite a lot of 'gadgets' are still mostly built for Firefox and IE compatible.  Surprisingly, quite some are not even supporting Chrome yet.

However, Chrome is still the Best architected browser and it still load the fastest.

I came across an article describing how to make full use of Chrome, read full article here.

Basically you will need to download some additional softwares to back and restore profiles, modify your own shortcuts etc.  After reading that article, my impression is that Chrome is designed either for no brainer web browser who care about security and crash proof AND programmer or tech savy folks who like to explore to find out how to make things work.

If you are those in between, then you may still want to stick to other conventional browser.

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:) I know where u live ...

The transition between new and old generation ... its going to take a while to narrow down the gap ... or will it ever be ?

:) future of email

Not surprisingly, some people still find it hard to distinguish between sci-fi fictions and today's technology.

Did I watch it from a movie or Discovery channel ?

:) the affair btw IT and coffee

:) Help ! Help !

:) name, no password ?

how to deal with immature industry ?

I talked about IT industry is still very NEW in an old post.

New industry doesn't mean useless.  It just mean you have to be well educated when asking for services.  You will need to (1) know what you need, a broad idea of  (2) how it is suppose to be done and a clear (3) quantifiable way to measure the end result.

With that 3 things well prepared, IT will save tons of your cost or elevate your profit above your ceiling !