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The Secret Trip: #YES4G The Great Penang Food Hunt

By on March 12, 2011 in Events Coverage, Tech Review

Well, weeks ago, Daniel called me and check with me if im free this weekend, and i say YES!
And i got no further details what so ever. I think, cool, its a secret trip. From the day on, i keep bugging Daniel for more information, but… i didnt get it till today which we are attending the event @ Ritz Carlton.
Ya, its a YES4G trip, to Penang! How exciting!

Im now here at Ritz Carlton, and basically its an introduction to the YES4G all over again, before we go onto the trip. I believe i had see and hear everything 4 or 5 months ago.

What happened just now, Tan Sri Dato’ Francis Yeoh is talking about YES4G, how amazing the network is, how cheap it is, and he refer a lot about Steve Jobs presentations, he talked about the Steve Job iPhone 4 launch wifi fail, and yadayadayada, and YES4G is realizing Facetime in Malaysia…

The interesting one is about the YES4G Android Phone will be coming out in a few months (2 or 3 months, well, im sure i heard the same 4 or 5 months ago in a blog called joshuatly.com :P
Well, I just hope that the phone wont come out with Android 2.1 and never update the system… And Im pretty sure it wont have stock android. And i still dont get any information about who will make the phone, anyway, i hope it is good. But i have a feeling it will be a cheap one, and… i dont want to speculate more, hope will be able to drill more information later from them.

And the CEO of YTLComms Wing K Lee do a bit of demo and more talking, which we heard about before this…

And, they said, the android phone will have Facestime (copy from the apple facetime, but it is faces time… get it LOL)
Why faces time? Because they will have 4 parties video call, on the android phone and next version of YesLife. And… Yes Life is coming soon to Mac. Hey guys, where is my linux build? Me use ubuntu leh!!!

Then wow, they say how successful the launch was 108 days ago. (its like yesterday :P ) and not to forget their portal fail in the first few weeks…

More presentation like Penang coverage, (which we are going to experience), and Acer partnership, ePay to reload your YES4G account, and they have a special categories on the ePay site, and maybe they paid 100M for them to do that. Im just sayin… LOL

Then… Yes4G is so…. cheap…
Ya, i understand its mobile internet, and its quite appealing to me which i think im going to continue using the RM68 for their plan, which i will cover in the future post.

Erm, nothing much after than.

Oh, not forgot to mention, they gave me a Huddle! Wakakaka, and RM150 credit to play with along the trip. Must tell myself, dont donwload too much, RM150 can be used in like few hours if i download like i do using my 4mbps streamyx in my home.

I feeling “good” that my twitter account avatar is still the Yes logo parody, “meh” and i dont think i will plan to change it. Hope they will not kick me out of the trip if they see that. :P
My twitter page

Signing off, so cold in here… Oh, will try to put more picture in this post soon.

joshuatly2011

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Books & Audiobook: iWoz

By on March 11, 2011 in Tech Review

Hi there, it’s quite a while since my last post, sorry but im damn lazy to write a blog. You wont believe how many time i pull out my phone or sit in front of my computer, open my wordpress admin, and the post ended up in my draft section now…
Anyway, i will try to complete some of them if im free, and hopefully more post soon.

OK now into the “meat” of the post.
I cant actually remember the last time im holding a book, and read and read and read, and finish it within a short period. In fact, i cant really remember when is the last time i grabbed a book, and read it through 100++ pages of the book, and finish reading the book? Ah, i think its 6 years ago since the last time i finish reading a book.

iWoz
iWoz: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way

But believe it or not, i actually finish “reading” a book (288 pages book) in less than 2 days! When you see the is a “” thing around the reading, actually i mean i finish listen to the audiobook of iWoz in less than 36 hours! (The audiobook is around 9 hours long)
This is the first time i listen a book, i never did that before. Why iWoz? Well, I get know about this book from the TWiT podcast episode 219 when they are doing the audible ads, they talk about this book. I’m a fan of Steve Wozniak, i like his type of personality, and what he did.
Without waiting for long, I downloaded the audiobook of iWoz.
Why i choose audiobook instead of reading a pdf? Well, I know i wont finish the book if i read it on my computer/phone, (maybe I will if I have a kindle or iPad), and well, i figure out since i listen to podcast everyday, why don’t try listen to audiobook?
It work perfectly for me.
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Office & Google Docs: Google Cloud Connect Available For Public

By on February 25, 2011 in news, Tech Review
Google Cloud Connect

Google Cloud Connect

Google Cloud Connect – Plugin for your Microsoft Office

The beta is over, now everyone can download Google Cloud Connect.
If you dont know what Google Cloud Connect is, you bring the whole Google Docs (collaboration, store in cloud, backup etc) to your Microsoft Office!
Every documents you created in MS Office, it will sync onto the Google Docs cloud, share your documents with one link.
Work with your MS Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 :D

Video Introduction:

Download Link:

Download Google Cloud Connect now! (Unfortunately, Windows only. sorry MAC users)

joshuatly2011

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