Good morning 2008, the first day of 2008. How is everyone? What? Just woke up?? Haha, just kidding. As usual, I started my day reading local news paper and international news online. Not much hot news, except the new year celebration all over the world. 1 thing that caught my eye today is the new look of Utusan Online.

The looks
Definitely better than before. The front page shows more infos covering all news section. My favorite section, ‘Senyum Kambing’ is also available there.

Site Navigation
Almost the same like before (see the cache), but with some enhancement. There are also top navigation bar which provides non-content menu such as advertising and ‘contact us’.

Search box
This is a must have features for any website/blog. New Utusan Online has this new feature available on its top navigation bar

Ads placement,layout and size
300×250 ads size is among the best ads format (especially in Adsense). It is located at one of the ads hot spot, where most blogs/website nowadays using this location. There are also ads located at the header and both right and left sidebars. With the new layout, Utusan Online should be able to fully utilize its website thus maximizing their online ads revenue.

Google Adsense
Utusan Online should try Google adsense like The Star (another local newspaper). But I believe, since Adsense does not support Bahasa Malaysia yet, the contextual ads engine might not work well and the revenue would be less than private ads. But why not give it a try??

RSS
No RSS available. I prefer to have them even though it is partial feed so I can read them from my RSS reader

Overall it looks more ‘professional’ with better site navigation, layout and ideal ads placement. It is more like a portal now for me. The content, you judge it by yourself!!

Update 4-Jan-2007:
Few days after browsing new Utusan Online, I can feel the performance or load time is slightly slow than old the Utusan

Today is a holiday for most of us including me, but due to the nature of my job, which runs on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, I opt to go to work in order to get a triple pay. Hooray!!! I’m very sure not many people will get online so early today and I believe most of us are still in bed

I won’t let this blog without any post however. Today, I’ll provide some information on how to check streamyx service availability in your area. I had encountered this problem when I was trying to look for the streamyx service availability in one shop lot in my own hometown. I tried searching this piece of info from the net, but unfortunately, either their service is down at that particular time (including their hot line), or the URL is obsolete.

Btw, this information is the reply from their customer service. Hope this helps. You can check the Streamyx service availability, by registering your phone number :

1. Via Online Registration at
https://mips.tm.net.my/MIPSSelfcareWeb/Selfcare/SelfcareMain.jsp or you can directly visit the nearest TMpoint for further enquiries regarding the service.

2. At TMpoint outlets
You can search for the location of our TMpoint outlets at the website stated below: http://www.tm.com.my/customer/tmpoint/kl.htm

3. Via Streamyx SMS Service (7am to 8.20pm Daily)
SMS Charge:
- Customer will be charged RM0.30 for every successful reply response message
- The fee will be charged in the customer’s mobile phone number or deducted from the mobile phone credit balance

How to check:
a. Type the following SMS Keyword: STXAREAFIXED LINE NUMBER
b. Send the SMS to 33535
c. The received response message will be based on the result from the Multimedia Inventory and Provisioning System (MIPS).

4. Call 100 and select “Internet Services”.

5. You can email help[at]tm.net.my

6. Should you require further assistance or would like to submit any enquiry/feedback, kindly visit www.tm.net.my and click “Need Help? Contact our Customer Service”.

Blogger and internet entrepreneur like me really need Streamyx service to up 24 hours 7 days a week. Have you start your blog?

Enjoy and have a nice holiday!!

Its Saturday again, time to rest for most of us including me, so the post today is meant for fun only

I believe you have seen the button I’m Feeling Lucky before, but you’re not sure why it was there. Same to me, I’ve no idea about it and seldom using it. In fact, I can count how many times I’m using it; perhaps it was few years back when Google just started.

Recently Google post 1 article on it’s own Google Blog about this lucky button. You can read why it was there, but according to Amit of Digital Inspiration, this is perhaps the most expensive parts (or maybe waste) on Google homepage.

Recently also, I got to know how to use this function without having to browse to Google, key in the phrase that we desired and press the button. There is simpler way by using the URL below. Just replace ‘blogjer’ from URL below and you’re ready to feel lucky without browsing Google Homepage. I found the first method on email forwarded to me while the second one taken from Google blog, blog will direct you to this blog

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blogjer&btnI=I=Im+Feeling+Lucky

http://google.com/search?btnI=1&q=blogjer

My all time favorite internet messenger was finally integrated with Yahoo Mail Beta. After Google has embedded chat program inside it ever popular Gmail long time ago, Yahoo Mail has finally doing the same thing, even though it’s a little bit late, but that’s fine at least better late than never

No installation needed since it is run on web based version. The conversation window and email window are divided by tab and and you will be able to view who are currently online from the contact menu on your left pane.

I can say that I love this features since I don’t have to open Yahoo Messenger program. Even though the features are less than what was offered in Yahoo Messenger program, but after all what i need is to be able to chat with my friend with few click and of course with less my PC resources consumption (windows, RAM, CPU)