Posts tagged iPhone
Top iPhone Apps for Malaysians
Sep 4th
I’ve been using iPhone 3GS for less than 1 year and from time to time, i’ll access the appstore for new apps to download and i actually noticed that there have been more and more applications created for Malaysians to use on iPhone since end of last year.
Here are most, but not all of the applications that is relevant to Malaysians.
#1 Trapster Free
Description :
Trapster(R) is a FREE app that alerts you as you approach speed traps, red light and speed cameras, police check points, accidents, and other roadway hazards. Join World’s largest driver’s social network today! Drivers helping drivers, more than 7 million users strong!
#2 Malaysia Crime – Free
Description :
Malaysia Crime chronicles the things happening around your vicinity so that you can be aware and take necessary precautions for your personal safety.
* Read latest news reports of crimes
* See the reports closest to you
* Browse news reports on a map
* Auto-update gets you the latest reports
All news items are user generated content at http://malaysiacrime.com
“Fight crime with information.”
#3 1 Malaysia Hotlines Free
Description :
About 1Malaysia Hotline
1Malaysia Hotline is an iPhone application that provides Yellow Pages listings and useful numbers nationwide such as contact for the emergency line, the helpline, telcos, utility, government, hospitals, local authorities, police, tourism, airlines and more.
The app allows iPhone users to search and call the hotline numbers quickly via a mobile phone.
The app also links to Internet Yellow Pages website which enables iPhone users to search online business listings while on the go.
#4 CineApps Malaysia Free
Description :
CineApps is the Ranked #1 most anticipated movie application in Malaysia for the iPhone and iPod Touch users to get the local cinema showtimes, check on “Now Showing” and “Coming Soon” movies, watch movie trailers, and many more. It is a MUST HAVE application for movie fans. With our easy to navigate User Interface, watching movies has never been easier.
#5 JobStreet Free
Description :
The JobStreet iPhone application allows you to find jobs easily from JobStreet.com.
JobStreet.com is the leading job site in Southeast Asia, with operations across Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, India and Japan. Over 60 thousand employers use JobStreet.com to find employees, and over 6 million jobseekers find employment through JobStreet.com.
#6 Cab Meter – Kuala Lumpur Taxis $0.99
Description :
Take the guesswork out of cab fares with Cab Meter -Kuala Lumpur now!
#7 Kuala Lumpur Train Guide $0.99
Description :
An interactive guide to the Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) rail transit system. Works offline. Includes a rail transit network map, list of train lines with useful information such as operating hours, list of train stations and a route planner.
Train station page contains information on nearby attractions and station location is marked on Google Map. For users who are not familiar with the train stations, the “nearby” button locates the user and lists the three nearest stations to the user.
Route planner will calculate shortest paths from origin to destination and present multiple route options together with the train fare cost. Route plan is presented in two forms: a table and a graphical representation.
#8 Malaysia Flight $1.99
Description :
Malaysia Flight is the real simplest domestic flight search engine you can get and compare results from all Malaysia airlines.
By simply select the destination and date you wish to travel at once, all available flights will be simply shown in 3 categories; by take off time, by airlines or by price, to convenient your comparison.
Choose the right flight you need. Save your cost.
Simplify your life!
#9 TomTom Malaysia & Singapore $59.99
Description :
Get the TomTom navigation app and have smart, easy-to-use, turn-by-turn navigation on your iPhone or iPod touch, whenever and wherever you need it.
And, now, never miss a turn. The new TomTom app guides you even while you’re on a call or running a different app on your iPhone.
Seriously, if you’re a new iPhone user, i recommend that you just download the first 5 apps because it’s free, the 4 other apps are useful but only applies to certain people.
Eg : If you own a car and do not rely on public transport then the train and cab apps is useless for you.
Anyways, there’re more apps listed below where all of it are free at the moment, so feel free to download them.
News App
The Star
Malaysia Kini
SinChew-i 星洲日报
KwongWah 光华日报
Radio Station
FM988
MyFM
XFM
Hitz.fm
Hot.FM
Era.FM
Red.FM
Mix.FM
Lite.FM
THR Raaga
Shopping Malls
One Utama
Mid Valley Megamall
Sunway Pyramid
KLCC
Pavilion
Ikano
Tropicana City
Banking
Citibank MY
M2U Map-Maybank ATM and Bank Branch Locator
Travels
Malaysia Airlines MHMobile
MH Deals
Kuala Lumpur Sights
One thing i find it funny is there’re some really random apps like MahSing Group and the ones below :
Very random but i believe that there’ll be people who’re interested in them then Lol!
Personally, i only find CineApps and Trapster useful for me as i use them pretty often to check for movie times & venues as well as Roadblocks and Live Police for trapster. I’ve downloaded the other apps but i rarely use them.
Do share with me if you have any other apps in mind that you think is relevant for Malaysians, perhaps the more useful ones.
Till then, i hope you could benefit from the apps above. =D
Apple iPhone 4
Jun 8th
If you did go through the live updates from WWDC during the midnight(provided you’re from Malaysia/countries around Msia) and still not wanting to get your hands on this sweet gadget, YOU…… iz teh awesomest!!
It was quite a shock with so much more detailed information being announced on this device.
Now i just feel like going back time acting like a spoilt kid crying and jumping around shouting “I WANT THIS I WANT THIS I WANT THIS x Infinity Time”.
Crazy shit!
Pictures of iPhone 4th Generation in White leaked on tw.apple.pro in TAIWAN
May 24th
Just days ago, these pictures above was circulated over the internet and it’s actually the conceptual images of the much drama-surround iPhone 4th Generation. Pretty impressive but it’s just concept images of the phone that was created base on the so called “leaked/stolen” iPhone which created quite a buzz worldwide.
Then, i believe that in less than 48 hours ago, these images below was released/”leaked” on this website – http://tw.apple.pro/
To be specific, it was posted by this guy with the name Anthony on the site tw.apple.pro – Click here for Anthony’s post
*anyone have any idea on who is him?
Here are some images posted there which i’m reposting it here.
Apparently he’s got the spare parts as well…
So far there’s no reliable source to verify that the images above are indeed related to the iPhone 4th Generation that is most likely to be announced in June this year.
Engadget and Gizmodo have reported about this at the moment.
I think i kind of like the of iPhone 4th Generation already. That’s if both the picture with WWW.APPLE.PRO labelled in the middle is indeed showing the real deal!
*A fast check on tw.apple.pro domain leads to quite a lot of details where the site was created in 2005 by a guy name Anthony Tsai. Hmmm.
WAIT! Is this image from Hong Kong or Taiwan?
新浪微博 Sina Twitter-like Microblogging Platform – WeiBo
May 24th
Sometimes, it’s not a bad move getting people’s idea and starting off from there building something similar with extra features added on.
Twitter have been an international phenomenon in recent years with 75 Million users users in early 2010.
then, a few Twitter-like service have emerged from China/Taiwan with everything translated to Chinese/Mandarin and before they could actually make it big, the great wall of China denied them straight leaving these services out of reach for the massive internet users from China.
In August 2009, China’s web portal giant Sina.com 新浪 launched a beta version of microblogging service that is similar to Twitter – Weibo 新浪微博. As of early 2010, Sina’s CEO have revealed that there are already 5 Million registered users in total using the service.
Looking at the growth of the service with more users registering each day, Weibo is on its way to to bring Social Media to the next level in China. With China’s population growing thus increasing the numbers of internet users at a rapid rate each day, i wonder how big will Weibo become.
Famous Individuals on Weibo
Celebrities on Weibo
Just like Twitter, the massive amounts of signups by famous celebrities/individuals on Weibo did quite the magic in getting the numbers up, but as long as China is standing firm along with “THE GREAT (FIRE)WALL OF CHINA”, there’ll be limited expanding space for Weibo 新浪微博.
Twitter VS Weibo : the most followed users
Media on Weibo
Personally, i prefer following Chinese Celebrities more than the Western ones, so i do hope that Weibo 微博 will make it big in the next few years, but of course, i’ll still be active on Twitter as that’s where all my friends are.
Anyhow, 关注我吧!
Here’s a very up-to-date list of all the Web 2.0 and social-networking sites that are not accessible in China:
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Posterous blogs
Blogger blogs (a.k.a. Google’s Blogspot service)
WordPress free blogs
Typepad blogs
LiveJournal blogs
Opera blogs
Tumblr
LiveLeak
DailyMotion
ImageShack
Google’s Picasa Web Albums (login accessible, but borked thereafter, and photos inaccessible)
Google Image search results (very frequent reset connections)
Orkut
Bebo
Check out the links below if you’re want to find out more about Weibo 微博
Related Links :
Twitter now has 75M users
新浪CEO曹国伟首次透露微博用户达500万人
Sina’s Twitter-esque microblogging site: A closer look
7 things Sina Microblog (Weibo) has that Twitter doesn’t
Read more about Sina Microblogging Service Weibo 新浪微博 Here
Other Twitter-like Microblogging platforms
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叽歪 Jiwai
做啥 Zuosa
滔滔 Taotao
嘀咕 Digu
iPhone Apps
新浪微博 Sina Weibo for iPhone
做啥 Zuosa for iPhone
iPhone 4th Gen Drama
Apr 23rd
Seriously, i wonder how many people actually go and Google and hunt for the news about this latest drama that a dude ACCIDENTALLY dropped the OMG iPhone 4G that is yet to be release where a BIG website actually got hold of it by paying loads of money to some random dude resulting in a hell lot of free advertising for a product that is not even out in the market yet.
Yah, free advertising that would cost millions and even trillions monetary wise with TV broadcasting about it, newspapers writing about it, millions of blogs posting about it and etc.
Oh and its reported WORLDWIDE.
*picture stolen from 9GAG
If there’s indeed a Marketing team behind this whole drama then hey they are really one helluva team. Wonder if they were paid as much Malaysia is paying APCO. Hmm.
