The long awaited MiTV is finally launched!! This is sort of a good news to local people as the subscribed TV service in Malaysia is no more monopolized by Astro now.

Before you decided to subscribe for it, please check the availability of the service by checking your postcode. This is because initially MiTV will be broadcasted in the Klang Valley only, and soon will have a full coverage across Malaysia in the next few quarters. You can now sign up the service directly over the phone or walk in to the nearest MiTV dealer, for more information go here.

The basic subscription fee is RM68/month, this will include all channels and interactive services available on MiTV. Meanwhile, all subscriptions activated by 31^st December 2005, will enjoy 4 months of FREE subscription.

However, One thing stopped me from thinking further is the expensive Set Top Box, which costs RM1,188.

I know some of the readers here are die hard Firefox fans. Is your Firefox not performing at its best? Moreover, since if you have missed out the golden opportunity to get Free download of Ad-Free Opera last week, you might as well stick with the always-free Mozilla Firefox.

Here is a thorough guide of tweaking Firefox from ExtremeTech showing you how to fine tune Firefox in order to perform in an efficient manner, such as boost up page rendering speed, fine tune Firefox to maximum limit, optimize memory and more.

• Hacking Simultaneous Connections
• Pipelining Hacking
• Other Hacks
• Optimizing Page Rendering
• Hacking Page Rendering
• Unblocking Error Dialogs
• Disabling Smooth Scrolling
• Bandwidth and Processor-Specific Optimizations
• Optimizing Disk and Memory Cache
• Viewing, Changing Size, and Cleaning Your Disk Cache
• Increasing Memory Cache Size
• Windows Memory Optimization Hack
• Venturing into Optimized Third-Party Builds
• Spring Cleaning
• Cleaning Up after Uninstalling or Upgrading

Enjoy tweaking everyone. :)

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Many of us must be very concern of the impact of Hurricane Katrina in the past few days. Now we can have a look of the outcome of the disaster through Google Earth. Google Earth is different to Google Maps, it is a desktop application which provides you similar functionality as Google Maps. It is FREE for personal use and no registration is required to download it. Please refer to the minimum PC configuration before you start installing it, because it is a broadband and 3D application.

In the past few days, Google has been providing some links to the latest snap shots of the impact of Hurricane Katrina from the satellites, those images (as shown on the right) are latest.
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Impact of Hurricane Katrina On Google Earth

Good news for iTunes users in the west, as there are at least three mobile phone operators around the globe are eager about offering its clients ability to acquire music in Apple’s iTunes online music store to their mobile phone. They are :-

• Cingular Wireless, from the US
• T-Mobile, from Germany
• O2, from the U.K.

Quoted:
T-Mobile of Germany, O2 from the U.K. as well as Cingular from the U.S. plan to announce a deal with Apple and allow its clients to use iTunes music store via special mobile phones from Motorola, Reuters news-agency reports. T-Mobile has reportedly officially announced the intention to enable iTunes in its networks by Christmas, 2005. Cingular and O2 declined to comment, it is claimed.

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iTunes Enabled Phone

Last week was a high-traffic week thanks to the Google Talk Themes I created. I created a total of 6 themes in 3 days, as well as showing you all the short tutorial of how to create your own Google Talk Themes. Basically, articles I have posted are as follows :-

Monday – Wednesday
Created Google Talk Themes in various colours, including the favourite Blue, Black, Red, Yellow, Pink and Purple. Feel free to download any theme you like. :) On Wednesday, I posted the link to the trailer of Doom, The Movie. It is a movie based on the story line of the famous computer game DOOM. Besides, last Wednesday Opera was celebrating its 10 year anniversary and was giving out FREE download of the full Ad-Free version of Opera 8.02. I’m sorry if you missed out the opportunity.

Thursday
Some possible products might be produced by Google have been speculated on last Thursday, including GoogleNet, Gbrowser, Google Office and GoogleOS.

Friday
Following the great news from Opera 2 days ago, another stunning news was Yahoo was offering new domain registration for USD$1.99/year only !! I’m sorry again, if you missed it as it already ended on September ^2nd, 2005. Besides, I did a compilation of all the Google Talk Themes and took a little effort to write down the tutorial as well. A guy created a Mac Mini Mod by combining a toy Millennium Falcon, Apple iSight and Apple Mac Mini.

Saturday
I shared a detailed and well written article comparing mobile processors, both Intel Pentium-M (Dothan) and AMD Turion64.

Sunday
I shared a Linux IQ Test provided by cNet, it’s not that hard, but I got only 7/10 correct. Then I posted an online search service, Tagomatic.com. It allows users to search similar entities of entertainment media, such as Musics, Bands, Movies, Books, and Web Sites using tags.

Sick of application forcing you to restart your PC after installing patches the operating system? I have a painful experience when the system automatically rebooted after installing Acrobat Reader’s patch, and I lost all my unsaved data.

Fortunately, the next Windows, Windows Vista, will have a new restart manager called “Freeze Dry“.

Perhaps in most instances, users won’t have to restart Windows Vista after installing the patches or updating an application even while the application is running. In fact, Windows Vista is doing a workaround trick by replacing the patched file and wait for the next time the application is restarted. It is at least useful for some people.
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“Freeze Dry” In Windows Vista