My Life With IT

I know international phone calls are expensive when one is overseas and calling or even receiving phone calls can be expensive even when you are on a roaming plan. Now, Hoiio provides a cheaper way to call friends and relatives. Remember how you would get someone to call you back? Watch the video below.

Now that you have discovered that everyone else is also doing the same to avoid over-paying for the calls, you can try Hoiio. Free registration. I like the fact that my overseas call will be reduced by 80% when using Hoiio. I like SMS to be at 8.8 cents per SMS when sent from overseas; flat rate. A whole lot better than 60 cents per SMS when in ASEAN and various rates from overseas.

What makes Hoiio stands out is that, when using it to call your friends, you can just dial from the call logs or phone book. Ever tried those call back cards where you have to call the service and key in the number from memory? Hoiio allows you to just dial from the phone book or call logs.

Even when there is a missed call, your friend can just dial the number and map it back to you. Other services just display “Private” or “Unknown” when you are using their call back services. Unfortunately for my case, I rarely call back unless I know the number. I had just too many cold calls to want to call back only to discover that I had to buy something.

This is a great service for those who often have more outgoing calls than incoming since it reduces your phone bills. I’m sure you signed up those mobile plans whereby your incoming local calls are free. You can even change the settings when you have downloaded Hoiio into your mobile such as using Hoiio to call whenever you are calling local or internationally.

What I discovered is that for Samsung Omnia, I would have to activate the programme before I can send SMS internationally at a flat rate since it doesn’t have an option “Send via”. For other mobile phones, I’m sure you would have the option.

This service has a free registration and there isn’t any monthly fees or contract of any kind. Something that is also different, call back cards have expiry dates after they have been activated, this one doesn’t seem to have any expiry. You have 5 ways to top up your credits: auto top up, online, SMS, friends to transfer credits or a post paid account.

Hoiio is currently supporting the following:

• J2ME MIDP 2.0 , CLDC 1.0
• Symbian S60 3rd Edition
• BlackBerry OS Version 4.2 & Above
• Windows Mobile 5 & 6
• Apple OS 2.1 & Above

If you have the above, try it out for free since you get credits just for joining.

This review was made possible by Hoiio and Ping.sg.

I can’t remember if anyone has ever provided a free service for domain name appraisals. However, it is with pleasure that Leapfish has done it. It’s amazing that it has a click-free search, something that I haven’t seen in other search engines. It is also the only search engine to provide it click-free.

This new service provides instant results whereby we can see the valuation dollar in Leapfish’s right hand side set. The robust valuation engine kicks in each time a domain name is keyed into the search field. No extra clicks or even hitting the “Enter” button is needed, thereby reducing you needing to wait for the page to load after you have activated your search.

A graph showing each domain’s traffic, uploaded images, videos and thumbnails are also displayed at the side. In addition, you are still able to search via Google, Yahoo and MSN. Search for blogs, Answers, videos, images, news and shopping are also available for your searching needs.

This new domain appraisal service consists of a series of complex “proprietary valuation algorithm that considers length, traffic, age, link popularity and many other factors,” said Behzad Behrouzi, Director of Product for LeapFish.com.

Try Leapfish today and find out how much your domain is worth!

The never ending wars online. It goes to show how interesting and lively our lives are when we decide to use wars to start a war; online. Just wasting the electricity on picking on the sentences to words and finally to twist the meaning on everything.

What’s worst is that a neutral platform meant for the sole purpose of being neutral was being dragged into the foray. With different accounts each posting only once for the sole purpose of defaming(?) the said party, the fury of such negative remarks gets on the nerves and a long post about how the initial accusations were wrong and totally abusing the platform that wasn’t meant for explanations.

I find that when words are exchanged in the moment of anger, everything else is skewed. When the involved parties decided to take to arm, in this case, using the keyboard as a form of fighting, I am reminded of the children. They will go screaming, “Teacher! He/She copy me!” when telling them to build the tallest tower.

How do we know what came first? Chicken or egg?

I have no respect for private number callers. I have received a few from cold calls about buying more insurance policies that I don’t need or want to renewing my Starhub MaxOnline contract that will not help me in any way since they don’t appreciate existing customers.

I have been receiving a prank call from a private number caller. May your fingers rot for life and never find a cure unless you stop making prank calls. While some private callers make their numbers private because of harrassment issues, I find that those who make prank calls from their numbers ought to have rotting hands until they stopp the prank calls.

These are the cowards that make up the black sheep. You want fun? You can play online games, shoot hoops at the basketball court, make yourself useful by volunteering at welfare homes, upgrading your website, updating your computer’s anti-virus programme or just go bed. Stop disturbing others.

I like digital cameras and did consider buying a DSLR once. Unfortunately, I don’t have the kind of money to even buy the body kit and not feel the pinch of wasting all the good money when I don’t even bother to take out the camera kit to take photos.

However, I’m quite impressed by the users who have used Canon Rebel XS or EOS 1000D.

I like this review since the user gave some tips on how to make use of its functions. And the best way to find out if it’s worth a buy is to check out the photos taken by the camera itself.

I hope to be able to upgrade my skills enough to buy a DSLR to play around with.