Broadband on Mobile and Essential Softwares for your E61i

Recently, I subscribed to Singtel's broadband on mobile, and it's has been working wonders for me! At just $22.42, I am given a limit of 50 gb to utilize every month (It's really impossible to even use 2 gb on your mobile device). With it, I am now able to surf, IM and check my emails on my E61i all over Singapore. Don't belittle these functions because they surely come in useful and can even help you save up on communication costs if used in a smart way. Some suggestions:-

• MSN Live

With MSN Live on my handphone, chatting with all my online contacts has never been easier. But the amazing thing is not just common instant messaging. Did you know that it can turn your handphone into a 'walkie-talkie'? How I do it, is to send voice clips over and vice versa receive voice clips from the other party that I am communicating with. Although there is a latency of about 10 seconds due to data transfer, but it surely does come in handy when you need to communicate non urgently. I fully utilized this function together with Jason during the last zone camp, when one of us is in Singapore and the other in P.Ubin. In this situation the conventional walkie talkie doesn't work due to the distance, however as MSN Live sends data via network, the distance did not matter at all.

• Twitter

As I shared in one of my previous posts that Twitter is able to send your updates to the devices of the people following you. One great way is really to use it to send free SMS. With Fring, you are able to utilize it just as if you are sending a SMS. Very convenient! However, make sure your counterparts do not reply to the number that sent the 'tweets' as it is an international number.


With just some brainstorming and creativeness, your E61i can become a powerful tool that makes communication more affordable and life more interesting.

Some links that might interest:

1. Singtel Broadband on Mobile
2. Mobile One Broadband
3. Starhub Mobile Data Services
   

E61i

I have been using E61i for about a year and it is still continuing to amaze me with it's amazing capabilities. In the next few posts, I will write about how you can use your E61i to enhance your productivity and tips on using it as well. Stay tune!

Twitter - A Great Way To Stay Connected

Twitter, a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "tweets" or updates to the Twitter website, where updates are instantaneously posted on to the user's profile page and also delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them via SMS, instant messaging and etc.

Personally, I felt that this service is exceptionally useful especially in groups that constantly need to update members within with new information. Simply by logging on, typing in a 140 character length text and clicking update, anyone who is 'following' you will be notified immediately through the means they have chosen to receive updates. Did I also mention that it is FREE?

Imagine this senario:-

In a cell group of 20 people, everyone subscribe to Twitter and is a follower of the rest in the cell group. If there is a message that needs to be passed on to everybody, going through Twitter saves you 20 SMSes. In a month, this method can easily help you save up to 100s of SMSes. Cool right?

Suggested way to implement: -

1. Get everyone in the group to create an account with the group's name as initials. For e.g. N363_Desmond or MJ_Desmond
2. After the creation of account, start 'following' others in the group.
3. Start sending "Tweets"!

Easy as abc! Technology certainly helps to save time and maximize productivity!

Counting Down - 246 Days

Another 246 days or to be specific, 16th February 2009 will be the day in which I will be embarking on another phase of my education journey. This time round, the difference would not just be in the level of knowledge I am going to receive but mainly the difference in location; Melbourne: 6076 km away from home, from church and from friends.

Having personally been to Australia, I guess that I did not really enjoy both trips there. Probably the main reason, is going there with the Singapore Armed Forces and the destination was some 'ulu' place called Rockhampton. In addition, the lifestyle there did not really excite me. Being a typical Singaporean and City Harvest member, who lives a fast paced life running from place to place and having late nights, the thought of seeing empty streets at around 5pm daily, with shopping centres closing at 4pm except on Thursday 8pm and doing gardening on Sunday certainly is beginning to strike fear within me.

The thought of being away from church, the zone and my cell group is also a thumbs down. I guess that apart from home, they are the people that are constantly on my mind. To calculate, being away for 10 months from February to December, I would probably miss so many big days and major events; Easter, Emerge 2009, etc. :S

However, I guess on the brighter note the chance to do a fast tracked degree from one of the top universities in Australia does not always come around, especially when it is going to help me win back time which I have lost previously. As I look at coming back home during December 2009 and commencing with my career, I am greatly excited! I certainly hope that I can perform as well or even better during my stint in Monash as compared to Republic Polytechnic.

Greater Is He Who Is In You, Than He Who Is In The World

Laminin, a protein in the human body that is vital in making sure the overall body structures hold together. Reminded me that indeed Greater is He who is in me, than he who is in the world. What a coincidence, anyway a wise fellow once said coincidence is when God choose to remain anonymous.