My broadband connection is now activated. What can I do that's different
from dial-up?
For starters, you broadband connection enables you to connect to the World Wide Web
at speeds from 384kbps per second compared to just 56kpbs on dial-up. That means even
for a simple activity such as browsing web pages, your web content will be transferred
much faster making for a richer viewing experience, less waiting for pages to be displayed
and instead you can visit multiple sites with ease. You can also interact with pages
that display links to other web pages, stream audio and video content smoothly.
Top 10 activities
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Surfing the web - news, weather, sports, lifestyle, investment, personal interest,
technology, blogs, product reviews, user opinions, almost anything under the sun
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Download software
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Download and upload content such as music, photos, video clips
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Instant Messaging or Online Chat
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Join an online community
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Blogs and forums
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Online buying and selling
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Online learning
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Online banking
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Jobhunting
1. Surfing the web
It is easy to find what you are looking for on the Internet if you know what you are
looking for. The first place to get started is to use a search engine.
Search engines such as those from Google, Yahoo, MSN empower
you to find almost anything of interest to you that's available online. Looking to
visit a foreign country? Research your destination online and find travel details,
bargains, accommodation, places to dine, etc.
Get your daily news fix at The
Star, The Sun, New
Straits Times, Utusan and MalaysiaKini.
Subscription fees are required to access content at some sites.
Since the early days of search engines, Google has evolved its search capabilities
and added many more applications. Find out more at Google
Products.
2. Download software
Looking for free software or freeware, trial applications or to purchase applications
for your PC or laptop or mobile phone? There’s no need to visit a computer store.
You can get your daily fix on the Internet.
Download all the software you need at sites like http://www.download.com. http://en.softonic.com,
Largest selection of mobile applications at Handango.com.
3. Download and upload content such as music, photos, video clips
Share your photos online at Flickr,
the most popular photo website by Yahoo,
also at other popular social networking sites such as Friendster or Facebook.
View the latest video clips online at Youtube.
Upload your own video clips for the world to enjoy too. Stream live video from sites
such as TV3, Real, PPSTV and Veoh.com.
Find music or video content, choose from the popular torrent client sites such as BitTorrent, BitComet, Azureus, Limewire and
last but not least uTorrent.
4. Instant Messaging or Online Chat
Join online chat communities such as Yahoo
Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or Skype and
chat with your friends from anywhere in the world for FREE! With the latest versions
of instant messaging software, you can even make FREE voice and video calls if you
have a webcam!!
5. Join an online community
You have probably heard of Friendster.com, Facebook or Myspace and
now the latest hit – Twitter,
the mobile version.
6. Blogs and forums
Blogging, the hottest Malaysian pastime since the March 2008 elections – it is claimed
that there are 500,000 bloggers or blogs by Malaysians, the latest is from our ex-Prime Tun
Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, which has already garnered more than 14 million hits in
less than a week!
Other popular blog sites –
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Blog Title |
Technorati Rank |
Category |
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1 |
kennysia.com |
Rank: 234 (4,828 links from 2,406 blogs) |
Personal |
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2 |
SapiensBryan.com |
Rank: 604 (2,676 links from 1,577 blogs) |
Technology |
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3 |
Hemmy.net |
Rank: 1,667 (1,862 links from 932 blogs) |
Humor |
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4 |
JeffOoi.com Screenshot |
Rank: 2,009 (2,824 links from 836 blogs) |
Politics |
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5 |
LiewCF.com |
Rank: 3,346 (1,532 links from 613 blogs) |
Technology |
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6 |
Yasmin The Story
Teller |
Rank: 3,594 (1,026 links from 585 blogs) |
Entertainment |
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7 |
Afdlin Shauki |
Rank: 3,750 (874 links from 569 blogs) |
Entertainment |
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8 |
PaulTan.Org |
Rank: 7,360 (863 links from 369 blogs) |
Auto |
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9 |
Alex Allied |
Rank: 8,367 (589 links from 345 blogs) |
Personal |
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10 |
Rocky’s Bru |
Rank: 8,402 (1,015 links from 344 blogs) |
Politics |
Share your ideas, discoveries, troubleshooting tips, anything under the sun by joining
any of the hundreds of thousand forums online. Popular ICT forum – LowYat.net,
7. Online buying and selling
Sites like Lelong.com, Ebay.com let
you sell new or unused or used stuff that you no longer want. You can also become
an Ebay
PowerSeller, the equivalent of a world retail store! While this phenomenon has
yet to take off among local Netizens, HyppMall,
online shopping mall by TM is worth checking out.
The latest free listing site is Mudah.com.my where
you can list your items for sale for FREE.
8. Online learning
If you are thirsty for knowledge, the Internet is the world’s largest university.
You don’t need to enroll at a university to learn. The largest depository of knowledge
is Wikipedia. Wikipedia contains
over 2,361,561 articles
and is contributed by over 75,000 editors. The world’s best known encyclopedia is
published by Encyclopedia Britannica.
Also don’t forget to visit the world’s largest bookstore and online retailer at Amazon.com.
If you do decide to study online, check out Multimedia
University.
9. Online banking
Beat the traffic jams and queue by banking online. Maybank and CIMB are
two of the most popular amongst Netizens. All local banks have an online banking portal.
Check with your bank for theirs.
10. Jobhunting
Increasingly, job hunting has gone high tech. There are a number of job portals locally,
the most well-known being JobStreet.
Others include Star-Jobs, owned
by The Star newspaper, JobsDB, JenJobs and
even Mudah.com.my.
Of course, the list above is not exhaustive as more and more content is shared online
by millions of Internet users. You can lookup your favourite travel destination and
get reviews about the place, sightseeing, travel tips at sites such as Malaysia-TrulyAsia for
information about Malaysia, book tickets online at AirAsia or Malaysia
Airlines, get panoramic views of wonders of the world at Panoramas without
being there, detailed location and satellite views at Google
Earth and so on.
For those who prefer to visit sites in Chinese, the top news site is China
Press ???, search engine Baidu is
also a top destination. Others include ????-??????, ???, Xunlei,
photo album and blog site, ????.
