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After getting introduced to the X-Mini portable speakers by my colleague, Arsyan, I spent the next month just pondering if the value equaled the cost of the accessory. Rarely do I fall into the impulse buy trap, especially if it's geek gear.

After a month, I felt that it was a justified purchase. I could use it when I'm outdoors, in my bathroom, at Starbucks, etc. Heck, even when Im on my PC - so I didn't need to unplug my speakers and connect it to my iPhone. Also, I thought it would be great for my audiobook playbacks.

Boy, am I right. I went to the store and got the X-Mini Max 2 - the latest model by the Singaporean company. Lasting 14 hours, with great treble and average bass, it's indeed one good purchase at only RM179. Comes in 3 colours: dark red, black, and white. My audiobooks sounds better than ever, of course my music as well compared to the stock inbuilt speakers of the phone. 

Just a precaution: the speaker comes with special cables, if one was to lose this cable, I don't think you can purchase a spare. I intend to write to the company and find out.

Official Site: http://www.x-mini.com

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On Feb 4, our team gathered in the early morning to prep up for the launch of ruumzCauses at Bijou, Mont Kiara Damai, Kuala Lumpur. Over many months of hard work culminated to today. We invited bloggers, media journalists, writers, celebrities, ambasadors, and the admirable people from the charity organisations to be part of this launch.

ruumzCauses is one of our big projects, it is our obligation to ethics & responsibility as a citizen, as a human-being. We wanted to help and we wanted to fight against the people that mocked charity by engaging in fraudulent scams in times of dire need. So we came up with an easy-to-use online system that was transparent to the public - we will be engaging an international audit firm.

I thought the launch was pretty good - a fun casual event; yet debonair, the theme was praised, and from the feedback we got, it looks like were on track to make a good difference, all together.

More info at: www.ruumz.com/causes

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Media Prima launched an iPhone app to stream 3 of their radio stations over the air. It's a clear quality stream of 128kbs and it's streamed lived. The 3 stations are; Fly FM (English), Hot FM (Malay), and One FM (Chinese). There are a few quirks here and there but that's probably because the app hasn't gone through an aesthetics process yet - the app feels like it just came out from the developer oven.

My opinions on where it can improve;

1. The App title isn't very fitting "MPB". Perhaps they planned to add more features to it for the whole group. If not then "MPB Radio" would be more apt. The icon also tags it as Hot FM only.
2. Fly.FM's volume is significantly lower than the other stations.
3. The light translucent play/stop button is too light. Needs to be more solid.
4. This is probably my own opinion: The "Done" button signifies a closure of an app - perhaps that's my impression after using internal Safari (Safari within an app). Maybe the button should read "Back" or "Station Selection" instead.
5. When launching the app, the splash screen flickers and then goes to the "Station Selection" page that takes a few seconds (too long) to load.
6. The site needs a "Download from Appstore" button. You know? The gray one that's stamped on iPhone app sites.

Being a big consumer of streaming music, I have to say this is better than AMP's app and there's alot of potential for the MPB app to grow. Pretty cool if you ask me.

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I love music streaming, it is the main way I consume and discover music on a daily basis - on my PC, iPod, and iPhone. I frequently use finetune, last.fm, Rick Dees and am waiting to try rdio and MOG. Also rather recently was my addition of ruumz.fm into my destinations for music for both my listening pleasure and music discovery. With a mix of 10 stations of different genres and languages (English, Chinese, Malay), I get a truly Malaysianized experience. Not forgetting that one of the stations is hosted by Ross & FlyGuy.

Full disclosure: I work at ruumz. Which makes me all the more happier to be part of ruumz.fm and to help build it up to be loved by many more people. Our team made a revamp to the overall experience in December 2009, and in the coming months you'll see even more initiatives by us to bring you a great music experience online.

Stream on!

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What about Need For Speed? Definitely Underground.

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http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/maxis-movie-bookings-application/id343002280?mt=8

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This holiday season, iTunes US is giving away (for one week) an iTunes LP Album with 20 songs from popular artistes listed below. An iTunes LP is an enhanced album that comes packed together with artiste bios, photos, and lyrics. The theme of this album is obviously Christmas, but the genre is mixed - so there's a pretty good variety.

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