How To Fix SmartBro Slow Internet Connection & Get 2 Mbps Speed

SmartBro gave me some problems with their customer support the past week regarding my slow SmartBro internet connection (I detailed it in my previous entry). Here are the instructions of the things I did to get 2 Mbps with my SmartBro plan 999 canopy-type connection:

My Slow SmartBro Internet Connection (And How To Fix It)

Let me warn you now that this will be a long post, since I wanted to detail out my experience with Smart Bro customer support and their lack of experience in handling my situation.

Update: Here's my post on the steps I did to achieve 2Mbps speed: How To Fix SmartBro Slow Internet Connection & Get 2 Mbps Speed

About a week ago, our SmartBro canopy antenna fell down from its installation because of the strong winds. I immediately called up their hotline *1888 (on my Smart number) and told them the scenario. The rep told me they will be scheduling the deployment asap. Luckily, their installation team (the rep pertains to them as the "contractors") arrived at our home the next day.

SiON SoundObject Quartet - Will Make Anyone Musically-Inclined

This Flash will let you create techno/house/ambient/trance/electronica music at your will. Unfortunately it only has five chords to play. But its still a really good music generator. From WonderFL.net. Enjoy playing around with it! SiON SoundObject Quartet after the jump:

What Happens to Your Online Accounts When You Die

You're a web designer, you have 22 Gmail accounts, 13 Yahoo Messenger accounts, 50,000 MySpace contacts and 26,000 Facebook friends. You just finished Tweeting about your ham and egg breakfast, you choked from your orange juice that contained your cat's favorite yarn ball - you die. What would ever happen to your online accounts now? Will your accounts be automatically deleted, or will your Facebook account automatically send an update that "Mr. Online Guy has just died". Luckily, people from MakeUseOf were actually thinking about it and made a research which concludes:

7 Best Temporary Email Services

Temporary email services are those that allow you to create temporary emails you can use for signing up to websites that might fill your personal emails with loads and loads of spam. Here are seven of the best temporary email services that you can use:

4 Free Tools To Add Watermarks To Images or Pictures

One popular way to avoid people stealing your online pictures is by adding a watermark on them; those translucent texts or even graphics that are overlayed on the images to avoid others "owning" it. Here are four free online tools to easily add watermarks to your images or pictures:

Quickly Follow Your Followers / Unfollow Those Who Don't Follow Back in Twitter

There is a free service available on the internet for Twitter lovers out there who wants to follow back their followers, or unfollow those who do not follow them back easily without having to go to the individual pages of your tweeps. Its called Tweepular!

How To Easily Schedule Your Recurring Tweets Online

If you need an easy and FREE way to schedule repeating tweets, all you have to do is to use FutureTweets.com! Its service that lets you schedule predefined tweets at any time of the day. Let me talk more about it...

20 Must-try Firefox Add-Ons / Extensions

I have compiled here some of my favorite Firefox extensions or add-ons so you guys can also try them out. I gave out some general info about them so you can get an overview of what they are all about. Some can be useful for bloggers, some are for web developers, some are just for casual surfers so I made sure there's something for everybody.

1. ColorZilla - Advanced eyedropper, color picker, page zoomer and other colorful goodies. This is pretty useful for web designers. You can get the color code on areas of the webpage, much like the Photoshop eyedropper.


2. DownThemAll! - The mass downloader for Firefox. Very handy if you download lots of stuff from the Internet. Makes downloading faster and much more organized. A lot of options available for customizing your downloads.


3. Firebug - Web development evolved. I think the most comprehensive debugging tool for web developers. Analyze the internal code of a page (html, css, javascript, dom) and more useful developer tools.


4. FireFTP - FTP client for Mozilla Firefox. I personally use this. It has replaced my default FTP client.


5. Fission - Places the progress bar in the address bar, like Safari style.


6. FoxClocks - Displays local times around the world in the status/toolbar. Supports virtually all timezones.


7. FoxyProxy - Premiere proxy manager for Firefox. If you are a "stealthy" surfer and you usually change the proxies by going to the Options menu, this is a great add-on.


8. MeasureIt - Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.


9. PDF download - Allows you to choose what to do with a PDF file: download it, view it with an external viewer, or view it as HTML


10. RankChecker - Track where your site ranks in Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search using the free Firefox Rank Checker. From SeoBook.com


11. SiteLauncher - Opens websites using special keyboard shortcuts. This is specially useful if you want to remove the bookmarks toolbar to save screen real estate, but still want easy access to bookmarks. Pressing ctrl+space opens a pop-up of your set bookmarks.


12. StumbleUpon Toolbar - StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more. Clicking the StumbleIt! button is quite addicting!


13. Tab Mix Plus - Tab browsing with an added boost. If you are accustomed to using the ctrl+tab shortcut when changing tabs on other Windows applications, this will help you get the same effect on Firefox.


14. TinyMenu - Replaces the standard menu with a tiny menu popup.


15. Yet Another Smooth Scolling - Replaces scroll behavior with both mouse wheel and cursor key into fully customizable natural smooth one. This imitates the scrolling behavior of the Opera browser.


16. Personas - Personas are lightweight, easy to install and easy to change skins for your Firefox web browser. This one is really a must-try!


17. Video DownloadHelper - The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.


18. Cooliris - Full-Screen, 3D -- Cooliris is simply the fastest and most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop. Effortlessly scroll a "3D Wall" of your content from Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and hundreds more. You'll be stunned with the 3d interface of this image gallery add-on.


19. GooglePreview - Inserts preview images (thumbnails) and popularity ranks of web sites into the Google and Yahoo search results pages. Very helpful when you do a lot of Googling!


20. FoxTab - FoxTab is a 3D tabbed browsing extension. With 5 attractive layouts to choose from, fliiping between opened tabs becomes easy and enjoyable than ever. Use the grouping and filtering features, and start experiencing tabbed-browsing in a whole new way.

Any other cool Firefox Add-ons you can suggest? Place them in the comments section so others can also benefit!