Often, when I’m listening to the radio in the car and the DJ played a really cool tune that I heard it for the first time; I got restless wanting to know the title of the song that is currently aired. If I get lucky, the DJ will say the singer and the name of the song at the end, and if not, I left with quickly jotting down some of the phrases of the song, and google it later.

I know that AMP Radio Networks do publish the current song that is playing on their radio websites, but these websites are too heavy for the mobile (which I’m on iPhone) and sometimes, the website didn’t even render at all. And if it does, I have to navigating from one website to another depending of which AMP radio channel that I’m listening to.

I need something that is fast and light for the mobile device, and something that marshals everything at one place. So introducing, Now Playing! web app. To get to Now Playing!, just visit the following URL in Safari browser of your iPhone. Don’t own an iPhone? No worries. You can visit this URL on almost every desktop browser, Safari or Chrome. The rendering on Internet Explorer and Firefox is not that good though.

Now Playing! queries all the playing songs from the websites, and show them in one place, and you will know what is playing on the other channels as well which you can switch to that channel if you see something that you like is playing.

Do check out the About page also, although what you will read there is basically the same thing as what I write here ;)

It would nice if there’s an app for this. Well, this website is web app enabled on iPhone. While visiting Now Playing! site on Safari, touch the “+” and select “Add To Home Screen”.

Confirm of what you want to call this. The default is Now Playing!, but you are free to call it anything.

The icon to this app will be added to the home screen, and Now Playing! web app is a click away from you when you want to know what’s playing on the listed radios.

When you launch the web app, you will be greeted with this splash screen, which is not available if you are visiting the site on Safari.

And see, there is no task or navigation bars, and it makes this almost like a native application.

What you waiting for. Visit the following URL to check this out.

http://nowplaying.mohdimran.com/

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It’s quite interesting to see that more and more Malaysia related iPhone applications are available for download from Apple Apps Store. The latest one that I see is this hitz.fm online radio.

The hitz.fm logo is shown when the application is launched.

Even though it is called hitz.fm, but there are actually 4 radio stations that you can find inside. Listening to one is simply tapping on the radio station name. Hope to see more radio stations in the future.

This how the screen looks like when launching hitz.fm radio. Sound quality is quite ok (128 kbps bitrate) and the streaming is quite smooth.

And this is the one for Era.

Really hoping to see more applications that are related to our Malaysia way of life. Government related apps perhaps. But I bet for government to jump on this band-wagon, it’s going to take many more years.

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Got iPhone? Now you can view my blog with the usual iPhone Apps look.

All the blog entries appears exactly the same as what you will see on computer, minus the extra stuffs that you see on the sidebar. This will make the page is lighter and faster to load.

Choosing the categories, you will see the usual iPhone dial look for drop down list.

And here are the blog entries related to My Cats.

Don’t like this look? You can always switch back to regular view.

So you own self hosted WordPress blog and would like to have this also? Head to the WPtouch plugin page. Installing it is as easy as uploading the plugin and activating it.

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As I suspected in my previous entry, Maxis has already come out with a plan for existing iPhone 3G user to own iPhone 3GS.

No, it’s not a trade-in-your-old-iphone like what they had when launching iPhone 3G last time, but it’s a RM500 rebate off the full price iPhone 3GS, and there’s no contract bound to it. The RM500 rebate will be credited back to the monthly bill.

Tempting, but RM2490 (after rebate) for 32GB iPhone 3GS, I’ll pass.

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Was visiting Maxis website earlier just to check my phone bill, only when I noticed that the iPhone 3Gs is opened for booking already.

As I mentioned in my previous entry of iPhone 3GS, I kinda wondering on how Maxis will price this. But before that, lets look again at the price that I have to pay last time when getting iPhone with 24-months contract under iValue 1 plan.

And this is the same plan for iPhone 3Gs. Darn. Just RM100 extra, you get newer faster iPhone with double the storage (32GB). But this is what I expect already, and it always like that for Apple products. So I don’t really feel quite bad about it, but still, RM100 extra for faster large storage iPhone. (Darn again)

Lets just wait a few weeks, I bet there will be another campaign of trading your old iPhone 3G to get the newer iPhone 3GS ;)

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