Been FBing and tweeting from Plaza Low Yat, that I’ve made a visit here again today with the total damage of RM200.

These are actually the things that are causing that RM200 damage to me. My shopping list for today.

The first thing that I got is DVD ring file. I just want to reorganize my DVD rack by moving out all the DVD from the box cover, and place them in this file. I should make a lot of space saving. Furthermore, it’s blu-ray era now, and I just to start collecting blu-ray discs now.

That brings me to the second thing that I purchase today – 50 blank blu-ray cases.

My Xbox 360 games collection are growing, and now the cover sleeves are coming in blu-ray case size. Will look good on my rack later what I have this arranged together with the blu-ray movies that I have.

My “cuti raya” is around the corner. This HSPDA USB Modem has been a savior for me so many times already for my internet need whenever I’m away from home.

But plugging this to the laptop does restrict the wireless freedom a bit, with this modem hanging down whenever I place my laptop on the lap. Furthermore, I can’t share the internet connection that I got.

I guess this is the highlight of my trip to Low Yat Plaza today, buying this quite cheap, RM115 D-Link DIR-412 Mobile Wireless Router. This one supports 3G network. There’s a 3.5G model, but the price is RM324 more. And that’s RM439!! Phew. But the prepaid 3G broadband that I use is not even 3.5G and I think it’s not necessary to get the 3.5G model one.

And the unboxing process as usual. You can find the power adaptor, the router itself, network cable, manual and CD-ROM inside.

This is the router itself out of the wrapping plastic. It’s quite small I can easily carry this over everywhere and set up internet sharing with my friends at anytime anywhere.

The back of the router is very minimal. There’s a hard switch there of either you want to use WAN or 3G. This unit can also act as a normal router by connecting it to the normal ADSL or cable modem, and set the switch to WAN. In case the WAN is not available, 3G will act as auto WAN-fallover.

If the switch is set to 3G, the LAN port can be used to connect to the computer using LAN cable in case wireless adaptor is not available on the laptop or PC.

This is how the setup will look like. Not at it’s best look, but this will do for the time being for my internet needs when I’m back to my hometown in a 2 weeks time.

I’m so considering of getting this D-Link DWM-152 3.5G HSDPA USB Adapter which is a black stick 3G modem, but I just don’t want to spend another RM102 just yet.

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Been using this Aztech wireless router for sometimes now. As I blog in the past, having to transfer big files via network to and from NAS, it is quite time consuming on the 100Mbps network that I’m in at the moment.

After much thought, I just decided to get this D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N Gigabit Router. Come to think of it, I don’t really need it that much, but since I’m running of my media serving on NAS, and downloading torrent on NAS, which faster connection will favor the speed of the transfer, I close one eye and get this.

And here are the content of the box.

And here are the ports….. well, lets remove the sticker first.

That’s better. And here are the ports that this router has.

Next step, is deciding the orientation that I want to put my new router. Should I use it horizontally,

or should I use it vertically?

Finally, I decided to use it vertically. I save a bit of space on my cramp desk. This new router really perfectly compliment my D-Link NAS.

Starting to notice that my latest gadgets start to go to white/greyish color, starting from Xbox 360 to D-Link DNS-323 to Seagate FreeAgent Go 320GB external harddisk to Canon Selphy CP780 compact photo printer to Canon PIXMA MP198 printer. This is really unplanned, and a very interesting coincidence.

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There one thing about me is that I can’t stand knowing something that I own doesn’t work properly. I really want to get it fixed, and if can’t, I really want to get replaced.

I kinda lost track of when I bought my current all-in-on Brother DCP-150C printer. Well, it works like charm, with memory card reader, tray paper input and scanner. But just recently, something wrong with the yellow. I guess the nozzle got blocked. I tried so many ways of cleaning it, but to no success. Black, cyan and magenta works ok. So, I will give this to my brother. He’s quite a computer technician himself. Hope that he can fix the problem with the yellow on this printer. And whatever it is whether yellow will work again or not, this printer will be his.

Printer is so cheap nowadays, but not the consumables (i.e. the ink cartridge). I’m quite shock to see when I first bought this printer and using the supplied ink catridge, it only last for a very short of time, then the ink needs replacement.

But thank god there is CISS (Continuous Ink Supply System). This is one of the best thing ever created. This is the CISS that I got for this printer. Using this, you can you a RM15 per bottle ink, and it last really long. I’m a quite have printer user too, printing photos myself, and suprisingly, the ink refill that I bought long time ago still untouched.

So, it looks like that I need to get a new printer then. Touring around at Low Yat plaza today, I found this RM188 Canon PIXMA MP198 printer at All IT Hypermart. Can you imagine, all-in-one printer, with scanner and a good built costs only RM198?

Well, CISS is a must then. I bought the CISS for this printer too, and the shop will assemble it to your printer as well. Sorry, no unboxing process this time as the box has already been ripped at the store for them to take out the printer and install the CISS.

Here is the tank for the CISS, where ink to be refilled when its depleted.

3 new toys in the first month of 2010. Yay!

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My sleep tonight is disturbed with my Penang friends arriving at my home at around 1:30am, but their arrival is something that I’m waiting since earlier. My friend got this from the company dinner. Not using it, he decided to sell this cheap for RM200. Well behold, my new Canon Selphy CP780 Compact Photo Printer. This will be a really good complement to my Canon EOS 40D camera.

The usual unboxing again. Here are the contents of the box.

And this is the printer unit itself. I still can’t do anything tonight. Got to get the specialized photo paper for this printer tomorrow.

It’s still the first month of 2010, and I got 2 new toys already (first one being Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Drive) I likeee….

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So, how’s your first day at work for 2010? Well, it’s rather a bad start for me. I’m on EL. LOL. Just not feeling well. I guess the sudden temperature change (it’s quite cold at Cameron Highland, and very hot in KL) and the sudden pressure change (my ears still feels the effect) make my system goes haywire. So, I decided to call for an EL this morning. Don’t feel like going to doctor as I will take existing medicine.

Who said that only girls use “shopping” as a theraphy? It can happen to guys too. Well, for me, it’s only one stop that will make me feel like in heaven – Low Yat Plaza. LOL. Since my portable hard disk crashed last Hari Raya Aidilfitri holiday, I yet to get a replacement. So, I’m getting Seagate FreeAgent GO 320GB together with the FreeAgent Go Dock.

Here are the contents of the hard disk box,

and here at the contents of the dock box. Kinda like the pouch that comes with the dock.

Here is the hard disk connected to the dock. Red and white color combination always work for me.

And here is how the hard disk on the dock looks like from the side.

Like I said previously, I like the carrying pouch that came with the dock.

I guess this is the very first new toy for 2010, with a total damage of RM268 ;)

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