The Business 2.0 is a monthly magazine that you can buy at most news stands. It is a substantial magazine that covers the latest news, trends and opportunities in technology.
Rather than pay US$3.99 for a print edition, you can just read the entire copy online, for FREE!
As far as I know, they are not promoting this link yet, but I have been reading the magazine online for the last few months. The service is run by Olive Software, and does not provide an archive of back issues.
Here's a screenshot of the online magazine in action:
The magazine opens in a new browser window, and the requires Flash. You can download the magazine for offline reading (with IE), or alternatively print the entire magazine; print it as a PDF, and you instantly have a back issue!
You can do most of the things you do with a regular print edition, and this includes zooming, printing and panning the page. However, you won't be able to fold the pages, or paste your colourful Post-its =)
By the way, if you live in the US / Canada, you might want to subscribe to the print edition of Business 2.0 -- it's an amazing deal at $6.99 for 11 issues! That's about 64 cents per magazine, WOW!
If you hold a Maybank2u.Premier account, formerly known as the i-Account, then here's a handy tip in case you need to retrieve your old statements. Best part? You can retrieve all your statements from 2004, without paying any of the ridiculous banking fees.
Before we get any further, let's recap the basic features of this account:
Statements are only made available through the Internet (known as e-Statements)
At any point in time, you will have access to the latest 3 statements
In the event you require older statements, you would have to request for printed copies, charged at RM10, and an additional RM1 for every printed page
2) Go to: eStatement > Maybank2u.Premier Statement
3) View the source for this page. Note that Maybank2u.com uses HTML frames; this means that you have to view the source of the frame in focus. On a PC with Firefox 2.0, right-click on the main area (Enquiry), and choose: This Frame > View Frame Source. You should see something similar to the following:
4) Press Ctrl+F (Find). Look for BV_SessionID. Copy the "value" in to a temporary text file, e.g.: @@@@0759140826.1167939086@@@@
5) Press Ctrl+F (Find). Look for BV_EngineID. Copy the "value" in to a temporary text file, e.g.: ccfkaddjkmflgmjcflgcehfdfkgdgij.0
6) Press Ctrl+F (Find). Look for accountNo. Copy the "value" in to a temporary text file, e.g.: 514281143501
7) Open a new tab in Firefox (Ctrl+T)
8) Copy and paste the following URL into your address bar, replacing the REPLACEME's with the values copied from above:
9) The pasted URL contains a date at the end of the string. The example above will retrieve the statement for December 2006 (31/12/06). To retrieve the statement for October 2005, just change this date to 31/10/05 signifying the end of the month. For June 2004, enter 30/06/04.
10) Press Enter, and you should see your statement.
Did it work for you? For help just drop me an email: emailme at praveenrajan dot com
Caveats:
I've been able to retrieve all statements from May 2004 onwards. This was when Maybank2u switched their statement cycle to the end of the month. Prior to May 2004, it was processed on the 15th of every month.
Your Maybank2u.com session expires after 5 minutes -- when prompted, don't forget to click OK to remain online
Why Maybank2u, why? So, why does Maybank2u block us from retrieving statements older than 3 months? Is it a way to generate peripheral revenue? Or is this due to a system limitation (e.g. extensive processing tasks)? I doubt that it is in relation to the latter, as Internet-banking sites should be built to handle massive processing tasks.
Considering that the current system produces statements from May 2004, why not make this historical data available to every Maybank2u.Premier account holder? It's a useful enhancement. Besides, no other Internet-banking service in town offers such extensive historical data (for now).
