Month: October 2011
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Fashion, beauty, now, and later
“Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.” ~ A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
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Missing WordPress' Jetpack Statistics Data
I have been using WordPress Stats plugin for long time. And when Jetpack was introduced, I had it installed right away. Everything works great. What I like about WordPress statistics data — from this plugin — is that it can give me some useful insight about my blog traffic. It’s not as detailed as Google…
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Design Persona for Your Website
“If your website were a person, who would it be? Is it serious, buttoned up, all business, yet trustworthy and capable? Is it a wise-cracking buddy that makes even mundane tasks fun?” Aarron Walter: Personality in Design
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Global Smartphone Vendor Shipments (October 2011)
According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung is now the biggest smartphone dealer in the world. “Global smartphone shipments grew 44 percent annually to reach a record 117 million units in Q3 2011. Samsung shipped 28 million smartphones and overtook Apple to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume with 24 percent market share. Samsung’s rise…
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250 Million Tweets per Day and More Than 100 Million Users
At Web 2.0 Summit 2011 in San Fransisco, Dick Costolo (Twitter CEO) revealed some latest statistics about Twitter. Here are some facts: Twitter now received almost 250 million tweets every day. Last July, it was announced that Twitter got 200 million tweets per day. Is the statistic affected by more supported languages, including Bahasa Indonesia?…
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Tentang Bekerja dengan Cepat
Ada yang bilang bahwa lebih baik “work smart” selain “work hard”. Lalu, ada pula “work fast” alias bekerja dengan cepat. Dan, sepertinya bekerja dengan cepat — untuk menghasilkan sebuah hasil apapun itu, memang menjadi harapan bagi banyak orang. Dalam pekerjaan hal ini tentu saja sangat baik. Tapi, mungkin ada sisi yang lain, yaitu kadang pekerjaan…
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Urip neng kampung kui pancen penak, ning yo sok-sok rak penak jeh…
Kit cilik, pancen aku urip neng kampung, lan kui penak lho. Lha piye orak kepenak, kanca dolan akeh, guyub, tur ditambah karo suasana liyane sing pokoke kepenak ngonolah. Sing urip neng kampung mesti ngerti banget rasane koyo ngopo. Penak’e pancen akeh, ning yo sok-sok ono rapenak’e. Sok-sok, mungkin mergo saking cedak’e le sesrawung njuk kadang…
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Skype Officially Joined Microsoft
Skype Officially Joined Microsoft: Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) has closed its acquisition of Skype Global S.à r.l. Negotiations of the definitive agreement under which Microsoft would acquire Skype, an Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion were led by investor group Silver Lake and the transaction was originally announced on May 10, 2011. Boards of directors…
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Pengalaman Pembuatan Kartu ATM Pengganti di Bank BCA
Singkatnya, kemarin saya mendapatkan pelayanan yang baik dari Bank BCA Kantor Cabang Utama (KCU) Sudirman ketika melakukan pengurusan pembuatan kartu ATM baru. Semua proses berlangsung dengan cepat, dan petugas layanan nasabah membantu semua prosesnya. Terima kasih Bank BCA! Saya lupa tepatnya kapan saya kehilangan buku tabungan saya. Yang pasti, sudah lama. Atau mungkin, sudah sangat…
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Flickr for iPhone: Timestamp problem?
I am not sure when this kind of problem appeared for the first time. Not exactly a big problem, but something that does not work well. I’m now using Flickr for iPhone Version 1.4.2 on iPhone 4 (Software Version: 4.3.5), and so far the primary feature — I consider photo upload feature as primary feature…