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Month: June 2015

  • Taylor Swift on Apple Music

    This is not about me. Thankfully I am on my fifth album and can support myself, my band, crew, and entire management team by playing live shows. This is about the new artist or band that has just released their first single and will not be paid for its success. This is about the young…

  • Inside Beats by Dre

    What’s inside Beats by Dre? With $199 retail price, there must be something inside. Lots of optimizations are to be expected in a product manufactured in the millions of units: snaps and glue are used for assembly rather than screws (which require lots of human manipulation) and almost every part is injection molded plastic (which…

  • Lifehacker Faceoff: Google Photos vs. Flickr

    Last month, both Google and Yahoo introduced big changes to their photo storage services, Google Photos and Flickr (4.0), respectively. Both offer identical, useful features: automatic photo backups, intelligent organization, online editing tools, and sharing capabilities. So which one should you use? (Source: Lifehacker Faceoff: Google Photos vs. Flickr)

  • Catatan Perjalanan: Batik Air ID-6366 CGK-JOG, 7 Juni 2015

    Catatan Perjalanan: Batik Air ID-6366 CGK-JOG, 7 Juni 2015

    Perjalanan pulang ke Jogjakarta saya setelah beberapa hari urusan pekerjaan di Jakarta saya tempuh dengan Batik Air, maskapai yang sama dengan yang membawa saya ke Jakarta beberapa hari sebelumnya. Armada taksi Uber yang membawa saya ke Terminal keberangkatan 1C Bandara Soekarno-Hatta sampai sekitar pukul 16.00 WIB. Saya langsung melakukan check-in di konter yang Minggu sore itu…

  • Jurassic World

    Minggu lalu, akhirnya nonton Jurassic World. Dan, kalau dulu pernah dan suka dengan Jurassic Park, film Jurassic Park tersebut dirilis 22 tahun yang lalu.

  • iOS 9 features inspired by Android

    I have some devices running on multiple operating systems (iOS, Android, and Windows Phone). But, recently I use Android more than iOS. Early this month, Apple announced some new features for its operating system: iOS 9. Some said that Android copies Apple, and Apple also copies Android. This time, Arstechnica has a list of some…

  • BlackBerry may put Android system on new device

    BlackBerry may put Android system on new device — “The sources, who asked not to be named as they have not been authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said the move to use Android is part of BlackBerry’s strategy to pivot to focus on software and device management. BlackBerry, which once dominated smartphone sales, now…

  • Android Fragmentation Visualisation

    Android Fragmentation Visualized (August 2014) gives a various report on Android fragmentation on devices, brands, operation systems, and more.

  • Which Android Phone I Should Buy?

    There are thousands of distinct Android devices on the market, and the numbers are growing. I bought some Android devices from some different brands. The latest one I bought, and I still use it right now is OPPO Find 7. Finding the phone that really fits its owner is not easy. Android has a simple…

  • Catatan Perjalanan: Batik Air ID-6361 JOG-CGK, 4 Juni 2015

    Catatan Perjalanan: Batik Air ID-6361 JOG-CGK, 4 Juni 2015

    Awal Juni, untuk sebuah keperluan di Jakarta, saya melakukan perjalanan ke Jakarta. Penerbangan yang saya pilih adalah Batik Air dengan nomor penerbangan ID-6361 yang berangkat dari bandara Adisutjipto pada pukul 07.40 WIB. Suasana Adisutjipto di hari pagi itu cukup padat ketika saya tiba sekitar pukul 06.35 WIB. Segera saya lakukan check-in di konter yang ada.…

  • Apple WWDC 2015 in 12 Minutes

  • How Google Finally Got Design

    For every bet that Google makes, there are many others quietly forgotten, and others still abandoned when the winds changed or the prime movers moved on. Put another way, you can create good design in sprints, but creating great design is a marathon, run over and over again. Google still has so many miles to…

  • Catatan Perjalanan: Lion Air JT-568 CGK-JOG, 28 Mei 2015

    Catatan Perjalanan: Lion Air JT-568 CGK-JOG, 28 Mei 2015

    Akhir bulan Mei 2015, saya ke Jakarta — lebih tepatnya ke Tangerang — untuk urusan pekerjaan. Perjalanan dari Jogjakarta menuju Jakarta saya tempuh melalui kereta api karena alasan efisiensi juga. Keperluan saya di Jakarta mulai jam 08.00, kalaupun dengan pesawat pertama, belum tentu saya bisa menjangkau tujuan dengan tepat waktu. Dan, saya memutuskan untuk pulang…

  • Microsoft buys Wunderlist

    Microsoft buys Wunderlist. Previously, Microsoft also bought Acompli, an email app for both iOS and Android which later rebranded as Outlook.