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  • Spotify's new iOS app update and Apple Music

    Spotify says Apple won’t approve a new version of its app because it doesn’t want competition for Apple Music.

  • Android N is… Nougat

    I think more people think that Android N will have Nutella as its new name. But, recently Android announced that the official name for Android N is Android Nougat. Wait, Nougat? I personally not familar with this. According to Wikipedia: Nougat is a family of confections made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts,…

  • Jack Ma’s Good Advices

  • How do I Rate My Uber Trips (in Jakarta)?

    When I visit Jakarta, I usually took Uber as for my ride. So far, I have good experiences with Uber, a company founded back in 2009. I have some basic considerations on taking Uber. First, it’s cashless. This is a good point for my convinient. The second one is that it has applications that works.…

  • Pi MusicBox

    Pi MusicBox: Make Raspberry Pi stream — With Pi MusicBox, you can create a cheap (Sonos-like) standalone streaming music player for Spotify, Google Music, SoundCloud, Webradio, Podcasts and other music from the cloud. Or from your own collection from a device in your network. It won’t drain the battery of your phone when playing. The music…

  • Brexit

    What is Brexit and what is going to happen now that Britain has voted to LEAVE the EU?

  • BlackBerry may exit smartphone business

    BlackBerry makes $670m loss as it considers smartphone exit. For the three months to end of May, the company reported a $670m (£450m) loss, compared to a $73m profit a year earlier and and a $256m loss in the previous quarter. Although much of the loss was down to restructuring charges, sales also fell to…

  • Chromecast-ed

    I know that it’s been a long time since Google introduced Chromecast. This week, I decided to get my Google Chromecast (2015) for my SONY TV. The setup was easy within minutes. I haven’t installed many apps, but casting YouTube videos from my Android phone, or iPad was super easy. At least, it’s wireless now.

  • How to remove My Browser Bar

    On my Mac — running on OS X El Capitan (10.11.5), I just remove the Spigot folder located under /Users/thomasarie/Library/Application Support/. There are three files there: ApplicationManager, [email protected], and [email protected].

  • Switch to Letsencrypt

    Since my Comodo PositiveSSL Certificate for this blog is about to expired, I decided to switch to Let’s Encrypt. The implementation was easy. I was refering to DigitalOcean‘s community tutorial: How To Secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04.

  • Bye (legacy version of) Yahoo Messenger

    Say goodbye to the old legacy versions of Yahoo Messenger — “On August 5, 2016, legacy versions of Yahoo Messenger will be discontinued. If you haven’t upgraded Yahoo Messenger recently, you’re probably using a legacy version. To continue using Yahoo Messenger, please upgrade to the newest version on mobile (iOS or Android) and desktop (messenger.yahoo.com…

  • Sequel

    Sequel — bot platform for messengers. Easily create media and entertainment bots to engage the 3B+ users on messaging apps.

  • Snapchat Daily Usage

    Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage — The four-year-old messaging app is said to have 150 million people using it each day. I’m “thomasarie” on Snapchat and Twitter, by the way.