Sekarang? Teknologi Informasi Masuk Sekolah. Hampir semua menggunakan Blackberry (atau Nexianberry), iPhone, atau Android, device canggih yang setiap saat terhubung dengan internet. Kapasitas penyimpan datanya besar. Bisa MP3, plus bikin dan playback video.

Jika ada informasi yang negatif, apa masih perlu pihak sekolah (atau pihak yang lain) melakukan razia HP kepada orang lain? Beredarnya foto atau video yang gak layak apa ya bisa di-cegah-tangkal dengan razia? Apa gunanya? Apa manfaatnya?

Today, Apple just announced the new iPhone OS 4.0. It really pack of features and promise to give best, better, more advance, new experiences to THE iDevices. Not only it does Multitasking (at last!), but also borrowed some nice features from (just a week old) iPad. Enabling input from external keyboard, iBooks, folders in springboard, more robust Mail app, etc.

This is gonna be great.. right?

No! There's a new License Agreement that prohibits developers from writing codes other than C, Obj-C, C++, JavaScript and compiling codes by using intermediary tools or other non-Apple's API, such as Adobe Flash! (or maybe other frameworks/SDK like Unity3D or Corona)

Ok, great. Now what Apple? 

You already ban Flash be used in mobile Safari. That's ok. It's your policy to stay away from out of memory, out of battery, out of trouble, out of whatever-reasons-you-could-make-up. But how could you also ban Adobe from bringing tools we're familiar with for creating "native" apps?

Didn't you realize you NEED Adobe to bring Creative Suites for your so-damn-good-OSX? You are praised by designers all over the world but yet you provide any single image editor in OSX. Yes, Pain(t) Brush sucks, but hey, at least it IS image editor! Do you think professionals will use your pricey-computer if there's no Adobe products in it? No Photoshop, what else can you get? No InDesign, no Illustrator, no Acrobat Reader!

What's good left in OSX, when we have great developers like Adobe made softwares for Windows, and Windows 7 really is damn-good now.

Please respect hard work and good intention from Adobe. We don't think it could damage your huge-profits. In fact, many developers will be happy creating decent apps. We ARE Flash developers, not "Flashlight" app makers.

And we're Apple Fanboi too..

Anti-trust Practices, Bad Businesses

Not all Programmers are a good designer, not all Designers are good at Programming. And there are not many can afford to hire professionals..

What Apple's doing not only will hurt vendors (like Adobe, Ansca, Unity3D), but also their clients (developers and users). Let me put it this way, vendors spent big time, efforts and investments on something and promises to give the best for what their clients expected. In this case, for example Ansca, already have developers use their SDK. And that's not a small money! How they supposed to do? Ask for their money back? Erase and rewind the time / efforts already spent?

Imagine you are in business to create good games, buy an SDK (which isn't cheap), spent at least 1 year ($99) developing on it, create something you KNOW you can do, hoping to get ROI and profits. But then, after all your hard work, the License Agreement blocks you from selling it. Imagine the damages you'll get. Do you want to trust your business with Apple again?

I really love Apple products, but this is sad, it's like married with a very beautiful girl who doesn't even love you..

Illegal Operation

Gemetar jariku di atas papan QWERTY
menelusuri baris-baris kode yang tumpang tindih.
Nafas sesak memikirkan operasi bitwise,
air mata pun meleleh terbakar 2 juta pixel dari layar LCD.

Di mana salahku?

Ingin rasanya kutekan Command-Q (Alt-F4 di Windows),
sejenak lupakan deadline yang menunggu-Q
dan merebah standby
kemudian login lagi..

- utk Noby mamanya Iman dan Erja -

Banyak yang bilang kalo takdir itu udah ditentukan. Beberapa di antaranya: jenis kelamin, ras, kekayaan, jodoh, dan mati/kiamat (pun) udah ditentukan. Bener gitu?

I don't know about other Virtual Machine, but I'm using VirtualBox. Maybe VMWare or Parallel Desktop can do it too, I haven't tried it. Let me know if anyone knows. (FYI, I'm doing it on my MacBook Pro running Leopard and Windows XP64).

The Setup

What you need:

• of course an extra monitor attached to your computer VGA Out,
• VirtualBox software, get it FREE for personal use here: http://www.virtualbox.org/,
• Windows OS (haven't tried other than XP64 though),
• an extra mouse and a keyboard (preferably Bluetooth, but theoretically you can use USB too).

Ok, let's begin!

But some of us are not that paranoid I guess. Let's take a look at the following Twitter screenshot. This user tweeting at heart beat and every tweet attached with a link to it's location!

I blurred it out, but you could notice the tweets are only 2 or 3 words sentences. "baby, I love U..", "taking a shower now", "at home", ..

per-minute basis, plus the link to the location on the maps. Hey! You're on public timeline, tweeple!

Imagine this user timeline:
"I'm cute, why he cheated! http://myloc.me/abcd" 2 hours ago.
"Broke up with my boyfriend http://myloc.me/efgh" 1 hour ago.
"It's late night. Going home http://myloc.me/ijkl" 1 hour ago.
"Damn waiting for the bus, alone. http://myloc.me/mnop" 5 minutes ago.

...

Advice:
Don't do that. Public pin your location wisely. Not every tweets worth location mapping, and not everything worth tweeting! (Ugh.. maybe even this post isn't worth tweeting either hahahah..)

Para bawahan, sama-sama di bawah, nasibnya sama keinjek. Tapi pas ada kesempatan untuk "nyeliding koncone dewe" ya mesti dilakukan. Daripada di-sliding duluan. Ya to?

Buat yang naif, masih lugu dan punya hati, tunggu sampai 10 atau 50 taun lagi untuk naik grade. Bagaimanapun besarnya dedikasimu, kalo bukan Calvin Klein ya gak bisa maju.

Calvin Klein*?

*orang yang sukses dan bangga sekali dengan namanya ditulis di celana dalem orang lain..

Melakukan Update dengan Deg-degan

Sebenarnya meng-update iPhone atau iPod sudah sangat biasa. Tinggal tancep ke computer, otomatis iTunes akan running dan melakukan update (hampir) tanpa interaksi dari user. Tapi ga tau kenapa waktu meng-update iPhone 3G ke versi 3.0, berulang-ulang iTunes gagal melakukan proses aktivasi! Atau mungkin server Apple overload? Wah, ga boleh terjadi! Server Apple harus sangat powerful untuk melayani Push Notification.

Push Notification

Adalah Background Apps yang begitu ditakutkan Apple. Ketika versi awal iPhone rilis, menurut mereka, Apps yang jalan di "belakang" bisa bikin batere cepet habis. Akhirnya memunculkan ide untuk mengganti Multi-tasking dengan alternatif lain, ya itu Push Notification. Hasilnya? Zero! Bahkan sampe dengan versi OS 2.2, Push tidak jalan sama sekali. Nah sekarang versi 3.0 muncul, yuk kita harapkan Push bener-bener bekerja dengan (tidak) baik. Aneh kan lagi asik main game, trus ada email masuk, baca email, eh.. game yang lagi kita mainkan otomatis close!

Btw, kenapa dengan Background Apps? Kalo kuatir batere cepet habis, User kan ga goblok. Jelas akan bijaksana "mana yang jalan" dan "mana yang jangan jalan". Ya to?

next,

Ada temenku, Bunga (bukan nama sebenarnya ;p) yang meng-kategorikan iPhone sama dengan batu jaman purba! Why? Ada 4 alasan dan alasannya masuk akal. iPhone tuh ga bisa MMS, Video Call, Video Rec, dan swapable memorycard..

Ok, mungkin memang gak beda sama batu! FYI, untuk Video Recording, iPhone bener-bener payah. Udah gak bisa nge-rekam video, auto brightness adjustment-nya turunan iSight, bego dan goblok.

Grutuan tentang iPhone 3G menyusul. Lagi proses penulisan.. (asal jangan sampe dituntut Apple, dan aku dipenjara kayak Ibu Prita)

Ok, back to topic. Improvement selanjutnya adalah..