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Baru aja Apple meng-update software iPhone versi 3.0. Bagi pengguna iPhone di Indonesia (khususnya penggemar Apple) udah pada tau kalo sistem operasi ini sangat dinantikan. Apa aja yang ditambahkan, diubah, atau bahkan dikurangi? Benarkah versi terbaru ini sesuai dengan yang diharapkan?

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?

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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..

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Kembali ke Lap.. top!

Kalo ada yang tanya "siapa paling ndeso dan katrok?", mungkin semua dah pada tau, Tukul. Bentuk orangnya, kata-katanya, logat dan semuanya wis, bener-bener menunjukkan ke-ndeso-an nya. Tapi ada satu hal yang kurang sesuai dengan katrok-nya. Kalimat di atas.

Kalo dibilang yang mempopulerkan Laptop adalah Tukul mungkin iya, mungkin juga nggak. Yang jelas sekarang ini di mana-mana sangat umum orang bawa Laptop. Dari pelajar, pegawai kantoran, sampe ibu-ibu rumah tangga! Ada yang untuk bekerja, untuk blogging, atau ahem.. untuk gaul.

Gaul?

Social Networking

Kalo dulu aku di-ketawa-in karena dianggap Nerdy (padahal nggak). Sekarang.. yang nggak nerd berarti nggak gaul!

Dulu:

• bawa disket (3.5" @1.4Mb) felt like a loser..
• "Eh, liat itu Beng-Beng.. Mau denger syntax error? Ngobrol aja sama dia"
• Akhirnya minder mau ngobrol sama cewek cakep, bingung, kita ngertinya cuma wordstar, lotus123, atau game Digger, dan prince of persia..

Sekarang:

• flash disk (8Gb) bentuknya Hello Kitty and.. Pink!
• "Eh Beng, Windows ku kenapa ya setiap buka Explorer muncul General Protection Fault Error?"
• "Temans, jangan lupa add aku yaa.. And Thanks for the Add" <--- kata-kata opo iki!??
• Kumpul sama orang, tetep bingung, obrolannya sekarang tentang memory yang habis dan partisi hardisk.

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Let me tell you something I always love. Playing games! (Oh, you already knew it). From easy play games like Dinner Dash, Sudoku, or ahem.. Solitaire. To hardcore games like Unreal Tournament, Diablo, Fallout, Final Fantasy, etc. Online or just offline.

Another thing I like a lot is speeding. Yes, on the street. I don't have access to a nearest racing track or joining a racing team. So speeding tickets are my collections now.

Anyway, to save my life for getting a car crash or motorbike accident, I do it electronically. On a computer I have played Need for Speed or Test Drive since it was on Floppy Disk and so Gran Turismo series on PlayStation Consoles. All games are offline.

Online Racing Games

For the past months I have done lots of research and googling around about online racing game. What I have found is unfortunate. Most of them are done quite simple Flash or Shockwave games and (honestly) they all look half-baked. I'm not saying it's bad. Also I can't say it's because they are easy play games. Far from it, the games are just one-time played and "Ok, that was fun. Next".

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For anyone into designing a bottle or any other packaging with volumes. This is a good trick to help you designing the packages. Most of you are already knew that the presentation of packaging takes a very significant part on the marketing side impact. How consumers are drawn on the packaging (without even know what’s inside those cute/nice packaging).

But there’s important thing to consider. The problem with designing a bottle is we have to know the volumes of the products. If the bottle has to be 250ml, it must be holding that much.

Supposedly we have a drinking company as our client. And they ask us to design a bottle for their new product, of course with no references to any other product available on the market. That’s why we are going to design our own fancy bottle shape. Great! We can do that. But the company specifically said their product would be 750ml in volume. It has to be that much, not less not even more.

So if we come up with a concept like the image below, how do we design a bottle that is 750ml in volume?

Weird design for a bottle eh? But hey, you’re the designer, not me ;p

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I’ve been using Adobe Illustrator CS, and CS3. And when they come up with their new CS4, I’m so excited! It’s jam packed a lot of nice feature like multiple Drawing Board (pages), and enhanced working experiences. But I just don’t understand the new Smart Guides! Really annoying.

I didn’t knew it at first. Working at something as usual. Then when it become quite big and it has so many vectors, I got frustrated by the so called Smart Guides. And I just realized all of the anchor, paths, and objects I’ve created before didn’t align very well!

The deadline is near and my drawing is ruined! WTF.

This is the video showing you how badly implemented the Smart Guides on CS4. I just want to align an anchor with another anchor I want! Not aligning with some random object’s center

Adobe please, at least look at how Corel Draw do a really Smart Guides. They’ve done it right. So when I move an anchor over another anchor, it detecting that I want to align with it.