Thursday, May 8. 2008
Ass ?
Pesan singkat itu datang pagi tadi dari seorang kawan baru. Pesannya tidak penting, tapi ada kata di dalam pesan itu yang membuat saya tersenyum simpul.
“ASS..”
Dia mengawali dan mengakhiri pesannya dengan kata itu. Sebagai seorang muslim (Insya Allah) saya tahu lah maksudnya. Sebuah ucapan salam sekaligus juga doa yang disarankan ketika kita berinteraksi dengan sesama muslim.
Sering saya menerima sms yang diawali dengan ucapan seperti itu, yang disingkat dengan cara seperti itu. Ada juga memang yang menuliskannya dengan lengkap dan pastinya panjang. Tapi ada juga yang menyingkatnya menjadi “Aslmk“, “Asslm“, “Slmlkm“, “Salam” atau ada juga beberapa kawan di Singapura yang selalu menulis ucapan salamnya dengan “Akum“.
Tapi menulisnya dengan singkatan “Ass” ? Hmm.. gimana gitu rasanya, hehehe..
Apa pendapat anda?
You’ve got a Tweet!
Started over a few weeks ago, I got back to my Twitter account. Despite the fact I have been a member of this service more than a year ago, frankly speaking, I didn’t use it regularly. Twittering two times a month is a kind of luxury thing for me.
So why did I finally come back to Twitter? My answer is simple: I started to use Twitter as well as other social networking service in order to expand my networking, to looking for more friends, to find out more strangers.
What is Twitter?
According to Wikipedia:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.
Right now, I frequently send my Twitter messages from my BlackBerry Curve 8310 (rather than its web version in PC). I am using both GTalk and TwitterBerry-client.
If you’re on IM all day anyway, why not read and receive Tweets? GTalk is an excellent application for this.
But, for writing Twitter messages, I prefer using TwitterBerry that kindly always reminded me to write less than 140 characters (which GTalk can’t do).
Ah yeah, I am also putting a Twitter badge in the sidebar of this blog.
You can follow me through Twitter by adding this: http://twitter.com/budip .
Happy twittering!
in, don't cry
Tonight’s Prayer
Dear God,
Please help those who are suffering from sicknesses, natural disasters, and being persecuted.
Please grant me compassion to all suffering creatures in the universe.
Please grant me the wisdom to be both humble and dignified, not one way or the other.
Please grant me the courage to end things that’s not blessed by You.
Amen.
Review on EP2502, the waterproof watchphone
Its name is EP2502. Behind this not-so-beautiful name, there is a fact which we couldn’t hardly denied that; this is the first waterproof watch phone. Guess what, this gadget comes from China by Kintech (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. Viva Chinese!
Unlike most of watchphones out there, this gizmo probably the first species which dare to covered its engine with metal.
Here is the quick list on its specs:
Cool Features:
- OLED screen: 1.3 inch OLED 260k
- Resolution:128 x 160 pixel touching panel
- Water proof
- Shock-proof
- Languages: English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, turkish, portuguese, french, chinese
- Standby: english, thailand, dutch, german, russian, vietnamese,c hinese, rabbinic, etc.
- Ring tone: 64 polyphonic; support format: mp3/midi/wav
- Incoming ring tone, incoming photo, incoming movie
- Music format: mp3
- Movie format: mp4, full screen
- Camera: 2.0 MP
- T-flash support: free 512 T-Flash card. extend to 2 GB
- Bluetooth function: supported
- Picture format: jpg/gif
Basic phone functions:
- notebook 250 groups
- message: sms and mms supported
- switch on/off: user-defined supported
- alarm: mp3 alarm
- game: picture mosaic
- other functions: mp3/mp4/hand free/message group sent/voice take/mmsa/nti incoming ring wall
Basic parameter
Basic Technology
- network: GSM, GPRS, and WAP
- frequency: 900/1800/1900mhz
- call time: about 3 hour
- standby: about 160 hour
With $299 in price tag, we can only hope that this stuff will give Kintech a good result in term of sales. Because if it isn’t, then probably people just don’t like to make call or doing any things mobile like Jason or Billy from Power Rangers Team. But if you intended to have one, go to Surprising Gift for more information.
Source: Gizmodo, Phones Review, and Surprising Gift
Image courtesy of Phones Review
Media Player for Android has come
Famous iPhone App, TuneWiki is available for Android too.
After Opera delivered their favorite mini browser to Android, now a company called TuneWiki had also did the same by ported their famous iPhone app, TuneWiki to Android.
Yesterday, TuneWiki, one of the most popular third party developers for iPhone had announced a special media player application for Android. Interesting features from this app such as an iPhone-escue interface, sync-support with the famous Apple iTunes and karaoke lyric functionality that put them on map. Yet any other good news for Google.
The player itself, though still in beta and need a lot of improvement, has passed TuneWiki’s test very well. You can watch this demo via YouTube here.
What makes TuneWiki comes to 3GWeek is because they have successfully team up with Universal Music to provide lyrics legally. But it doesn’t stop there since other labels will be in into the list too.
Future of TuneWiki media player
Now, I just want to predict here that tomorrows will be a very shiny day for those guys on TuneWiki since Android will become an open platform. With the powerful Google’s brand name and support from major cellphone makers like HTC, LG, and Motorola, TuneWiki may have a chance to become Android most popular media player by then. Competing with other big media players like iTunes in iPhone or Windows Media Player in Windows Mobile OS.
Source: Washington Post via TechCrunch
Image courtesy of MacMagazine
Naruto ? Sandra Dewi ? Man U ? Kesurupan
entah apa yang mengilhami yahoo!indonesia mobile untuk menampilkan 4 keywords : naruto, sandra dewi, man u dan kesurupan dalam hot oneSearch nya dia.
apalagi keyword keempat sama sekali ga nyambung dengan 3 keyword sebelumnya,
Tumis Kangkung di Pagi Hari...
Bukan makan enak melainkan memasak untuk makanan sendiri. Pengaruh krismon, harga minyak yang semakin membubung tinggi serta rencana pemerintah menaikkan harga BBM membuat saya berusaha mengurangi biaya hidup yang keluar dari makan diluar. Salah satu upayanya adalah memasak sendiri. Selain mengurangi biaya (meski kadang jadi lebih mahal
) juga jauh lebih nikmat dan lebih personal.
Kalau isteri sedang tidak sibuk, isteri memasak untuk saya. Kalau sibuk ya saya masak sendiri. Pretty Simple.
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Mitsubishi plan to open factory in India
This is Mitsubishi D904i cellphone for NTT DoCoMo. Will Indian like it?
If Samsung had just planned to open more stores in India by this year, than Mitsubishi have another good idea. This Japanese Giant want to establish cellphone factory in West Bengal by 2010. Oh yes, good news for wanna be labour there.
This is of course because one thing most of us already know; that India is becoming world’s fastest growth country in term of wireless subscribers with their 10 million user base per month. For this Bengal-based factory, Mitsubishi has pull together with Indian local-based cellphone manufacturer, GeePee Infotech Pvt Ltd.
Bijay Agarwal, managing director of GeePee said that this project will start by the end of May. It will cost Mitsubishi for about Rs. 1 billion. That’s actually pretty big, but still far away from their chemical plant which worth Rs. 30 billion at the same place.
After leaving their homeland cellphone battleship, I think India will be a good market for Mitsubishi to start their cellphone’s new adventure. If they did it, then Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG are waiting to make some fight here.
Have a nice fight Mitsu …. just be careful Ok.
Source: Thai Indian
Image courtesy of ITech News
Mengaktifkan Multimedia Playback pada Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
Berikut adalah cara singkat untuk mengaktifkan paket multimedia pada Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Seperti halnya OpenSUSE, Ubuntu secara default tidak menyertakan paket multimedia mengingat beberapa library merupakan komponen yang bersifat restricted format. Turunan Ubuntu yang memiliki kemampuan multimedia out of the box adalah LinuxMint.
Aktivasi multimedia playback ini meliputi file mp3, aac, DVD, mp4, avi, wmv dan beberapa format lainnya. Multimedia playback ini juga akan menambahkan codecs untuk melakukan ripping file mp3 menggunakan encoder lame dan untuk membuat DVD/CD musik. Sekedar pengingat, k3b (aplikasi CD/DVD burner) akan memberikan notifikasi jika belum ada codecs yang memuat library multimedia.
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Fab Writing: The Father of All Memoirs on Slate.com
Excellent writing. In-depth analyses and strong voice. Here on Slate.com. A Culture Box article, one that freelancers can break into.
I want to tell you about a memoir I read not long ago. It’s about how this guy grows up in a family on the far fringes of Protestant evangelism. His mother dies of cancer when the kid, an only child, is 7, and after that his father, a scientist whose view of all things becomes warped by his religious fanaticism, single-handedly tries to mold him into a sort of pint-sized holy man. The kid is bright and interested in the world around him, but the father essentially barricades him—not letting him read anything secular, and keeping him away from all other kids, and pretty much all human contact outside the church, till the age of 10 or 11. Eventually the boy, in a moving and heroic decision, realizes he has to make a break with his father, who is not only his whole family but pretty much his whole world.
Anyway, it’s a swell book—certainly one of the best of ‘07.
1907, that is.
David Blaine: Mentalist and Endurance Artist
Watch David Blaine’s “Drowned Alive” video
Somewhere in a parallel universe (think “worm holes”), I’m a mentalist and an endurance artist. Like David Blaine. He is a mysterious stranger, so strong and resilient, whose eyes are as sharp as an eagle’s.
My David Blaine. 
