Dolanan : Let’s play games with Punakawan.

Hello and good night

2 weeks ago, me and my friend from flipboxstudio joined an event held by nokia and DepokMobi - Coding Nokia Asha 24 hours. We decided to create a collection of mini games with local taste called Dolanan.

Dolanan is originally a javanese word means Toy. The main characters are Punakawan (If you don’t know them, please search their information using your preferred search engine). With this game we hoped that a lot of people will experience fun with a bit of cultural inception (halah).

I like to keep things simple, so I won’t add more sentences to write  read. Instead, I’ll give you some images from the game. Enjoy!

Kuda Lumping – A photo essay

Good Night people!

this is a post I actually want to write quite long ago . . ( a month is quite long right? ) but I guess I don’t have the luxury of time to write it (TOTAL LIES!)

I don’t know where to start. . . but to make it short, I just want to present you a series of photos I made myself during last semester. It’s about Kuda Lumping, a traditional dance from java.

They say picture is worth a thousand words, and I’ll end my post here because of KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid!

checkout the thumbnails below, and download the full series here : (112MB)

new year, new resolution. . . or not

Hey, yo! it’s been long since I wrote on this blog. . . phew.

Well, I forgot to take care of this blog, mainly because I’ve been busy working I have a lot of activities like. . . watching movies, sleep, and others )

okay then. what’s new? 

First of all, Happy New Year folks!  Hope that this year we can do a lot better than last year.

Here’s what’s new :

Know hoodemia? well, probably not. Let me give you a brief explanation about it. It is a social network, from Indonesia with the ability to connect to your academic portal and other academic features. It’s currently on public beta, you can check it at hoodemia.com

What about it? Why do I suddenly talk about hoodemia?

It’s because 3 months earlier, I developed and android application for this brilliant social network (ehem).  Check it out here

Because the system itself is still at public beta, then the application is still incomplete. hope that I can complete it this year. Oh, and you can see the promotional video below. I made it myself.

enjoy!

wait, what about the title? I don’t see any relation between content and title? 

Like Shakespeare once said “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” totally an excuse :))

Fact Card : Do-Not-Track Mechanism

Background

Online tracking is a process of collecting and recording a user’s browsing habits. Online tracking has been a controversy, mainly about users’ privacy. The discussion about online tracking and its countermeasures has picked up a lot of opinions. In December of 2010, FTC staff members issued a draft report endorsing Do Not Track as one possible new approach for handling users’ online tracking.

Opinions

FTC argues that if Do Not Track mechanism is enacted then it will : 1) make privacy protection a more important part of business process; 2) require greater transparency about information the data companies are collecting and exactly what they’re doing with it; and 3) enable consumers to control their own privacy via a Do Not Track system.

But still there are some refusal, especially from online advertising firms, arguing that without the ongoing support of an ever-improving advertising infrastructure, consumers would no longer receive relevant and useful offers or enjoy free content and services across the Internet. And they say that research shows that consumers actually prefer more relevant ads, a preference that would be eliminated by DNT.

 so, here’s a fact card about this mechanism (click for a larger version) :

Source

1. Federal Trade Commission, “FTC Staff Issues Privacy Report, Offers Framework for Consumers, Businesses, and Policymakers,” (December 1, 2010). <http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/12/privacyreport.shtm> )
2. Electronic Frontier Foundation, “How Online Tracking Companies Know Most of What You Do Online (and What Social Networks Are Doing to Help Them),” (September 21, 2009). <http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/online-trackers-and-social-networks>
3. Electronic Privacy Information Centre, “Online Tracking and Behavioral Profiling,” (accessed September 16, 2011). <http://epic.org/privacy/consumer/online_tracking_and_behavioral.html#char>
4. Bloomberg Businessweek, “Do Not Track Me,” (accessed September 16, 2011). <http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2011/01/_pro_get_your_nose.html>
5. iMedia Connection, “The two sides of the Do-Not-Track controversy” (December 14, 2007). <http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/17760.asp>
6. Narayanan, Arvind, “There is no such thing as anonymous online tracking” (July 28, 2011). <http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6701>
7. Universal Web Tracking Opt Out, (accessed September 16, 2011). <http://donottrack.us/>

some kind of poster – using gimp

Hey!

today I received a good news. My simple poster got a 2nd place at Fasilkom Student Research Day and will go to OIM representing Fasilkom with Andika Amri’s poster (3rd place) and Ryan PP’s poster (1st place). This poster is about Independency . Well, for me being independent means work hard, take some initiative and be innovative. So I came up with some simple slogan “Mandiri itu, memecah kemalasan | menciptakan perubahan”.

I am proud to say that I create the poster with legal resources and legal softwares.

The facts :

1. I created this poster for +-30 minutes (maybe more. I don’t really remember)

2. I used Walkway font family. Which is a legal font to use, even for a commercial purpose.

3. I used GIMP and Inkscape as image and vector editor. Both are open source and free to use for any purpose.

4. I take another resource from free-royalty stock photos, which means you can use it for a commercial purpose.

5. Combined with my (nOOb) design skills, here is the outcome. click for a larger version.

 

want to have a look at the source? .xcf (gimp files). . . just leave a comment and your email address. thanks!

Fact Card : Lemon

Hola, folks. miss me?

(Okay, I know that there weren’t much people reading my blog. hahaha)

Actually, I don’t know what to share today but I haven’t write in this blog for quite long. After some time thinking, I decided to create something. A fact card. I know that’s not much to share, but I hope that it will have some use for you (I really hope that )

This is a fact card about lemon. Why Lemon? I don’t know. I just want to do it (ha-ha). I decided to write 5 facts – trivia, maybe – about lemon. Why 5? Same answer, I just want to give (only) 5 informations about this fruit.

So, here we go :

1. One fruit of lemon contains a full day’s supply of vitamin C

One lemon contains a full day’s supply of ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, but that’s thewhole fruit; the juice holds about a third. Lemon juice is also about 5 percent citric acid, making it a natural for slowing the browning or oxidation of fresh, raw foods: apples, avocados, bananas, and other fruits. That power, and the C, makes the lemon a real health fruit. ( from  http://pendek.in/iy1)

2. Use pure lemon juice on wasp and bee stings to relieve pain

Some people love antiseptics and would apply it to their skin whenever they have the smallest cut. The good news is you can use lemon on cuts too since it’s nature’s antiseptics. Not only that, because of its styptics property, it is said that lemon could be applied on cuts to stop bleeding. ( from http://pendek.in/iy2 )

3. Drinking lemon juice is useful for people with heart problem – because of its high potassium content.

If you have high blood pressure, heart failure, or heart rhythm problems, getting enough potassium is especially important. And although potassium and cholesterol aren’t directly related, eating a potassium-rich diet just might lower your cholesterol, too. (from http://pendek.in/iy4 )

4. Lemon act as blood purifier and improves the body’s ability to get rid of toxins.
It is an antiseptic, or is an agent that prevents sepsis [the presence of pathogenic bacteria] or putrefaction [decomposition of tissue]. It is also anti-scorbutic, a term meaning a remedy which will prevent disease and assist in cleansing the system of impurities. (from http://pendek.in/iy5 )

5. Use the peels to clean household utensils from rust and mineral stains

Lemon juice is about 5 to 6 percent citric acid and has a pH level of between 2 and 3. This low pH acidity makes lemon juice a great ally in breaking down rust and mineral stains, but gentle enough to not dull finishes. There is generally sufficient juice left in used lemon halves to tackle small tasks, and it all comes with its own applicator (the rind itself).  ( from http://pendek.in/iy6 )

 

and this is the card. simple? yes. small? click for the full version.

Langkah Proklamasi, Seberapa hafal dirimu dengan sejarah negaramu?

MERDEKA!

Sekarang tanggal 17 Agustus, yang merupakan Hari Kemerdekaan Negara Indonesia. Presiden Soekarno pernah menyampaikan pidato dan jargon jasmerah  - jangan melupakan sejarah. Bertepatan dengan hari kemerdekaan Indonesia yang ke-66 ini, berapa banyak sejarah mengenai proklamasi yang kita ketahui?

Dengan latar belakang tsb, saya membuat sebuah aplikasi android sederhana yang menguji (dan mengingatkan) pengetahuan kita akan sejarah proklamasi Indonesia. Aplikasi ini berbentuk quiz pilihan ganda.

Mohon maaf dengan kesederhanaan aplikasi ini karena saya tidak terlalu berbakat dalam seni desain grafis

Silahkan download .apk nya di sini (4shared)   atau link langsung deh : http://www.4shared.com/file/xJeHvmv6/LangkahProklamasi.html :  dan langsung jalankan dengan smartphone anda untuk mengetahui seberapa hafal anda dengan sejarah bangsa Indonesia.

Kritik dan saran akan diterima dengan tangan terbuka

Ramadhan Update – Just Another Application for You

Hi there folks!

long time no see . . . (#eaa)

well, recently I’m busy doing my work on Kompas Gramedia, ( creating National Geographic for Honeycomb application ). since my work is almost done ( waiting for my friends to commit the recent updates ), suddenly I want to create some simple application. It started yesterday.. I didn’t have anything to do, and suddenly my brain yells “DUDE! Just create something, anything. Or you’ll die because of boredom” -hahahahah

long story short, I create this : Ramadhan Update

What does it do?

1. The main feature (Update) . . is, fetching news from around the internet. and I chose Kompas, Detik, Republika, Tempo and VivaNews. some are RSS feed, and some are just web view. just try them

2. Jadwal sholat for Jakarta (you have to download it first before you can use it offline) . . . I guess I don’t have to explain it anymore xD

3. Ramadhan Quiz – A simple quiz about ramadhan (currently there are only a few questions. I’ll update it later). and you have to download it first before you can use it offline

4. Panduan Puasa Ramadhan – Some articles to help you understand about Ramadhan. I’ll update it later. and you still (again) have to download it first before you can use it offline

5. Streaming Qur’an . . a feature to do some AL Qur’an’s streaming from web (Currently there are only few surah. update it later)

6. Panduan Puasa Ramadhan –  Full Article . . . Actually the 4th point are just some section of this article. because it’s too long xD

7. Share on facebook. please share and spread this application. pretty please xD

I guess that’s all

download and test it if you like. . download the apk here

enjoy!

WAIT! almost forgot, here’s the screenshots (haha)

Bg Music : Summer Sky – Ari Firman

A Blog : available on OVI Store.

 Dude, this is soo cool.

When I made this app using oviappwizard , I didn’t actually think that this app will be approved. But one day, I received email from some ovi store guy telling me that this app has been approved and ready to download.

So, without further ado, Let me present you : A Blog -an official app for this blog-   Enjoy it here.

bg music : space-dye-vest -DT-

This blog is going mobile..

Hi There!

after some time with no post, here I come

today I found something very interesting. an article on how to create a symbian and android application for your blog.

It’s very simple and didn’t take time.

this is the screenshot of my first symbian app :

If you want to install this app, follow the screenshot below

The link :  http://oviappwizard.com/get.jsp?pp=6812da

as for the android app, I’m still waiting for the registration to complete. maybe I’ll update it later.

If you have any question regarding this post, feel free to contact me.

enjoy!