My Top 10 Favorite Tech In 2010

Just like everyone else @parislemon, I too want to list top 10 of my favorite tech in 2010. Although I may not own some of the items but they’re still my fav and will be mine sooner or later. In no particular order:

  1. Apple iPhone 4 — Oh come on, like you didn’t see this coming. iPhone has always been in my drool list. With addition of Cydia and Hackulous, my iPhone still rocking like a bad ass and acts as a chick magnet. 
  2. Apple iPad — Magical and Revolutionary product. Great for travelling, meetings, and most probably playing with nephews and nieces.
  3. BlackBerry — Errr.. society forced me to use BBM. Oh wait, and SocialScope.
  4. Drobo — This device is for my bandwidth hunger, stores all my files in 1 simple box. Too bad no local distributor have this in their stores. Had to order overseas.
  5. MacBook Air — Sexy, Thin, Light, did I mention Sexy? 256GB SSD is ftw and 13” with 1440x900 resolution is Sexy. Too much Sexy?
  6. Honda CR-Z — I don’t own a must-have car but I own a must-have car garage. And this hybrid has to be in it. 
  7. Instagram — THE app for photo sharing. Instagram totally changed the game for photo sharing, even our behaviour in social media. Everywhere I go, my mind thinks of Instagram-material first, no longer check ins nor status updates first. And what makes it even more fun, it’s exclusively for iOS device for now, feels like you’re in a billionaire club.
  8. Twitter — Tweet tweet tweet tweet since 11 March 2007. Yea that’s when I first joined Twitter
  9. Kinect — Ever since Wii came out with nunchucks and you can do amazing silly things with it, I’m fascinated what technologies lies beneath it. 
  10. Google Reader — Always wanted to hit that ‘Mark All as Read’ button but end up reading all 1000+ unread feeds constantly. I’m starting to like ‘Sort by magic’ now, skim couple of articles, then ‘Mark All as Read’ >:)

Honorable mentions:

Ok I lied, apparently when I’m writing this there’s A LOT of things that I want. What’s your fav tech this year? Don’t like my list? Make your own.

The Case of Blogging

When I was a little boy, everyone (who doesn’t have a penis) in my school had diaries. They come in many different sizes and colors, but popular ones are pinks and reds. Inside, you’ll find doodlings, boys names, shapes of hearts, and if you’re lucky, you’ll find amazingly long rants about how a specific boy broke one’s heart. How do I know this? I have a friend (who doesn’t have a penis) which tells me all these things, she even showed me some of these diaries.

Writing, drawing, doodling, ranting, recording a video or whatever you call it is the what everyone knows now (or part of it) as blogging. I’m not gonna talk about micro-blogging or super-duper-tiny-audio-hip-blogging, just blogging in general, for now. Or perhaps the technically correct word is long post. The dubbed ‘Father of blogging’ here, Mr. Enda Nasution, said:

Blog merupakan kependekan dari Weblog dimana seseorang bikin log dari perjalanan di web.

In translation, it’s a chronological one’s log jotted down on the web. We even have a National Blogger Day which occurs every October 27th and an annual event to proudly say “we’re bloggers! we’re elite! yaay!” called Pesta Blogger. Somewhere in 2009, I tweeted this:

‘Blogger’ is not an elite term anymore, stop abusing it. #buzzmarketingkeyword

Why? Because everyone’s been yelling about the rise of bloggers, how bloggers are the it thing, etc, at that time. Thumbs up for the first Pesta Blogger 2007 by Bubu in Blitzmegaplex, they rounded up around 2000 people if I remember correctly. In 2007, blogger is what you know now as trending topic. In 2009, people who write crap or don’t know that all they write are crap still call themselves blogger. In 2010, do you (still) call yourself a blogger? No disrespect to word smiths or journalists out there, but I’m just sayin’.

I’m not a blogger, let alone a writer, I barely write anything longer than 140 chars. All I do is re-everything; retweet, reblog, rewrite, repost, re-everything. I’m too damn lazy to write a long post. Blogger now has shifted into social media, disbursted into 140 chars. No longer we see bloggers update their blog every day, unless you’re a news site. What we see now are 140 chars at a time, no longer 1 post at a time, it’s one hundred forty characters. 140 is the new long post.

Hats off to those of you who still run the spirit of true blogging, middle fingers to you fakers. So, Indonesia, are you (really) a blogger?

Anak Alay

jadi “ALAY” itu..
1. selalu ngerasa paling tau tentang musik.

2. tongkrongannya di pinggir pinggir jalan (yang cewek godain cowok,yang cowok godain cewe yang lagi lewat)

3. kalo di mall selalu bawa headset buat dengerin lagu lewat handphone(suka pamer ga jelas & sok asik gitu deh).

4. sok EMO tapi ditanya sejarahnya emo ga tau.

5. sok pengen ‘gaul’ mau ngikutin tren yang sekarang tapi terlalu LEBAY (cth: nge-mix baju ga kira kira ; baju ijo, celana kotak kotak, sepatu merah,kacamata biru! NORAK !)

6. dimana mana selalu ada acara yg namanya ‘putu putu narziz’ (entah itu di sekolah, WC, mobil, kamar, stasiun, angkot,dll).

7. fotonya ga nahan smua! (dengan gaya di imut imutin,dideketin lampu biar ‘terang bgt’,foto deket bgt dari wajah *biar jeleknya ga keliatan*,foto dari atas *biar kelihatan keren kali ya*,dll..pokoknya yang bisa bikin ENEG semua orang)(kamera VGA aj sok sokan)

8. buat cewek tiap hari kerjaannya ngomongin ttg cowooooooooo mulu! (cth: eh tau ga si A tadi gini loh sama gue hahaha lucu bgt ya? *ga lucu!)(yah pokoknya sok pamer gitu deh*berasa cantik)

9. buat cowok..tiap hari kerjaannya cari musuh(ribut) mulu sama temen temen cowoknya yg lain *biar dianggep keren gitu*

10. di friendster.. bagi yang cewek di ff nya majang cowok cowok ganteng semua *meski ga kenal,biar dianggep cantik & gaul* kalo yg cowok ya majang ffnya cewek semua*walau ga kenal* biar dikata cowok ganteng. IH JIJAY!

11. T U L I S A N
> - iya : ia
> - kamu: kamuh, kammo, kamoh, kamuwh, kamyu, qamu, etc
> - aku : akyu,aq,akko,akkoh,aquwh,etc
> - maaf: mu’uph,muphs,maav,etc
> - sorry: cowyie,cory,tory(?),etc
> - add : ett,etths,aad,edd,etc
> - for : vo,fur(zz),pols,etc
> - lagi : agi,agy
> - makan: mums,mu’umhs,etc
> - lucu : lutchuw,uchul,luthu,etc
> - siapa: cppa,cp,ciuppu,siappva,etc
> - apa : uppu,apva,aps,etc
> - narsis: narciezt,narciest,etc
> &&& masih bnyak lagi!

12. suka ngirim bulbo ga jelas di fs :”akko onlenndh dcnniih” ato “ayokk perang cummendh cmma saiia” etc (paling parah lagi kalo ngirim bulbo dengan judul “BAJINGAN” tapi isinya kosong!) ih kampret bner deh tu orang orang alay.

13. menganggap dirinya eksis di friendster (kalo comments banyak itu berarti anak gaul jadi lomba banyak-banyakan comment) *please deh ga bgt! emang kenapa coba kalo commentnya banyak?dapet rekor muri ya? ga penting bgt deh..

14. kalo ada org yg cuman view profil kita , kita bilang gini : “hey cuman view nih?” ato “heey jgn cuman view doang,add dong!“ (kalo emang segitu pentingnya orang nge-ADD buat kita..kenapa kita ga nge-ADD dia waktu kita mau ngasih testi?)-__-

15. friendster dipenuhi glitter-glitter norak yang pastinya bisa ngerusak retina mata zz

16. nama friendster mengagung -agungkan diri sendiri,seperti : pRinceSs cuTez,sHa luccU,tIkka cAntieqq,etc. (pede bgt sih?)

17. kata /singkatan selalu diakhiri huruf z/s (cth : nama adalah talitra,dbuat jadi : talz. nama adalah niken,dibuat jadi qens..dsb!)

18. foto di friendster bisa nyampe 300 lebih padahal cuman foto DIRINYA SENDIRI

19. diam diam mengidolakan : kangen band, st12, radja, ato bahkan GARNET BAND -_-

20. suka menghina orang lain yang ga sama kaya dia.

21. tulisannya GedE-kEcIL norak

22. kemana-mana make boxer(biasanya gmbr ganja,biar di blg gaul),atasan sweater,ga lupa make topi gambar ganja jg biar d bilang petani ganja kali

23. naek motor pada blaga kebut2an ambil goyangin pantat biar dikira kayak pembalap. motorny gk pake spion,knalpot racing yg bkn kuping lo budek parah,gk lupa jg stiker ‘46’(biar diblg valentino rossi ya). biasanya dilakukan dengan efek menggoyang2kan bokong

24. klo jalan kaki psti rame-rame,trus tangannya ga bisa diem, suka metikin daon d pohon ato metik buah orang.

25. tiap malem minggu suka sok mabok di pinggir jalan, pdhl cma minum anggur kolesom.

26.rambutnya pirang matahari.dan kayaknya bau deh

27.kalo cowok biasanya pake baju ketat, terkadang tanpa lengan yang tujuannya entah pamer otot atau bulu ketek. celana tanggung kotak2 dan sepatu yg diinjek belakangnya tanpa kaos kaki.

29.kalo cewek biasanya pake baju yg sok2 kebuka warna ngejreng yang menarik perhatian(mau muntah), kadang pake sepatu plastik transparan.

30.jika anda perhatikan aksesoris mereka, memakai kalung rantai yg biasa d pake anjing, gelang yg astaga bnyknya kayak dukun gypsi, dan kadang ada juga yang pake rantai dompet penghubung kemaluan dengan bokong mereka yang tujuannya entah untuk apa.

31.kalo berhadapan dengan lawan jenis biasanya rasionya berat sebelah, omongan jadi sok asik, dengan pola sok aksi

32.kalo udah nemu lawan jenis biasanya jadi lebay, ngerokok2, ngelawak jayus, bahkan terkadang dilanjutkan dengan poin nomer 2

Ngerasa salah satu poin diatas?

Update (Nov 16, 2010):

I found the above points somewhere eons ago. Gue rasa udah banyak perubahan anak alay jaman friendster dulu sampe jaman facebook/twitter/foursquare/7eleven sekarang yang notabene kata “alay” itu hanya gantiin kata “abg”. Coba deh inget-inget.. “ih banyak anak abg di pim”, sekarang “alay banget sih loe nongkrong di 7eleven mulu cuma beli slurpee” :-)

Why you should NOT buy Telkomsel iPhone 3G… yet

First of all, let me just say I’m an Apple fanboy and iPhone is truly a holy device that just made me jizz my pants when his Steveness first announced it at Macworld January 2007. Now it’s been like 2 years and 2 months since the words “an ipod, a phone, an internet communicator” uttered from the long black-sleeve guy and Telkomsel finally announced it’s official launch in Pacific Place Mall on 20-22 March, 2009. Secondly, I’m not a Telkomsel user but my dad is.

A couple weeks ago Telkomsel had an online registration page where you could register to pre-order iPhones and given the opportunities to own the holy device earlier than mere mortals. Long story short, I signed up, confirmed my registration and ready to pick up my iPhone at my desired time, March 22 at 6pm, cos it’s Sunday and I would’ve known what to do from the launch on Friday. I came up to the information booth knowing that many disgruntled customers who:

  • Thinks the offered plan was a bit pricey.
  • Rather buy or stick with Blackberry.
  • Only given the option to buy the prepaid plan despite already a Halo customer (some got mad and insisted to get the post-paid plan and succeeded).
  • Waited in line for too long then decided to leave.
  • Don’t have credit card but willing to pay cash.

Customers who actually got home with a brand spanking new shiny iPhone 3G simply put up with the above conditions. Since I’m no Telkomsel user but I do want the post-paid plan, my plan was to get the Turbo plan using my dad’s HALO, downgrade it to 2.2 (Telkomsel iPhone 3G comes with firmware 2.2.1, until this writing there’s no unlock solution for 2.2.1), yellowsn0w (app used for unlocking the iPhone 3G) it, and most definitely jailbreak it.

Aaaanyway, this guy in the tent said my dad’s Tsel number is not in the list of so-called ‘selected kartuHALO customer’ and told me to get the iPhone from GraPARI starting tomorrow, March 23. Well fuck, why was I not given this information earlier when the stupid emails told me to hurry-sign-the-fuck-up-so-u-can-own-it-on-launch-day. Here’s the quoted email:

Silahkan klik link di bawah ini untuk memilih waktu pembelian iPhone 3G pada saat peluncuran di akhir pekan. http://www.telkomsel.com/iphone/iphone_menu_conf.php – perlu diingat bahwa hanya mereka yang telah mendaftar yang akan bisa membeli iPhone 3G.

Did it say that only selected customers eligible for the post-paid plan? Hell no! I argued the fuck out of the guy whom I asked his full name but he only answered “Budi” and still wouldn’t tell me his full name. This Budi seems like a nice guy high ranking officer from Telkomsel and insisted me to buy the iPhone tomorrow from GraPARI which they have yet to check my dad’s Tsel number first to see if it’s eligible or not. I asked the guy to write the supervisor name of a specific GraPARI which I’m about to go to and eventually left the booth empty handed while everyone’s looking at me. I have become one of the disgruntled customer.

So I’ve been thinking and here’s a few things on getting the Telkomsel iPhone 3G now:

  • Apple - Telkomsel deal isn’t exclusive and other carriers might also sell these bad boys and one specific XL’s executive can shove it up his ass.
  • There’s been rumors that this year’s WWDC Apple will release a new version of iPhone. Rumors include a new video camera, background tasks, etc and of course the just-announced OS 3.0.
  • Although there’s TONS of iPhone apps in the Apple Store, only a few local apps are available. Hopefully there are more and more high quality local apps so the rest of the world knows we have some pretty kick-ass developers.

Still wanna buy the iPhone 3G? You must be a rich fucker. Now that I’m at my inner peace, I sure as hell gonna wait till the new version comes out, pretty happy with my super slick 8900 for now. May the force be with you, assholes.