Another #Mixare Snippet

Lately, there’s been quite an amount of traffic to my blog related to Mixare. So I figure why not share more insights. You are most welcomed to share too by commenting this or other Mixare posts. To be honest, I’ve been focusing my efforts with another yet closed source Augmented Reality viewer in Android. I will post a tutorial soon. From all the frameworks I got my hands on, I must say Mixare is the simplest and most definitely easier to implement than any other frameworks. I accentuated simple because the app itself is still very simple and in its early stages of development. I would be happy to have the ability to replace the circles in every POIs with an icon of my own. It’s a viewer, that’s it (for now). ...

May 12, 2010 · Batista Harahap

A #hackintosh for everyone hehe - Part 1

Today was a loooong day. Started the day with a meeting with @farry till late in the afternoon and went back to the office to do some more work for Android. Coupled with 3 very bad experiences in 1 day from XL, it’s a long and complete day. I thought why not make some fun by building a hackintosh? I have 2 unused PCs at home and I’m not wasting them. I decided to make a hackintosh from one of them. The specs for the PC I’m using are: ...

May 10, 2010 · Batista Harahap

XL Unlimited Internet Bundling - The Truth

Since the subscription started back in November 2009, I was happy. Now as it turns out, something so good couldn’t be that good. I’ve been their evangelist because of how satisfied I am with their unlimited internet package. Can you imagine I got 1Mbps with HSDPA coverage. A very good speed remembering the internet speed climate in Indonesia. Now I’m deeply disappointed. This past week, today was the second time I wasn’t able to get any internet. The first one happened mid-week and calling to 817 resolved the problem almost instantly. ...

May 7, 2010 · Batista Harahap

Brilliant Minds at #StartupLokal Gathering

This Thursday night is a moment where innovation and most importantly being local matters. The potentials and ideas that we as Indonesians have are off the chart and I mean that! Indonesian Startups need mentoring and that’s a confession. [caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“384” caption=“http://tweetphoto.com/21288092”][/caption] Every one of us either startups or well established online businesses are connected in a way that we NEED to bring out synergy between us. Each one of us brings something to the table. We are all strong in principle and our own ideas. The thing with ideas is that it can expand and grow into what once before unfamiliar territories. The idea started out small but actually it’s a nesting point for bigger ideas to be built upon. ...

May 6, 2010 · Batista Harahap

Using Your Nexus One as a 3G Wifi Router

I tweeted earlier because of seeing me just tapping & running Barnacle Wifi Tethering on my Nexus One while I was on the go to get Internet, my gf wants one. Here’s how to spice up your mobility with Nexus One. [caption id=“attachment_299” align=“aligncenter” width=“135” caption=“Scan to Download Barnacle”][/caption] When you got it installed, follow the steps below to use it: ...

May 5, 2010 · Batista Harahap

Rooting My Nexus One - Cyanogen Mod

Okay let me be straight up to you first, I rooted my Nexus One a few hours after I got it :) Here’s my experience rooting it. [caption id=“attachment_292” align=“alignnone” width=“274” caption=“Google Nexus One”][/caption] Before I start, while searching for a good picture of a Nexus One, I opened up Google’s official Nexus One web page. The Nexus One picture was actually a Flash applet lol. I hope this means that Google and Adobe are now soulmates lol. Would love to fire up Flash with my Nexus One. ...

May 5, 2010 · Batista Harahap

Coding with Code Igniter

Wow it’s been too long since I actually do any hands-on coding with PHP. This time I’m choosing Code Igniter as my framework of choice for an e-commerce project for one of Mediafusion’s client. [caption id=“attachment_287” align=“alignnone” width=“423” caption=“My Dreamweaver with CI Controller Codes”][/caption] After these past few weeks dwelling with complicated Java and all its glory, going back to my comfort zone, it felt great! I really feel that this is the right time to code in PHP again. It’s already giving me more coding confidence with Java. I mean if you’re stuck, go back to your roots and you might learn a thing or two to inspire you. ...

April 30, 2010 · Batista Harahap

Mixare Augmented Reality Tutorial

Good evening to you guys before I start. [flashvideo file=http://www.bango29.com/mixare.flv /] I’ve been in guerilla mode for Augmented Reality solutions these past few weeks and I found Mixare to be one of the best to date. It’s Open Source and have put enough knowledge in my head to make my own app. I wanna share the knowledge I got from Mixare. This is my contribution. Before starting, please make sure you have all the requirements of a regular Android development environment. I’m using Eclipse Galileo with Android SDK Tools Revision 5. My target build is for Android 2.1 API Level 7. ...

April 26, 2010 · Batista Harahap

XL Network Time Slightly Disrupted

Today around 6 PM in the evening, my Blackberry’s time was messed up. The time for no reason was changed to 00:00. I checked my Date/Time settings and found something not right. My operator is XL and what I like from XL is that it supports Network Time sync with my Blackberry. I choose to sync the time and what I found was the Network Time was set at the same 00:00 the next day as my Blackberry. Well it was actually 00:07. ...

April 26, 2010 · Batista Harahap

Augment YOUR Reality

Good evening! I’m liking my Nexus One, I’m sure you’ve read it over and over on my last posts. What’s really inspiring is the freedom to do just about anything you want with the phone. I love how I can just push my self-developed applications onto the phone just by using Eclipse. It makes it easier to do testings. No complicated code signing and or certificate applications needed. Anyways, these past few weeks, I’ve been developing an Augmented Reality application for a client. So far it’s been very challenging. Gotta learn new things fast and implement them as fast as I learn them. There are a lot of already available Augmented Reality apps out there with top names opening up their platform and giving developers their API. Here’s a video using Wikitude’s API. ...

April 25, 2010 · Batista Harahap