Batista Harahap

Okay I just got myself a Google Nexus One from one of the best Indonesian community in the WWW. Kaskus' FJB is the most exciting e-commerce website for Indonesians. I’m still waiting for my Android SDK downloads to finish and I though why not blog about my new toy :) While unboxing the N1, I noticed that the packaging is quite sleek with Google colors accentuated just enough to have a Googlish feeling about the box. [Read More]

Okay, To all of you who received an email from tistaharahap [at] gmail [dot] com earlier this evening around 2.15 AM (GMT +7), please ignore it. It was sent without me knowing. I don’t know how the sender got my password but the emails certainly got my signature in every emails the sender sent. [caption id=“attachment_240” align=“alignnone” width=“340” caption=“The Sender was from Poland”][/caption] I’ve never been from Poland and the country should be in a state of national grieve but someone from there (according to the log above) used my GMAIL account. [Read More]

Okay, I’m telling you guys why the RIM Inactive Use or User message is a hoax. I hate broadcast messages because it is like a robotic message being ping-ponged around without any soul in it. Well here’s why it’s a hoax: This is the most important reason: YOU PAID FOR YOUR BLACKBERRY SERVICE! Indonesians are lucky our BB Service plan is unlimited data plan for a fixed rate. Elsewhere in the world, people are capped by the Megabytes of data they send and receive. [Read More]

Update: 14 April 2010 - A certain engineer from Biznet called me this afternoon. He was one of the engineers who were responsible for a great Yahoo OHD 2009 Internet connection. He sensibly told me that it was indeed a flaw in their recent policy change and that all MetroNET 1 Mbps accounts are experiencing the same thing. He said there will be a policy change yet again this Saturday so I’m gonna keep my fingers crossed. [Read More]

On my last post, I mentioned the definition of Augmented Reality (AR). Now I’m adding the word Mobile to it. At the current time, platforms that I’ve tried to developed upon supporting AR are iPhone and Android. Well actually I coded once and used Titanium Developer to make the actual executable files for each platform. Titanium offers current web standards as a mean to create those mobile applications. I’m now using Titanium Developer 1. [Read More]

This year 2010 is set to be a cloudy year! Why? Well it’s practically the year where everything cloudy are launched. Web Development has never been so fun and so fresh before. The mobile world is getting its taste of how The Web will change its course. [caption id=“attachment_181” align=“aligncenter” width=“282” caption=“Web 3.0”][/caption] Over the years, your mobile phone anywhere in the world has been a primary need in metropolitans. When it’s came to this stage, mobile phones are practically a part of our daily routines. [Read More]

I've known about Panoramic Photography for quite a while but 3D Panoramic Photography, that's something new. For the last year I've been focusing my efforts to study about the techniques involved. The worst part of the hobby is the pricing. Everything is NOT reasonably priced! This kind of photography is considered niche for tripod head makers and they overprice their products to the point where it is becoming a significant barrier for amateurs. [Read More]

Ok it’s been a few months since my last post. Just a few days ago I was looking at the statistics for Bango29.com and I found some interesting numbers like so: Each month the number of visits peaked at 30%. Especially around February when I started to guerrilla my way posting technology related tweets with my @tista twitter account. Bango29.com is mostly visited by visitors from Russia, accounting for roughly 52% of the total pageviews. [Read More]

Back in November 2009, Yahoo! South East Asia held its first Yahoo! Open Hack South East Asia event. It’s an event for web developers to explore their minds using web tools & services hosted by Yahoo. They are launching arrays of services that will definitely leverage the web applications you are building. Contestants were registered from around South East Asia, guessed who won the competition? An Indonesia of course! Be proud Indonesians! [Read More]

How do you digest the word online nowadays? It has shifted definitely from its initial meaning. Back when The Internet was in its early stages, the term online is associated with its antonym. Yes you guessed it right: offline. Being online is a state of connectivity, while offline indicates a disconnected state. Today the term online has matured its audience and it is becoming more and more a lifestyle of people on the go. [Read More]