Author: Aulia Masna

Former tech journo, used to write for Macworld, DailySocial, e27. Ex , ran a national startup initiative program in Indonesia. Very much into the news.

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Highly-Detailed ‘Star Wars’ Dioramas Featuring Scenes and Characters From the Films

Source: Laughing Squid

How to watch a video on Path without anyone knowing

Someone added Ultraman to the photo from yesterday

XL Axiata pulled its iPhone 5S/C price page

Last night I was tipped that XL Axiata had published its iPhone 5S/C pricing schemes. Suspecting that it was leaked early, I took screenshots and published both the link and the shot. I was later informed that it was indeed leaked and a few hours later the page was taken down.

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Apparently people at XL hadn’t realized the page was already published so it looked like that they scrambled as quick as they could late Saturday night to remove the page, probably gave it a different URL instead of taking it down completely.

As I said last night, the pricing plans for postpaid are almost identical to the US pricing which is excellent but the prepaid prices were a big step up. Turns out, the they were about 25% higher which I suppose isn’t too bad but is shocking nonetheless because it brings the 5S very close into MacBook Air territory.

The Rupiah’s fall against the greenback is perhaps the biggest contribution to the high prepaid prices (although if you go with the postpaid option, the total cost of ownership after 12 months would be within the same ballpark) and if the exchange rate had remained in the 9500-10500 per dollar, I’m sure the iPhones would be a bit more affordable.

Something in my head tells me that this was a set up though. That I was leaked the page specifically to gauge reaction to the prices. It just so happened that the tip came after I had tweeted asking whether people would buy an iPhone 5S if it were to start at Rp 9 million for prepaid. It ended up being 10.5 million and the 5C started at 8.7 million.

Will XL make changes now that it’s all been leaked?

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Update: it’s live, no change

– Read on Path.

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Researchers Are Totes Studying How Ppl Shorten Words On Twitter
Kat Chow, npr.org

Short­en­ing words, swap­ping them out, giv­ing them dif­fer­ent mean­ings — that’s not new. Remem­ber in Mean Girls when the queen bee char­ac­ter, Regi­na George, berat­ed one of her under­lings for try­ing to make the word “fetch” catch…

People are obv shortening words on Twitter due to the nature of the medium, but researchers have discovered that while this may be true in the beginning, certain abbreviations have become mainstays and used across the United States, at least on Twitter.

iPhone 5S/C pricing from XL – View on Path.

In case you missed the problem on this image, that is Naning’s post with Fajar’s caption from another post attached to it. Don’t know how Path for Windows Phone could get that mixed up. (Yes, it’s beta)

Additionally, this was posted from the iPhone because Path for WP can’t yet load photo galleries other than the Camera Roll and even then the order is oldest first, so if you wanted to post a recent pic, you have to scroll all the way down, and if you have thousands of pics, you’re screwed.

Beta software. Plenty of bugs. with naning and Fajar – View on Path.

So apparently this happened in central Jakarta. – View on Path.

Handing over my Nokia N9 to dad. He has little trouble adapting to the software keyboard while having to transfer his 70 or so contacts from his old monochrome Nokia.

In terms of ease of use, Nokia’s MeeGo is far superior to any Android even today. Everything is just so goddamn straightforward.

I’m still lamenting its cancellation. Really wished Nokia had managed to pull this off a year or two earlier. If it had come out in 2009, it could have seriously dented Android’s progress and throw public support back to Nokia. – View on Path.