This update to the Bible, which was just released by God and Jesus, clarifies several controversial positions. Update recommended.
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.
One of the best games of all time
Did You Know Gaming? – Goldeneye 007
I’ve never heard most of this stuff, but I am probably the most surprised to hear multiplayer was snuck in within the last month and a half of work. That was the game.
You Saw This Coming of the Day: Game of Thrones Premiere Downloaded Over 1M Times
With more than 4.2 million downloads per episode, Game of Thrones was the most pirated television show of 2012. However, less than 24 hours after the HBO epic fantasy show’s third season premiere, TorrentFreak reported the episode had already been downloaded more than a million times, with one torrent having more than 160,000 simultaneous connections. No torrent has had that many connections since September 23rd, 2008, when more than 144,000 people downloaded the third season premiere of Heroes at once.
TorrentFreak also broke down the locations of the pirates, finding that Australia had the highest piracy rate while London had the highest concentration of pirates amongst major cities. Despite the massive amounts of downloads, the television premiere saw 6.7 million US viewers, despite airing against The Walking Dead’s season finale.
Problem with Tumblr
For all the updates and improvements made to the Tumblr app, they removed any and all abilities to share existing posts elsewhere. You can’t grab a link to a post from the app unless you’re accessing the dashboard from a browser. That sucks.
This behavior contrasts with the latest update to Vine which now lets you share other people’s Vine videos from the app to Twitter or Facebook and even grab the direct links as well as the embed codes.
Of course, Vine doesn’t yet have 100 million active accounts and has far more to gain by expanding the reach of its videos to other places so more people know about it and hopefully adapt the service. Tumblr, well, it doesn’t need that sort of strategy actively implemented any longer.
I wonder why some online services and networks, like Facebook and Google+, become silos once they reach a particular threshold. – Read on Path.
I want iOS to be modernized a bit more
The lack of gesture support on the iPod touch and iPhone makes for an awkward moment when you’re far more used to using the iPad which has a greater range of gesture recognition.
Not being able to do things like switching between apps simply by swiping from the side edges of the screen as opposed to a four finger swipe on the iPad or closing the app by pushing up from the bottom of the screen makes these tall screen devices feel rather quaint and underdeveloped.
I realize that Apple can be both revolutionary and conservative with regards to introducing interface features but after more than five and a half years of iOS, it needs a little more of the modern abilities not just to compete with offerings from other platform providers but also as a milestone in its own software development roadmap.
As it stands, the iPhone remains a safe bet for consumers who don’t want to have to learn too many new things as its comes with arguably the easiest and simplest mobile OS to learn and use.
I’ve got high hopes for Jony Ive to reboot iOS. – Read on Path.
About BlackBerry data usage
A Telkomsel executive said BlackBerry users typically use 200MB of data per month thanks to the data compression in use by BlackBerry Internet Service. If they pay Rp 5000/day, that’s 150k/month. If I pay 150k per month, I expect to get more than 5GB of data allowance per month since I currently pay 100k/month for 3.6GB for my general mobile data usage.
Same executive also said he expects BlackBerry data usage to grow to an average of 600MB per subscriber beginning with the Z10. And current BlackBerry users worry that they’re gonna have to pay more for data per month if they switch to BlackBerry 10?
Really. – Read on Path.
I now have a reason to take this iPad absolutely everywhere I walk. This is a free app called Moves. It tracks your position and movements throughout the day and calculates the number of steps you’ve taken on a daily basis. It it knows whether you’ve walked, run, cycled, or taken a motorized transport.
I had this app installed a few days ago and completely forgot about it until just now. It helps you remember where you’ve been, how you got there and for how long. While it doesn’t know the names of the places you’ve been, you can input that info based on Foursquare data.
It’s actually an iPhone app so it runs on the iPad in iPhone format. – View on Path.
Samsung’s Galaxy poses a threat to Android
The fact that Samsung does not mention Google or Android in any of its promotional material for its mobile devices should tell you something. Its Galaxy branding is so powerful, by the time Tizen is ready to roll out carrying tens of thousands of apps on Samsung Apps, people might care less that it doesn’t run Google’s Android because they have a Galaxy device. – Read on Path.
Thought via Path
Forgot I have iA Writer on the Mac. The lack of an always connected iPad kind of added to that problem. This mini is probably going to let me be more productive since I won’t have to worry about lack of connection but more importantly, it’s so much lighter and smaller than that old first generation iPad that I can type a lot faster and more comfortably.
I can’t understand why Apple doesn’t have TextEdit for the iPad which would let people switch between the Mac and the iPad or iPhone a lot more seamlessly. For those who want more complex layout, collaboration, and formatting ability, there’s Pages, but those who just need to hammer out words, we need a simpler cloud-based app. iA Writer is the perfect app for that.
Apple probably squandered an opportunity there, but then it would have taken sales away from Pages. – Read on Path.
Thought via Path
In terms of hardware Nokia is arguably in its most innovative period since it went in to the phone business but people simply don’t trust Windows Phone enough to make it a viable option. Today’s announcements would have had consumers raving if Nokia were still a big player. It’s low end phones are even more amazing. – Read on Path.
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