The Official Blog of Ronald Ishak

Blackberry Bold Panas

ronaldishak — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:00:15 +0000

Belakangan ini saya sudah menangani beberapa Blackberry Bold yang panas sekali akibat dinyalakan seperti biasa. Menurut saya ini dikarenakan oleh antena (hardware) yang ngak bener. Kalau dibiarkan, ada beberapa Bold yang ahkirnya mati total, atau hardware failure (3 quick blinking red lights). Kalau sudah sampe hardware failure, boldnya bisa dijadikan paper weight. Ada juga beberapa bold yang saya berhasil benarkan dengan cara full JL Wipe and re-install os. Sementara ini saya sudah dapet 2 unit yang dari pabrik CANADA1 dan satu lagi dari HUNGARY1.

MFC bisa ditemukan di belakang cover battery di tempelan stiker sebelah kamera.

MFC untuk bold yang panas dan rusak= 2408
kalau pernah diceritakan (nga tau bener atau tidak) ini artinya buatan minggu ke 24 tahun 2008.

Bold saya sendiri sudah MFC 3408 buatan canada1 vendor 179 dan tidak lagi ada masalah tersebut.

Saya sarankan kalau ada yg tiba2 bold panas, cepat2 langsung copot batre dan diamkan dulu. Cabut simcard dan langsung backup blackberrynya. kalau beli bold dan ada garansi, dituker aja atau coba dibenerin. Kirim ke pak made mungkin dia lebih ngerti. Kalau nga ada garansi (beli BM) coba saja di JL wipe terus re-install OS. Kalau nga berhasil yah too bad. boldnya masih bisa dijual untuk spare parts.

ada yang pernah kasus bold panas? tolong reply ke thread ini, saya ingin tau pengalamannya

terima kasih.

iPhone web-apps on your menubar

ronaldishak — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:22:38 +0000

Recently I have been trying to figure out how to twitter more efficiently. Something really fast like a dashboard widget but still full featured. Then while googling around today, I found out about the Fluid web browser. This application lets you turn any URL into its own program by creating “URL specific browser applications”. So then I added Hahlo (the iPhone twitter webapp) as one of these programs and now its sitting nicely on my menubar! Checkout this Lifehacker article on how to do just that! Fluid works only on Mac OSX.

iPhone 3G: Why I’m still buying the Blackberry Bold (For Now)

ronaldishak — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:23:17 +0000

Apple released their long awaited iPhone 3G yesterday and wow it was a stellar introduction. I stayed up until 3:30AM just to listen into the live audio feed here in Singapore. Sure its an amazing new product with new colors, but its really nothing stellar. I’m on the Apple iPhone developer program just to get the new firmware and really, theres nothing new. The only new thing is the new 3G (with HSDPA 3.5G and GPS). Other than that, stuff like the rotating calculator turning scientific, is old news. Here’s why I’m still looking forward to the Bold.

1. iPhone Push mail only works for Mobileme and Microsoft Exchange
What about Gmail? So should I forward all my email to a mobileme email address just so it will push through to my iPhone? Well for one thing, gmail is free and mobile me cost 99 bucks for a year, (yes you can also get it for 69 but were comparing this to FREE). Blackberry works with Gmail and also google apps for organizations that need their own domain. I’m not going to spend $699 for my own Microsoft Exchange server, and that price does not include hosting fees. Yikes. With the recent addition of Google syncing with your mac’s iSync, theres no need to go with the fancy mobileme or exchange to get your contacts synced. Pay 99 bucks or pay nothing to get the best webmail we all know and love.

Advice to Apple/Google: Offer Mobile Me to customized domains. Small businesses want Push mail but they dont want to shell out 700 dollars plus hosting fees to get it! Google, get Google Apps (and Gmail) to mimic exchange/mobilme push functions!

2. Lack of Default Messaging Program
One of the biggest reasons I see all my friends getting a Blackberry is because of the Blackberry messenger. Its an awesome way to keep in touch with your friends regardless of where you are. PINning only works between blackberry users but its still cheaper than international SMS when you’re messaging your friends from across the planet. The current way to chat on the iPhone is through services like meebo (even offers the big 3 msn, aim, yahoo). But using meebo drains your battery and you have to be constantly on the webpage to stay connected. Not with Blackberry messenger, its always on, even when your phone is idle. But the limitation of the BB messenger is that once you lose your phone, you change your PIN number so everyone on your contact list has to get your device PIN again before you can start PINning.

Advice to Apple: Port iChat to iPhone! Are you affraid of ATT telling you that it will eat up their SMS business?! Screw ATT! Its your turn to gain marketshare. Like the economists like to say, the bigger the network, the more valuable it becomes.

3. What about Opensource Development on the iPhone?
How on earth do people install open source applications legitimately on their iPhones without having to first jailbreak it? Even that, when the iPhone does a software update, it breaks the Jailbreak and we’re stuck waiting for a new solution from Zibri or the Dev Team to let me get Installer app back on the iPhone! Its a grey line, and people are tired to have to be forced to do something that can break their phones.

Advice to Apple: Figure out a way to encourage opensource developers to develop for the iPhone. In the process, these opensource developers (a combination of experts and newbies) will learn how to make programs for the iPhone and it will encourage them to write other software that they might sell over the AppStore! C’mon apple… havent you read Wikinomics?

On top of all this, I can safely say that the Blackberry is available in more countries than the iPhone is. That can change at any time.

Inspiring Speeches

ronaldishak — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:38:30 +0000

Every now and then I come across a speech that inspires me. From Steve Jobs, to Barack Obama’s latest speech on racism. This is probably one of the best speeches done by a 12 year old. Amazing!

Why Apple Could Kill The Nintendo DS

ronaldishak — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:24:49 +0000

With third-party apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch looming, games (for once) could become Apple’s killer app. There’s only one company on earth that has come back from behind to wrest a multibillion-dollar market away from Sony, beat back a grasping Microsoft and delight tens of millions of customers around the world in the process.

read more | digg story

Embracing Change

ronaldishak — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:43:11 +0000

JOEL OSTEEN’s sermon on embracing change:

We have to stay open for change. Don’t approach change from a negative point of view to where you automatically assume its gonna be bad. It may be negative on the surface but remember, God wont allow that to happen if it didn’t have a purpose for you. He’s gonna use it to stretch you. Don’t be discouraged over the people that leave you life. you need to realize it is only the beginning. You may think that they are doing you wrong but they are actually doing you a favor. God would not have stirred it up if he doesn’t have something better in store. When things start stirring, thats a sign transition is coming!

One thing is certain, change is inevitable. People change, jobs change, styles change, and seasons change. Change is part of God’s plan for us, but so many people resist change and try to hold on to the familiar. But God brings change in order to keep us from getting stuck in a rut. Change causes us to stretch and grow; it causes us to use our faith and tap into the potential on the inside of us.

Sometimes the very things we fight against, the very things we think are trying to pull us down are actually part of God’s plan to launch us into a new season. Sometimes God stirs us out of comfortable situations and puts us in situations in order to stretch us and cause us to use our faith. We may not like it, and it may be uncomfortable, but God loves us too much to just leave us alone! We have to stay open for change. Don’t approach change from a negative point of view or automatically assume it’s going to be bad. You may not like the change, but God would not allow it if He didn’t have a purpose for it. If you’ll learn to not only accept change but to embrace it, God promises He will do a new thing in your life, and His “new” is always much better than the old! You may have had great victories in your past, but your greatest victories are still ahead of you. God wants to take you higher and higher so you can live the life of victory He has in store for you!

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Interview with Peter Morrissey

ronaldishak — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:00:36 +0000

Peter Morrissey is one of the Go-To persons in charge of the AirOrange network at Syracuse University, basically the campus ISP. I recently got to sit down and chat with him to talk about AirOrangeX, the new 802.1X secure WLAN on campus. Here’s some interesting facts I found out:

The university has 2x 200Mbit connections to the internet (both upstream and downstream) and also a 200MBit connection to Internet2 (the lame education network nobody really uses). The university also throttles its traffic, so when you think your bittorent is getting its full university bandwidth, its really not. Its nothing new for a place that needs to protect its users from RIAA legal notices.

This just got me thinking how fast my internet is at my apartment. University has a 400MBit downstream and my Verizon FiOS Business class gives me 50Mbit dedicated downstream. I get a full 6MB/s when I download my torrents. I cant even imagine how fun it would be to use 400MB for myself! Thats 8 times faster that what I have, and prolly like 48MB/second! Wow, thats like downloading Ubuntu’s ISO in under 20 seconds! Gotta love university networks~

Smile!

ronaldishak — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:25:55 +0000

I was just being sad and I tried so hard to smile. I stumbled on this clip and its very beautiful and inspiring. Sometimes we all need a break from everything. Smile and you’ll be ok!

Google employees leaving and moving on to startups!

ronaldishak — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:58:25 +0000

This one directly of ValleyWag:

An anonymous software engineer who says he used to work on AdWords, Google’s lucrative if straightforward ad-selling system, has written a blog post explaining why he’s leaving the search giant. Unfortunately, his tenure at Google did not include a tutorial on the use of the “Return” key, and most of his post is one long paragraph reaching 1,422 words. Here’s the 100-word version on why he split for a social-networking startup.

There are the perks: health benefits, free food, on-campus gyms, a beach volleyball field, the tech talks. Disneyland for three days. There’s Google Search, Gmail, Google Reader, or Calendar. I felt proud to work at the company that built these. Every engineer gets either two 24″ or one 30″ monitor, as well as a company laptop. Then there’s the community. In general, Googlers are a great bunch, and smart. But I am more a startup person than a big-company person. At a startup, every individual has a impact. As a recent Google employee, I would have never gotten rich there, even if the stock had doubled or tripled in price. Other Google-specific problems: it is unlikely to work in an area that one is passionate about. Another scale-related problem: Due to the size of the code base, it takes a long time to actually become productive at Google, which can be frustrating at times.

Preparing for Google’s AppEngine

ronaldishak — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:41:36 +0000

Google recently introduced the preview release of AppEngine, a new development platform that utilizes Google’s power to help people create amazing web applications. All this technology was introduced last night but unfortunately their limit of 10,000 applications have already been filled! Time to go on the waiting list. *sigh* But don’t get discouraged yet! The AppEngine SDK is available here and it can build applications locally on your machine.

Google’s AppEngine tackles one of the biggest problems in making creating webapps, namely the platform and its costs. Building a Webapp requires a lot of work, from putting together you linux machines, setting up the SQL database, customizing Apache, etc. After that you have to build the application and worry about uploading it to a hosting server that can handle it. Even then theres more things to worry about such as hardware failures, scalability issues, etc. Google’s AppEngine fixes all these and lets you focus on building your webapp! All for the price of free, until you need more resources.

Unlike may webapps that run on PHP & mySQL, Google’s AppEngine runs primarily on Python making it integrate seamlessly with Google’s services! This is an amazing opportunity for people who want to create enormous webapps without having all the necissary computing resources. The website says it plans to support other language and platforms in the future.

So for now, its time for you to prepare and learn some Python! There are many places on the internet to start of with learning python.For starter’s try Python.org’s official beginners guide. You should also plan to attend Google’s I/O conference happening May 28 and 29 in Moscone West San Francisco. It costs only 50 bucks for students!