If you’ve been watching the news lately, you’ll have noticed that the PlayStation Network, which provides online gameplay and digital game shopping for owners of PlayStation 3 and PSP devices, has been down since last Wednesday. Their on-demand streaming service, Qriocity, is also down. There’s been a huge buzz about it for the last week, but it’s hard to cut through the buzz to get the actual information. I’ve done a little digging, so here are some of the basics.
Month: April 2011
Karena “Hari Jumat” dalam cahaya yang berbeda
Jika Anda ingin istirahat dari pembicaraan tech…
Kecuali Anda telah hidup di bawah batu selama bulan lalu, Anda mungkin pernah mendengar tentang (dan memiliki kemalangan mendengarkan) Jumat Rebecca Black. Anda tahu, lagu dengan 13-year-olds mengemudi mobil dan remaja sengau bertanya-tanya di mana untuk duduk? Yang itu.
Setelah pengalaman yang mengejutkan (lebih lanjut tentang itu nanti), Aku harus mulai mempertanyakan mengapa aku (dan cukup banyak orang saya tahu) benci lagu. Memecahnya:
- Liriknya sampah, tetapi kebanyakan lagu-lagu pop memiliki arti lirik tetap.
- Cukup catchy lagu ini, tidak ada kesalahan di sana.
OpenOffice sudah mati
The guys at Oracle put out a statement sometime last week about their free and open-source office suite, OpenOffice. Guess what? They’re making it a “community project”; i.e. they’re leaving it to die.
The sad part is that OpenOffice was very popular: many Mac users used it (since Office for Mac costs a ton) and plenty of Windows users used it as well (most people aren’t going to use all the features of Microsoft Office, which costs, apa yg, $100?) But don’t be discouraged, it’s not as bad as you might think. Read on to see.
Firefox’s new release strategy
Back in the day (and by that I mean a week ago), new versions of Firefox were released “when they were ready” – yaitu, when all the features they wanted to put in were in it. That’s called feature-based releases, and most developers use that strategy.
But there’s another release strategy that focuses on releasing new versions every so often. Some features might not make a version, but that’s OK; a new version is coming in x weeks so it’ll be included then. This is called fixed releases.
Yet another rant about Bcc:s
I just got an email addressed to no less than 78 orang-orang, and all 78 people’s email addresses were in the To field. You’d think the sender would put all our emails in the Bcc field since, baik, the recipients don’t really need to know the emails of the other 77 people who got the email. (In its defense, putting all the emails in the To field makes stalking easier, but isn’t that what Facebook’s for?)
I can understand why Cc isn’t that popular: it does the same thing as To, except it carries a different semantic meaning. Most teenagers (and a bunch of adults too) couldn’t care less about the fancy schmancy semantic meaning, so they just use To.
Pencarian untuk halaman rumah yang layak
Saya tidak yakin mengapa halaman rumah bahkan ditemukan di tempat pertama. Maksud saya, yakin, Anda perlu halaman untuk membuka ketika anda boot up browser Anda, tetapi mereka hanya membuat hal-hal, baik, canggung. Ditambah mereka tidak sangat berguna: kebanyakan dari mereka hanya berfungsi sebagai halaman arahan; you don’t really use them except to read news about how kids can’t bring bagged lunch to school (*cough* Yahoo *cough*.) And when you do that kind of stuff, you just get distracted from what you were originally meaning to do all along.
I want to know why that is and how I can help fix it.
DuckDuckGo – the best thing since Google
I was looking on my analytics page (tracking visitors to the site) and noticed someone came to hathix through DuckDuckGo. Being bored, I looked up DuckDuckGo and I was impressed automatically. It’s a great search engine. Here’s why.
Zero-click info
DuckDuckGo’s got this great feature that lets you see some quick background info on a subject when you search it. If I want to know who Nelson Mandela is without having to read a lengthy article about apartheid, South Africa, and that sort of stuff, I can just DDG it and look what I get: