Small Things on Small Screen

Cekidot, Gan. iPhone App SapaTauLaku

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:13:22 +0900

Sebenarnya hanya untuk nyoba prosedur iphone app store, saya bikinkan seadanya viewer buat http://www.sapataulaku.com buat iphone. Tableview, tableview, scrollview, imageview. Gitu doang. Gak ada spesial.

Prosesnya lancar aja. Saya submit jumat tanggal 4, persis seminggu kemudian tanggal 11 udah ada di app store.

Moral ceritanya: Bikin app yang hampir gak ada fitur apa2, kemungkinan besar langsung di approve. =))

Ini linknya siapa tau ada yang tertarik.

Safari Reader di Safari 5

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:10:00 +0900

Fitur safari reader ini sudah seharusnya built-in di browser. Saya biasanya pake readability dari arc90. Saya coba detik.com, sayangnya tidak semua artikel bisa dideteksi safari reader sebagai artikel.

Update: respon arc90 terhadap fitur ini.

Blog Baru

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:57:12 +0900

Dari awal pengen bikin blog buat http://www.sapataulaku.com. Tapi kalau hanya tentang sapataulaku, bisa2 posting sekali setahun.

Untuk lebih memungkinkan posting lebih sering, misalnya dua kali setahun :), saya putuskan akan menulis tentang cara2 orang memanfaatkan internet atau layanan di internet untuk jualan.

Berikut postingan pertama:

http://blog.sapataulaku.com/tentang-43

http://blog.sapataulaku.com/facebook-tagging-dan-jualan

Mudah2an ada lagi postingan2 berikutnya :)

iPhone App Buat SapaTauLaku

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:44:58 +0900

Sudah disubmit ke app store, sedang di review.

Sebenarnya belum ada ide mau bikin fitur seperti apa, tapi daripada kelamaan cari ide, di versi 1.0 ini cukup sebagai viewer dari http://www.sapataulaku.com.

Di versi berikutnya nanti “sapa tau” dapat ide yang lebih bagus :)

Berikut contoh screenshotnya.

Mudah2an cepat di approve sama app store reviewer.

iPad

Sat, 29 May 2010 13:37:57 +0900

Saya termasuk yg percaya, komputer udah terlalu liar. Terlalu rumit dan menakutkan untuk kebanyakan orang dan terkadang juga buat saya yang sedikit banyak mengerti komputer.

Dengan alasan ini saya beli iPad. Tapi alasan utamanya ya karna saya fanboy haha.

Setelah pakai sehari, kesimpulannya kalau anda bukan fanboy, mending tunggu versi berikutnya. Versi sekarang masih terlalu berat. Aplikasi masih sedikit. Saya tidak install iphone apps kecuali skype.

Tapi kalau anda fanboy berikut alasan untuk belinya:
1. Browsing dan baca mantap.
2. Baca komik oke.
3. Nonton filem sip.
4. Pas untuk dipakai sambil duduk2 atau tiduran.
5. Kalau ada punya anak kecil seperti saya, sangat cocok dipakai untuk men-distract anak anda.

Sapa Tau Laku :)

Mon, 24 May 2010 07:04:00 +0900

Untuk membunuh kebosanan, mari kita mulai lagi proyek santai, iseng, yang syukur2 kalau bisa jalan.

Idenya, kamu posting barang apa aja. Baru atau bekas. Masih bagus atau sudah agak rusak. Atau bahkan yang sudah rusak total :) Apa aja. Sapa tau laku :)

Desainnya kotak2, sederhana. Pake library jquery masonry. Belakangnya nginx, rack + sinatrarb, unicorn. Background process pake nodejs. Database: redis.

Ya namanya proyek iseng, gak ada target apa2. Sapa tau jalan aja :p Jangan lupa posting sesuatu. Sapa tau laku!

Nodejs

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:35:58 +0900

Nodejs is trying to solve the right problem with the right language.

You can watch Ryan Dahl’s presentation to get the idea. It’s very early though but better keep an eye on it.

Readability

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:45:52 +0900

The web should be thankful for this clever little bookmarklet http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/.

Dropbox iPhone App

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:25:00 +0900

I’ve been using dropbox since it was first released to sync and share files. It just works.

Now Dropbox iPhone App is available.

Go get it. It’s free up to 2GB.

But unlike desktop app, your files are not downloaded automatically. To download and access file offline, you have to mark it as “favorite”.

The Best Notes App

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:44:00 +0900

It’s not built-in notes.app. It’s not simplenote.

For me, it’s mail app. I have special email account for notes.

Unread Badge

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:30:00 +0900

FAQ about NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone:

We’ve found that a lot of people really can’t stand having an unread badge. It just stresses them out. It’s one more thing to clear. We totally understand.

I’m one of those who can’t stand unread badge.

Postage.app

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:06:00 +0900

I adore its beautiful user interface. One of my favorite thoughtful UI designs is its bottom scroll view. Tap one of the buttons to choose postcard template category.

If you try to design this using standard UI, you will end up with UITabBar or UITableView.

Icon

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:41:00 +0900

Detik and Kompas are two news apps that I often launch but I hate their icons. I will never put them neither in iPhone’s dock nor in home screen.

Hidden Search Bar

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:38:00 +0900

Let’s compare search bar on mail app and notes app. It’s hidden behind navigation bar on both app.

Tap the list and drag it down. You will see search bar on both app.

Keep dragging and now you will see the difference.

Search bar is attached to the table in Mail.app.

On the other hand, search bar stays right below navigation bar in Notes.app. I like it better in Notes.app.

Instapaper

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:26:00 +0900

If you are thinking of cooking up something different today, just google for recipes. But the problem is you don’t have computer in your kitchen. Well, you can bring your notebook to the kitchen, but it’s still too big.

If you have iPhone, you should try instapaper. Browse the site you like and then click Read Later to send the page to your instapaper.

Bring your iPhone to the kitchen and open instapaper app to read that page in easy reading format. My wife loves this app.

User Interface Love

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:48:00 +0900

Here are two apps that I often launch even though I don’t need them. First is Convertbot.

The second is Delicious Library Viewer.

This app syncs your Delicious Library to your iPhone wirelessly.

I love both apps. They are just beautiful.

The Most Exciting Thing About iPhone

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:00 +0900

There are countries where somehow people there are not willing to pay for software unless it’s bundled with hardware. Nothing wrong with that. It’s just not that common there to spend money for software.

The app store is a huge leap forward. Imagine when people were starting to pay for bottled water. I guess for many iPhone users this might be the first time they experience how it feels to buy software. This is very exciting.

New Icons in iPhone 3.0

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:48:00 +0900

I wonder why stripes added to these four icons.

App for Toddler

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:02:00 +0900

If you are like me who has one and a half year old son then you love Peekaboo Barn. This app does it right. In the first screen below, the barn is bouncing while animal’s sound is playing. The door is closed. You can hear someone is knocking the door from inside.

While I’m holding the iPhone, my son will come and touch the barn. Since the barn is bouncing, he knows where to touch.

The door opens wide. It zooms to show you bigger image. The animal makes louder sound and a child pronounces the animal’s name.

And you can tap the screen to close the door. Now you can start again with different animal.

Network Activity Indicator

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:39:00 +0900

This is stated in iPhone Human Interface Guidelines:

The activity indicator in the status bar is the network activity indicator; it should be displayed when your application accesses the network for more than a couple of seconds. The larger activity indicator in the toolbar should be displayed if it will take more than a second or two for your application to perform the current task.

Unless users read the manual, chances are users don’t know that small spinning gear on top status bar is used for indicating network activity.

Both network activity indicator and general purpose activity indicator on the bottom toolbar look the same. They have different size though. But I prefer to have network activity indicator that has different appearance. Indicator that looks more like network activity.