January 5, 2009 at 2:06 am · Filed under Indonesia, Jakarta, Network, Technology, Work
Mall is spelled and written as “Mal” here (Indonesia). Which is why people always asked me if I have typed wrongly or so. 
This Mal (ITC Manga Dua) is very much like what we have in Singapore Sim Lim Square. It is everything about computers. From Hardware to software.. Of course, pirated software.
Went with my colleagues to a friendly store and upgraded my memory to 4GB. And it cos me USD 50!!
Tried to run Red Alert 3 with my VMware (booting from Boot Camp). But still sluggish. Lets say you should keep note of any Mac Windows hot corners and turn the virtual windows to full screen. I assigned 1.5GB ram, not too happy with the graphic results. Will try assigning 2GB ram later.
I also walked around the Mal, enjoyed myself. The food is very nice. Adi and Christine bought me to a stall where they sell “Soto Betawi“!! It is like beef soup, very very nice!
And also, I found most of the “pirated software” shop is equipped with iMac to provide Mac software installation and testing. This pic below shows a shop using the old iMac.
And the best part is, you have friendly “Mac Evangelist” helping Mac Users to upgrade their system to Leopard…
Overall, the Mal itself is very crowded, especially on Sat. I liked it here, guess I will do more shopping here in near future.
January 3, 2009 at 3:38 am · Filed under Personal
I know it is a pain in the neck to sync our SmartPhone with Mac. Especially when the retail box itself come with PC-Only software disc. The first impression is, what does it leave us Mac users?
I don’t see the need of explaining iPhone here. But for Nokia E71 users, if you are using a Mac, you can download a file from HERE.
Click the “Accept” button and the plugin will instantly start downloading from the direct link above.
As for BlackBerry, you can always download “PocketMac for BlackBerry“. It is free of charge, paid by RIM themselves for BlackBerry users.
The link is here: http://www.pocketmac.net/products/pmblackberry/index.html
January 2, 2009 at 2:31 am · Filed under Personal
If you have upgraded your Mac to 10.5.6 and blue screen is all you see after you restart (& restart). A likely fix is to restart with a Safe Boot (by holding down the Shift key down at startup).
New in Mac OS X 10.5.6, a Safe Boot results in the deletion of the “dynamic loader shared cache” in the /var/db/dyld directory.
A corrupt cache here turns out to be one cause of a blue screen crash. Restarting normally after a Safe Boot creates a new copy of the deleted cache, with the result that the crash should no longer occur.
Safe Mode can be useful for troubleshooting, just remember that some features may not work when you boot up a Mac in Safe Mode.
For example, you can’t use DVD Player, capture video in iMovie, use audio input or output devices, or use an internal or external USB modem. The behavior of some devices such as an AirPort card may vary depending on computer and Mac OS X version.
December 29, 2008 at 2:30 pm · Filed under Personal
I still remembered playing Red Alert 10 years ago. The graphic is not as awesome as what we can have now (imagine Starcraft back then), but the story and gameplay was one of THE best.
Just select a side to play (Allies or Soviets). Then switch side to enjoy two side of the game.
Now, Red Alert 3 made the story a bit more complicated. Just that this time round, you have no nuke.
I purchased this game from one of the Mall here (Jakarta). And of course, it is pirated. Their pirated game are compiled in a very funny method (very similar to Hong Kong). If the game is a dual-layer dvd, they will break the entire images into 5 or 6 pieces. Burn the first few into 1 dvd, and fit in the rest with the second dvd.
The reason is simple, single-layer dvd is way way cheaper than dual-layer. And by doing so, they make it less friendly for many people. Save everything you have from discs to your desktop, and unrar or uncompressed them by starting with the file which name ends with “001″.
And of course, you should be using Windows to do these..
I wanted to play this game, but too skeptical about the 3D graphics performances which both Parallels and VMware had promised. So I use Boot Camp to setup a Windows. Well, after the installation is sucessful, for some unknown reason, I decided to give VMware (version 2) a shot.
It is very easy to run your Boot Camp partition using VMware. It auto-detect the boot camp partition and you can start from there. I just change a minor setting on the Memory and assign 1GB for it. Red Alert 3 need at least 1GB ram.
The result?
There is a lot of videos in RA3. This is also one of the few features that keep the players going.
On my VMware (via Boot Camp partitiion), the video is running fine. The game playing is good enough. Just make sure you don’t have anything running on your Mac that will occupy the memory and cpu resources, somehow, this will slow things down.
December 28, 2008 at 1:26 pm · Filed under Indonesia, Jakarta, Technology, Work
It used to be very diffcult, and in my personal point of view, very pointless. Not because I have to hack it so I can use with other Phone Carrier, but rather Apple’s stupid policy to stick with one.
They done it 20 years ago with their family jewel (Mac OS), sticking the Operating System only to the Computer they designed.Now, they done it again with iPhone. Just that this time round, they stick with a service provider.
The iPhone is completed. The design and everything is awesome. But I don’t see the point of working with only 1 service provider. Obviously, Apple got lots of $$$ for doing so. However, since when Apple is about making money? Many years ago, consumer and developers were their main focus.
Nevertheless, finally got my chance to jailbreak & unlock a iPhone. A few days ago, Dennis passed us (training department) his iPhone to check his camera, he could not save the photos he took with his iPhone. Even though it is our first “encounter” with iPhone, we decided to bring it further.. Dennis has nothing important, just a few pictures he took with his iPhone.
To save the pictures, all you need is “DiskAid”!
The thing about iPhone and iPod Touch is, it does not allow you to mount it as a external volume. Something you can only see with classic iPod or the Nano. With Disk Aid, you can connect it and all you need to do is to drag the folder “DCIM” onto your desktop will do. This, will back-up the photos he took.
You may download Disk Aid for FREE HERE!
Secondly, make sure you have the following ready:
1. Firmware (2.1 or 2.2) for your iPhone.
2. Pwnage Tool (latest version 2.2.1)
3. Make sure your iTunes is 8.0.2 or latest.
Once ready, go ahead:
A. Fire uo Pwnage Tool 2.2.1 and select “Expert Mode”.
B. Select your iPhone version (or iPod Touch) and click “Next”:
C. Allow Pwnage Tool to find the iPhone 2.2 OS Firmware that you had downloaded to your Mac.
D. Select the Firmwar and click “Next”.
E. Select “General Category” and click “Next”.
F. Under “General Settings”, if you have a legitimate carrier (ex: AT&T, Singtel etc), you will need to uncheck the box next to “Activate”. However if you don;t have one, you need to ensure that “Activate” is checked. This will “Hacktivate your iPhone to use other carrier services.
G. Change Root Partition size to 1000MB.
H. Keep clicking “Next” until you get back to “Build” screen. And select “Build”.
I. Click “Next” and save the custom restore file to your desktop
Example: The iPhone 3G should be named - iPhone1,2_2.2_5G77_Custom_Restore.ipsw
Wait for Pwnage Tool to build your custom iPhone Firmware file. This may take a while.
J. When asked if the iPhone has been Pwned before, choose the appropriate option. Simply follow the directions given to enter your iPhone to DFU mode.
K. Once completed, you will see “I Can Haz Success”. Then quit Pwnage Tool.
L. Fire up your iTunes, you will be told your iPhone needs to be restored, click “OK”.
M. Option+Click “Restore“
Of course, on PC you will use “Shift+Click” to do it. This is to select the firmware (in which you already downloaded to your computer). Just make sure you hold down the “Option” key on the keyboard while clicking on “Restore”.
O. You will see the following pic, just select your (restore firmware: ex The iPhone 3G should be named - iPhone1,2_2.2_5G77_Custom_Restore.ipsw) from the right location:
P. Wait and wait for your iPhone to be restored. After some waiting, you will be told that your iPhone has been restored. Just click “OK”.
Q. Disconnect iPhone after iTunes recognizes it. Then restore backup of iPhone data.
There you are.. Enjoy your jailbroken iPhone running 2.2 OS!!
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