How To Unlocked Foursquare Road Warrior Badge?

pengen unlocked badge "road warrior" di foursquare seperti gambar di samping? caranya sangat mudah, cukup check-in tiga kali menggunakan aplikasi "waze" di perangkat mobile akan langsung mendapatkan badge spesial ini.

aplikasi "waze" saat ini tidak hanya tersedia buat pengguna iphone dan android saja tetapi pengguna blackberry, windows mobile dan nokia/ symbian dapat menggunakan aplikasi social mobile yang berdasarkan gps ini. buat pengguna perangkat di atas buka dulu menggunakan browser masing-masing alamat http://m.waze.com dan ikuti petunjuk instalasinya.

apabila sudah teristal, atur "edit permission" ke "allow" untuk akses aplikasi ke perangkat trus ikuti persetujuan menggunakan aplikasi setelah itu baru masuk ke halaman login, ada dua pilihan "existing user" untuk yang pernah daftar dan "new user" untuk yang pertama kali menggunakan.

pada saat pertama kali halaman aplikasi utama terbuka setelah login, hanya terdapat layar putih dengan beberapa menu di atas, biasanya saat membuka di dalam ruangan perangkat gps tidak mendeteksi lokasi, coba bawa ke luar ruangan untuk menangkap sinyal gps. jika sudah tertangkap akan terlihat peta lokasi keberadaan kita dan klik menu blackberry dan pilih "check-in with foursquare" untuk check-in. lakukan 3 kali check-in untuk mendapatkan badge "road warrior".

jika badge "road warrior" sudah didapatkan, terserah aplikasi "waze" ini akan digunakan atau tidak, tetapi disarankan untuk menghapus lagi apabila memang tidak terpakai lagi karena aplikasi ini termasuk berat, ukurannya pun besar sekitar 2.4 MB dan yang utama menyita banyak memory blackberry.

happy check-in... jangan lupa add friend saya di http://foursquare.com/user/tamtomo2

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Google Memorial Day Logo 2010

sempat perhatikan halaman utama google.com pada tanggal 31 mei 2010 ini? di bawah kotak pencarian ada bendera amerika plus pita warna kuning dan tulisan "In honor of the soldiers who have given their lives for our country".

tidak seperti biasanya untuk memperingati tanggal tertentu google membuat logo khusus atau dinamakan google doodle tapi kali ini google cukup menambahkan bendera dan pita saja untuk memperingati "memorial day" yang kalau di amerika diperingati setiap hari senin terakhir di bulan mei atau kalo tahun ini tanggal 31 mei 2010, "memorial day" dikenal juga dengan nama "decoration day".

google setiap tahun juga membuat logo khusus untuk "memorial day' ini seperti tahun 2008, 2009 dan 2010 sedangkan tahun 2007 bahkan ada kontes pembuatan desain google doodle tema "memorial day".

berikut koleksi lengkapnya:

Tahun 2009

Tahun 2008

Tahun 2007

Operator Please - Just Kiss

"This handshake is weak"

I've been meaning to write about this album for awhile now. I've been loving Australia's Operator Please ever since their debut a couple of years ago. I still think Just A Song About Ping Pong is one of the best teenage freakouts of the past decade. There's something charming about a bunch of kids strapping on instruments and recording an album. It fulfills the ultimate teenage fantasy, and it's even more entertaining when the band is this talented. Now that the kids are older (and gained and lost a member), their sound has shifted from the garage-pop of their debut to an even better brand of spunky electro. Amandah Wilkinson's vocals have smoothened into something that's a cross between the Veronicas and Tegan & Sara, but the band have lost none of their energy. The album's well-worth your time. This is one of my favorite tracks.

Operator Please - Just Kiss by alienhits

(Music posted for evaluation purposes only. If you like what you hear, support the artists. Buy the album here. Follow me on twitter and facebook.

Aplikasi World Cup 2010 For BlackBerry

Bagi pecandu olah raga sepak bola pasti gak akan mau ketinggalan berita-berita tentang piala dunia 2010 atau World Cup 2010 yang dilangsungkan di Afrika Selatan.

Jika anda juga pemilik perangkat BlackBerry, sepertinya wajib pasang aplikasi ini biar gak ketinggalan jadwal pertandingan termasuk score yang diperoleh masing-masing negara.

Aplikasi World Cup 2010 for BlackBerry ini dapat diunduh langsung dari perangkat BlackBerry di alamat http://bit.ly/dwjpi6 dan setelah didonlod segera atur settingan bahasa yg digunakan termasuk juga pengaturan waktu biar sama dan gak ketinggalan jadwal yang ditunggu. Aplikasi ini terdapat macam bahasa, mau bahasa Inggris atau bahasa Spanyol tetapi emang gak ada bahasa Indonesia.

Menarik bukan? Segeralah unduh aplikasi ini..

Kaka - Below This Sun

"This funky little planet's no fun"

Kaka (aka: Ricky Karlsson, formerly of the Mo) is back! It's quite a welcome return, as his solo debut was a brilliant collection of slightly off-kilter synth pop. The new single, Below This Sun, is more of the same. This time around, though, there's a funky marching band beat underpinning the track. Production wise, it reminds me a little of Madonna's hit 4 Minutes. His trademark tropical synths are there as well, joining a dramatic synth swoop that bubbles up near the end, when the tempo explodes into something faster and stranger. It's a wonderful comeback, and gets me really excited for the upcoming album. Karlsson's the rare indie artist that writes as if he's aiming for the top of the charts. There's more than a little Mo left in him, which is huge for me, as the Mo were one of my favorite bands ever.

Kaka - Below This Sun by alienhits

(Music posted for evaluation purposes only. If you like what you hear, support the artists. Buy the single/EP here. Follow me on twitter and facebook.

Nicole Scherzinger Address

Nicole Scherzinger
Hollywood Singer / Actress

Birth Name: Nicole Elikolani Prescovia Scherzinger
Birth Date: June 29, 1978
Birth Place: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Height: 5' 5"
Sex: Female
Nationality: American
Profession: Actress, Singer
Education: Youth Performing Arts School at duPont Manual High School
Wright State University in Dayton
Mother: Rosemary Scherzinger
Sister: Ke'ala Scherzinger
Step Father: Gary Scherzinger

Nicole Scherzinger's Address, Mailing Addresses, Fan Mail, Contact Addresses:

Nicole Scherzinger Address #1:
Nicole Scherzinger
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
9601 Wilshire Blvd.
3rd Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
USA

Nicole Scherzinger Address #2:
Nicole Scherzinger
c/o The Pussycat Dolls
Interscope Records
2220 Colorado Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404
USA
*** End of Nicole Scherzinger Address ***

Track-by-Track: Eric Saade - Masquerade

Welcome back, teen pop of the late 90's/early 00's. If you're missing a little Bye Bye Bye in your life, seek this album out right away. It won't appeal to everyone, and certainly carries a little more than its fair share of cheese, but as far as dance pop records go, this is well-worth checking out.

1. Masquerade - Kicking off with hard video-game style beats, this is a fantastic opening to the overall in-your-face pop sound of the album. The persistent strings, especially, add the drama that ups this from an average pop song to something more special. 10/10

2. Upgrade - More strings open this upbeat, aggressive dance track. This is so 'Nsync circa 1999 that it borders on being a tribute. The thing is, enough time's passed that this feels really fresh. And Saade pulls it off. 9/10

3. Break Of Dawn - The album's first ballad, and my favorite slowie, which is fortunate because it's the next single. That being said, it's nothing overwhelmingly special, and definitely caves to the current Tedder-style ballad trends. 8/10

4. It's Gonna Rain - The album's most accomplished track. It's a huge, disco-fied club track that takes Saade out of the teen-pop arena and into the realm of more mature, pulsing electro. 10/10

5. Manboy - When I first heard this song I couldn't believe that anything that was so strange and campy could ever be a hit. I guess the chorus is just too catchy to ignore. Even I've succumbed to its charms. 10/10

6. Say It - Here, Saade slides into the weaker portion of male teen pop music. It's a pleasant, midtempo song with acoustic leanings. It comes and goes, offering little to remember it by. 6/10

7. Sleepless - His first single, and one of his best. The chorus is so incredibly massive. I can't see anybody resisting it. Best of all, it fits perfectly with the rest of the album. No fluke, here. 10/10

8. I'll Be Alright - Another acoustic-sounding track, slightly more uptempo than Say It. And, slightly better. It's still not a highlight, but I like the strings in the chorus. 7/10

9. Radioactive - Back to the harder-edged dance music. There are things I love about this song (Saade's vocals in the choruses), but the song overall falls just short of a perfect score. Really, I think it just suffers from comparisons to some of the album's stronger tracks in the same genre. 8/10

10. Why Do We Need Fashion? - The late-album highlight. This aggressive dance track plays around with song structure and tempo, with winning results. It's also criminally catchy. One listen and you'll be singing along. 10/10

11. It's Like That With You - The obligatory, cheesy piano ballad. It does very little for me, though these songs rarely do. I suppose it's nice enough, but it could certainly use a stronger melodic hook (especially in the verses). 6/10

Album Grade: 8.5/10

Andrew W.K. - Gundam Rock

I have made a discovery, and like many of the best discoveries, it comes from the most unlikely of places. Remember Andrew W.K., the hard-rocking, synth-playing artist behind 2001's ferocious one-off Party Hard? Well, it turns out he's pretty big in Japan, which led him to release an album of Japanese covers (in English) as part of the 30th anniversary of the popular Gundam anime series. I know, we're getting into hardcore fanboy territory here, but some of the music is absolutely epic. So epic, in fact, that I couldn't choose between three songs. So I'm posting them all today:

Amuro Forever:
A rollicking powerhouse performance that sounds like Bowie singing in some huge rock musical. Don't be put off by the timid opening. This goes all out when it reaches the hook.

Andrew W.K. - Amuro Forever by alienhits

Star Children:
Turns up the synths for an electro/rock/glam hybrid with some truly ridiculous lyrics. My favorite? "Bless me with your powerful rays!". So cheesy. So fantastic. It sounds a little like Billy Idol, actually.

Andrew W.K. - Star Children by alienhits

Soldiers Of Sorrow:
The big one -- more Broadway than Anime. It sounds a little like how Green Day's recent stuff would sound if they went full out rock opera. The chorus is HUGE.

Andrew W.K. - Soldiers of Sorrow by alienhits

(Music posted for evaluation purposes only. If you like what you hear, support the artists. Buy the album here. Follow me on twitter and facebook.

Facebook Zero Sudah Dapat Diakses Secara Gratis Di Indonesia

seperti postingan sebelumnya beberapa waktu yang lalu kalo kalo facebook secara resmi merilis facebook zero yang dapat diakses secara cepat dan gratis via perangkat mobile di alamat http://0.facebook.com untuk saat ini pengguna indonesia bahkan ada 4 operator yang sudah bekerja sama.

pada awalnya cuman ada 3 yakni axis, three dan telkomsel, saat ini bertambah menjadi empat dengan masuknya xl dengan layanan gratisnya. dari hasil uji coba menggunakan operator xl sudah berjalan lancar, di bagian atas logo facebook terdapat tulisan "free access by xl" dan apabila kita membuka gambar atau link lain akan ditanya persetujuan untuk menggunakan data seperti biasa atau dikenai potongan pulsa gprs (lihat screenshot di bawah).

untuk keterangan dan cara pake fitur ini silahkan baca postingan sebelumnya di sini.

Bjorn Johan Muri - Circles

Okay, so like an idiot I totally pasted over my Bjorn Johan Muri post from yesterday. Never made that particular error before! It was bound to happen eventually, I guess.
I may try to type up a new post on it later, but for now here's the song again. It probably speaks for itself, anyways...

Bjørn Johan Muri - Circles by alienhits

Yahoo! Acquires Koprol, The Indonesian Location-Based Community

berita mengejutkan di ranah social media indonesia siang ini sekitar jam 12 siang kurang ada pengumuman salah satu start-up lokal koprol yang diakuisisi oleh yahoo!. buat saya sendiri terkesima dengan koprol yang berusaha menggeliat untuk bermain serius di dunia social media khususnya yang berbasis lokasi yang sementara di indonesia mulai di dominasi foursquare dengan segala keunggulannya.

hari ini selain koprol meluncurkan aplikasi koprol for blackberry yang selama ini dinantikan (setelah sebelumnya sempat mencoba versi beta wheredehel di blackberry) koprol juga mengumumkan telah diakuisisi oleh yahoo!, grup media internet ternama, untuk nilai akuisisi belum ada kabar berapa yahoo! membelinya. di sisi lain akuisisi ini membuat bangga karena salah satu produk dalam negeri berhasil go international dan bakal bersaing dengan layanan sejenis seperti foursquare dan gowalla. bahkan menurut postingan techcrunch, koprol disebut sebagai asian foursquare dan menyebutkan yahoo! membeli koprol karena sebelumnya gagal membeli foursquare.

koprol yang saat akan transfer ke yahoo! memiliki 75 ribu anggota dengan segala kelebihan dan kekurangannya sepertinya akan bangkit terutama di kawasan indonesia dan beberapa negara berkembang setelah berkolaborasi dengan yang ada di yahoo! terutama koprol saat ini sudah terintegrasi dengan perangkat blackberry dan dapat diakses melalui web maupun perangkat mobile, ke depan pasti akan ada aplikasi buat pengguna iphone maupun android. untuk akses via perangkat mobile pun sangat mudah cukup mengunjungi alamat http://m.koprol.com dan check-in aja setelah searching tempatnya, sayang sekali apabila tidak ketemu venue yang cocok kita kesulitan untuk menambahkan venue baru karena harus menunggu persetujuan dari pihak koprol.

buat pengguna blackberry saat ini silahkan nyobain aplikasinya dengan download di http://koprol.com/blackberry dan sementara saat ini baru tersedia untuk jenis bold, onyx dan javelin, yang lain menunggu dulu atau kunjungi mobile site di http://m.koprol.com

yang sudah punya akun koprol silahkan join saya di http://koprol.com/user/tamtomo

Screenshot Koprol Versi Web:

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