Jakarta Notebook, Most Hated Super E-store

This morning I planned to write a review about another online store in Indonesia. Jakarta Notebook came into my mind as I am currently have a transaction going with them, and it is still on process. So I started to find some information about them by typing the keyword "Jakarta Notebook" on Google Search. And the search result are quiet surprising, just right below the link to Jakarta Notebook online shop, there's also a link to an article that wrote a negative review about the shopping website and came from the owner of Desain Digital blog, the title of the article is "Jakarta Notebook Memang Menyebalkan" which is mean "Jakarta Notebook Is Su*k!" in English.

The sreenshot of google search result with "Jakarta Notebook" keyword.

I wondering what is the problem, and I opened the link then read it carefully. After I read the article and all the comments written by many disapointed JakNot customers, I found out that there is a problem with their service. Almost all negative reviews and comments were slightly disapointing with the careless staff of the online shopping website. This is a huge punishment for the developing online store, and this shouldn't happened to a website which is trying to gain some good reputation around the net.

I'm also quite often using their service and bought some various things from them, but overall my transactions just went fine and no problem, beside of just one bad experience regarding their Affiliate System's program. But hey, one bad customer's experience could bring one negative review brought online through the internet, and then read by millions of internet users. That's an absolute disadvantage for an online shopping website which need good reputation among the other biggest online store in Indonesia.

So in this article I will also write my own experience using Jakarta Notebook..

I began to use their online store service in 2013, when I was looking for PowerBank for my mobile device. They sell a cheap portable charge made by Chinese factory named Taff PowerBank. While other 5.200 mAh portable chargers are priced above IDR 200K, they sell Taff's 5.200 mAh for just IDR 120K (equal to US$ 10,- only). I was interested so I bought one online using Cash on Delivery method. The first experience was satisfying.

Then I started to think of selling some cheap goods offered on their website, so I bought another couple of Power Bank to sell it to some of my friends. Once I had a quite big transaction when I sold an Apple's iPad 1 to my friend priced IDR 4 million (US$ 380,-), and it was also a nice one.

But the nightmare started when I applying to join their new program Affiliate System. After I completed the registration step one by one, I transferred some money (just IDR 100K) to Mr. Heryyanto for the cost completing the program's registration. After the transfer done, my merchant ID is verified and given the Merchant ID number.

For a while it was started to confuse me, because the personal manager they appointed for me were not supportive at all. He should actually guided me about the process of becoming one of their affiliate system member, but he didn't.

From that time I realized, this is why Jakarta Notebook is having so many negative review around the internet. The have no sufficient qualified personnel working for them. As an employee of Online Store, you have to be respective person and care your customer more.

Nokia Lumia 1520: Smartphone With Windows 8.1 OS by Microsoft

With the surprising acquisition of Nokia by computer software giant company, people are already wondering what kind of maneuver do Microsoft planned for the smartphone market. Do they need Nokia to raise their mobile Operating System Windows Phone, or they just want to compete with Android and iOS as the market leader of mobile smartphone all over the world.

And finally after the release of their newest smartphone, Nokia Lumia 1520 which is using Windows Phone version 8.1 by Microsoft, most people were aware of the answer. This smartphone is no joke at all, with amazing 20 Mega Pixels camera and Full High Definition (Full-HD) resolution 1080p screen and a Quad Core processor, it is definitely an absolute competitor for Samsung's Galaxy S5 which is using Android 4.4 KitKat and Apple's iPhone 5s which is also preparing for the new iOS version 8.0 updates. Then what about Blackberry? They are now sinking to the bottom of the sea because of their failure to read the smartphone market development, and by letting Blackberry App World not well developed, they already digging their own grave. Along with those marvelous features, Nokia Lumia 1520 came a surprisingly cheap prices compared with their rivals. In Indonesia, Nokia Lumia 1520 is only priced at Rp 8.000.000,- (equal to US$ 700,00), almost more than Rp 2.000.000,- (nearly US$ 180,00) cheaper than iPhone 5s.

This can be a huge leap for Nokia to it's campaign as they want to take back their stature as the king of the world cell-phone manufacturer. As we all know, Nokia was once became the only king of world cellular phone manufacture with their hundred of million best selling cellular phones. After the booming of Android smartphones, Symbian were dead and Blackberry were drowned. Meanwhile iOS and Windows Phone were struggled in smartphone market. iOS can be considered as a well-established operating system, with a good environment of games and application developers, so they have no worry about Android Market (now Google Play) rapid development. But Windows Phone are moving slowly, and their environment also need more push to be a good app store like Android's and Apple's store.

I really hope this new Nokia smartphone can bring the victory they had once, a long time ago. That can only achieved by developing the Windows Phone games and application store. If it is easy to use, and there are a lot of free apps and games available, people are likely to accept the product well. The key is on their platform and operating system.

Microsoft with their new toy should learn from what happened to Blackberry. When they fail to accommodate the need of good application's environment like what Android has, people will start to leave them soon enough. Blackberry definitely failed to develop Blackberry App World, and now we all can see clearly where them at on the list of successful smartphone manufacturer.

If you do not understand what I'm writing, don't worry, me either. I'm just practicing my English by writing this article. Don't mind, just skip it and leave this blog as soon as you can. Please don't get angry, peace!

Google's Free Online Service Products: The Domination Of Internet Use (With Blogging Tips to Earn Money)

How Did Google Make Big Money And Became Internet Giant?

It is a simple question with a very simple answer. Before I give you the answer, I should explain you about the question.

Google known for it's superior search engine, successfully eliminating Yahoo! and MSN Search as their opponent long time ago. With them dominating the search queries all over the world, they processing over than 398 billion search per day or equal to 11.944 billion search monthly. The amount of unique visitor to Google Website is 178 million unique visitor every month. With that many Google search per day, no wonder that it became the biggest IT Company ever exist in the world along with Apple and Microsoft (with now Samsung are beginning to walk their path trailing them, thanks to the popularity of Android OS-also created by Google). Google in now used by almost nearly all of the people who ever been using internet, and became an important part of our life. Even the word "googling" now included in Oxford's English Dictionary.

Why did they became the biggest company in the world? They start it with advertising. In accordance with their popularity as a search engine, they used their largest traffic to create a "golden mine" made by advertisement. They made Google AdWords and Google AdSense as an ultimate weapon of increasing the size of the company. Google AdWords is for other companies who wants to put their advertisement, and Google AdSense is for the people who wants to join Google as a publishers. Millions of Google customer every day are like honey to the companies who need to promote their products. And Google made their large revenue from there.

Beside the Google AdWords and Google AdSense, the company always keep to gaining more and more customer by adding more variety of their service, because more customer means more money. Money is no problem at all for them, so they begin to conquering one by one of internet service may provided in this world. This is some of Google online products which is dominating internet use all over the world:

Google Search: This is their Primary Business, and everything that they achieved today are because of this start-up. They easily beat Yahoo! search engine and MSN search without any resistance. Their magic key to success is fast and easy to use search engine, with a simple display. Along with that excellence, their search results are the most accurate because of their sophisticated algorithm called PageRank invented by their founder. Google search engine is considered as the most successful online service ever existed.

Gmail: This is their free e-mail service, offering you a free 2 Giga Byte storage on cloud system and also with easy to use concept plus simple display. It also built in with their messaging service, so you don't have to sign up for Google Talk service no more. With this e-mail service, Google are head to head with other free e-mail service like Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail.

Google Talk: Now it is called Google Hangouts. Is their online messaging service, trying to compete the popularity of Yahoo! Messenger. To make it easier to use, Google embedded this product in their e-mail service. I have no data if this messaging service already pass Yahoo! Messenger or not. But now I think Android OS will help this service to be one more dominating Google service.

Blogger: created as their free blogging service, again with a simple setup and very easy to use compared to their rival, wordpress. People who wants to register in blogger must have a gmail account first.

Youtube: With the rapid development of telecommunication infrastructure and the increase of internet speed, Google soon realize that video streaming website services are the future of internet use. People not only want to read article but also want to hear and see. So they bought Youtube for a 1.65 billion US Dollar price tag, making it become the biggest acquisition at the time. But it worth every single penny as Youtube maintain their stature as the biggest online video streaming website in the world, and Google gain more customer from this service.

Google+: Are their last effort to compete with Facebook and Twitter in social media competition. Although it was considered too late for Google entering the social media market, they try with all power to make this service popular around the world by embedding it into other Google service available. Too bad it's offering nothing new, so the respond is rather cold than expected.

So, the tips for your blogging is: don't forget to use all of Google's free service to maximize your earnings. It can be very useful.

36 Best Movies Of All Time I Must Buy For My Collection

What Would Be The Best Movie of All Time I Should Put On The List?

I recently planning on buying another hard drive for my movie collections, and found that all this time I always collect the newest movie released on theater, but never looked for the past movie which are the best of their genre.

In Indonesia, my beloved country, you can buy Full High-Definition movies by using hard drive. For a 2 Terra Byte hard drive, you will get approximately 200 (two hundred) movies, and you only need to pay for about 300.000,00 Indonesian Rupiahs (equal to US$ 25,00 only). US$ 25,00 for 200 Full High-Definition movies. That's why piracy will never die.

So I began to search on the internet, about the list of films considered the best by Wikipedia, and I picked the movies I want to buy one by one based on my interest. This is not the list of best movie made by critics websites or award foundations, it's just a list of films made by me myself. I hope you would leave any comment which is criticizing this list, so I disabled the reader's comment form below the post, sorry for that.

So here we go:

1. Seven Samurai (1954)
   You must watch this movie, it is considered as one of the Best Action Movie, also voted as one of the best Epic Movie of All Time. Not only those two thing, this film is also being one of the Best Political Historical Movie. For that all reason you MUST watch Seven Samurai


2. The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part. II (1974)
   These two movie is no doubt are the Best Gangster Movie of All Time, it's also a MUST watch list of you.


3. Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Episodes I-VI) (1977-2002)
   This all-six movie are the Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Movie of All Time, you must be kidding me if you haven't watch all the series part.


4. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)


5. Schindler's List (1993)
   Best Political / Historical Movie, a heart-touching movie about a humble and charismatic man in Holocaust tragedy.


6. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
   If you loves watching Prison Break's television serial, then this movie is an absolute match for you.


7. The Lord of the Rings series (2001–2003)
   Best Fantasy Movie, although it is not about science fiction like Star Wars, but this movie is one of the absolutely state of the art in imaginary world created in movies.


8. Drunken Master II (1994)


9. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)


10. The Terminator Trilogy (1984 - 2003)


11. Aliens (1986)


12. The Matrix Trilogy (1999)
    Along With Star Wars and The Lord of The Ring Trilogy, this is another Trilogy that is totally worth to spend your time for watching.


13. Die Hard (1988), best christmas themed movie


14. Akira (1988)
    It's a cartoon film made by Katsuhiro Otomo, I have never watch this movie before, but they said it is considered as the greatest anime film ever made on the top ten anime lists. This movie was also showed up in Best Science Fiction Movie category. Interesting to look for on the DVD store.


15. Beauty and the Beast (1991)


16. The Lion King (1994)
    I watched this movie once when I was a little kid. My father bought me a DVD of this film in Jakarta early that year. It's a best children movie, I think.


17. Toy Story (1995)


18. Spirited Away (2001)
    They said is is the Best Anime, and also Best Fantasy Movie. I'm currently watching this movie right now.


19. WALL-E (2008)


20. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)


21. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)


22. Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy


23. Spider-Man 2 (2004)


24. X2 (2003)


25. The Incredibles (2004)


26. The Avengers (2012)


27. Goodfellas (1990)


28. Pulp Fiction (1994)


29. Blade Runner (1982)


30. Miracle (2004)


31. Murderball (2005)


32. Apocalypse Now (1979)
    was ranked as the #1 greatest war movie by The Guardian in a 2013 critics poll with The Observer.


33. Come and See (1985)
    was listed as the #1 greatest World War II film


34. Saving Private Ryan (1998)


35. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) (1966)


36. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

I'm wondering where is Forrest Gump? Why is that movie aren't listed in Wikipedia best movie of all time list?