Meet Gil Frei aka Bamboo Gil
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art anyone could ever want.” – Andy Warhol....
Business/Property
Sports I.T.
IT development never stops and has found its way into sports, to make our life, during our games, easier and...
Dreaming of Another Ultimate Indonesian Holiday
Being an archipelago spanning 5,248 kilometres over three time zones, Indonesia has thousands of destinations to satisfy the curious traveller’s...
Early Warning Systems – Hope for Disaster Prevention
From earthquakes to cyclones and tropical storms, landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods, and avalanches, no nation is immune from the threat...
Anita Scheeres: Independent Bookseller in Bali
Anita Scheeres fell into bookselling. Each time she would visit her family in Sydney, she would lug books back to...
Predict Your Future?
Astrology, fortune tellers and horoscopes are part of our daily lives. Computers and mobile phones opened new doors for the...
Bob & the Chocolate Factory: Meet Bob Formston
Meet Bob Formston. The chocolatier also known as ‘Chocolate Bob’. Bob, how did you get into making chocolate? My wife...
Facebook’s 2012: A Billion Users and a Shift to Mobile
What does the future have in store? Will mobile phones become smaller or bigger, will Android beat iPhone? Well,...
Online Booking – The New Way to Book Your Travel Trips
Let me start by dazzling you with some numbers. How do travellers use the web to search for hotels, flight...
Best Sport & Humour Apps
Humour is the best medicine. It may sound cheesy, but experts agree that laughter can improve job performance, increase our...
Entertainment Equals Gaming
At home in the old days we had a lot of board games to entertain ourselves during the evening, but...
Religion and the Mobile World
The influence of mobile technology on religion has been evident for quite some time. The use of the mobile and...
The Social Network
Normally I write about mobile aps and website applications that can benefit your business or which you can use just...
Breaking News: Rich People have Smart Phones!
Perhaps not so surprising, but yes rich people have smartphones. The majority of rich people will not buy the cheap...
Don’t Drink and Type!
If you think that alcohol and your computer do not mix, think again. Normally a few glasses of beer will...
Aesthetically Pleasing Green Buildings of Jakarta
A general awareness of green buildings in Indonesia, especially Jakarta is still not well organized due to people’s assumptions of...
Love is in the Air
Do you remember the song Love is in the Air, which was a big hit by John Paul Young in...
The Unnecessary Fire
We call the magical device we have in our pockets a “phone”, but it really should be called a “communicator”....
Top 10 Technological Woes in Jakarta
1. “The internet has stopped working.” This shouldn’t even surprise me anymore. I arrive at the office in the morning,...
Mark’s Top Apps for 2012
I’ve been an active user of smartphones since I got my first Treo 180 in 2002. All the devices I...
Apps that will help smart phone users go green
Living in a country that is not really ready to go green yet makes it a bit difficult to say...