Indonesiakreatif.com is a very reputable creative portal focusing on creative economy and it’s ecosystem. They wrote an awesome article regarding Gantibaju as a creative business. Here’s an quote that I love the most

Keunikan dari ide gantibaju.com adalah keberaniannya melawan trend. Dengan memajukan budaya-budaya Indonesia karya desainer lokal yang dikemas secara modern dan keren, gantibaju.com bercita-cita untuk menghasilkan produk Indonesia mampu ‘Go Internasional’, dengan tetap dikenal karena keunikannya yang merepresentasikan Indonesia.

Read the full article here (in Bahasa Indonesia)

Internationally, gantibaju.com is also being featured in e27, the one who organized echelon in singapore. Gantibaju is being compared to Threadless.com (not that we mind or anything). Here’s a little quote

Aria has plans to expand Gantibaju to Singapore, Malaysia and Australia due to the high concentration of Indonesians in these countries. His passion for the country and why he started Gantibaju is apparent when he says, ”I LOVE Indonesia, the people, the cultural heritage. I believe that there’s a lot that we can put on our designs from Indonesia. I’m proud of being an Indonesian and I want all Indonesian to be able to express that as open and as easily as I would.”

Read the full article here (in english).

Thank you for Indonesiakreatif and e27 for writing such a fine article, we are truly honored.

di era social media ini kata komunitas bak mantera. karena kekuatan teknologi yang begitu pesat perkembangannya ini memungkinkan informasi menyebar sangat cepat. sebuah brand yang mempunyai komunitas loyal bisa dengan efisien mempromosikan produknya. andai memang produk itu menarik, dengan suka rela sorang member komunitas akan meneruskan kabar itu ke temannya, temannya teman dan seterusnya.

selain itu, sebuah brand juga bisa melibatkan komunitas dalam menentukan produk terbarunya. seperti yang dilakukan oleh aria rajasa. salah satu owner gantibaju.com adalah contoh start up yang sukses melibatkan komunitas dalam bisnisnya. sesuai namanya, bisnis gantibaju.com memproduksi tshirt berkualitas.

keberadaan start up lokal ini adalah bentuk keprihatinan aria yang kesulitan mencari produk t-shirt lokal yang “awesome“. apalagi yang dengan bangga membawa-bawa nama indonesia. ia ingin membuat sebuah produk tshirt lokal yang sesuai dengan idenya. bertemulah ia dengan dua rekannya yang mendukung gagasannya tersebut.

Silahkan baca selengkapnya disini

Very well written :) Thx for the awesome writing!

A couple of months ago, I made a small business with some college friends called bebibobu.com. It’s a cute and adorable baby clothing business, yeah I know that’s soooo not me but my friends are all excited about it and I like their spirit, which is why I decided to help them.

A month after our first production, I find Bebibobu to be very interesting because I can meet new types of people like stay at home moms, career moms, other baby goods business managers and, well pretty much a lot of moms and babies actually. It’s quite a refreshing take on my daily meet-ups with geeks and the usual business owners. I believe that meeting different types of people is very important because it can give you different perspective of the same problem, it helps you to think something that you never thought before and best of all, it’s refreshing :)

So wish me luck with this new business, I never thought I’ll dive into the baby and mommy business since I don’t have a baby and not even married (as of this writing). But it sure is fun to do.

Been watching Glee Season 1 this whole week and I’m proud to say that I’m a new fan of it. I’m always a sucker when it comes to an underdog story and I do love almost all underdog movie like Karate Kid (the original and the new one), Dogdeball even Goal. The music is also super awesome, wonder why I didn’t watch it when it started. Too busy with The Big Bang Theory and How I met Your Mother I guess LOL

The Menu management and the new taxonomies system is pretty awesome as well!

You can download it now at Wordpress.org

From left to right: Bayu from PC Plus, Dendy from Unkl347, Djoko Hartanto from Concept, Me, Yuliandi, Gigih from Dagadu and the attendings

It’s quite an honor to be presenting Gantibaju.com along side of t-shirt distro legends like Dendy Darman of Unkl347, Gigih Budi from Dagadu and Djoko Hartanto from Concept magazine. Thank you for PC Plus for arranging this.

:)

*full story here

So why do I say that smoking is financially stupid? Well, first of all I’m getting married this year and after marriage, even small expenses cannot be taken lightly. So there it was, smoking expenses, on my budget list. Here’s my count:

I smoke 2 pack a day, let’s say it cost Rp. 10.000,- each, so one day equals 2 x 10.000,- = Rp. 20.000,-
Multiply that by 30 for a month = Rp. 600.000,-. Ok, it’s bigger than I thought..
Now let’s multiply that by a year: 600.000,- x 12 = Rp. 7.200.000,-

Wow! With that money, I can upgrade my iPhone every year! or buy an iPad and still have a surplus :P Now let’s see I’ve quit for 2 months which means that in 10 months I can justify myself on buying a new iPhone that steve is announcing this June! Ahahaa :D

So yeah, smoking is financially stupid :)

*This post was made to commemorate No Tobacco Day

On to the point, there are two things I notice that are “missing” but I love so much on my Macbook is this: Scroll Anywhere and Software brightness control.

Scroll on any windows without having to focus/click them

In a Mac, you don’t have to focus on a window to scroll it’s content, this is great when you’re used to opening more than one window at a time. Good thing I found Flying Windows, it lets you scroll and move background windows without bringing to front. I don’t really care about moving a background window, I just need to scroll it. It’s very small and it leaves very minimal trace on your desktop. It just works :)

Software level brightness control + profiling

Macbook have keys for adjusting monitor brightness on the top left side of the keyboard. I tend to dim the lights when browsing or working and lighten it up to the max when watching video. On a PC, it’s not that easy because the buttons for monitor settings are on the.. well on the monitor and it’s quite a hassle to change it everytime. Lucky that I found Display Tuner.

The UI design doesn’t fit windows general design (well, it doesn’t fit any OS design either) but I don’t really care because it supports profiling. I made 2 profile, 1 for dim lights and the other with top brightness for watching movies. So everytime I want to watch a movie I can just change the profile to Movie, and change it back when I’m not. Another awesome feature for this application is that it can bind shortcuts for specific profile. I set the Dim Lights profile to Alt+F1 and Movie profile to Alt+F2. Easy as pie e?

Ok so that’s the 2 things that I modify from my Windows 7, what’s your small but important upgrades on your Windows?

*picture taken from urbanesia.com