Cara Menambahkan Hari Libur pada Kalender Android

Dalam merencanakan suatu kegiatan sudah pasti membutuhkan alat berupa kalender. Sering kali kita menghadapi kendala ketika menggunakan kalender pada perangkat Android kita karena tidak ada hari liburnya sehingga mau tidak mau harus menggunakan kalender konvensional untuk memastikan bahwa hari tersebut sesuai dengan rencana. Beruntung, baru-baru ini Google sudah menyediakan kalender berlangganan berisi hari libur sesuai dengan negaranya masing-masing secara gratis yang dapat disinkron secara otomatis melalui perangkat Android Anda. Ditambah lagi fitur ini juga dapat digunakan pada kalender selain produk Google seperti Microsoft Outlook. 

Kali ini saya akan menjelaskan cara berlangganan hari libur Indonesia pada perangkat Android Anda.

1. Pertama, buka Google Calendar di www.google.com/calendar. Jika belum masuk, masuk dengan akun Google Anda. 

2. Setelah itu tunggu sampai tampilan Google Calendar muncul seperti ini.

3. Kemudian buka tab baru lalu klik halaman ini: https://www.google.com/calendar/htmlembed?src=in.indonesian%23holiday@group.v.calendar.google.com. Klik “Subscribe with Google Calendar” di pojok kanan bawah dan tunggu sampai prosesnya selesai.

4. Ketika muncul tampilan ini, klik “Yes, add this calendar” dan tunggu proses berikutnya selesai.

5. Selamat, kalender hari libur Indonesia sudah ditambahkan ke kalender Google Anda. Anda bisa lihat tanda “Liburan di Indonesia” di Other calendars di pojok kiri bawah yang artinya Anda sudah berlangganan kalender hari libur Indonesia dari Google.

6. Buka tab “Agenda” di panel atas kalender jika ingin melihat hari libur yang akan datang. Langkah selanjutnya adalah sinkron kalender tersebut pada perangkat Android Anda.

7. Buka menu “Settings (Pengaturan)”, pilih menu “Accounts (Akun)” lalu pilih Google.

8. Pilih akun Google sesuai dengan alamat GMail yang Anda kehendaki.

9. Pilih menu “Calendar (Kalender)” sampai muncul tanda sinkron, tunggu hingga proses selesai. Sinkron pertama ini bertujuan untuk mengambil nama-nama kalender yang sudah kita langgani.

10. Lalu buka aplikasi “Calendar (Kalender )” di perangkat Android Anda, kemudian klik Menu - “Accounts (Akun)”.

11. Pada bagian Google, centang bagian “Liburan di Indonesia” untuk ditampilkan di kalender Android kita.

12. Lakukan sinkronisasi kalender Google Anda sekali lagi persis seperti proses nomor 9. Ini dilakukan untuk mendapatkan berbagai hari libur yang ada dalam kalender “Liburan di Indonesia”. Tunggu sampai proses sinkron selesai.

13. Selamat, hari libur Indonesia sudah berhasil ditambahkan kedalam kalender Android Anda. Untuk memeriksa hari libur yang akan datang, ganti mode tampilan kalender menjadi Agenda.

 14. Seperti ini tampilan hari libur yang sudah ditambahkan pada kalender Android Anda. 

15. Seperti ini tampilan rincian hari liburnya. Semoga bermanfaat. Jika ada hal yang ingin ditanyakan, silahkan komentari artikel blog ini. Terima kasih.

Tambahan :

Jika ingin menambahkan hari libur lain, Google juga menyediakan berbagai macam hari libur. Penasaran? Saya akan bahas cara-caranya.

1. Pada tampilan awal Google Calendar, klik Opsi pada Other Calendars - Browse Interesting Calendars.

2. Nanti akan muncul tiga bagian : Holidays, Sports, dan More. Silahkan pilih sesuai dengan keingian. Jika Ingin melihat saja bisa klik "Preview" atau jika ingin langsung berlangganan klik "Subscribe".

3. Ingin sinkron kalender hari libur Google di aplikasi kalender lain seperti Microsoft Outlook? Pada tampilan utama Google Calendar, klik kalender yang ingin dikonversikan (Contoh kalender Liburan di Indonesia) lalu pilih Calendar Settings.

4. Pilih jenis format kalender yang Anda inginkan pada Calendar Address, ada 3 yaitu XML, ICAL, dan HTML. Pilih sesuai keinginan Anda.

The hidden features of Google Chrome that make your life easier

Do you always use Chrome to do everything like working or entertaining? If the answer is yes, this article can make your browsing activity would be easier and more productive! As newcomer browser, Google Chrome always do innovation by its features besides improving the browser performance. So far, we just know that Google Chrome is only the ordinary browser like Mozilla Firefox and Internet Browser. But now, here I’m going to explain you some hidden features of Google Chrome that would make you yet love using Google Chrome!

Play T-Rex Endless Runner Game when unable to connect to the Internet 

One day, you are browsing some articles on the Internet and suddenly your Internet is disconnected! Evidently, your modem is error and need for few minutes to be repaired. Don’t worry, you can play the secret game of Chrome just press "SPACE" key on the error page while waiting for your modem done.

Save your webpage into one file (MHTML)

Do you want to save webpage and always be separated into two files? Don’t worry, Google has default feature to save webpage into one file as MHTML so you can save webpage without forgetting the containing files again. Just type "chrome://flags" (without quote marks) on Omnibox Address bar and search "MHTML" then enable it. Restart your chrome to apply it.

Save webpage as PDF file without additional plugin

If you don’t want to save webpage into MHTML files, you can save it as PDF just select Print (Ctrl + P) Then click "Change" button on Destination, choose Save as PDF then Save! Really awesome! 

Special for Windows 8 user only, you can feel ChromeOS just launch Chrome in Windows 8 Mode

Actually, I have been using ChromeOS by Acer Chromebook. Its appearance is almost same like Google Chrome appearance in Windows 8 Mode. So, if you want to feel ChromeOS just launch Chrome in Windows 8 Mode in Settings menu.

Search image easily by Google Image

Do you have an image and curious about it? Search by uploading it directly in Google Image by click camera icon  and let Google search it for you. You can also search the current image on website by clicking right the selected image.

Update Your Chrome just open Google Chrome’s about page!

You can easily update your Chrome just Open Chrome’s about page or type "chrome://chrome' and let it updating your Chrome. So simple!

Open hidden calculator
You can open the Google's hidden calculator just type "calculator" or type math question like "cos 60 deg". It very useful when you are doing your exact assignment online.

Access your disk partition directly from your Chrome
You can open open your file automatically with type your partition like "C:\" or "D:\" without using Windows Explorer to save your time.

Show all of Chrome URLs.
If you are web developer, the "chrome://chrome-urls/" command will be useful to show all of chrome URL included flags, history, download, etc. You can try one by one to know what function of each url.

Get element of the current website using Inspect Element
Just right click on your current web space and choose "Inspect Element". There are many useful tools for web developers to improving their website.

Get Security information about the current website by clicking website icon
You can manage media permission and security access of current website just click the website icon on Omnibox address bar.

Search anything in the specific site directly from Chrome Omnibox address bar
Google Chrome provides shorcut for some special websites which has its own search engine like Wikipedia, Instructables, Yahoo, etc that allow you to find something directly by omnibox without visit its homepage anymore. Just type the website url then press TAB or SPACE key and type what do you search.

Switch Google Account easily on the title bar

In the public PC like in laboratory or office, you can switch Chrome user easily just click name/people icon on the title bar. It has also another mode such as Incognito (In Private) and Guest mode.

Get current traffic and weather Information from Chrome Notification
Just click bell icon  on your windows taksbar right below and it shows the current traffic and weather information based on your Google Maps settings.

Search any science journal in Google Scholar
Are you facing trouble when looking for some science journal or paper? Don't worry, Google Scholar will help you to find it. The papers come from various university in the world that officially published. You can also use another google products here.

Manage backgroud apps in your Chrome Task Manager
Is your chrome getting slow performance? Maybe because there are many apps are running on your Chrome's background. Manage them by right click on Chrome title bar and select "Task Manager" or just press "Shift + Esc". To end process just select one of the tasks and click End Process.

Get the real time information by some tricks
Here some keyword tricks to find real time information as you need by Google:

• Weather in City = [your_city] forecast = Jakarta forecast
• Time in City = Time in [your_city] = Time in Jakarta
• Flight Schedule = [your_airlines] [your_airlines_code] = Garuda Indonesia 135
• Exchange Rate = [amount] [your_currency] to [currency_target] = 1 USD to IDR
• Stock = [NASDAQ_code] = GOOGL 
• Unit Conversion = [amount] [your_unit] to [unit_target] = 1 m to cm
• Translation = translate [unknown_word] to [language_target] = Translate Terima Kasih to Engslish
• Definition = [one_word] = unfortunately
• Other real time information = Movie, Artist, Public Place, Book, etc.

If you know more feature than these all, don’t hesitate to let me know about it by commenting here. Thanks for visiting.

“Building a Simple App for Android” Workshop

Last year, my GSAC team held our first Android Workshop entitled “Building a Simple App for Android” exactly on Monday, April 6th 2014 at Indomaret point. It was located beside of Campus J1 of Gunadarma University. The workshop was free and opened to all of student of Gunadarma University. The instructor of this workshop was me as GSA Gunadarma accompanied with Ai Nenden Triana as speaker of GSAC Community. The workshop participants numbered 16 (sixteen) persons who came from various study program such as Informatics Engineering (TI), Informatics Management (MI), Information System (SI), and Computer System (SK). We also invited BUC (Bekasi Urban City) team as our media partner of this workshop. They covered all our activities when the workshop was ongoing. This workshop was our last event which held by GSA (Google Student Ambassador) Gunadarma batch 2013-2014.

The workshop material was steps how to build own simple Android apps using Eclipse SDK (Software Developer Kit) integrated with Android ADT. The App would have one input from text box with many output consisted of Text, Dialogue, Toast, Text-to-Speech Voice, and share the input text by other apps. The app could be run either on their phone or on their PC simulator. We were not only studying the program’s code, but also studying how to use “string” in Android that would facilitate us if they wanted to translate the app’s text into other language, modified the app’s interface by “.xml” editing, and configured any Activity in Android Manifest. The goal of this workshop besides promoting Android as Google products, we also expected through this workshop the participants could get their alternative reference for their science report (PI) especially for student class 3 from TI, SI, and MI program.

As our first workshop, it must be hard. We faced some obstacles due to lack preparation. We had insufficient time because it was held for two half hour only (2 pm to 4.30 pm). Moreover, Mostly participant are really beginner of Android programming (evidently, most participants came from class 1 and 2). So, many time was wasted just for installing and telling them about basic of Android (Basically derived from Java programming).  Although it was so hard, we felt so glad because all participants finally understood with basic manipulation of Android programming. It would be our valuable experience in preparing to hold any educative event in next time. We would like to say biggest thanks to GSAC team as the workshop committee and BUC team as our media partner. We never forget appreciating the participant’s attendance to our workshop. So, we gave the workshop material to them directly through flashdisk and gave them electronic certificate to their email later. 

If you interest and want to get this workshop material, you can download it here. If you want to see our workshop activity, you can see it here. I hope this material can help you to understand and more interesting about basic Android programming. Thanks for coming.

Google Apps For Education Summit 2014 event

Google Apps For Education (GAFE) Summit 2014 was held by Google Indonesia in Thursday, December 4th, 2014 at The Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture building, Jakarta. Actually it was firstly held to introduce Google Apps projects to all educational institutions such as High Schools or Universities in Indonesia for education purpose. Through this event we expected they would be interested to establish GAFE system into their school’s education system. The participants were consisted of the school headmasters and the school IT experts who role as school stakeholder on their education system. 

I was invited by Kibar (official Google Indonesia’s EO) via Gmail as volunteer to be one of that event commitee. I got job to prepare breakout session at 2nd floor which begun at 2 PM after seminar session. The breakout session was the main session because through this session Google Developer teams would present their GAFE system to the School IT Expert. Suddenly, I really interested with that offer and I agree directly to enlist by filling any form.

I went to that event in early morning exactly at 6 AM by Bus from my home. Then, I arrived to there at 9 AM. Before starting the event, we gathered to get our job desc and ensured that we had understood about the event schedule. After that, we went to each postition and I got demo booth that located at beside of main hall. I stood there to help other commitee to explain Google Apps description while waiting for my session at 2 PM later. I met with a lot people both local and foreigner when standing at demo booth. I explained all of Google Apps function as I know to them. If to local people I can explain by Indonesia languange but if to foreigner I must explain by English. Fortunately, I can hold that well although still got little trouble with grammar, hahaha. Next I did that job until luch break session. 

After praying Dzuhur and having lunch, I went directly to 2nd floor for preparing Breakout session. I had asked to the speakers, Yomi Oyesiku and Devan Mitchem about the preparation later. And then I thought everything was prepared well and the Breakout session could be started.

When Breakout would be started, I surprised because my collegemate was also the participant. He is Teguh was class KB06. I had just met him because he left his study for seeking jobs and he is IT expert in STIAMI now. I asked to him to go home together after the event had finished. After the breakout session was end, I got the chance to take photo with the speakers and making some conversation about get career in Google. Yomi as one of the speaker advised me to don’t focus on Google ony, but also try other office. While seeking jobs, we should take part to any community as volunteer because it will help us increasing our career value. I said biggest thanks to his advice. I went directly to 1st floor to pray Ashar and maghrib before going to home with Teguh.

I really thanked god with current chance, get new experiences and met with old friend. While in driving to home by car, I was talking everything about campus situation with Teguh. We discussed about campus and his career experiences. He also advised me to keep my study well before graduating as my responsibility to my parent. Finally, we arrived at Jatibening toll and we said goodbye to each other after exchanging our contact to always keep in touch.