Category: Japan
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATpSPNIuj3M?feature=oembed&w=500&h=374] jared: iPad Magic Nice cameo by DaiGo! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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日本男子今昔
日本男子今昔 via reddit
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Importing Mobile Equipment in Japan
Both NTT Docomo and Softbank operate on the 2100 Mhz W-CDMA band which is compatible with most of the global 3G network providers around the world so now, most 3G hardware available on the open market is technically able to work in Japan. I say technically because there are still quite a few safeguards put…
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Substandard web-browsing experience on the iPad and iPhone
An astounding number of websites on the Japanese web fail to declare charset, resulting in garbled text (文字化け), requiring the user to manually switch encoding. Safari on the Mac or PC allows you to switch via the View menu. Unfortunately there is no such menu for Mobile Safari. The iPad is billed as an amazing…
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PSA: If you are living in Japan, you might want to wait for the iPad
The iPad has been released in America. Many of you in Japan might not be able to wait until it is released here and use your extensive network of shady international connections to somehow import the device. I am jealous of your reach, but I come with a word of warning: one of the most…
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2ちゃん：ドコモのiPhoneキラーの歴史
Brilliant. Note how every catchphrase but one has the word “iPhone” in it. What is the first rule of marketing again? Anyways, I checked out the Xperia at the new Sony store. As it is an Android phone, there is nothing really special to say about it from a software perspective. But I have to…
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Photos from my weekend in Kyoto where it was snowing for hanami (!?).
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Photos from my weekend in Kyoto where it was snowing for hanami (!?).
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Mac OS X in Asia
From arstechnica Mac OS X North American installed base almost 11%: Mac OS X only accounts for about 2.5 percent of users in Asia. The two most populous countries in the world, China and India, have an even lower percentage overall—1.9 and 1.2 percent, respectively. Japan is likely responsible for the majority of Mac OS…
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Win v. Mac in Japan
About 3% use Macs exclusively, and 13% of the sample use both. Pretty amazing. The last question, however, makes no sense. Are they saying in the Win vs Mac argument one is “functional” and one is “design”? That is a false dichotomy. Via whatjapanthinks.com Win v. Mac in Japan