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The Power of Vodkahttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10189-the-power-of-vodka
I received this email forward many years ago. Props to whoever wrote this. * To remove a bandage painlessly, saturate the bandage with vodka. The solvent dissolves the adhesive. * To clean the caulking around bathtubs and showers, fill a trigger-spray...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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PROBLEM Once in a while I am unable to delete an email message on my iPhone. It throws an "unable to move message to trash" error message. I use the normal iPhone Mail app and have an MS Exchange mailbox that syncs with my office email. While this...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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I'm obsessed with bluetooth. So much so that I've been hunting for heaven's own pair of bluetooth headphones for my Tokyo subway commutes. I'm already on my 5th pair (thank God for Yahoo Auctions), so here's a summary of my bluetooth headphone...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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* php5-fpm * php5-gd * php5-mcrypt * php5-mysql * php5-xmlrpc * nano * unzip * zip * wget * phpmyadmin * webmin * libav-tools (I install this for avconv, a utility used to convert video files.) Create DNS Entries / Zones (if necessary) PHP Configuration...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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credit cards, Paypal, etc. The Internet with its access-anywhere convenience makes this reasonably easy; however, I smacked into a challenge when seeking to boost the security of my online financial accounts. My ultimate goal was to setup multi-factor...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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questions regarding Japan's technology atmosphere. Perhaps your computer imploded. Perhaps you still wet your bed from time to time (like me). Perhaps not. Either way you need some IT help, and Japan's native offerings are not overly preferable. Let's...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Why Japanese TV Suckshttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/show-biz/10053-why-japanese-tv-sucks
If you're in America right now, I'm really jealous of your horn of plenty that is American TV. I took my home country's TV for granted, and now I realize how good I really had it. The USA makes the best freakin' TV shows in the world, and to quote the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Show Biz
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Being an IT guy and a student of Japanese, I'm expectedly a fan of using software to study. I've tried just about every type of Japanese learning software there is, so here I've compiled a list of my favorites: The Rosetta Stone (PC / Mac) -...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Studying Japanese
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Near the very end of September 2011 I purchased an Alesis IO Dock, an audio interface promising to fulfill all my needs for iPad-based live music performance. In fact, 95% of the reason I purchased an iPad2 was due to the release of this...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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high on the agenda since my wife commandeered the living room PS3 for Netflix viewing. I thought it would be relatively easy to connect a PS3 to my PC monitor. The video part was easy of course--just plug in the HDMI cable (duh). However, the audio part...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Japanese Studyhttps://japanatron.com/directory/10415-japanese-study
during my adventures in studying Japanese. Renzo's Japanese Dictionary Renzo's Japanese Dictionary is another one of my go-to Japanese-English dictionary apps. It's free and incredibly feature-rich, so you can't lose with this one. PROS * Search using...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Directory
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here in Japan. It's the hot trendy free communication app all the cool kids are using these days, which means I just HAVE to try it too. What do you have to lose? It's totally free. Right, Mom? So I sign up. I was drawn into the feature that "scans" my...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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The Kyoto Poopie Incidenthttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/countryside/1001-the-kyoto-incident
I have a story for you, and it's quite disgusting really. But this is me you're talking to, so that's what you get. Anyways, I'll get to the point. I went on an all-day road trip to visit the ninja villages in Japan. It was 4 of us: me, Susumu,...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Finding a good apartment or any apartment in Japan can be a real pain for foreigners. Most apartments require a guarantor on the lease, basically someone to vouch for you. Unfortunately, that often proves somewhat of a difficulty for us foreigners...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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You're a foreigner living in Japan, and you're in the market for a computer with an English keyboard. To your chagrin perhaps finding that laptop with an English keyboard proves rather taxing. Or maybe you're forever stalking the elusive desktop...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Google is Skynethttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10064-google-is-skynet
Has anyone besides me noticed the uncanny resemblance between Google and "Skynet" from the Terminator movies? It's no secret that Google's ultimate goal is control of the world's information through the proliferation of "cloud computing." On the...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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impeccably organized, and borderline OCD. I'm not without vices, however. I drink rum like a pirate and am sadly addicted to nori potato chips. Getting back to the point--maybe the reason Japan and I click so well is because it's just as anal as I am....
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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While Apple technically calls it "iPhone IMEI database whitelisting," it's better known around the web as a factory unlock--a process that allows your iPhone to be used on any carrier's network. Unlike a jailbreak unlock, a factory unlock stays with...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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The Roku media player has Google's free public DNS (8.8.8.8) hard-coded into it. This is great for DNS redundancy, but totally sucks if you use an unblock service to watch Netflix abroad (see this: How to Watch Netflix in Japan). From time to time my...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Legal