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  1. Alesis - A Terrible Company Irresponsibly Handling an Unforeseen Problemhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10136-alesis-a-terrible-company-irresponsibly-handling-an-unforeseen-problem

    did I know that the IO Dock is not at all compatible with iOS5 on the iPad2, a fact that likely surprised even Alesis. The Problem The problem is simple enough to explain. When using a music application (e.g. Garageband) on an iOS5 iPad2, a cacophonous...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Mondaiji
    • Category: General
  2. MS Outlook - None of your email accounts could send to this recipienthttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10263-ms-outlook-none-of-your-email-accounts-could-send-to-this-recipient

    PROBLEM You send email to a recipient, but immediately receive an error bounce-back message that says "None of your email accounts could send to this recipient." I'm running Microsoft Outlook 2010 in cached mode, so I'm not sure if this issue occurs in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Mondaiji
    • Category: IT
  3. 32 - Noise Pollution in Japanhttps://japanatron.com/?view=article&id=10352:32-noise-pollution-in-japan&catid=52

    An obnoxious topic covered by a loud ugly American--let's talk about noise pollution in Japan. I rant about Japan's problem with excessive noise, sharing personal experiences and heavily-biased conclusions. POSTSCRIPT It occurred to me that the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Japanatron
    • Category: Podcast
  4. HP Universal Print Driver - Slow Opening Print Settingshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10150-hp-universal-print-driver-slow-opening-print-settings

    PROBLEM Recently I switched a number of networked HP printers (Laserjet P4515n) to the universal print driver because the model-specific print driver was crashing and rebooting the print server. After switching, the print server no longer crashed;...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Mondaiji
    • Category: IT
  5. Playstation 3 Audio With a Computer Monitorhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10162-playstation-3-audio-with-a-computer-monitor

    no way to control the volume. Games were OK, but Netflix was too loud. My Solution: A Simple Volume Control I figured my problem would be solved if I could just find a simple volume controller to put between the RCA audio out and the speakers...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Mondaiji
    • Category: IT
  6. Life in Japan - Why Americans Are So Fathttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10014-life-in-japan-why-americans-are-so-fat

    just wasn't working. But the primary reason I quit being a vegetarian is that living in Japan opened my eyes to the real problem. "Vegetarian" is barely in the Japanese vocabulary. "Vegan? What's that??" I looked around and saw a significantly slimmer...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Mondaiji
    • Category: General
  7. Dell Windows 7 Laptop and Wifi Problems with iPhone Personal Hotspothttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10382-dell-latitude-e7270-e7250-laptop-and-wifi-problems-with-iphone-personal-hotspot

    PROBLEM The Dell Latitude E7270 & E7250 laptops my company uses have various wifi-related issues under 32-bit Windows 7. They won't connect to certain wifi hotspots (especially iPhone personal hotspot), auto switching sometimes won't work, etc. I've...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Japanatron
    • Category: IT
  8. The Kyoto Poopie Incidenthttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/countryside/1001-the-kyoto-incident

    and I actually got a mild case of the shits right there in the restaurant. I went to the bathroom, and took care of it. Problem solved, right? Wrong! During the 3 hour drive back to Tottori, the shit attack returned in a big fuckin' way. My intestines...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Mondaiji
    • Category: Countryside
  9. iPhone Mail with MS Exchange Mailbox - Unable to Move Message to Trashhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10223-iphone-mail-with-ms-exchange-mailbox-unable-to-move-message-to-trash

    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
  10. What I Hate About Mac and What I Did About Ithttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10146-what-i-hate-about-mac-and-what-i-did-about-it

    in the file header. Any modern image viewer reads this header and displays the correct rotation. That's the idea. The problem with this idea comes when uploading the image to a web page. Many web-based image viewers ignore the header or strip it out...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Mondaiji
    • Category: IT
  11. Life in Japan - How to Get Permanent Residencehttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10171-life-in-japan-how-to-get-permanent-residence

    Well, I'll tell you why: * Almost all work visas in Japan require some kind of sponsor, usually a company or a spouse. The problem here is that if something happens to your sponsor--e.g. your company suffers a financial crisis, or sweet love turns...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Mondaiji
    • Category: General
  12. Joomla Running on Nginx and Ubuntu Server - Securinghttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10228-joomla-running-on-nginx-and-ubuntu-server-securing

    defined in nginx.conf. # Request Rate Limiting limit_req zone=one burst=5 nodelay; Rate Limiting - POST Method I have a problem with spambots constantly trying to POST spammy comments to my site. Although the captcha protection combined with Akismet...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Mondaiji
    • Category: IT
  13. Joomla - YouTube Videos Too Big After Gavick Template Updatehttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10251-joomla-youtube-videos-too-big-after-gavick-template-update

    PROBLEM After updating my Joomla Gavick template to the latest version, the embedded YouTube videos appeared massively large on desktop browsers. Mobile browsers looked OK. SOLUTION The problem is caused by the fitvids library introduced in later...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Mondaiji
    • Category: IT
  14. How to Clear Gmail iOS App Cachehttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10392-how-to-clear-gmail-ios-app-cache

    app. - Open the sidebar and open the account list. - Touch "Manage accounts." - Turn OFF the account with the expired cache problem, wait a minute or so, then turn it back on. After turning the account OFF then back ON again, the Gmail cache was...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Japanatron
    • Category: IT
  15. Running Adobe Illustrator with User Privileges on Windowshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10368-running-adobe-illustrator-with-user-privileges-on-windows

    Here's a quick one. I've been struggling with getting Adobe Illustrator (Creative Cloud) to run properly with user-level privileges. It would often freeze and crash. After making the changes below, Illustrator now works quite well. My gut tells me that...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Japanatron
    • Category: IT
  16. Working Around the Limitations of the Sony a6300/a6500 Camerahttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10362-working-around-the-limitations-of-the-sony-a6300-camera

    when shooting 4K video (a recurring theme). I can usually shoot a single 29-minute clip, but then the overheating problems will soon arise on subsequent shots. Don't expect to shoot an all-day event like a wedding in 4K with this camera. I recently had...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Japanatron
    • Category: General
  17. Tips For Learning a Second Languagehttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/studying-japanese/10327-tips-for-learning-a-second-language

    not do the same. This is an important step to successfully learning a new language, and it is also one that ends up being a problem area for many people. Attitude plays a major role in how successful you will be on your journey to learn a second...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Japanatron
    • Category: Studying Japanese
  18. Xoom.com Review - Is This a Joke?https://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10393-xoom-com-review-is-this-a-joke

    my identity: a copy of a valid photo ID and the most recent bank statement from my sending bank account (the USA one). No problem. The email arrived. Am I supposed to send these via plain email? That doesn't seem very secure, Paypal. I ask about that....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Japanatron
    • Category: General
  19. How I Send Money Between my Japan and USA Bank Accounts - Life Abroadhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10388-how-i-send-money-between-my-japan-and-usa-bank-accounts-life-abroad

    suitable for large transfers. I haven't really tested how high you can go, but I've personally done 2000 USD via Paypal no problem. Solution #3: Bank Wire Transfer I used to use Shinsei Bank to send money from Japan to the USA, especially when the yen...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Japanatron
    • Category: General
  20. How to Disable Annoying Citrix Receiver Popuphttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10359-how-to-disable-annoying-citrix-receiver-popup

    PROBLEM You install the Citrix Receiver, and you get this annoying setup window each time you start your PC. You never really configure the client because you only use the web client. SOLUTION Open "Command Prompt" as Administrator (right-click, run as...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Japanatron
    • Category: IT
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