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be fairly limited to international money orders and wire transfers, a couple of newly-discovered and extremely convenient solutions have proved their weight in yen to me. For the sake of completeness, I document all the solutions I've utilized. Solution...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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fixes that I use with Microsoft Windows and Outlook. These instructions are written with Windows 7 / Outlook 2010 in mind. SOLUTION 1 - Mojibake in Received Email Try re-selecting the encoding in Outlook. 1. Open the mail. 2. Click Actions, Other...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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experience issues with getting iPhone personal hotspot to work with laptops running Windows 7. Unfortunately, none of the solutions I found on the web worked for me. After lots of painful trial and error, I found success with the solution below....
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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has famously fast Internet service, so this is a key brownie-point advantage in my opinion. VPN A VPN is a more aggressive solution. This service will typically route all of your Internet traffic through a "tunnel," making it look like you are totally...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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one of these mini USB batteries and attached it to the camera with some velcro tape: http://amzn.to/2a6L5Ce I love this solution because these batteries cost much less than the Sony batteries, and they greatly extend the camera's run time. * Cycle...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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fashion and style, but their ergonomics really suck sometimes. Fortunately, being a top gripe among Mac users, some decent solutions do exist: Brand-name Mouse If you own a brand-name mouse (e.g. Logitech or Microsoft), then the included driver software...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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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...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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socks, gloves, and hats. For the more minimalist and/or technology-minded like me, Japan also offers plentiful high-tech solutions like Uniqlo's "HeatTech" line. Personally, I find such winter-fighting clothes surprisingly heat-retaining despite lacking...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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of SMTP. This info is cached in Outlook, so even re-entering the recipient address manually does not fix the problem. SOLUTION Resend the email, being sure to change the recipient type to SMTP before clicking "send." * Open the original message in your...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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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 template versions. - Find the file fitvids.jquery.js in...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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show garbled video when scrolling through emails, etc. Internet Explorer may garble the video when working in Citrix. SOLUTION Disable hardware graphics acceleration in the affected application(s). Step-by-step for two applications is explained below....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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the on-access scan log: Not scanned (scan timed out) C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\hpchl118.cab none (Virus) SOLUTION Adding this CAB file to McAfee's scanning exceptions list solved the problem.
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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mailbox that syncs with my office email. While this problem was well-documented for IMAP mailboxes, I could not find a solution for MS Exchange mailboxes. SOLUTION Turn off the mail sync, then turn it back on. * Settings * Mail, Contact, Calendars *...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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exercise because I don't have to think about it nor remember to schedule it. Next was to find the ultimate two-wheeled solution for my daily commute conundrum. Perhaps this is Japan's influence on me, or perhaps this is my own obsessive personality...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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headphones and got audio. But again, there was 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...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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While enjoying my dinner in a nearby Tokyo food court, I spied an older gentlemen smoking what appeared to be a conspicuous metallic cigar. Upon further introspection I ascertained this to be 「電子タバコ」--better known as electronic cigarettes or "vape" to...
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- Author: Mondaiji
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yet to see one that resells Softbank; however anything is possible as Japan looks as if it is finally embracing SIM-only solutions. NOTES * I focus solely on providers offering full phone service, as in a real phone number. There are countless other...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Tokyo Makes Me Hate Peoplehttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10081-tokyo-makes-me-hate-people
the food and drinks, and you've successfully installed the "fun" locally and even got a free meal out of it. It's an apt solution if you're a wimp and not yet able to fully sever the ties. Talk To Yourself I'm proud to say that I have 2 best friends in...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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down start. BOOM! PROFIT! In some cases it may not even be necessary to restart Batocera (step 4). So basically the solution is to turn the controller off, then back on again. LOL! Some things never change.
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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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 Administrator) and run this command: REG ADD...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT