Archive for the ‘Japanese Computing’ Category

Google Japanese Input Annoucement

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Google announced and released their own Japanese input method software (often called an IME). This created quite a buzz on Twitter and I personally am pretty excited about it so I decided to translate the announcement into English. I'm not a professional translator (not even close) but tried to ...

Using Japanese ClearType fonts in Google Documents

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

I'm a big Google fan and I really like Google Docs. I like being able to easily access all of my documents whether I'm at home, at work, on the road, etc. One thing I use Google docs for frequently is keeping Japanese vocabulary lists. But I've always ...

Microsoft introduces ClearType Japanese font with Vista

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Recently while browsing through a Japanese university's web site, I noticed that the Japanese fonts looked nice.  Actually, they looked really nice!  They didn't have the pixelated look I have come to expect from fonts such as "MS P Gothic" and "MS 明朝", etc.  Up until now, if you use ...

Native Japanese OS using Vista Ultimate

Friday, May 9th, 2008

If you would like to install and run native Japanese software on your non-Japanese PC, you can now do this pretty easily using Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate.  The way you accomplish this is by installing the Japanese multi-user interface (MUI) language pack and then setting your display language to Japanese.  Note that ...