Archive for the ‘Japanese Computing’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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