Native Japanese OS using Vista Ultimate

May 9, 2008 4:07 PM by Rick Noelle
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 you must be running Vista Ultimate or Enterprise to have access to this feature.  It is not available in the ...

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Browse with Japan IP address

April 27, 2008 1:43 AM by Rick Noelle
I've noticed that some of Yahoo Japan's services require that you are inside Japan.  Your IP address is checked and if it does not resolve to an address that it determines is within the country you are out of luck.  Some examples of these services are streaming Japanese baseball games and free promotional songs from Yahoo Japan's music service.  This evening I decided to do a Google search for "free proxies" and ...

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