Month: June 2011

Japonizer – Japanese Traditional Background Image Generator

Japonizer is an web generator for background image, which generates images of traditional Japanese patterns. You choose one out of around 30 provided traditional patterns, set a size and change colours if you want. You may download and use it for your blog, twitter or so. The service is a part of Wanokoto.net [J], a… Continue reading Japonizer – Japanese Traditional Background Image Generator

Facebook Opens The World’s First Official Navigation Site For Japan

When Japanese are asked why Facebook, the world-level phenomenon, has not taken off in Japan yet, many answer that its user interface is hard to understand, which is strange because the UI did not keep away people in many other countries. There might be some cultural issues which make it difficult to attract Japanese. An… Continue reading Facebook Opens The World’s First Official Navigation Site For Japan

Povie – Purikura For Movie, Knows Your “Kawaii” Points To Decorate

Povie by a Japanese design unit Shikake is a movie decoration service in Japanese popular “purikura” (wikipedia) style. The service is bilingual, English and Japanese. On regular purikura, you place letters, characters and shapes over your snapshot with buttons/tablet/touch panel. However, Povie will detect your motion and decorate it automatically with “Kawaii Engine”(kawaii = cute).… Continue reading Povie – Purikura For Movie, Knows Your “Kawaii” Points To Decorate

Nico Nico Douga Turns Docomo Cellphone To A Remote Controller

Nico Nico Douga, Japanese popular video sharing service, released a feature phone app Nico Nico Remocon(=remote controller) [J] for Docomo feature phone. The app makes your cellphone be a controller of your playing movie on Nico Nico Douga on your PC. The app is available as a free option for premium member (over million users… Continue reading Nico Nico Douga Turns Docomo Cellphone To A Remote Controller

June 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)

Early part of June news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Yahoo! Loco Begins IIJ Starts “Amazon S3 Level” Cloud Strage Service Inter-Carrier SMS Announced By Docomo Retty – Social Restaurant Recommendation Service The People’s Liberation Army of China… Continue reading June 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)

Meet Japanese Start-ups on Fri and Sat in Singapore

Picture courtesy: Flickr user edwin.11 (used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license) Singapore is very hot on tech throughout this week, since Echelon 2011, one of the largest tech conference in South East Asia, will be taking place at the National University of Singapore, where the region’s best start-up companies and services will… Continue reading Meet Japanese Start-ups on Fri and Sat in Singapore

Angry Jobs – Throw Ninja Stars To Beat Off Androids!

Angry Jobs is an Android game developed by Japanese Studio Hitori (“hitori” in Japanese means “one man”), who is also selling an iPad Twitter Client TwitRocker. In the game, you play a guy who is wearing black turtleneck and blue jeans to shoot falling green Androids with shuriken, a Japanese ninja flying dagger. Swiping your… Continue reading Angry Jobs – Throw Ninja Stars To Beat Off Androids!

Fatboy Slim Experiences How Nico Nico Douga Overlay Comment Works

Popular English DJ Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim appeared on a special program on Nico Nico Namahousou(Nico Nico Live) [J], user generated videocast service on June 2 to promote Big Beach Festival’11 Chiba, which was also aired on Nico Nico Namahousou. Nico Nico News reported [J] how he enjoyed real time communication with his Japanese… Continue reading Fatboy Slim Experiences How Nico Nico Douga Overlay Comment Works

Another Pure CSS (=No JavaScript) Action Games

Inspired by a pure CSS action game, a new CSS only whack-a-mole game CSS Panic was released by GeckoTang on the online Japanese HTML5 coding community, Jsdo.it. You may play it here if using a modern browser. CSS PANIC – jsdo.it – share JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS GeckoTang also made a shooting police (not police… Continue reading Another Pure CSS (=No JavaScript) Action Games