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What If Your Girlfriend Were a Foreigner? CyberAgent’s English-Study App

CyberAgent, [J] which manages “Ameba,” has begun to offer the second installation of their English conversation study application series for iPhone, “Moshi Kareshi Ga Gaikokujin Dattara Eikaiwa” (If Your Boyfriend was a Foreigner English Conversation), “Moshi Kanojo Ga Gaikokujin Dattara Eikaiwa” [J] (If your girlfriend was a foreigner English Conversation). Although the price is set… Continue reading What If Your Girlfriend Were a Foreigner? CyberAgent’s English-Study App

Nailap – Nail Art Photo Sharing Service For iPhone

Saitama-based company Pocara [J] released a new iPhone social camera application “Nailapp”, dedicated for nail decoration lovers. We covered some geeky nail-arts by Japanese girls before. As well as other countries, there are not so many ladies in industry so having those techy nail art may show how popular nailing in Japan. Must-have feature for… Continue reading Nailap – Nail Art Photo Sharing Service For iPhone

Gakufu Camera: Camera Over Music Score Plays Sound

Gakufu Camera [J] (gakufu = music score) is an iPhone app released by music instrument vendor Kawai. The camera application lets you scan music score by camera, recognize musical notes in real-time, play the recognized notes. (“the world’s first real-time music score recognition”, as they claim. probably on smartphone I guess.) The app can recognize… Continue reading Gakufu Camera: Camera Over Music Score Plays Sound

Voltage’s Romance Game For Girls “Pirates In Love” Advance Overseas

Voltage company has begun to offer “Koi ni Ochita Kaizoku Ou,” one of their popular games from the “Koibito Game” series on their official website, in an English version intended for overseas applications on iPhone and Android as “PIRATES IN LOVE.” This marks the first part of the “Romance Sims” series aimed for North America.… Continue reading Voltage’s Romance Game For Girls “Pirates In Love” Advance Overseas

iPhone App Helps You Predict Next Vacant Seat On Commuting Train

This app can be used everywhere, but probably it is only needed in Tokyo. Densha de Suwaru (sitting down on train) by Velc is a newly released free iPhone application to make your own database of passengers whom you commute with every morning and night. On the app, for each other passenger you will make… Continue reading iPhone App Helps You Predict Next Vacant Seat On Commuting Train

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