{"id":16581,"date":"2012-01-15T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=16581"},"modified":"2012-01-15T22:47:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T13:47:04","slug":"himasere-home-app-android-uei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/himasere-home-app-android-uei\/","title":{"rendered":"Himasere: Geeky Home Screen Replacement App For Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/himasere-home-app-android-uei\/himasere-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16595\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-16595\" title=\"himasere logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/himasere-logo-200x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re an Android user, consider yourself a geek, understand Japanese, and need an appropriate home replacement screen on your handset, consider <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=jp.co.uei.himasere.market\">downloading Himasere<\/a>. The app was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpress.ne.jp\/view\/24761\">released<\/a> on the Android Market earlier this week by Tokyo-based tech company <a href=\"http:\/\/global.uei.co.jp\/\">Ubiquitous Entertainment<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe idea here is to make it as easy as possible to access technology-related news and information (plus a game portal), just by flicking through the following sites from a single app:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weekly.ascii.jp\/\">Weekly ASCII &#8211; PLUS<\/a> (tech news)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.co.jp\/fc\/\">Yahoo Japan News &#8211; Topics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/b.hatena.ne.jp\/\">Hatena Bookmarks<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/hatena\/\">background<\/a> on Hatena in English)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/togetter.com\/\">Togetter<\/a> (the <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/12\/22\/chirpstory-lets-you-filter-and-bundle-tweets-into-stories\/\">English version<\/a> of this Twitter curation service is called <a href=\"http:\/\/chirpstory.com\/\">Chirpstory<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jp.techcrunch.com\/\">TechCrunch Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japanese.engadget.com\/\">Engadget Japanese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wise9.jp\/\">wise9<\/a> (blog specifically aimed at young game devs)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.jp\/\">Gizmodo Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/himasere-home-app-android-uei\/1_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16591\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16591\" title=\"1_1\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1_1-337x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/himasere-home-app-android-uei\/unnamed\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16592\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16592\" title=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you had enough of reading news, you can flick through to <a href=\"http:\/\/9leap.net\/\">9leap<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/05\/9leap-d2c-and-uei-launch-program-for-young-smartphone-game-creators\/\">background<\/a> in English), a game portal that lets you choose between 500+ games, which can all be played right from within the app:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/himasere-home-app-android-uei\/himasere-game\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16593\" title=\"himasere game\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/himasere-game-337x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/himasere-home-app-android-uei\/himasere-game-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16594\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16594\" title=\"himasere game 2\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/himasere-game-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHimasere supports Android 2.2 and up and is available <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=jp.co.uei.himasere.market\">for free<\/a> on the Android Market.<br \/>\nHere is Ubiquitous Entertainment&#8217;s official promo video for the app:<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N7XoAM_GRoY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re an Android user, consider yourself a geek, understand Japanese, and need an appropriate home replacement screen on your handset, consider downloading Himasere. The app was released on the Android Market earlier this week by Tokyo-based tech company Ubiquitous Entertainment. The idea here is to make it as easy as possible to access technology-related&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/himasere-home-app-android-uei\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Himasere: Geeky Home Screen Replacement App For Android<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5,17,23],"tags":[81,1591,3871,4105],"class_list":["post-16581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-9leap","tag-html5","tag-ubiquitous-entertainment","tag-wise9","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}