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Japanese Emoticons 2

18 Dec

Ψ(｀∇´)Ψ　ヽ(´―｀)ノ　(*´д｀*) 　(´・ｪ・｀) 　ヽ(;´Д｀)ﾉ

Japanese Emoticons on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

For those who switched to Mac and wondered how you can input Japanese Emoticons, here’s how you do it. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, please head over to Japanese Emoticons 1 for an interesting read on Japanese smileys.
01. Head over here and download kaomoji.zip.
02. Uncompress the archive and you’ll get a directory called “かおもじ” and a PDF file called “かおもじ.pdf”. All you need is the “かおもじ” directory.
03. Copy or move the “かおもじ” directory to /Users/yourusername/Library/Dictionaries
04. Open the input menu on the top right hand corner of your screen and select Kotoeri Preferences.

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PSP-4000 Friend or Foe

21 Mar

Rumor has it that the new PSP, or PSP2 will have a sliding screen. You know, something like your push up phones.  It was also reported that it’s basically the same screen as the 3000 series just that in this one, it needs lubricant.

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Reel vs Real Anime

21 Jan

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[Picture Intensive] I was cruising on good vibes when I decided to try watching another magical girl anime show. Turned out its nothing like any other magical (kiddish) girl anime I’ve watched before. Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na koto ~ Natsu no Sora~ ( 魔法遣いに大切なこと ～夏のソラ～) is last year’s summer anime and I’m not trying to do a review here cos I’m just terrible at it. :P  I’m only VERY infatuated with the production for this anime. (ヽ(・。・#)ﾉ

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Reel: Drug store. Notice the subtle name change from the original one below

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Real

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PlayStation 3 Cabinet

18 Jan

Together with the GT5 Pod, I would also die for one of these Ultimate PS3 Gaming cabinets at home.

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Comiket 74 – The Sexy, The Moe & The I-Don’t-Know-What-Happened

22 Aug

I have a question. I have an underlying, unquestionably questionable question.

Actually, I have been questioned to question simply because I just wonder.

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Nintendo DS Lite & Bape

18 Mar

 

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Ever since my PSP died (don’t ask!) I’ve been sorta deprived of a portable to beat the hell out of rush hour every day. Windbell was super sweet to loan me his DSLite and I’ve been whacking it as if there’s no tomorrow.. Anyhow, I chanced upon this LV look alike beaut with Bape Milo characters plastered on da console face. It’s gonna be released in Japan on 1st April. I’m keeping my fingers crossed and praying darn hard that it’s not an April Fool’s Day joke because I wanna da gold one! Oh God praise da babe…. I mean Bape!

 

 
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Itasha – Pink Mario Airwave

12 Feb

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I received an email with this super pink & terribly cute Honda Airwave Itasha [痛車(い たしゃ)] attached. Kinda proud that there’s a significant increase in such interest in our small market now.

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Moe moe OS-tans

03 Feb

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Another reason why I simply lurve Japan! The cho kawaii 美媚 (prounce mei mei, which is a Chinese slang for moe imouto chans) greeting you from your desktop is really an OS-tan. Apparently, these originated from the Futaba Channel – one of Japan’s most popular internet forum that deals in otaku culture; and competitor to 2Channel.

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Softbank 921SH – The faceoff of FullFace 2

31 Jan

 

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Move over iPhone. Hello (not moto but) Softbank 921 SH.

I’ve always had an immense interest with Japanese phones. I was devastated (and I mean REALLY devastated) that my 2 year old imported 903SH got into a coma and finally died despite numerous attempts of resurrection by kind Mervyn last year. After that, nothing has satisfied my hunger for another comparable phone in the sucky local market.

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Bokurano’s OP by Hatsune Miku

18 Nov

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I’ve heard this song before. I was searching for and watching Hatsune Miku videos on YouTube. It didn’t occur to me then, that it’s the same song in the anime Bokurano‘s OP. I thought it was one of the best works by her even though it sounded kinda odd the way she goes, “aniso, aniso…”. I wish I could say, “More moe images of Hatsune Miku after the break”, but it’s gonna be, “Hear her in the video after the break”. ヽ(;´д｀)ノ

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Secure Connection

03 Oct

As IRC data is transmitted in plain text, what is send from your PC to the IRC server can be captured or recorded by your ISP. For example,

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EHo@#Q).Th=PWPRIVMSG hocchan :xdcc send #101

can be captured by the ISP. What the above says is that the user is sending an IRC message to hocchan to request for xdcc pack #101. If SSL is used to connect to the IRC server, then any information that is exchanged between your PC and the IRC server will be encrypted.

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