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Blog moved

This is the last post here. I finally switched to a new self hosted blog called austrianotaku.com

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hikky

October mini-loot

Believe it or not but sometimes a Monday is fine too!

Got a bunch of boxes today. Not all of them filled with otaku-ish merchandise though.

From left to right: HP ink, Kokonoe Rin 1/6, the Otaku Encyclopedia, and some rori vampire mango. ^^;

Unfortunately my HoiHoi-san didn’t arrive yet. According to the Japan Post EMS tracking service she is already on the road somewhere between Vienna and me.

Oct 4, 8:07 Awaiting presentation to customs commissioner
Oct 5, 6:48 Departure from inward office of exchange

 

But let’s take a quick look on the items:

How to get a Japanese iTunes account

Since the release of iTunes 9 a few weeks ago  I’m using iTunes as my default music player.

One thing that bugged for a few weeks was that Genius wasn’t as helpful as I should be.

A little info about Genius taken from Wikipedia-sensei for those not familiar with this feature:

The Genius feature, introduced in iTunes 8, automatically generates a playlist of songs from the user’s library which are similar to the selected song. Genius playlists are created by the ratings system and collaborative filtering. An iTunes Store account is required because information about the user’s library must first be sent anonymously to Apple’s database. Algorithms determine which songs to play based on other users’ libraries, and Genius becomes more intelligent given a larger data set. The resulting Genius playlist can contain 25, 50, 75, or 100 songs and can be refreshed for new results or saved. The Genius Sidebar will similarly recommend selections for purchase from the iTunes Store based on the selected library track.  iTunes 9 added Genius Mixes, where the Genius software finds similar music and automatically puts them into mixes.

 

It worked fine for western music of course, but for all my Japanese music it didn’t find useful, matching stuff.

The problem is that I have an Austrian iTunes account and there isn’t something like a global iTunes Store. There aren’t much Japanese artist available here and some Apps from the App Store are only available in Japan too.

Help need!

Ok, I didn’t want to make it that public, but I’m going crazy if I have to think about this any longer.

I’m currently searching for a domain name for a self hosted blog.

 

My creativity level seems to decrease with every hour I think about it…

hikky.com/.net is already taken. All names my comrades and I came up with are strange things like pantsurise.com, hikky-on, otaotoko.com … argh wtf.

 

Do you have good idea? Please let me know!

Ichigeki Sacchuu HoiHoi-san game on the PC [How-to]

 

 

Just came across the *.iso of the HoiHoi-san PS2 game which I mentioned lately. (You don’t know who HoiHoi-san is? Check out my post on her origin!)

As my readers seem to love HoiHoi-san too I’ll post this short tutorial too show you how to get this game running on your PC.

How to make your Internet Explorer usable

Having a blog, website and such makes you usually a IE hater anyway. If you like to have a browser with a great rendering engine you will hat it even more.

But according to the stats there are still way to many IE user out there, sometimes because the have to use it. Or sometimes friends, family members and what have you still insist on Internet Explorer.

But Google has a solution for that now!

Google Chrome Frame