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.

pwning iPhone OS 3.1 FAIL

 

Today the part of the Apple community which wants to think really different had something to celebrate: iPhone/iPod OS 3.1 got the jail breaking-treatment.

 

Kagamiku wanted to guide you through this “tutorial” because Rin seems to prefer bananas over pineapples (^^;) But I’m not sure if this tutorial is helpful. Considering the outcome… I guess eating some chocolate bananas would have been the better solution. My upgrade failed 3 times! )

(0⑨/0⑨/0⑨): Happy Cirno Day! (and Apple event live coverage)

 

Yeah, it is Cirno Day! 

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Fallout 3, Apple Universal Dock & Salzburg panorama pics

 

I wasn’t very active in the blogsphere, Twitter and so on. The reason is that I finally got around to play a game I wasn’t able to when it came out (cause I was in the army at that time).

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Lately acquired stuff: Fallout 3 Collectors Edition and Apple Universal Dock.

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Fallout 3. Just too addictive and awesome. I’m playing for one week now (not 24/7 though), finished the main and a ton of side quests, the addons Operation Anchorage, Broken Steel and Mothership Zeta (which was just released last week). Have to decide if I’d like to start Point Lookout or The Pitt next…  Guess this is one of the best games I’ve played so far.

I am back! Why an laser to the eye is fine too.

 

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As most off you know, I had an eye-surgery last week on Tuesday to get rid of my –9 dioptres. Wasn’t using any devices too much over until today. But I guess you folks noticed a few Tweets over the past days and a Dannychoo.com member stuff entry on Monday. Just had to. Why? because the Mirai Clock App is finally available via the AppStore!

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But lets talk about how eyes smell, why Apple isn’t always awesome and why mysterious pictures of me appeared on the net last week now.

The WWDC 2009 Keynote is over, I need money ^_^

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Wow, that was a long Keynote this year. Renewed Macbook Pro 15”, 17”, a new 13” Macbook Pro, Safari 4, Snow Leopard, iPhone OS 3.0 and of course the new iPhone, called iPhone 3G S.

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The WWDC 2009 is over after 2 hours! Was watching it via an not really official live-stream.

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So the most important things covered are: