Herro Flom Japan

Podcasts & Videocasts from an American salaryman.

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360 degree panoramic photography

April 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments

When QTVR came out in the mid 90's I was really into it. I took many cylindrical panoramas in my free time and also for clients of the web development company I worked for at the time. The technology has changed only a little since then, but the big advancement is that it's now possible [...]

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Sold out everywhere

April 14th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Every store in Shinjuku & Akihabara is sold out of Bimoji Training.

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Bimoji Training for Nintendo DS

April 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Finally a new "game" has come out for the Nintendo DS that will make me start using it again. Last night I was surfing the Nintendo channel of our Wii while putting off going to bed and came across an advertisement for 美文字トレーニング, a program that helps you improve your handwriting in Japanese. I downloaded [...]

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Online stalk everyone with Spokeo

March 27th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Spokeo is an amazing website/online app thingie that imports your contact lists from your email, webmail and social network accounts and creates a comprehensive list of what everyone you've ever been in contact with is up to. My God, for a quiet, lonely hermit, my life is quite an open book online.

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Kanji Box

February 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments

If you're a Facebook user and are learning Japanese, give the Kanji Box app a whirl. And no cheating by using Perapera-kun or Rikai-chan at the same time.

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