Gigapan Systems

"Gigapan Systems" is a good technology that it enlarges an image without losing quality.

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Yahoo! Cafe

Do you know Yahoo! Cafe in Terminal 2 of Narita Airport?

You can access it for free and use a high-speed internet. Only check your passport. There are about 20 PC. I found out about it for the first time.

I can usually access the airline's lounge. It use an internet. But this time, my ticket didn't access the lounge. So, I had a lot of time and walk around Duty-free shops. At that moment, I found Yahoo! Cafe.

I recommend it!! When you go to Terminal 2 Narita Airport, you try to access it!!

Web Application

Do you use a web application? Rubicon Consulting of the American consulting company reported growth of web applications. Below the article and the chart are part of report.

I regularly use some web applications.
The first is web mail that is Gmail. As you know, it is very useful. Especially, Gmail's space is about 3G bytes of free storage. And I use the mail anywhere.
The second is a blogging. The third is a finance.

I think that web applications expand more to need two things. The first is to accommodate mobile phone. Because, young people are going away from PC. Instead of it, they use a mobile phone.
The second is security. This report said.

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80% of US home PC users say they have heard of web applications. More than half of them have tried at least one web app, and more than a third — 37% — say they use at least one web application on a regular basis.

That means use of web applications has already spread far beyond the 16% of the population traditionally identified as innovators and early adopters. Web applications are entering the mainstream of US PC users.

RUBICON

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The National Art Center, Tokyo

I went to "the National Art Center, Tokyo" on Monday. The venue is in Roppongi, Tokyo.
This museum was designed by Kisho Kurokawa(黒川紀章). He also designed New Wing of the Van Gogh Museum and Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

If it didn't have an exhibition of your interest, there are cafes and a restaurant. I guess, this museum is a very good place. You come to Tokyo, I recommend that you go to there.

iPod touch

Apple released "iPod touch". It looks like the iPhone.
Also the iPhone, It doesn't have buttons. It has multi-touch interface. And It covers Wi-Fi web browsing with Safari.


I think that Japan's mobile phone is going to release the multi-touch interface phone in the near feature.
　　　

gigabeat

I bought a gigabeat, TOSHIBA. My bought model is V401, it is new model, and it has 40GB hard-disk.

My school on the web started download service of lectures. The file have a content authentication. The gigabeat is only portable media to support the authentication. So, I bought it.


The gigabeat has the one-seg feature. The one-seg service is a mobile terrestrial digital audio/video and data broadcasting service in Japan. For example, you can watch a TV anywhere. The one-seg is a good feature, but I'm not needed. Because I don't watch at the TV almost.

What is "Alexa"?

Do you know "Alexa"? Alexa Internet,Inc. is company which it analyze website traffic one of the businesses. This company was bought by Amazon.com in 1999.


What is the popular website? How much is website traffic? These questions are interested to everyone. You can analyze Alexa's website which you only input a domain name.

For example, which search engine is very popular? I compared it on Alexa's website. Image below is comparing "google.com", "yahoo.com" and "msn.com". You can see search engine's trend. This is very fun.


Alexa have global traffic ranking. The ranking made me surprised. Because, there is two Chinese website into the top 10. I didn't know that China have so many users on the web.

1. Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com)
2. MSN (www.msn.com )
   
3. Google (www.google.com)
4. YouTube (www.youtube.com)
5. Windows Live (www.live.com)
6. Myspace (www.myspace.com)
7. Baidu.com (www.baidu.com)
   
8. Orkut (www.orkut.com)
9. Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)
10. QQ.com (www.qq.com)
    

Bose In-Ear Headphone

Do you know the Bose Corporation ? It is famous for audio systems. I don't know product detail but it have a lot of product other than audio systems. If you're interested, you open "Bose's HP".

My commuting time for work is about 80minutes on the train. I bought a "In-Ear Headphone of Bose" for that time more comfortable. It was making me very comfortable.

Mobile Blogging

Bologger has function of mobile blogging. It's nice. But now I don't know how to use it. I learn how to start mobile blogging and want to try it.

In these days, between PC and mobile-phone are a blurry line, especially for people under 20s in Japan. Because homes are gibing mobile-phone to elementary school student are increasing rapidly.

I hope mobile-phone functions increase in the near future. A photo below is my "mob".

IPHONE

Steve Jobs (Apple Inc.) announced the iPhone at Macworld Conference & Expo 2007. I watched it on Apple's web site. I was surprised that it didn't have buttons!! Because, it had a touch screen. I want it, but they doesn't have a selling schedule for the different specification in Japan.

SWEETS

Do you know Harumi Kurihara? She is a famous homemaker in Japan. A cookbook written her was "Harumi's Japanese Cooking", which in 2004 was awarded the best cookbook of the year at the 10th Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Company co-developed with her sweets tasted good. It name is "栗原さんちのおすそわけ". You can buy it at the department store. I recommend to taste the panna cotta.

FIREFOX

What web browser are you using?
I'm now using the Firefox web browser. Firefox is a browser with pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, and privacy and security features.
A few years ago Internet Explore are didn't have a tabbed browsing function. So I changed to Firefox web browser. Now tabbed browsing is to be expected from all search engines...
You can download Firefox from the link of to the right if you want.