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Spotted in the offices of messaliberty. Hope we don’t get sued by Apple for showing this. :p

So the iPad will be delivered to lucky Americans in a few days. Cue the mass of unboxing videos and delirious first reviews. We in Japan are not so lucky, we’ll be lucky to get them in late April but early May is also likely. This is opposite to what you know who claimed in his announcement in January. Oh well… Anyway when it does arrive, these are the 5 apps I am most looking forward to using with the iPad and why. *Click on the images to go to the iTunes Preview page Dropbox If you’ve ever used Dropbox, I probably don’t need to explain but for some of you who haven’t it provides effortless and free syncing between computers and computers or computers and iPhones/iPod touches/iPads (paid plans are also available). As someone who...

If you are developing WordPress sites, themes or plugins, you probably know that setting up a local development environment can speed things up immensely. The easiest way is to use XAMPP or MAMP. I prefer XAMPP by the way as it is available on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.  Installing XAMPP gets you most of the way to headache free WordPress development, the rest is setting up your local server/virtual servers so that it as closely mirrors your remote set-up as possible. However, some settings like blog address are held in the database which makes mirroring local development and remote production servers a little tricky. If you just backed up the database on the remote set-up and imported it to your local XAMPP server through phpMyAdmin then WordPress will still...

Like we discussed at recent episodes of messa.tv, Google is trying to become #1 player of Japanese search engine market. To achieve the aim, Google is spending huge amount of money for marketing campaigns on TV and anywhere around us. Even here at Tully’s Coffee which is one of Starbucks clones in Japan, I found a small card by Google. It says “Connect to Free Wi-Fi here to see Google’s Search Story”. Sounds nice because it’s quite hard to find free Wi-Fi spots in Japan but don’t have excessive expectations for this campaign. ONLY 30min a day you can use it! Partner companies of this campaign are Wi-Fi provider NTT and cafes like Tully’s. I know they don’t want to open the Wi-Fi for a long time but the only 30min...

I like to use keyboard shortcuts as I am usually using a laptop. So it’s convenient to set  up a mouse-less environment. I know many people use [Ctrl+P][Ctrl+C][Ctrl+V] and so on. Some people uses 「Alt＋Tab」「Ctrl＋Tab」「Windows button＋D」as well. Today I want to show you 5 ways to set-up a mouse-less environment that aren’t as well known. Go to top-right search box(when browsing like Firefox, IE) Go to address area (when browsing like Firefox, IE) Call up the right mouse menu without mouse Make scrolling smoother Enable clicking links with keyboard 1. Have a look at the screenshot below You can move to search box with the shortcut [Ctrl+E]. And in addition, you can choose the object for search with [Ctrl+↓] You can use this with...

We’ll launch a Japanese version of the tech podcast messa.tv soon. messa.tv has been published since April 2006, and then became an English program since beginning of 2009. But finally we’ll re-start the Japanese show! The Japanese version of messa.tv might help you if you’re interested in Japanese tech trends, culture and business. Or if you’re studying Japanese, you can watch and learn real live Japanese! Now our English show have lots of visitors from all around the world and a few days ago we got a guest from Greece. He said he is a fan of our show! Chris came from Greece to Osaka Japan to see us. Thank you so much Chris! Anyway, we’re always welcome to your feedbacks or comments on our blogs, Twitter. See you at the show...