“Time Makes Happy” is the slogan of Minamisenju’s next new apartment building. I do not know exactly what they mean by that phrase but whatever that is, it should be good. I hope people who would be living there would spend their time there a lot being happy. If I were to buy a condominium…
Tennis at Shiomi
On Sunday, I’ll be playing tennis at Shiomi Park in Koto-ku. Shiomi may not be the best place to play tennis in Tokyo, but knowing how scarce tennis courts are, this one would do. It’s not very convenient to get there unless you have a car and they have only one court. On the plus side,…
Hello, Minamisenju!
This will be me blogging about Minamisenju. I’ve been living here for more than two years now and so far, it has been good. Having a reputation of home for day-laborers slash cheap accommodations for backpackers allowed Minamisenju to provide a location that is relatively cheap but is still close to the heart of the…
Playing Tennis in Tokyo
Tokyo is not really the ideal place if you want to play tennis on a regular basis. Tennis courts are hard reserve and they can be expensive, especially the private indoor ones. After living here for more than four years, I found several ways to satisfy my craving to play tennis. Enroll in Tennis schools…
Latin and English
Just as Latin eventually diverged into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French… English will eventually diverge into British, American, Canadian, and Australian. It has already began…
New Blogger Templates
It’s about time Blogger updates it’s templates! For the longest time, WordPress has been the runaway winner in this regard but I think with the new Blogger templates, Blogger is giving WordPress a little run for their money.
iAd goes live on July 1st
I want to be one of the firsts to offer an iAd-enabled app come July 1st so better start working on the free add-supported version of Message Scrambler. I believe Apple will start accepting apps later this week. iAd, here I come.
iPhone Supported Fonts
Here is an interesting blog/article, with code example, on how to list all supported fonts on the iPhone. Click here.
NSUserDefaults not getting my Settings.bundle defaults
I had an problem earlier this week, where the first time I install my app on the simulator or on the device, it would not get the settings from my Settings.bundle. All the strings would appear nil. I would only be able to get the strings correctly if I modify the values from my app’s…
Orientation Lock For The iPhone
Finally! Apple is working on orientation locks and it looks like it’s going to be a feature for iPhone 4.0, which is due this summer. This feature first arrived in Beta 3. This has been a common problem for people who like reading news and articles while in bed (me! me!). More details here.
iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 3 Again
It appears Beta 3 is out again! The guys at Apple HQ in the US must have stayed up the whole night trying to fix the problem with the Beta they released earlier today and now it’s ready. I’m currently downloading it as I write this. It’s a good thing most of the western world…
iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 3
Was so excited to hear it was out today, but when I checked the Developer site to download it, it wasn’t there. Looks like it was pulled by Apple because of some issues. More details here, including a hack to download the Beta 3 firmware if you really really want it, although personally, I wouldn’t…
Enrico in Tokyo 