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Mainichi Daily News gone independent, including RSS feeds

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Mainichi Daily News as always been a popular on-line news resource for the English speaking community within and from abroad. With MDN’s now in effect changes, cutting off their ties with MSN as recently posted on Blognation Japan, their RSS feeds have now also changes.

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So this is the TechMonkey reminding viewers, that if you are subscribed to MDN feeds, and want to continue receiving the feeds, click the screenshot above, and you’ll see the list of available RSS feeds, adding them to your preferred RSS reader is about as simple as a couple of clicks. I myself prefer and recommend Google Reader.

As originally reported in English, the changes MDN have made, the article can be read at Blognation Japan

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Dangers of E-mailing from cell phones while commuting!

An all too common occurrence in Japan, and I’m sure elsewhere around the globe of commuters e-mailing friends, family, co-workers and boss’s as well while in the mad rush commuting from one subway station to another. The following is an incident which occurred in Osaka, Japan and fortunately the woman was very lucky!

Woman falls […]

QR-Codes, and what are they you may ask?

Some of you may be wondering what these images are all about.  So here’s going to be a brief intro to QR-Codes, what they are, where they can be found, how to read them, and also how to create your own.
QR-Codes are a 2-Dimensional barcode, meaning the information is read from left to right, […]

Microsoft Windows Vista in stores in Japan

It’s already January 30th over here in Japan, so that means Microsoft’s long awaited Windows Vista is in stores, and  crowded retailers in the masses.