iPhone 2.2 Firmware plus Pwnage Tool Update

The new iPhone firmware version 2.2 featuring Google Maps Street View and Podcast downloading, among other features, has just been released. The iPhone Dev Team also didn’t waste any time in pushing out an update to their Pwnage Tool utility that enables iPhones to be unlocked and Jail Broken.

iClarified have also updated their "How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.x.x 2G iPhone" guide, very useful if this is your first time unlocking an iPhone.

東京新宿區的大樓 - 十秒看盡35年的變化

這是很小的文章，我只要給你看這個影片。這是在日本東京的新宿區，短短的十秒，你可以看到從1969年到2004年有很多大樓被建起來。

Source: Gizmodo

Taiwan Visa run to Tokyo

My last Visa run for a new Taiwanese Visa was to Tokyo. Thankfully this time I got an extendable Visa as I am now registered on a course at Kaohsiung University to study Mandarin. This means it’ll be at least three months before I have to do another run. Hopefully I can register on another course before this one is up and extend the Visa for four months

For anyone else thinking of doing the Tokyo run, here are photos of the Journey from the train station to the Visa office so you can easily find your way there:

Translator Required - Famicom TV Remote Controller

I picked up a Famicom controller TV remote while in Tokyo recently. The only problem is, the instructions (unsurprisingly) are in Japanese. Most of the Japanese includes Mandarin though, so my girlfriend has been able to decipher some of the instructions, but we still can’t get it to work.

From what we can tell, the A button should be pressed once, followed by the B button and while keeping the B button held down press and hold the left arrow on the D-pad. The red LED on the controller lights and stays lit, and as far as I know it should turn off when it has the correct frequency for the TV. I’m not sure if it’s the translated instructions, or the rare brand of TV that we’re using that is the problem. I’m posting the Japanese instructions here in the hope that someone can translate them, in the meantime I’ll try and track down some Japanese reading Taiwanese and see if they can help.

Japanese Wii advertising

The recent sales figures from Japan for the Wii release show that Wii Sports came out on top, outselling the US favourite, Zelda: Twlight Princess. This has been reported on a few blogs as perplexing or a shocker.

While this is strange in comparison with the US figures, when considering that the advertising in Japan features almost solely Wii sports, and that this is the flagship title, it is no suprise the this game is outselling the others. The Tokyo subway is covered with poster ads for Wii and Wii Sports, and a Wii Sports TV advertisement is running inside of the newer trains.

This could also be proof that the Wii is selling as planned - that non-gamers are buying the console who may not have heard of Zelda, opening the new market that Nintendo is aiming for.