On November 3, 2011, I had a meeting with Smith’s School of English franchise system founder Mark Smith in Hyogo Prefecture. Instead of just sitting and talking, we went for a hike and talked while hiking. We took a trail in the mountains of Kawanishi, above the city, which crossed into Takarazuka at times. There [...]
As many of you know I have had a long running history with my iPhone. First and foremost was just the arrival of the iPhone for sale in Japan, and even after that, it was just horrible timing, because I had already recently become locked into a contract with a phone that I had, at [...]
Let’s not pretend that Apple doesn’t know what it’s doing. Oh, it does, I tell you. It knows very well what it’s doing to me, or well all of us for that matter. As you may well know, last year I wrote a couple of Soapbox articles about my struggle to get an iPhone. A [...]
The other day I was talking to a student about how things have changed over the past thirty or so years. The two biggest changes from our perspective were the Internet and mobile phones. Both have radically reshaped how we do business and live our lives. Technology has advanced by leaps and bounds since I [...]
I remember back in the 80s Atari was BIG…people were crazy over games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Frogger. I remember playing against my friends on a black and white 8 inch TV. Wow, how times have changed?! In the past 20 years technology has literally exploded, it’s hard to keep up with all [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら I’ve read some interesting articles here recently about the various iPhone applications some people have found useful or entertaining to use and in that same vien, I thought I would introduce one that I have been using for some time and that my students have also found very useful. Perhaps some of you are [...]
Unlike Adrian of Smith’s School of English, Hirakata, (see his post) I am not at all a “techie”: I’m still trying to master the remote of my TV, which I have had for almost 2 years. A few months ago, I was looking for something to use to listen to music on my train journeys [...]
What is an “Application”? “An iPhone app, or application, is what Apple calls third-party software programs developed specifically for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The applications available can be downloaded directly by the cell phone, or downloaded to a computer and transferred to the phone. Apple has an iPhone app store for those who [...]
“Veni, vidi, vici” (pronounced [ˈweːniː ˈwiːdiː ˈwiːkiː] in Classical Latin or [ˈveni ˈvidi ˈvitʃi] in Vulgar Latin) is a famous Latin sentence reportedly written by Julius Caesar in 47 BC.[1] It translates as “I came, I saw, I conquered” Yes, my friends I’m using a famous quote today, because I have big things to talk [...]
What is it that every little boy needs in winter, to keep him warm, to keep him comfortable, happy and occupied? What is it that every little boy needs to make the long cold days of winter enjoyable and filled with laughter? It’s an iPhone!!!! But this little boy still doesn’t have an iPhone and [...]
Bad Behavior has blocked 330 access attempts in the last 7 days.