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Japanese Typography

CSS and the Death of Traditonal Japanese Typography

It’s an open secret that Apple doesn’t really care that much about advanced typography, they just say they do. The laughably amateur vertical text support feature in Pages app makes […]

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iWork Pages Celebrates International Haiku Day with Vertical Writing

Today is International Haiku Day and Apple Education is celebrating it in Japan with the new version of iWork Pages that finally supports vertical text layout. In honor of International […]

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The Apple Stock app widget needs some Japanese localization work

Good localization is never easy, that is to say it’s easy to fuck up, especially when different app pieces come from different companies. I already pointed out that the Yahoo […]

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Almost Useable: Japanese Vertical Text Support in iWork Pages Update

Apple released updates for the iWork suite as promised, the biggest new feature is vertical CJK text support which should have been in place since 2005. Better late than never, […]

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iWork update to add vertical CJK text support at Apple Special Event

The Japanese Flick News site reports that iWork/Pages/Keynote will finally gain vertical CJK text layout support with the major iWork update announced today with the new iPad Air and iPad […]

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Another Google Maps Moat News Cycle

Buckle up map fans, another Google Maps vs. Apple Maps news cycle just arrived. In case you forgot the cycle goes like this: Justin O’Beirne posts a new analysis Tech writers […]

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