Nobi Hayashi

Biography

Nobuyuki Hayashi, known to friends and colleagues as "Nobi," has been a Macintosh-related computer journalist since 1990, has interviewed people like one-time Apple CEO John Scully, and was the journalist who broke the story about Apple's ill-fated Star Trek project in Japan. He's written for several Japanese Macintosh periodicals like MacPower, MacPeople, and most recently for MacFan magazine. Nobi's also written more than 200 articles for Microsoft's Mactopia in Japan on a broad range of Mac topics.

Blog

If iPhone is too closed, try Newton

July 10 2007

If you think iPhone is too closed for the developers, you could give a shot at Newton OS. During the 3rd Worldwide Newton Conference held in Tokyo, Dr. Paul Guyot has announced “Open Einstein”; the open source version of his famous Newton emulator licensed under GPLv2. “Open Einstein” project is available immediately… read more

That's What I Call Universal!

May 29 2007

My friend, David Niemeijer of AssistiveWare, sent me a link to an amazing video. It is a video of an American game reviewer playing Unreal Tournament. I am sure you’d be surprised by it even if you are not into gaming. One Thumb to Rule Them All Wondering what’s so special… read more

How to Retire Your Software

May 27 2007

In my previous post. I talked about how James Thomson of TLA Systems succeeded by internationalizing his software early on. Actually, James is up to another interesting experiment: shareware sidegrades, which he offers not in a competitive way but in a very friendly manner. Recently, the people at Sig Software stopped updating… read more

Parlez-vous japonais?

May 26 2007

Today, as soon as you upload your software to MacUpdate or VersionTracker, people will find it and start downloading it. Those downloads will go on 24/7 because people, not only from the US but from around the world are downloading it. When it is midnight for the Californian, it… read more