Computer Questions

[Toryu2020]

Dear all,

A bit tired of fumbling around on my own so thought I would ask for yall's help. I am looking for any ideas on the following;

 

1. A good electronic JE dictionary for the Mac that can "learn" - new kanji can be added, new readings taught, and archaic and little used combinations added.

 

2. a good electronic JE dictionary for the iPad - thinking of buying Nelson's but wonder has anybody seen better?

 

3. A word processing software that will generate charts and family trees with JE included - vertical and horizontal text.

 

4 any sword books or history apps for the iPad that you cannot live without like the Sengoku Busho Dictionary etc...

 

Any help appreciated,

-t

[cabowen]

JEDict is the standard for JE dictionaries. You can upload about a dozen or so specialized JE dictionaries into it, add your own, etc.

 

Nisus Writer may do family trees. It does just about everything.

 

Can't help you with the ipad....

[Brian]

On my iPhone, so far I have:

Lingolook Flashcards Japanese (pronounces phrases too..so you learn how to speak)

Kanji LS

Kotoba! (very good as a dictionary)

wishoTouch (stroke counts etc)

 

Haven't used them on my iPad though. There are a lot of Japanese progs for the iPhone/iPad though. I would welcome any suggestions too.

 

Brian

[Guido]

I use this one on my iphone: http://itunes.apple.com/app/Japanese/id290664053?mt=8# - the best I found so far, especially since it has a handwriting recognition function.

[Toryu2020]

Looks pretty good Guido,

Do you use a stylus or your finger to write your entries?

[Guido]

Do you use a stylus or your finger to write your entries?

I use my stubby, clumsy fingers but it works really great nonetheless :D .

[bridgeofdreams]

Tom,

 

I've had good results with ShinKanji (iPhone, also for iPad)

 

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shinkanj ... 46107?mt=8

 

Japan Goggles also looks promising, though I've not had much luck with it for book titles and such:

 

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/Japan-go ... 24055?mt=8

 

He has a free version that does single kanji called "Lost in Japan" if you want to play with it.

 

Also worth mentioning here is the Rikaichan plug in for Firefox:

 

http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/

 

I've been using Chrome more than Firefox lately, which has better built-in translation capabilities for whole pages, but I'll be giving the Chrome port of Rikaichan a try as it allows phrase by phrase look ups, shows variant definitions, etc., and is therefore handier for people like me, who have a whole lot more learning to do.

 

Craig

[bridgeofdreams]

Poking around I found this, which I don't have enough Japanese to make much use of but probably of some interest to some of you:

 

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id376800 ... mpt=uo%3D4

 

Sengoku Busho Almanac

By Samurai International

 

 

This application is the almanac of Japanese samurai in the Sengoku period.

You can serch over 3000 samurai by using iPhone user interface.

This samurai information is linked to Wikipedia.

 

And the price is right, free.

 

Craig