Pocket Dictionary 1.2 now available

It appears I had accidentally broken Windows Mobile 2003 support with Pocket Dictionary 1.1. This new version fixes that. Pocket Dictionary 1.2 works on Windows Mobile 2003 and up.

Pocket Dictionary 1.2 is mostly a bugfix release. Besides the Windows Mobile 2003 bug, it has a few other minor fixes. See the Change Log for full details.

One important change: Pocket Dictionary now requires the .Net Compact Framework 3.5. It will not work on 2.0 anymore! The main reason for this change is because it fixes a bug with the ComboBox control that was preventing the context menu (with the cut/copy/paste options) from working correctly on the search field. Make sure you install the new Compact Framework before installing Pocket Dictionary.

Get Pocket Dictionary here.

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Posted on 2008-01-20 11:17:23 UTC. Show Comments (8)

Find As You Type in Italian

Thanks to the great work of Christian Liensberger, who previously did the German translation as well, Find As You Type is now available in Italian.

Enjoy!

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Posted on 2007-11-23 11:51:31 UTC. Show Comments (2)

Find as you Type on download.com

Download.com finally approved my submission of Find As You Type 1.3, so now you can algo get it there.

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Posted on 2007-10-19 02:18:43 UTC. Show Comments (8)

Pocket Dictionary 1.1

October 1st was the start of the winter semester here in Japan, and next week Japanese courses will begin again, which I have decided to continue.

I decided that this was the perfect occasion for an update to Pocket Dictionary. Besides some bug fixes and performance improvements, there are two features in particular that I wish to highlight.

Pocket Dictionary 1.1 in Windows Mobile 6

The first is the ability to download and update dictionary files from within the application. This comes in two flavours: when you first start Pocket Dictionary 1.1, a configuration wizard will ask you which dictionaries you wish to configure, and afterwards it will download these dictionaries for you. This means the tedious task of copying dictionary files to the device using ActiveSync and setting them up manually is no longer required. Additionally, you can go to Menu, Dictionaries, Check for updates at any time and it will check if updated dictionary files are available, and if so, download them.

The second feature is the improved formatting of search results. In Pocket Dictionary 1.0, what you saw in the search results was the raw entry from the dictionary. For Edict, such an entry might look like this:
本 [ほん] /(n) (1) book/volume/(pref) (2) main/head/this/our/present/real/(ctr) (3) counter for long cylindrical things/(P)/

In Pocket Dictionary 1.1, the results are reformatted which leads to a much nicer display:
本【ほん】(n) (1) book; volume; (pref) (2) main; head; this; our; present; real; (ctr) (3) counter for long cylindrical things; (P)

Something similar is done for Kanjidic, and there it can now also filter out the numerous information which you're not likely to need most of the time.

Like the previous version, Pocket Dictionary works on Windows Mobile 2003 and up, and requires the .Net Compact Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2.

Get it here.

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Posted on 2007-10-12 11:08:40 UTC. Show Comments (9)

Find As You Type 1.3 is available

I'm proud to announce the availability of Find As You Type 1.3!

This new version is not a very big release, but it contains some critical bugfixes and other minor improvements. For the full list, see the change log.

The biggest change perhaps is the availability of localized versions. That's right, Find As You Type is going international. Available right now are German and Dutch versions next to the usual English version. I'd like to thank Christian Liensberger for the German translations.

Unfortunately, support for Windows 2000 has been dropped. No, it's not just that the installer won't let you install it; if you'd try to use it, it wouldn't work. Windows 2000 users should continue to use version 1.2.

The coders among you will like to know that the source code has been cleaned up significantly and many comments have been added, so more than ever Find As You Type can be used as an example for IE toolbar writers everywhere. I plan to do some articles about some of the changes I made, time permitting.

Find As You Type 1.3

Go here to download it!

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Posted on 2007-09-08 14:49:55 UTC. Show Comments (5)