Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use?

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Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - Blahah - 2011-01-22

@Lindley as nest0r says, it can import text files through iTunes, you can add new books by copy/paste (work surprisingly well), view the web, or import RUBY files (with furigana) from Aozora Bunko.

nest0r Wrote:I do like that Apple has managed to rejuvenate the industry of software development at least in terms of excitement and generating impetus to pay for software when possible rather than pirate it or having a pressure to make everything free, wait for people to donate, then get frustrated and give up, for the sake of authors, but it also seems to have 'reset' the savvy people have for avoiding spam and wasting their money, as the rating system seems inaccurate and it's difficult to differentiate spammy useless apps (in part I think I just need to develop my BS-detecting faculty for the app store), pricing seems arbitrary, and the quality of 'free' apps is very poor in my estimation, and loaded with ads, reminders, and broken functions that go unmentioned until you actually take the time to DL the app.

This is a sentence worthy of Thomas Hardy.

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - nest0r - 2011-01-22

Blahah Wrote:@Lindley as nest0r says, it can import text files through iTunes, you can add new books by copy/paste (work surprisingly well), view the web, or import RUBY files (with furigana) from Aozora Bunko.

nest0r Wrote:I do like that Apple has managed to rejuvenate the industry of software development at least in terms of excitement and generating impetus to pay for software when possible rather than pirate it or having a pressure to make everything free, wait for people to donate, then get frustrated and give up, for the sake of authors, but it also seems to have 'reset' the savvy people have for avoiding spam and wasting their money, as the rating system seems inaccurate and it's difficult to differentiate spammy useless apps (in part I think I just need to develop my BS-detecting faculty for the app store), pricing seems arbitrary, and the quality of 'free' apps is very poor in my estimation, and loaded with ads, reminders, and broken functions that go unmentioned until you actually take the time to DL the app.
This is a sentence worthy of Thomas Hardy.

hehe. I thought about going back and breaking it up into multiple paragraphs, adding in some periods and some em dashes, but was too lazy.

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - ファブリス - 2011-01-22

nestOr Wrote:For the record I didn't mention Android, did I? I hope not because I've never used it and don't know anything about it. ;p

Sorry I was a bit grumpy there.

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - nest0r - 2011-01-22

ファブリス Wrote:
nestOr Wrote:For the record I didn't mention Android, did I? I hope not because I've never used it and don't know anything about it. ;p
Sorry I was a bit grumpy there.

hehe. Time to meditate on the essential oneness of Android and iOS.

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - Lindley - 2011-01-23

nest0r, Blahah - Thank you!

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - Cranks - 2011-01-23

Anki for Iphone - best purchase.
WishoTouch is handy if you have good stroke order.
ShinKanji is nifty, but no cut and paste!!!
Japanese - Excellent purchase.
Twitter - free
Goodreader - Good purchase
Katsuyo - Handy at times.
Tunewiki - free (lyrics on songs)
Tunemark - uses shoutcast (the ability to rewind is awesome).
TaeKim app

Those were worth it. Most of my other apps are pretty rubbish or just ok.

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - ファブリス - 2011-01-23

Possibly useful: Merlin Mann's homescreen: JotAgent, Simplenote, PlainText, etc. (cf. second screenshot).

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - nest0r - 2011-01-23

ファブリス Wrote:Possibly useful: Merlin Mann's homescreen: JotAgent, Simplenote, PlainText, etc. (cf. second screenshot).

Merlin Mann, otherwise known as the fellow who gave me the (10+2)*5 timeboxing technique: http://www.43folders.com/2005/10/11/procrastination-hack-1025

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - nest0r - 2011-02-13

So has anyone used that Encyclopedia (offline Wikipedia) app? http://itunes.apple.com/app/encyclopedia/id288141564

I noticed they have the Japanese database available.

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - thecite - 2011-02-13

Everyone mentions 'Japanese', but 'Kotoba' is free and better in my opinion.

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - nest0r - 2011-02-14

thecite Wrote:Everyone mentions 'Japanese', but 'Kotoba' is free and better in my opinion.

Just to be clear, you're not referring to having the Japanese offline Wikipedia on your iDevice, but are referring to another app named Japanese?

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - thecite - 2011-02-14

Ah, maybe there's some confusion. I was talking about the E-J, J-E Dictionary app, 'Japanese', I didn't know there was another popular app with the same name.

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - nest0r - 2011-02-14

thecite Wrote:Ah, maybe there's some confusion. I was talking about the E-J, J-E Dictionary app, 'Japanese', I didn't know there was another popular app with the same name.

^_^ It's not the name of the app, the app is Encyclopedia. It's an offline Wikipedia app. It lets you select the Japanese-language Wikipedia to download to your iDevice for offline referencing. I was wondering if anyone had used it. Then I was wondering if you thought I was referencing the Japanese app in my comment and were responding to that, or if you simply added a comment in response to previous comments because I brought this thread back into the Recent Topics section.

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - nest0r - 2011-03-04

So what sort of reminder apps do you use and how do you use them with Japanese?

I checked out some of the stuff Fabrice linked to: ‘now do this’ looks interesting, as well as ‘Due’ and ‘Calvetica Calendar’. The latter seems to have integration with multiple other calendars.

I'm basically going to find something that lets me set my comprehensive Japanese self-study regimen in place and sync it across devices.

Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use? - fakewookie - 2011-03-04

I downloaded Daijirin yesterday. Pretty happy with it so far. For some reason it's significantly cheaper on the UK store (about 1740 yen instead of 2500) which was nice.