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    Thread: Yomichan for Chrome (think Rikaichan + auto flashcards)!
Post: RE: Yomichan for Chrome (think Rikaichan + auto fl...

I've made the modifications needed to be able to run this in Firefox. Download available at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2638...x%2Ban.xpi The known incompatibilities with the Chrome version a...
balloonguy General discussion 45 2,712 2016-06-19, 12:57 pm
    Thread: Rikachan on Firefox for Android
Post: RE: Rikachan on Firefox for Android

That was a bug, it is fixed in the latest version. Download from https://github.com/ispedals/Rikachan-Android/releases
balloonguy Learning resources 22 5,987 2016-05-20, 7:10 pm
    Thread: Rikachan on Firefox for Android
Post: RE: Rikachan on Firefox for Android

Hopefully third time's a charm. Download from https://github.com/ispedals/Rikachan-Android/releases . Try uninstalling the previous version and restarting Firefox before downloading and installing the...
balloonguy Learning resources 22 5,987 2016-05-01, 4:40 pm
    Thread: Rikachan on Firefox for Android
Post: RE: Rikachan on Firefox for Android

Think I got it this time, please try installing it again.
balloonguy Learning resources 22 5,987 2016-04-27, 10:44 am
    Thread: Rikachan on Firefox for Android
Post: RE: Rikachan on Firefox for Android

The addon is now signed, you should now be able to install it. Sorry about that.
balloonguy Learning resources 22 5,987 2016-04-23, 11:21 am
    Thread: Japanese NLP Libraries
Post: RE: Japanese NLP Libraries

The code I linked to is a straight Javascript to Java port of Rikaichan's deinflection algorithm with deinflect.dat embedded. Even though deinflect.dat is small, it uses all of Edict to validate its r...
balloonguy Learning resources 14 1,350 2016-02-29, 6:37 am
    Thread: Japanese NLP Libraries
Post: RE: Japanese NLP Libraries

If you don't mind GPL virality, you could use Rikaichan's approach of mapping inflections to stem and verifying the results with a dictionary. Here's a straight port of Rikaichan's code in Java: https...
balloonguy Learning resources 14 1,350 2016-02-27, 4:09 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: RE: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

Rikaisama fails to load in Firefox 46+ for using nonstandard and obsolete array comprehension syntax (ref). It can be fixed on line 2755 in rikaichan.js by replacing: Code: // Convert the binary hash...
balloonguy Learning resources 859 243,588 2016-02-27, 3:55 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

nsIWebBrowserPersist.saveURI has added an 8th parameter as of Firefox 36.0.
balloonguy Learning resources 859 243,588 2015-02-24, 8:58 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

AsukaLangleyfag Wrote:Doesn't work with e10s (Electrolysis), like Rikaichan. In non-e10s tabs all works fine. How to reproduce: 1. Install Nightly from http://nightly.mozilla.org/ 2. Install Rikaisama...
balloonguy Learning resources 859 243,588 2015-01-31, 9:22 am
    Thread: Rikachan on Firefox for Android
Post: Rikachan on Firefox for Android

Mostly because I didn't find it useful and it would double the download size. However, it can be added if you or others want it to be included.
balloonguy Learning resources 22 5,987 2015-01-11, 9:16 am
    Thread: RevTK Software Developer Showcase
Post: RevTK Software Developer Showcase

Rikaichan on Firefox for Android: Link
balloonguy Learning resources 26 26,139 2014-12-22, 3:05 pm
    Thread: Rikachan on Firefox for Android
Post: Rikachan on Firefox for Android

This is the canonical thread for Rikaichan for Android. The addon was previously discussed here. Rikaichan for Android This is a port of Rikaisama for Firefox for Android. Not all features are suppo...
balloonguy Learning resources 22 5,987 2014-12-22, 2:49 pm
    Thread: Automatic audio extraction from NHK News Easy?
Post: Automatic audio extraction from NHK News Easy?

Actually, to solve problem 2 you need to install Python 2, you currently have Python 3. However, to make it easier, and I hope Inny Jan doesn't mind, I've turned the script into an executable so that ...
balloonguy Learning resources 11 4,100 2014-12-09, 7:12 pm
    Thread: Automatic audio extraction from NHK News Easy?
Post: Automatic audio extraction from NHK News Easy?

In the same folder as dl.py and newslisteven.html, create a file called run.bat containing: Code: dl.py Double clicking on run.bat should cause it to work.
balloonguy Learning resources 11 4,100 2014-11-30, 10:44 am
    Thread: tool to automatically generate pics from vocab list?
Post: tool to automatically generate pics from vocab lis...

Flickr allows 3600 per hour. I'm surprised there isn't a set of freely licensed stock images.
balloonguy Learning resources 13 3,247 2014-10-16, 4:43 pm
    Thread: tool to automatically generate pics from vocab list?
Post: tool to automatically generate pics from vocab lis...

You can try adding sleep -s 5; after the first curly brace, but seeing as google only allows 100 searches a day for free when you use the official api, you'll still probably get cut off. If you really...
balloonguy Learning resources 13 3,247 2014-10-15, 7:38 pm
    Thread: tool to automatically generate pics from vocab list?
Post: tool to automatically generate pics from vocab lis...

Here's a powershell translation of the script that will work out of the box on Windows 7: Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web cat words.txt |%{$q=$_; (new-object system.net.webclient).DownloadS...
balloonguy Learning resources 13 3,247 2014-10-13, 3:23 pm
    Thread: Is Jim Breens Dictionary broken?
Post: Is Jim Breens Dictionary broken?

The server at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-b...dic.cgi?1C was in the process of being decommissioned, which I guess has been completed. Using http://wwwjdic.org/ should redirect you to the c...
balloonguy Learning resources 8 1,769 2014-08-23, 11:50 am
    Thread: Very casual speech learning resource (website, book)
Post: Very casual speech learning resource (website, boo...

Nihongonomori has recently been putting out videos in a series titled ちょっと危ない日本語 that covers this topic https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...4CZaqMSG9k
balloonguy The Japanese language 26 8,512 2014-06-03, 1:33 pm
    Thread: Where can one watch anime /without/ subtitles?
Post: Where can one watch anime /without/ subtitles?

On the non-hardsubbed videos on Hulu (mostly Viz licensed shows) you can also turn off the subtitles.
balloonguy Learning resources 17 7,243 2014-02-01, 11:31 am
    Thread: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab deck integration
Post: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab...

It should work on a surface pro, but as is it will not work on an android tablet. If someone wants to try, http://code.google.com/p/android-python27/ looks promising.
balloonguy Learning resources 298 107,469 2013-12-10, 11:01 am
    Thread: Japanese subs?
Post: Japanese subs?

You'd be surprised at the amount of shows that air with captions. To check whether a show airs with captions, there is usually a box that says 字幕 or 字幕放送 during the first few seconds like so: [Image: ...
balloonguy Learning resources 32 13,899 2013-11-30, 5:07 pm
    Thread: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android
Post: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android

Thanks for posting, I'll try to see what I can do.
balloonguy Learning resources 17 6,046 2013-11-20, 11:14 am
    Thread: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android
Post: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android

Can you post a screenshot? And I'll see what I can do about the title bar. Thanks.
balloonguy Learning resources 17 6,046 2013-11-16, 2:22 pm
    Thread: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android
Post: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android

Thanks for the feedback, you've really helped challenge some of my unfounded assumptions that I had made while I was developing this. Getting the app to show up in the recently used list adds more co...
balloonguy Learning resources 17 6,046 2013-10-06, 8:06 pm
    Thread: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android
Post: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android

Something went wrong when I packaged it, it should be fixed now (same download link). toshiromiballza Wrote:I don't have a tablet, so it's pointless having it on my small-screened phone, but no romaj...
balloonguy Learning resources 17 6,046 2013-09-26, 10:15 am
    Thread: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android
Post: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android

I've implemented your suggestions Download Link Instead of having an explicit expanding option, I made the window resizable. Just drag the bottom-right corner. Changes * v2.0 * Implement search on...
balloonguy Learning resources 17 6,046 2013-09-24, 10:22 am
    Thread: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android
Post: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android

Thanks for the feedback, I'll get these done in the next few days.
balloonguy Learning resources 17 6,046 2013-09-13, 4:35 pm
    Thread: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android
Post: Floating Japanese Dictionary for Android

Floating Japanese Dictionary This app provides a floating window in which one can look up the definitions of Japanese words even when another app is running. It probably takes up too much space to to...
balloonguy Learning resources 17 6,046 2013-09-10, 10:27 am