Yes, you need to stop the server, copy the config file, start it again. To stop it:

ps u | grep ankimini | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill

ignore any errors about being unable to kill processes

you can use 'su' to switch to root btw.

Sweet.
Took a little longer than I expected (Stupid capital S in my file name!) but now I can (painfully) swap between decks and start it up without having to ssh in.
Of course hopefully this will all become irrelevant soon.

I'm waiting on a 2nd gen. iPod touch. Hopefully the 2.1 firmware gets jailbroken before I get it.

Are there any non crappy dictionaries? Holy lord.
I installed WeDict and some extra dictionaries, but am I seriously going to search in romaji? Or using the kanji for ここ？ No. This is just silly.

revenantkioku Wrote:Are there any non crappy dictionaries? Holy lord.
I installed WeDict and some extra dictionaries, but am I seriously going to search in romaji? Or using the kanji for ここ？ No. This is just silly.

JDict is working great for me. Searches are instantantaneous, and it's just as good as edict. I know edict is free, but I didn't mind paying a small amount of money for this decent iPhone frontend.

I'm way too early in my studies to be able to judge the quality of a dictionary's entries, but as far as interface goes, http://www.jisho.org is optimized for the iPhone. I use it with the (Traditional) Chinese stroke entry "keyboard", or less frequently with kana, using the Japanese keyboard.

I say save your money and get by with online dics for a bit longer. There seems to be an epwing viewer coming to non-jailbroken iphone/touch soon (already working on jailbroken ones I assume). See iDic for more details.

Hey, did I miss something or how do I sync/save my decks in ankimini when I have completed them? The options disappear!
Bookmarking the sync link is a temporary fix, at least.

It's a bug, it'll be fixed in the next version

Here's hoping for an appstore version, even if it costs money. The 2nd gen iPod Touch looks like it won't be jailbroken for a long time. It uses a new chipset and different encryption so it'll need an entirely new exploit.

I suspect it'll be jailbroken sooner rather than later.

dilandau23 Wrote:I say save your money and get by with online dics for a bit longer.

That's kinda my thinking.

Stand-alone electronic dictionaries go for several hundred dollars, how much would it cost to have an app that could realistically compete? How much would users be willing to pay?

The one nice thing about having an old iPod touch (not 2.0 version) is that iDic works on it. iDic is an EPWING Dictionary app, which means I can lookup whatever I like in my dictionaries (currently Kenkyusha shin wa-ei daijiten and the sanseido super daijirin). I'll be adding the Japanese wikipedia offline edition and other dics soon (genius waei-eiwa, and kenkyusha shin eiwa-waei chuujiten, perhaps Kojien as well).

If I could somehow combine that with the handwriting recognition from firmware 2.0 I'd be happy. For now I'm waiting till iDic goes to 2.0 before switching.

Installed ankimini last night and it works great. Awesome, awesome work resolve. Long overdue donation def. incoming.

I would give my left arm for a 2.0 compatible iDic, but in the meantime I actually like JDict. Lookups are lightning fast, and it's worth it for offline. Maybe this is an Australia thing but I can't get bearable speed wireless anywhere.

Right now I'm also using iComic (jailbroken) (http://code.google.com/p/iphone-comicviewer/) for reading manga. I installed it as a novelty but it's actually really easy to read manga this way. The interface is Japanese which is a bonus. The best part is if there's a word I don't know, instead of putting a sticker or highlighting it I can just zoom in and take a screenshot, then put that in my SRS. So you get all the associated image and avoid flipping through books and typing. Example: http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/1477/img0013ud2.png

There's also offline Wikipedia (also jailbroken) (http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/show...hp?t=94276). Japanese wikipedia is about 700mb. This is probably my favourite non-Anki app for pure cool factor.

Also this might be a no-brainer but I just recently realised if you have some audiobooks with transcripts, like 宮沢賢治 stories, you can paste the story in the lyrics section and have something to read along with. http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/4612/img0014zs0.png

Yeah, but jDict is the edict dictionary file only with no possibility of adding more.

After doing lookups in the Daijirin, the Kojien, the Green Goddess, I've got absolutely no desire to go back to edict, ever, ever. Since I have a choice I'm not going to 2.0 until iDic makes it.

I upgraded to 2.0 so I could be sure my work on Anki worked on it. I really miss iDic and the offline wikipedia reader, though - the app store has no appeal to me at all.

Are you considering any Android development? Since they seem to be far less draconian, I would think that an Android device would be ideal from the development perspective.

Android is Java. I would have to write Anki from the ground up just like in for the App Store. Anyway, Android is a way off yet.

resolve Wrote:Android is Java. I would have to write Anki from the ground up just like in for the App Store. Anyway, Android is a way off yet.

How about using Jython?

This is now totally off topic, but what kind of memory does the backend library need? It looks like the iphone "anki mini" just uses a webserver so I should probably be able to run it on my n800 but I wonder if it has enough memory.

You need enough memory to support all the python runtime and some DB overhead. 15MB or so IIRC.

As for Jython, the startup overhead would be quite large. It's too early to say if it would be viable.

resolve Wrote:I upgraded to 2.0 so I could be sure my work on Anki worked on it. I really miss iDic and the offline wikipedia reader, though - the app store has no appeal to me at all.

Offline Wikipedia is on 2.0.

I was using another offline reader that no longer works. I'll have a look at the working one

Since you've been looking at this thread, resolve, is there any way that the "show answer" link on the simple web review can be a button? I find I have some occasional troubles hitting the link properly.

I'll try to change it when I get the time

That would be amazingly awesome, dude, and save me minutes of my life!