I thought it would be cool if we post the useful Japanese related stuff we have found for EDIT Apple Macs (iPhone/iPod touch thread already exists.. http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=1858.

- OS X 10.5 Leopard built in Dictionary

This contains a J-J and J-E dictionary. It also can search the Japanese Wikipedia site.

- Word of the day screen saver

It has a Japanese word, its reading and its definition as well as some nice animation including other words floating across the screen. You can choose the dictionary it uses in the options. It seems to be a new word every time it appears rather than just one word per day. I just turned it on.

- Audio Hijack Pro

Grab the sound from anything currently playing and output it to any kind of audio file. The trial version doesn't allow recordings (or hijacking..) for more than 10 minutes, after which it starts adding a hissing noise to the audio. So for putting audio into an SRS the free version is fine.

I think there's an entire huge thread on here devoted to programs for the iPhone/iPod Touch. I'm sure you could find a lot of ideas for stuff to download

Aijin Wrote:I think there's an entire huge thread on here devoted to programs for the iPhone/iPod Touch. I'm sure you could find a lot of ideas for stuff to download

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=1858

Ah, in that case.. this thread should just be Mac stuff then..

There's a built in Japanese dictionary?!?

Yep, it's called "Dictionary". You will probably need to go to the settings and choose the J-J and or J-E dictionary, otherwise they won't come up. It's really good.

Hey wow, that's pretty cool! I didn't know it could do that!

Thanks for the tip!

You can google for the urls..

TunesTEXT: (freeware) dashboard widget to grab lyrics for Japanese (as well as English) songs and insert them into ID3 tags when played. Excellent when combined with the freeware GimmeSomeTune application to display lyrics in an on-top window so you can see then while doing other stuff.

KOTONOKO: (open source) EPWING reader

SofaControl: (shareware) application to let you script the Apple remote. I use it to control Anki with a simple script I made. It's much more comfortable than keeping a hand hovering over the keyboard for several hundred cards (I did 600 today).

ComicBookLover: (shareware) I use it to read scanned books and the occasional manga.

The cool thing about the Japanese dictionary entries is that you can click on any word in the examples and it will take you to that word's dictionary entry.

Xee (http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee.html) is also excellent for viewing comic books

thermal Wrote:Yep, it's called "Dictionary". You will probably need to go to the settings and choose the J-J and or J-E dictionary, otherwise they won't come up. It's really good.

...and expandable to include a Chinese dictionary.

I have done some more looking into the Dictionary on OS X. Turns out you can get a popup definition of any word when you mouse over it with the short cut ctrl + command + d. Further more there is a link to open the word in the dic application. Or, you can change this in dictionary settings to be a link brink up a popup definition.

The downside is it doesn't work in, apparently all, non-apple applications. There is a firefox plugin to get a context menu link which will open the word in Dictionary, as long as it is open. Is not yet compatible with 3.5 apparently. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...splay/7261

Jarvik, what EPWING dictionaries are you using and where do you get them?

I mostly use
研究社和英大辞典、英辞郎 (bilingual)
広辞苑、大辞林 (monolingual)
漢字源、学研漢和大辞典 (kanji)
..but I have a number of other ones loaded up too just incase (I'm a j-e translator).

EPWING dictionaries can be bought at larger bookstores in Japan (I've even seen them at Bookoff), Amazon.co.jp, in libraries, gotten from the Japanese department of the university you goto, teh int3rw3bz, etc.

thermal Wrote:Yep, it's called "Dictionary". You will probably need to go to the settings and choose the J-J and or J-E dictionary, otherwise they won't come up. It's really good.

My head just exploded. You mean I've had this on my computer the whole time I've had it? *sigh*

Thanks.