I'm trying to force myself to keep my laptop in Japanese, and learn to read some kanji every day.

I took pictures of most of the text, used adobe to OCR it, and hoped that I could copy the text and get the readings.
However, the picture quality is choppy, and reading the some of the text is not easy. I searched for the terms, but the best I've found is a large dictionary full of thousands of terms: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/it-comput...17368?mt=8
I know I don't need most of what's in there, and reverse-translating won't do. (memorizing what is what in context of using the English terms. I won't actually be "reading" the kanji.)

I also searched Anki, but had no luck. I'm wondering if anyone else is interested in helping me, and learn these terms as well.
Here's a pdf of the pics: http://www.4shared.com/office/WqxgLzBg/file.html?

Thanks in advance.

Isn't there a way to get a clearer screenshot than that? I don't know anything about MacOS, but if you can create the file as a .BMP or .PNG, there shouldn't be all that blurring.

I don't think the quality is that bad. And even if there's parts that are hard to read, it doesn't look like any of it is too hard to reproduce.

But I'm wondering what do you actually want? Do you want copy/paste-able Japanese text? Translations? Of everything (there's tons of text in those images!)?

well it is a ton of text but i'd bet you already know half... so just keep adding words you dont know (or phrases if available) into anki until you know it. it took me about a month... and then pretty soon you know all those words really well because you see them a lot.

it really doesn't take that long. and its super nice working in a japanese os...

[Katsuo]

One way to learn computer terms in Japanese is to download both English and Japanese manuals for a product and go through them comparing.
E.g. OS Snow Leopard manual 1. English 2. Japanese

I typed in most of your screenshots (not the Google page, though) so it's more convenient to check the terms using Rikaichan or whatever. I did it pretty quickly, so there's probably some mistakes (also some of the screenshot characters were blurred and hard to recognize).

ファイル　編集　表示　移動　ウインドウ　ヘルプ
～の情報
変更日
コメント

一般情報
種類：フォルダ
サイズ：～項目の合計
場所：
作成日：
変更日：
ラベル：
共有フォルダ
ロック
詳細情報：
名前と拡張子
拡張子を隠す
プレビュー

共有とアクセス権
読み出し／書き込みができます
名前　アクセス権
～自分 　読み／書き
～読み出しのみ
～読み出しのみ

コンピュータを今すぐシステム終了してもよろしいいですか？
再ログイン時にウインドウを再度開く
再起動　スリープ　キャンセル　システム終了

コンピュータを今すぐシステム終了してもよろしいですか？
何も操作をしないと、コンピュータは59秒で自動的にシステム終了します。
再ログイン時にウインドウを再度開く
キャンセル　システム終了

Finder 　ファイル　編集　表示　移動　ウインドウ　ヘルプ
この Mac について
ソフトウェア・アップデート
システム環境設定
Dock "自動的に隠す"機能を切にする
"拡大"機能を切にする
左に表示
下に表示
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Dock 環境設定

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(repeat of previous bit)
アプリケーション
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書類
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Google Page (didn't do)

(Finder window)
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名前　変更日　サイズ　種類
１項目


新規フォルダ
情報を見る
デスクトップのバックグラウンドを変更
整頓
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表示順序
表示オプションを表示

名前
種類
変更日
作成日
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なし
グリッドに沿う
名前
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追加日
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この Mac について
ソフトウェア・アップデート
システム環境設定
Dock
最近使った項目
Finder を強制終了
スリープ
再起動
システム終了
～をログアウト

Finder について
環境設定
ゴミ箱を空にする
確実にゴミ箱を空にする
サービス
Finder を隠す
ほかを隠す
すべてを表示
Finder を終了

wow well done. that's quite a chunk of goodwill. the funny thing is there is like twice the vocab for windows, and it's way weirder. I have no problems running my macOS in jpnese, even when things go wrong... but windows gets switched to english whenever there's a problem.

Thank you very much Katsuo!
To clarify for others: Mac is limited to 1280 x 800 for all screen shots. When I cropped the pictures, they turned out blurry. I tried looking for something that takes better pics, but found nothing.
I'm wanting to get the readings for the kanji on my mac so that I will be "forced" to practice reading kanji every day. (Rikaikun can help)
I've noticed that I remember kanji whose readings I know, more than simply a kanji + meaning. I'm going to explore this a little more.
Translations might help, but I don't want to rely too much on that. Anki cards (with these pics?) will help too. Totally going to make that sometime and add things from the manuals.

dtcamero,
I've asked about something like that before, and I was told by a technician that it's because the core OS (firmware?) is English. If it were Japanese, it would be the other way. I think mac might be the same, otherwise you can just switch it.

Again, Thank You!

heh oh no i meant that I often need to manually switch my windows OS to english when there's a networking problem or whatever because even a year after starting with a jpnese OS I'm pretty overwhelmed by all the weird vocab windows uses... whereas I can solve pretty much any problem I encounter with my mac OS while still in jpnese...