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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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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.

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?

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/sho … 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

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.

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.

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.

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

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