Hi all,
I've created a desktop wallpaper of all 3007 kanji from RTK 1+3, in Heisig sequence, and I thought I'd share it with you guys. I know there are similar wallpapers out there but, from the ones I've seen, they're either incomplete or way too high in contrast (read: distracting) to work as a wallpaper. I made two, both 1920 x 1200 pixels, one normal and one optimized for the Mac OS X desktop.
Here's the link for the normal wallpaper:
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php? … mp;thumb=4
and for OS X:
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php? … mp;thumb=4
This was made with live type in InDesign, so the colors can be changed any way I wish, as well as the formatting and spacing, so if you guys have any color/sizing requests, I'd be happy to oblige.
-Tom
rinkuhero
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From: paterson nj
Registered: 2011-09-02
Posts: 21
some time during my freshman year of high school, which was 1994 or 1995; i was at barnes and nobles looking for some new sci-fi books to read and came across two workbooks (one for hiragana and one for katakana) and asked my mother to buy them for me on whim. i liked them so occasionally over the years i'd buy a book on learning japanese and go through it, but it was mainly on and off. i also took 3 semesters of it in college but the class wasn't very good. since then i didn't study it at all for a long period (something like five years with no studying), so what little i learned was lost (i even lost a lot of my knowledge of the kana and had to re-learn it recently). but at the point at which i had stopped studying i knew basic grammar and vocabulary and perhaps 200-300 kanji (in the order that textbooks teach them, not in the RTK1 order)
anyway, very recently i was evacuated to my father's house because my apartment in paterson nj got flooded by the recent hurricane. so i had to spend a week there and i didn't have much else to do so i went through his books; i found a bilingual book on haiku which had the japanese and an english translation, and started reading it out of boredom. i liked that it had explanatory notes of the japanese, although it was classical language so it was old grammar sometimes and obsolete forms of kanji
but it got me in the mood for studying japanese again, so when i was able to return to my apartment i browsed amazon for some learning japanese books, and read all the reviews to the 'remembering the kanji' book (i liked that it was a book that people reacted to in an extreme fashion, there were lots of 1 star and 5 star reviews, but few in between, everyone loved it or hated it). reading through those reviews, one of them mentioned this site, so i joined it and started doing remembering the kanji; so far it's been about a week and i'm 400 kanji in
Last edited by rinkuhero (2011 September 17, 12:57 pm)
rogerdodge
New member
From: Japan
Registered: 2008-08-31
Posts: 6
Hello! It's been a long while since I have logged on to this website.
I recently have been studying for the JLPT N1. Finally!
This desktop wallpaper is great for just randomly looking at a useless desktop. It now became useful so thank you.
On this topic, what I was thinking:
I have a mac (though it is all doable on windows) and I have a "change desktop wallpaper every X seconds/minutes/etc".
I would change it to once every 5 seconds,
and have a flash card containing a kanji.
They would cycle all possible kanji's forever.
Maybe not all, but a lot. You get the idea.
More info on the wallpaper the better: onyomi kunyomi various words that include the kanji, etc.
kinda like this http://www.whiterabbitpress.com/product … ctid=16165
but in a digital one-by-one picture format.
If this exists I would very much love to have it/buy it!
but if not, at the very very least, I was hoping someone could point me to a stack of Kanji jpgs or pngs or whatever. Can someone with flashcards, export their full kanji stacks to jpg, zip em, and send a link?
Thanks for any info to make this project a bit more streamlined.
rogerdodge
New member
From: Japan
Registered: 2008-08-31
Posts: 6
Alright,
SO I broke that webpage by entering in the 1000 maximum that it said it could do.
After about 6 it broke, gave me a zip file, and now I get an error when I try to make a new one form the site.
What I did is I took the RTK data from the google spreadsheet lurking around here,
Took a word and it's furigana and exported as tab separated,
then copy and pasted in the site.
the few cards I got worked out very nicely despite the size-range it allows.
So any other suggestions would be appreciated. 
