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Version 2.0.0

I finally finished the update. Hopefully it will be reviewed quickly and available soon.

I think it turned out pretty well. This version is iOS 7 only but the old version will continue to be available in the store for those with older devices. The main new features are native iPad support and updated support for imiwa?`s newest feature – analyzing a long string of Japanese text. You’ll need to use the long-press popup context menu to access the analyze feature.

I had to spend way more time than I thought I would tweaking orientation support on the iPad. So much time, in fact, that I wasn’t able to properly test my iCloud implementation. So, I had to keep it turned off for this release. For the time being, you’ll have to manually manage your files through the App tab in iTunes if you have multiple devices. I know it’s a pain and I’ll try to get the next version with iCloud support out as soon as possible. Maybe by Christmas?

After that, I intend to start working on being able to import and export directly to and from Anki files. And sometime next year, hopefully by the spring, I’m going to open up online lesson sharing to you guys. You’ll be able to download lessons without a user account. Those that do create accounts will be able to upload, rate, and tag lessons. No comments but the tagging system will work similarly to something like Little Planet. You’ll be able to choose three tags (words like technology, textbook, grammar, verbs, explicit, stupid, etc.) to describe a lesson so I think it’ll be easy to find the good stuff. It’ll all be searchable as well.

Anywho, as soon as Apple approves the app I’ll post another update to let you know it’s available for download.

Happy Studies!

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Using Apple’s Dictionary

imiwa? doesn’t have examples for every word. In this case, you can either try to find a real world example (you must have gotten the word from somewhere: a book, a sign, something a friend said to you, or something you thought about saying) or can you look for an example using your device’s built-in dictionary. It’s best to do this during a study session. Tap edit and then double-tap the kanji entry and choose Select All. Next tap Define (you may need to tap the right arrow first).

Apple’s dictionary will slide up and you’ll have a nice list of examples to choose from. The examples are between the「」and the word you looked up will be replaced with a —.

The only problem is that you can’t copy text from this screen. You’ll have to be able to read all the kanji in the example so you can memorize it and then manually enter it into kanji Flow on the card’s Examples screen.

Many words will also have a long list of sub-entries at the bottom of the page.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Happy Studies!