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Remembering the Kanji on Mac

Thursday, December 7, 2006 11:28:39 AM

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I switched bigsmile

Yesterday I finally received my new Macbook version 2.0. Core 2 Duo 2 GHz, 2 GB ram and 80 GB harddrive. It is gorgeous. The first thing I did was to get Opera 9.02 of course. I am now running Opera on all my hardware. My mobile phone, my Nintendo DS Lite, my windoze box and my new macbook. Tomorrow I expect to be running Opera on my Nintendo Wii.

I bought Parallels for Mac as well, so I can now run Windows XP as a virtual machine within Mac OS X 10.4.8. It works really well. The Intel Core Duo family has some VT emulation tech that makes running natice x86 code very fast. I use the virtual Windows XP install to run Supermemo 2004. Alas, developement for Mac OS stopped more than a decade ago.

If anyone know of a Mac OS X compatible Supermemo-like program I'd love to hear. Problem is that my 3000+ item database must be imported, which is why I have stuck with Supermemo on Windows.

Japanese on Mac OS 10.4.8
Japanese input is very pleasant on Mac OS X. Unlike Windows I can switch between kana input and native danish input by just pressing Apple+Space. It works very smooth.

You can read more about japanese on Mac OS X over at Chris Bolton's Japanese for your Mac page

I found links to a nice Mac OS X native jedict dictionary. Unfortunately its quite pricey $25, a world of difference compared to the many free tools for XP, such as Wakan. Students can get a discount of $10. I'll give it a test drive and decide whether I want to fork out the moolah for it right now. This macbook set me back quite a lot of money.

Check out the dictionary here.

There are free alternatives as well.

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Comments

Dariodalu Thursday, December 7, 2006 12:01:09 PM

congratulations for your mac.

I use a Java program that should work also on mac, it's called Jmemorize. unfortunately it cannot import supermemo sessions.

Immacolata Thursday, December 7, 2006 12:22:32 PM

I know about it and for the very reason you mention I cant be bothered.

Unregistered user Monday, December 18, 2006 4:59:12 AM

flight16 writes: I'm thinking about writing a program that's a cross between SuperMemo, jMemorize, and iFlash next semester as a project. I'd like to release it simultaneously with a Pocket PC (and possibly Palm OS) client. I'm just trying to get a feature set finalized... I'm also really torn on making it an Mac based app or a Java based app... arg.

Unregistered user Wednesday, January 3, 2007 4:20:37 PM

Christopher Bolton writes: Thanks for linking to my page. I'm glad you found it useful.

Unregistered user Saturday, March 3, 2007 1:43:44 AM

Linda writes: My God man! First of all, welcome aboard the mac ride. You'll soon find that there's no need to pay money, and loads of apps that are opensource, freeware etc, are just as good. Now on to Japanese. You have Jim Breen's JEDict http://jedict.com/ Other than that there's ProVoc, a flashcard-based app and perfect for studying languages or Ebbinghaus which is more like iTunes. And I hear this is good PDA kanji software: http://padict.sourceforge.net/ There's also this page you might want to scan, with some mac apps for learning Japanese.

Unregistered user Saturday, March 3, 2007 12:30:55 PM

Linda writes: whoops that's http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj// as for the dictionary, i have to edit also right? you were in fact referring to JEDict. Thing is I use it and it hasn't once asked me to register. there's also MayJay. I tried it once but I can't remember whether I liked it or not..

Unregistered user Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:47:21 AM

Anonymous writes: Hi there.. Just wondering; Does Supermemo work well through parallels? Thanks, Dave in Montreal

Unregistered user Monday, January 14, 2008 12:04:23 AM

Anonymous writes: >Japanese input is very pleasant on Mac OS X. Unlike Windows I can switch >between kana input and native danish input by just pressing Apple+Space. >It works very smooth. You can set windows so that all you have to do is alt shift and it will switch between languages. I switch between Japanese and English with it on my 3 WinXp computers all the time.

Unregistered user Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:21:57 PM

Anonymous writes: Hello, I was able to run superMemo 2004 on mac using wine. That's quite confortable since you don't need to launch windows through parallels. I used the following instructions: http://research.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/Running_Supermemo_2004_in_GNU/Linux_under_WINE Good luck. Mine works!

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