Hey Everybody,

I’m heading back to the states from Japan here in about 12 hours. While it takes me time to get settled and such support might be slightly delayed. I will reply to your questions and requests as quickly as possible.

Thanks you for your understanding everybody!

SUGOI SOFTWARE RELEASES JISHO 3.0

Update brings completely rewritten back-end, full Japanese localization, and faster searching.

TOKYO, Japan (July 29, 2008) – Sugoi Software today released Jisho 3.0 available for immediate download. Jisho is an easy-to-use Japanese-English dictionary. Jisho 3.0 brings completely rewritten back-end, full Japanese localization, and faster searching , and many other enhancements.

The rewritten back-end in Jisho 3.0 allows for more data and better search results – faster. With the new back-end Jisho can now display multiple parts of speech, and is completely localized into the Japanese language. It also sports new toolbar icons for the zooming functionality.

Version 3.0 brings a completely rewritten back-end, faster searching, a full Japanese localization, and a refined user interface and experience. The product and full demo is available directly from Sugoi Software at http://www.sugoisoft.com for only $20 US. This is a free upgrade for all users.

About Sugoi Software
Sugoi Software is a privately held company focused on Macintosh software development.

Jisho is a trademark of Sugoi Software, All Rights reserved.

Press Contact:
James Van Dyne
Sugoi Software
press@sugoisoft.com

I am returning to the States in less than a week after a year in Japan, and I think a major release of Jisho is a perfect way to commemorate my return. Today I would like to announce the release of Jisho 3.0!

Jisho 3.0 doesn’t look too different on the outside, beyond the nice shiny toolbar icons. But on the inside it is a completely different animal. With Jisho 2.1 I pretty much rebuilt Jisho except for one major component. I left the database alone (minus updating data of course).

Today marks the day that I can say that this is no longer true. I’ve rewritten the database portion completely. From scratch. With this comes a lot of advantages: speed, accuracy, multiple parts of speech.

The prior releases’ speed wasn’t as fast as I would have liked it, so I made it a major focus in this release. I am please with the results and hope that you are too. Most queries (on the exact setting) come up instantly or close enough to it. Moreover, more searches now yield more results. Giving you more data, faster.

Another great feature, many thanks to Sugisaki-san for making this a reality, is a *complete* localization into Japanese. That is the parts of speech are all now translated into Japanese and are looked up on the fly. Pretty incredible stuff.

Here’s a list of all the changes:

• Completely rewritten the database
• Increased the amount of data in the database
• Improved accuracy
• Instant Search Results (for Exact setting)
• Displays multiple parts of speech
• Complete Japanese localization
• Icons for the Smaller / Bigger buttons

On top of all this – Jisho 3.0 is a free upgrade for existing users. If you have Jisho installed already you can update from within Jisho by going to Jisho -> Check for updates. Give Jisho a whirl and support its development by purchasing your copy today!

Hi Folks,

As mentioned in the last past we are currently looking for people who could help translate Jisho into several different languages.

We are currently looking for people to help translate Jisho into the following languages:

- French
- German
- Russian

If you speak any of these languages and have 10 minutes to spare, please lend us your tongue and help us make Jisho even better!

But my language isn’t on the list!
Don’t worry you can still contact us and help translate Jisho into your native tongue. We just wanted to start out with the currently support search languages – but if you can speak anything from Arabic to Zulu please get in touch.

Thanks for all your support, and together we can make Jisho even better.

I’m hard at work on the next release of Jisho and am getting quite excited about the progress made so far. The major feature for this release is a completely rewritten database interface and more importantly a completely new database structure. The searching code is also being made completely self contained, allowing it to be more portable…

The major issue this new database corrects is how Jisho restricted readings of kanji and such. As you can see the development version is *much* improved in those regards. Many thanks go to Lauren, Judit, and Daniel for bringing this issue to my attention.

You can see the differences in the following screenshots. Perhaps it is not the best word to demonstrate with, but it is an excellent example of the profound difference.

Current

Development

The version shown above is obviously not complete yet as you’ll notice it lacks a part of speech. I’m working on that, but it is going to be localizable and awesome. If you are interested in helping localize Jisho, please contact me (leave a comment, email etc).