Source Code Management. It’s one of those things that as a developer you know you are supposed to do it. The benefits are huge, allowing you to keep track of changes and revert your code to an earlier state if you break something. You can also keep the repository on a server somewhere so it [...]

Jisho Touch 1.5 is alive and well on the AppStore. It took a lot longer to get it approved and resubmitted but it’s finally there. I’m working on another point release of Jisho (for Mac) fixing a few bugs and updating the database. Be on the lookout sometime this next week.

Since I’ve been back in Japan I’ve found myself using Jisho Touch a lot more than I was during the states. Something that I had become an annoyance was being unable to bookmark words. The problem came in trying to figure out the right, intuitive way to do it. Some of the solutions I had [...]

It seems that people are sometimes having problems with their purchase going through when using the coupon codes supplied for me and distributed by MacZOT. The orders are going through fine but eSellerate is failing. If you don’t receive your registration information or have any other errors please shoot me me a mail support [at] [...]

Jisho is on macZOT for 50% off today! As I use eSellerate to handle all of my processing and serial number generation, I cannot simply generate a serial number for users automatically unless they go through checkout process. To get your serial number click here. This will take you the Sugoi Soft Store and automatically [...]

Jisho Touch 1.4 is finally live on the AppStore after a week of waiting. The major features of this release are history (up to 50 items) and persistence. I’ve been running it on my phone since it was under development (obviously) and I can’t tell you how handy it is to have the history feature. [...]

I’ve packaged and released Jisho 3.1.1 as promised.  A quick overview of the changes are as follow: Added * Kanji (Reading) column only shows a reading if there is kanji. Fixes * All searches no longer run as wildcard. * Updated Database * Updated German and Japanese localizations As per usual you can download it [...]

This is something I should have posted about a few days ago, but things have been quite hectic in Tokyo for me. That is, as you may have guessed from the title, Jisho Touch 1.3 is live on the AppStore. People seem to be updating to the latest version like wildfire, which is great. I hope everybody [...]

I’ve submitted Jisho Touch 1.3 to the AppStore earlier today. In this release I focused on cleaning up the interface and tried to focus on clarity of information and making things a bit easier to use. For instance, first thing on start up the search button bar appears immediately, removing the need for a touch [...]

A lot of verbs in JMDict are prefixed with “to” before them. This means if you search for the “run”, you get a lot of nouns for run. If you are looking for a verb and not having much luck finding exactly the word you are looking for, try adding “to ” to the front [...]