SugoiSoft made its debut on the Mac App Store with the release its flagship Japanese English dictionary, Jisho 4.1. This is the first Japanese English dictionary available on the Mac App Store that is not designed for native speakers of Japanese.
Jisho
Jisho supports searching in multiple languages including: Japanese, English, German, Russian, and French. It also has the unique ability to convert the Japanese phonetic script hiragana, and katakana to roman letters making it easier for beginners to pronounce and read Japanese. Lists of words can also be made within the application so users can track forgotten words or any other vocabulary they choose.
Features:
* Dictionary includes Japanese, English, German, Russian, and French translations
* Lists to help users keep track of forgotten words and vocabulary
* Converts all readings to roman letters for quicker and easier lookups
* Full access to the database without an active internet connection
* Integration with OS X, allowing lookups in most applications with the press of a single keyboard shortcut
* Searching the complete database with wildcard
Requirements:
* Mac running OS X 10.6.6 or later
* 90 MB of disk space
Pricing and Availability:
Jisho 4.1 is only $20 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and is available worldwide through the Mac App Store in the Education category. A full trial and direct purchase version of Jisho is also available for direct download from the Sugoi Software website.
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Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London.
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Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK.
She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
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