Journal ironfrost's Journal: Chinese Flashcards for Mobile Phones 2
I recently wrote a Chinese flashcard program for mobile phones - mostly to help my own Chinese language skills, but I decided to put it online for free download from my website for anyone who wants to use it.
The basic principle is fairly simple - the program shows a word in one language (either English or Chinese), then displays the pinyin (Chinese pronunciation) of the word and finally gives the word in the other language. You can choose whether to go from English to Chinese or from Chinese to English, and also other options like whether to view words in order or in a random order, and whether or not to remove cards after a certain number of successful answers.
At the moment the program comes loaded with seven word lists at different levels, and you can also add your own lists in the CEDICT format (it's a little tricky to do this, but nothing too difficult).
To use the flashcards your phone needs to support Java (MIDP2 / CLCD 1.1), which should be no problem for most phones bought in the last couple of years, and to see the Chinese characters you need to have Chinese fonts installed as well.
DRM is pretty ubiquitous in the mobile world - most mobile java download sites automatically add DRM to the content you get off them - and I don't want that to happen to my own program, so I'm waiting for GPL version 3 before I release the code. In the meantime, I put the jad/jar files up for download on my website under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike license.
The basic principle is fairly simple - the program shows a word in one language (either English or Chinese), then displays the pinyin (Chinese pronunciation) of the word and finally gives the word in the other language. You can choose whether to go from English to Chinese or from Chinese to English, and also other options like whether to view words in order or in a random order, and whether or not to remove cards after a certain number of successful answers.
At the moment the program comes loaded with seven word lists at different levels, and you can also add your own lists in the CEDICT format (it's a little tricky to do this, but nothing too difficult).
To use the flashcards your phone needs to support Java (MIDP2 / CLCD 1.1), which should be no problem for most phones bought in the last couple of years, and to see the Chinese characters you need to have Chinese fonts installed as well.
DRM is pretty ubiquitous in the mobile world - most mobile java download sites automatically add DRM to the content you get off them - and I don't want that to happen to my own program, so I'm waiting for GPL version 3 before I release the code. In the meantime, I put the jad/jar files up for download on my website under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike license.
gpl v3 (Score:2)
Although, unfortunately, if a big company decides to do something like this you're stuffed anyway - especially if you're living in China.
Re: (Score:2)
Having said that, you're probably right about not being able to do anything about infringement, and