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04Jun / 2009

ChinesePod Quick Review – iPhone App

ChinesePod_001Released back in November 2008 but only recently approved, the ChinesePod iPhone application has to be a contender for the App Store award for the longest review period. It has been such a long time coming that many in the ChinesePod community had given up any hope of seeing it’s arrival.

So, when news of it’s approval was announced over on the ChinesePod Blog I headed straight for the App Store. I’ve only had a couple of hours to play with it, but the Quick Review (iTunes link) application shows signs of great promise. However, it isn’t perfect and, as such, probably won’t make it onto that all important Home screen on my iPhone.

The main features of the ChinesePod Quick Review application include:

  • A Chinese/English dictionary
  • A database of interlinked sample sentences
  • Flashcard review

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07Oct / 2008

Improve Your Blog – Request a Peer Review

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by AlaskaTeacher

Over on the Budding Bloggers Network, there has been a lot of discussion about helping fellow bloggers achieve their blogging goals. A couple of suggestions have been put forward including cross blog conversations (something I am yet to be convinced about) and a pro-active approach to encouraging comments. My latest suggestion is one that I have borrowed from my day job, the concept of peer reviews.

[Updated:] 26/04/2009

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12Sep / 2008

WordPress on the iPhone

The ever popular blogging engine WordPress has an accompanying iPhone application. Now at version 1.1 the application remains free and open source. It is well written, runs smoothly and has some nice touches that inspire confidence during use. It is a shame then that the focus of this application is on a task not suited to the mobile environment.

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06Sep / 2008

Things Touch

Things Touch is a task manager for the iPhone and iPod touch from the team over at Culture Code. It is the mobile sibling of Things, the desktop task manager for OS X. I’ve been using Things Touch for a couple of weeks now and on the whole the application is well thought out and easy to use. There are a couple of areas where more work is needed, and it is good to see that most of these are promised in future updates.

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