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| Overall Rating: |   (2.0) |
Features: | (3.0) |
Support: | (1.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (2.0) |
Price: | Not rated (0.0) |
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Not Good for Foreign Scripts - Version: 2.4.1, 3/20/2006 07:16PM PST
dharbigt (Palodes Confidential Services)
Despite the claims made on the website about foreign language support, the support for this product is lousy. Worldtext is obsolete and anyone using updated versions of OS X will have lots of problems with foreign language text if it's in a non-Latin alphabet. This is because the author (despite promises to the contrary) is not interested in adding Unicode support to this product.
I bought the full version hoping to support the author so that he would continue to work on this project, but there hasn't been an update for quite some time, and even then, the support seems to be primarily for PalmOS, which is of no use to me.
- Cutting and pasting from Safari or TextEdit or other applications doesn't work
- Centering and other formatting doesn't work properly
- Import for Unicode files is not available
- Unicode export doesn't include the entire card text and is broken
- Cards shared with a friend (who also bought the full version) come up garbled and useless
I've specifically had problems with Chinese, Hebrew and Russian. The Hebrew I can understand, but as far as the other products, the author has been apathetic and/or unresponsive.
If you're learning a romance language or German or something other than foreign language, this product has an excellent featureset and works well with only occasional (but frustrating) crashes. I'd recommend this software highly if it lived up to its advertisement as an excellent foreign language teaching aid. The fact is, that it is a frustrating foreign language teaching aid for foreign scripts.
I bought the full version hoping to support the author so that he would continue to work on this project, but there hasn't been an update for quite some time, and even then, the support seems to be primarily for PalmOS, which is of no use to me.
- Cutting and pasting from Safari or TextEdit or other applications doesn't work
- Centering and other formatting doesn't work properly
- Import for Unicode files is not available
- Unicode export doesn't include the entire card text and is broken
- Cards shared with a friend (who also bought the full version) come up garbled and useless
I've specifically had problems with Chinese, Hebrew and Russian. The Hebrew I can understand, but as far as the other products, the author has been apathetic and/or unresponsive.
If you're learning a romance language or German or something other than foreign language, this product has an excellent featureset and works well with only occasional (but frustrating) crashes. I'd recommend this software highly if it lived up to its advertisement as an excellent foreign language teaching aid. The fact is, that it is a frustrating foreign language teaching aid for foreign scripts.
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- Not Good for Foreign Scripts
korean ok / palm great - Version: 2.4, 7/12/2005 08:51AM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
postjosh
i'm using the full version to study korean and unlike the last reviewer, i was able to get unicode to work. however, the keyboard keeps reseting itself to u.s. standard when you make a new card. so, you have to constantly set it back to korean. also, printing to index cards is a pain. the program relies on the printer driver for fomatting and you are at the mercy of the printer software for things like duplex & portrait printing. my brother printer couldn't deal, but my my canon worked by using the large 4x6 index cards and setting it to photo printing. so, if you're patient you can make it work. i tried the palm application & it's really the way to go. at first, characters were missing on my treo 270, but after i made some adjustments ito the export dialogue on my mac, it worked great.
I have used this software off and on for several years mostly because I wrote a number of study card sets early on. Having familiarized myself with the pros and cons of the software, I contacted the developers to suggest improvements, which I was told prior to buying their software they would be interested in hearing. They could not have been less helpful, saying that they are not actively developing the software but "thank you for your email." No I've invested a significant amount of time in software I thought would evolve but, instead, has remained largely unchanged for the duration of my ownership.
To add insult to injury, it regularly requires me to re-enter my serial number prior to use.
There are better ways to study.