alex and betty » OS X http://www.alex-betty.com new beginnings with a.b.c… Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:35:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 In Pursuit of the Chinese Languagehttp://www.alex-betty.com/2008/06/18/in-pursuit-of-chinese/ http://www.alex-betty.com/2008/06/18/in-pursuit-of-chinese/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:12:45 +0000 alex http://www.alex-betty.com/?p=51 I have been working on my Chinese literacy skills and the engineer in me has been increasingly frustrated with the lack of good software to aid these endeavors.  So, today, I introduce Pingguo Chinese-English Dictionary, for the Mac OS X, of course. ;)

Pingguo Chinese-English Dictionary

]]> http://www.alex-betty.com/2008/06/18/in-pursuit-of-chinese/feed/ 1 Pingguo Dictionaryhttp://www.alex-betty.com/pingguo-dictionary/ http://www.alex-betty.com/pingguo-dictionary/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:21:46 +0000 alex http://www.alex-betty.com/?page_id=47 Made for use with OS X’s Dictionary program, Pingguo leverages the public domain Chinese-English dictionary files of CC-CEDICT.

Pingguo Dictionary 1.0.0.3 (Pinyin Edition) Pingguo Dictionary 1.0.0.3 (Zhuyin Edition)

Requirements

  • Mac OS X 10.5+

Version History

1.0.0.3 – August 7, 2011

  • Fixed crashing under OS X 10.7 (Lion).
  • Based on the 2011-08-07 20:56:03 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.

1.0.0.2 – May 3, 2009

  • No functional changes.
  • Based on the 2010-05-02 21:59:33 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.

1.0.0.1 – June 3, 2009

  • No functional changes.
  • Based on the 2009-06-03 05:51:07 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.

1.0 – November 10, 2008

  • Split into two dictionary files — one for Pinyin and the other for Zhuyin.
  • Gives pronunciation in contextual menu dictionary panel.
  • Using different fonts for traditional and simplified characters.
  • Based on the 2008-11-08 21:00:48 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.

0.6 – July 7, 2008

  • Added support for Zhuyin fuhao (bopomofo).  The display of the phonetic system can be configured in the dictionary application’s Preferences.
  • Based on the 2008-05-25 11:49:13 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.

0.5 – June 18, 2008

  • First public release.
  • Includes searches based on Chinese characters (traditional and simplified), pinyin (with or within tone marks) and English.
  • Based on the 2008-05-25 11:49:13 GMT release of CC-CEDICT.

Copyright © 2008-2011 Alexander Chow. Dictionary contents are distributed as CC-CEDICT by MDBG under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

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