-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 10:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Advanced English dictionary for iPhone
Hello Andrew, Yes, you can use the Advanced English Dictionary & Thesaurus app on the iPad as well as on the iPhone if you use the "switch to full screen mode" button in the bottom right corner to scale the app up to the iPad screen. There is a newer and expanded version of the app just for the iPad that they introduced earlier this year, but you might prefer to use the iPhone version. Everything works on the newer iPad version, which is a little over twice the size (38.9 MB vs. 14.6 MB and 4.9 million words vs. 1.6 million words), but they have substituted images for the identifications of "noun", "adjective", and "verb". I have both apps, since I got the iPhone app and posted about it back in September 2009 with my first iPod Touch, and then checked the iPad version that was more recently released. Although the listed vendors are different for the iPhone and iPad versions (jDictionary Mobile and JDMI Kft.), the support page links go to the jDictionary Mobile web page. Their top level home page is: http://jdictionary-mobile.com/ They also make the World Factbook reference app. As was also mentioned in the previous discussion thread, you might try the free WordWeb app, too. This is universal binary. Both the AED and WordWeb apps use a filtering search, so you can start typing the word you are looking up and flick to find matches in the list below the text box and select it, which is useful if you are unsure of the exact spelling. This is when you use the "Look up" tab in WordWeb. In fact, WordWeb's search will let you do pattern matching, where you insert wild cards like an asterisk to match 0 or more unknown letters, or a question mark to match any letter for crossword puzzles. Switch to the "Search" tab for this function. There is also a row of additional keys for these characters above the top row of the the virtual keyboard, but you'd have to flick left past the definitions; if you move your finger up from the "t" or "y" key you'll hear "star button" to use the asterisk wild card and a bit to the left is the "question mark button". Searches don't run until you double tap the "search" button (in the position of the "return" key on the keyboard), and then results populate the list below the search textbox. WordWeb has more options to use searches on the web, if you don't mind using your data plan, via the "X-Ref" button to access Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Answers.com, or Google. I do wish there were a VoiceOver setting we could use to disable "link" announcements when using dictionary apps. It would improve the user experience and make it possible to use a lot more dictionary apps. With some apps you have to listen to "link" after every word. Here are the App Store links to the AED and WordWeb apps mentioned in this post: * Advanced English Dictionary & Thesaurus ($0.99) by jDictionary Mobile http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/advanced-english-dictionary/id293150206?m t=8 * Advanced English Dictionary & Thesaurus HD ($1.99) by JDMI Kft. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/advanced-english-dictionary/id508965224?m t=8 * WordWeb (free) by WordWeb Software http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordweb-dictionary/id309627313?mt=8 HTH. Cheers, Esther On Aug 3, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Dear Listers, > > I have recently seen here a discussion of the app advanced dictionary for iPhone. Has anyone tried to run it on the iPad? It does not say so in the app store but sometimes iPhone apps run equally successfully on the iPad. > > Thanks for any info. > > Andrew > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
