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The next update to Keep Your Word, our vocabulary and flashcards trainer is almost done.

These are some of the new features:

A new exercise mode

Keep Your Word will (kindly) ask you to write the translation of a given collection of words, evaluating and tracking your performance.

A new way to review your words

The Words Carousel is a panel that can be placed on top of any other window, and that lets you review your words while working on any other task.

More layout options

A new column in the words list shows the “score” a measure of how well you know a word. Also, you can show or hide the words count in the source list.

There are some bugfixes, some usability improvements, a new help file, and some more other features that we hope you will enjoy.

Oh, and if you want to take an early look at this new release, please let us know.

Another nice review of Keep Your Word, this time by the folks behind iLoveMacApps, a blog dedicated to review Mac OS X applications, and definitely a good read.

The veredict? They like it, although they point out one the application’s weakest points: the need to bring more content to wordsparade.com (we are working on it, by the way)

Vous et Votre Mac, a magazine now in press stands in France, Belgium and Switzerland, publishes a comparison between Keep Your Word, our vocabulary and flashcards trainer, and Mental Case.

Although I think that comparing these two application is a little bit unfair for both of them, as the core functionality and workflow are not exactly the same, it is good to see how KYW gains some apreciation.

¿The verdict? Keep Your Word gets four stars.

Here comes another update to Keep Your Word, the Mac OS X and iPhone vocabulary and flashcards application.

The release notes are here, but long story short, the main new features are:

• New exercise: Printable bingo.
• Multiline flashcards.
• More Smart Groups criteria.
• A few graphs.
• The mandatory bugfixes.

This is a free update. Grab it!

This time, at Mac App Reviews. And it seems that they do not like it too much. Ouch!

Although I do not agree with some of their comments, they also rise some valid points.

Check it out!

FNDMobile, the black and white development database and clock for the iPhone, has been updated.

This is going to be the last “english-only” version. A Spanish localization has been uploaded to the AppStore and is waiting for approval, and we are working on the German localization as well.

If you want to see FNDMobile in your language, please let us know!.

This is a maintenance update, that fixes some bugs mostly related to tag management and to tag-based smart groups as well as to the iPhone sync.

The release notes are here.

Keep Your Word, the vocabulary and flash cards cataloger and trainer for Mac and iPhone has just been updated.

The main new features are:

• Audio support.
• Support for declensions.
• New integrated word inspector.
• New document layout configuration sheet.
• More flashcards options

Anyway, these are the release notes.

Now, it’s time to start thinking about KYW 1.5.1

Keep Your Word 1.5 is almost done, but before releasing it, we are looking for a small team of testers to stress the app for a few days.

If you are interested, all you need to do is contact us and spend some quality time with Keep Your Word 1.5

There are still a few things to be implemented, and too much testing to be done, but Keep Your Word 1.5 is almost done.

These are some of the new features.

Integrated word inspector.

The word inspector is now part of the main interface, and is divided into three different tabs. One of them is dedicated to “media”, and as you can see in the screenshot, it includes audio: two different sound files can be assigned to every word.

The main reason behind dividing the word inspector intro three tabs, is the new support for declesions, meaning: “cards can have multiple sides”.

By the way, the audio files asigned to a word can be played when browsing the flashcards.

And, also, cards can be marked as “I knew it”, or “I had no idea” (I am still looking for a good name for this feature)

These are some of the most important new features, but not the only ones, coming to the next version of Keep Your Word.

If you want to give them a try before the official release, drop us a line.