Quiet Read 1.6 is out.
What is new in Quiet Read 1.6?
It’s 6 am in Hong Kong, and I’ve already suffered another episode of my endless frustration with Subversion, and published Quiet Read 1.4.3
This update does not bring many exciting new features (unless you are a Quiet Read Pro user and are very excited by the new “Send to delicious”), but fixes some annoying bugs, and makes the app more solid and reliable.
To update Quiet Read, open the app’s preferences, go to the “General” panel, and click the “Check for updates now” button.
I am proud to announce an update to Quiet Read, that introduces a set of features that is only available after purchasing a license. These features are:
And that’s what I am calling Quiet Read Pro. Quiet Read is still completely free, but Quiet Read Pro is $9.95, and you can purchase a license at our online store.
Quiet Read needs Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), and is available in Traditional Chinese, Polish, Helenic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.
One of the new features in Keep Your Word 2 (our vocabulary and flashcards trainer for Mac and iPhone) is the implementation of a spaced repetition algorithm to select the words that will be part of a study session.
Until now, when you clicked the “Flash Cards” button, Keep Your Word randomly selected a given amount of words (configurable in the app’s preferences).
You can still do that, but now you can also activate another way of selecting words, based on a spaced repetition algorithm. According to Wikipedia, Spaced repetition is a learning technique that incorporates increasing intervals of time between subsequent review of previously learned material; this exploits the psychological spacing effect.
The actual algorithm implemented in Keep Your Word is the Leitner System. Basically, we separate the cards in five different groups, according to how well we think you know them. These five groups are mapped to the “progress” slider.
That way, you can fine tune the algorithm, and move up or down any word no matter the result of our calculations.
Obviously, you have to help us while you are studying. When you review the flashcards, you can mark a word as “known” or as “not known”. When reviewing any of the other exercise modes, we mark the words are known/unknown automatically.
Quiet Read 1.2 is available.
If getting great software makes you hungry, take advantage of the following promotion: lots of great Mac software, with a 20% discount, using the coupon code “OneFingerDiscount”.
bambooapps participates in the promotion, so you can get Keep Your Word with a 20% off, using the “OneFingerDiscount” code in our store.
It’s friday, so it is the perfect moment to release another update to Quiet Read. The new release is localized into French, and works better with Opera.
Quiet Read 1.1 is available. The release notes are very short:
Please contact us if you want to translate Quiet Read into your language.
“Quiet Read” is my new freeware application that lets you save any link for later. Here is the download link.
Sometimes, when I am browsing the web, I want to store a link for later. There are note taking applications and everything-buckets to do that, but I wanted something light and simple. Simple as dragging a link onto a menu bar item to store it.
Here is what you’ll get once you launch Quiet Read:
To review your link, click the menu bar icon:
And to quit, right click for the menu:
If you want Quiet Read to launch at boot up, go to System Preferences, Accounts, then Login Items and add it to the list.
Quiet Read is completely free. It needs Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)
Although, this one, in one of the Macworld Spain blogs, is in Spanish.
