What is new in Quiet Read 1.6?

New only in Quiet Read Pro:

1. An option, in the app preferences, to get a proper window and a dock icon instead of the icon in the menu bar.
2. New url shortening service: http://is.gd. trim.it is not supported anymore.
3. Swipe gesture to navigate between the Inbox and the Archive.

New in Quiet Read and Quiet Read Pro:

1. Search your links using Spotlight.
2. Russian localization.

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.

• Send links to Instapaper.
• Send links to Read It Later.
• Shorten links.
• Global shortcut.
• Link list search and filter.

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.

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.

What’s new?:

1. MobileMe sync.
2. Bookmarklet. Drag this link to your browser’s bookmarks bar
3. Opera compatibility.
4. New preference to hide the links count.

bambooapps participates in the promotion, so you can get Keep Your Word with a 20% off, using the “OneFingerDiscount” code in our store.

Quiet Read is available in:

1. German.
2. Italian.
3. Japanese.
4. Korean.
5. Spanish.

Please contact us if you want to translate Quiet Read into your language.

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)