• 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.

Within a limited time (that can be configured in the application preferences), you have to write the translation of the word that unveils, each letter at a time, in front of you.

The result is tracked by Keep Your Word, and you can also configure the number of words that will be part of the test in the application preferences.

Today, we will take a look at one of the new exercise modes: Memory.

This is an implementation of the classic “match the pairs” game. The object of the game is to match the two written representations (original word and translation) of a word.

Keep Your Word does not track the results of the game so far, although it modifies each word’s metadata to add a timestamp that reflects the last time that word was used in an exercise mode. Also, right now there is no limit in the number of times a card can be clicked. That will change in a future update, though, and it will be possible to limit both the time to solve the puzzle, as well as the number of clicks.

The number of words can be selected in the application preferences.

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.

I am very excited to start off the new decade with this update. With this major upgrade, you can now memorize you vocabulary using the two new exercise modes, or create relationships between words. Oh, and you can also let Keep Your Word decide which words you need to review more often (spaced repetition, yay!)

Along with the functionality enhancements, Keep Your Word 2.0 also sports a more refined user interface and loads of usability improvements.

Download Keep Your Word 2.0

Keep Your Word 2.0 costs $34,95. A five sites license is available for $69,95. Upgrades from earlier versions of Keep Your Word are $13,98, and free to users who purchased Keep Your Word on or after September 1 2009.

The release notes:

Biggest new features in Keep Your Word 2

• New preference to use spaced repetition algorithms in the study sessions.
• New exercise mode: Time Challenge.
• New exercise mode: Memory.
• Related words. One word can be linked to any other, by custom declared links.

Not so big, but also important

• Updated user interface.
• Improved Written Test.
• Dock icon contextual menu.
• New data model.
• Huge performance improvement. Most of the code has been refactored to make KYW dictionaries as light as possible.

Now, it’s time to give some well deserved love to Keep Your Word, the super-mega-groovy vocabulary and flashcards trainer for Mac and iPhone.

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.