I released a couple of new apps last night: Ultra JLPT and dessid.
Ultra JLPT
Ultra JLPT is the Japanese language trainer/tester I blogged about writing recently. There are five different apps for sale: one for each level of the JLPT test (1, 2, 3, 4) and then one simply called “Ultra JLPT” which contains vocabulary for all levels.
Ultra JLPT is totally focused on JLPT. For example, if you are studying JLPT4 there is much vocabulary that uses kanji that’s not on the syllabus. Ultra JLPT only displays these words in Hiragana, but of course there is an option to display all kanji characters in JLPT4 words, even if they are not required for the exam.
Logs are recorded and can be used to track progress, vocabulary can be refined by its type (only display kanji words, or only katakana words, or only those two, etc), and tests and be enabled/disabled in any combination, so if you want to focus on kanji reading that’s no problem.
dessid
There have been many occasions where I’ve gone to a friend’s house and they’ve told me they have a wireless network, but they have to go searching for the password and when they do find it, it’s a long string of hex characters. This app discovers the password for many Eircom wireless networks so the password can just be put in your pasteboard and pasted in when the iPhone/iPod touch asks you for the password.
The password is also displayed on the screen so if you have some other device you need to connect, the password can be taken down from the iPhone/iPod touch screen, saving you from having to look up the password on the router.