Worth a cup of coffee?
Is Chinese or Japanese Perapera-kun worth a cup of coffee?
My philosophy toward free software is that if I met the person who coded some program that really helped me out or I used alot, sure I would offer to buy him a coffee or a beer for his troubles.
So if this has helped you at to some degree in your studies or your profession (I know more than a few people who use this almost full time in their jobs) I encourage you to donate the cost of a cup of coffee by clicking on the donation link on the left of the screen.
Besides making my efforts feel appreciated, this will greatly motivate me to get the updates I want to do faster and write some other plug-ins and language related software I have been thinking of creating. Thank you.
I’m excited to finally be working on a new version and here is a list of major changes I will be implementing:
- Can save vocabulary words to a sidebar for easy viewing & reviewing
- Choose example sentences to be saved with your word
- Saved words can be highlighted when you view other websites
- Redesigned settings dialog thats easier to use
- Easier way to save words, no more CTRL key confict!
- Possible integration with a Chinese/Japanese study site
- Better looking pop-up box
- A sounds option to pronounce those tones on the words
Would you also consider expanding the pop-up window to include the traditional/simplified version of the Chinese character? Perhaps not in the immediate pop-up window (too much clutter), but when you press ’shift’ to get more information. That would be SO helpful, and such a great learning tool for those people who haven’t learned both systems. I’ve found I use peraperakun most often to help me get through simplified websites, and I bet there are others in the same or exact opposite boat (trying to read traditional).
Peraperakun is amazing… thank you so much for developing it! And I’m glad you’re back!
[...] in Firefox 3. If you’re running the current beta of FF3, check it out. There are also some new features in the pipeline for perakun that sound pretty cool. Justin’s put up a donation button, so if you’ve found perakun [...]
Do you contribute any “coffee” to David Lancashire? His Adsotrans database powers Perakun, and he made adso freely available so that people, including you can build on it to make plugins such as this.