Temporary solution for Pocket PC folks

[mikelove]

Take a look at this:

http://www.styletap.com/

It's a working Palm OS simulator for Pocket PC.

A few minutes of testing suggests that if you can get over the tiny screen and/or ugly-looking scaled Chinese characters, this is actually a pretty good way to run PlecoDict or Oxford E&C on your Pocket PC. Oxford will likely work a little better, because it uses the Palm OS' built-in English fonts to draw English letters (which StyleTap then replaces with correct-resolution fonts for Pocket PC) whereas PlecoDict gets both English and Chinese characters from its own fonts, but both of them seem to basically work.

Now obviously PlecoDict on Pocket PC will be much better looking, faster, better-integrated with the Pocket PC OS, etcetera, but if you're really itching to run our software on Pocket PC it might be worth trying out the demo version of this.

(please note that this is not in any way an endorsement StyleTap or their products; I don't see anything so far to indicate that they're not doing everything legally, but I'm hardly in a position to vouch for a product I only heard about an hour ago)

 

[sfrrr]

The only way to use PlecoDict inside StyleTap is to get a new registration number. The one for the Palm itself doesn't work. I'm reluctant to do this because I will be buying the PPC version when it comes out, and I really don't want to pay three times. Especially since PlecoDict on StyleTap is a temporary solution.

Sandra

 

[mikelove]

I agree, I meant this mainly for people who hadn't bought our software at all yet. And as a developer I'm happy in general that the usernames aren't configurable, otherwise this would be a very easy way for people to pirate our software.