Jisho updated again, and discounted for TUAW readers

JEDict is great and I have also to say that if you are a serious student of Japanese you can't only rely on EDict-clients but should buy a modern electronic dictionary and have a look on sites like http://www.alc.co.jp

JEDict is great and I have also to say that if you are a serious student of Japanese you can't only rely on EDict-clients but should buy a modern electronic dictionary and have a look on sites like http://www.alc.co.jp

No offense, but honestly, I can't fathom why you would pay for this. The built-in dictionary in leopard (one of my favorite new features) I like a great deal more than EDICT-- EDICT always seemed a little rough to me for some reason.

And if I were going to pay for an EDICT reader, I'd buy JEdict (is that it? I may have the name wrong). It's got a dated interface and is bloated, but the kanji search features are great (search by stroke order, radical, etc) and it has many more features, too.

I still say if you're a serious student of Japanese, you're best off saving up for an electronic dictionary, especially one of the new ones that supports handwriting recognition (the seiko ones are great, and the handwriting recognition is amazingly forgiving). I know, I know, they're expensive, but if you get a good one with all you need (a Seiko w/ handwriting recognition for me) and take care of it, it'll last years.

Having said that, it'd be nice to have a good program for my computer when I don't have my electronic dictionary around... but again, there's no reason to pay for this, especially if you have Leopard. Put in some real, unique, killer-app features (i.e. at least have features comparable to JEDict) and then I'd be more than happy to buy a copy.

P.S.: For websites/online translations, I'm personally partial to Reading Tutor:
http://language.tiu.ac.jp/tools_e.html

It works well in Safari, too.

Or you can use this equally useful (and FREE) dictionary online:

http://www.df.lth.se/cgi-bin/j-e/sjis/tty/nihongo-de/dict

I've been using this jisho since high school Japanese (and that was 7 years ago!).

Jisho is nice, but, j-talk.com/nihongo does the exact same thing (with more options) for free. I don't own the site, but I've been using it for a long time and I love it.

it says: "that's pretty. Please give me that."

One of the big features of Leopard is the included (and fairly decent) EJ, JE, and Japanese language dictionaries built-in to the OS (which means they can be accessed with cmd-ctrl-d). Also, other EDICT dictionaries can be had for free. What did this guy do to get so much free publicity from you guys?