Verba for iPhone/iPod Touch
I had hoped to reveal the Verba app for the iPhone/iPod Touch soon. This was a fun project for me. The app itself is actually finished, see for yourself:
I cannot, however, actually place this on the iTunes App Store without paying $99 for an iPhone Developer membership. If I could charge a small fee for the app then I might be able to afford it, but since I cannot charge for the app (due to the license of the dictionary data itself) I cannot afford to pay the whole $100 bucks right now (nor am I sure that it’s really worth it).
So, until I get a way to fund this *wink* or meet someone who could put it on the App Store for me (is that legal?), Verba for iPhone will remain on my desktop waiting to fulfill its destiny.
I’ll donate $10.
That’s kind. Between the two of us that makes us about 20% of the way there. It remains to be seen if anyone else is so interested.
So can you ’splain to me in a little more detail what exactly this does?
Sure. It’s quite simple really: it’s the entire Lewis and Short’s A Latin Dictionary on your iPhone. You search for a word and then read the full dictionary entry. When you think about it, it’s amazing that a volume so large can be compressed to fit in a single iPhone/iPod Touch app.
Do you have a specific question?
Pretty neat, that. Is there any chance that this could also be made into a Mac OS X Dictionary.app module?
That would require a lot of reformatting and time I don’t have right now. I have considered it, but I think the regular app suits most needs for the time being.