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My first iPhone App “Translator - in your hands” and “Translator Lite - in your hands” have been released on App Store. They are very simple applications. You’re able to translate lots of languages from your native language with these apps.

“Translator Lite” is free, and helps you to translate quickly. It supports Google Translation Service and Microsoft(Bing) Translation Service, and you can select them as you wish. If you are foreign language learner, it must help you. Please try it.

“Translator” is paid application. It has bookmark, Twitter and mail supports. You can bookmark the result of translation if you think the result is good. Twitter support makes you to tweet the result directly. It’s very easy operation. If you have many chances to mail with foreigners, it must be great time saver for you.

The back-end of these iPhone apps use Google App Engine with Python. Google App Engine is one of the best platform as a service in my opinion. It’s easy to control the scalability of apps even though it’s difficult to move apps on it into other platforms like LAMP. I need to learn it more.

A happy new year 2010!!!
This blog began last year and I’ve posted some entries into it. It’s not tough for me to write blog in English but it’s really tough to think my opinion in English. When I write blog, I think what to write in Japanese at first and then write it in English with translating from Japanese to English in my brain so far. It takes longer time than blogging in Japanese.
I’m going to change this situation. I’ll complete ‘just thinking in English and writing in English’. I’ll write my blog a few entries a month this year. More entries I write in my blog, more experience I have.
And I got a new communication tool, Twitter last year. I’ve tweeted over 2,500 tweets and gotton over 300 followers for a year. Thanks to my followers for supporting me. So my output tool in English is both Twitter and blog.
I won’t be afraid my mistakes and will publish my opinion aggressively this year.

I’ve decided to keep this blog to improve my English. Blog is one of the great way ways to learn English. If you check my terrible English, I’m very pleased. If you can proofread my terrible English and help me improve it, I’ll very pleased and thankful.