I've learned a new word today. putyraceous. I'd forgotten the delight of scrolling through word meanings, finding linked words, looking them up and so on. There's something ineffably retro about having a little doodad with buttons that is a distraction-free thing doing a job all its own. I was transported back to my primary school days there for a minute.
The cardputer now has a working voice recorder, basic text file and MD document reader, unit converter, monotone music composer and of course a dictionary. Combining the free Wordnet and Mobi Thesaurus packages into a unified dictionary app gives me 3,017,562 combined definitions, WordNet synonyms and Moby associations.
Each definition sense (that is volume as loudness versus volume as an amount of something), can optionally display Synonyms, Antonyms, broader or narrower terms, related and derived terms, pertinence and entailment, causes and attributes, and topics, Regions and usage.
That's a heck of a lot of data. You can turn the bits off you don't want, of course.
Flash cards is another one I want to solve, they come up a lot in education, and then I need to consider the more fun bits of life: games. The Language Master's word games were an amazing time sink.
I am literally in awe that something that costs less than a big pizza with extra toppings can do all this stuff.
I left it powered on after work yesterday and when I came back to my desk 15 hours later, the battery was about half. That's idling, but on, with no power saving code. Obviously I can put a sleep mode in there to broaden that, and given there's no current real time clock, using the power switch doesn't lose you anything.
You could seriously take this thing to school and use it for a little bit each day and have to charge it perhaps once a fortnight. So cool.
