Contest 3: Japanese


NS Basic for Palm is a veyr popular product in Japan. It is one of the few development tools with a Japanese edition. The users in that country are themselves responsible for much of this: it is their help and encouragement that helped us to add the specialized features needed for their country.

The applications shown here show the effort was very worthwhile. The programs have great use of graphics and color, as well as very good use of screen real estate. There are a number that should be available in other languges!

The winner is listed first. Other entries are listed in alphabetical order.

Rokuyou by Gentatu
This is a calendar that displays Lunar Date information. For each day you can put an icon and a short memo which can be exported to ToDo. It supports Jogdial.

Judge's Comments: It's easy to use, and exporting to ToDo is nicely done.
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Other Entries



AngelDate by Masaki Ozaki
AngelDate is a Weekly Viewer of DateBook, and an Icon-Calender.

Judge's Comments: The weekly viewer is a nice idea.
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AngelMoney by Masaki Ozaki
This is a program to manage an allowance by entering incomes and expenses. It easily exports its data to Excel on desktop.

Judge's Comments: With this program it is fun to spend money!
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BirthDay by Toshiro Takeuchi
This program manages people's birthdays and displays their ages.

Judge's Comments: You'll never forget your parents' ages with this program.
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EzKakeibo by Takashi Yamaguchi
This is a housekeeping book that easily keeps household accounts.

Judge's Comments: The user interface is very intuitive and easy to use.
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Hanaawase by Yoshihiro Tanigawa
This is a game, Concentrate, using Japanese traditional card, Hanafuda. In this game a player (You) plays against the computer (Com).

Judge's Comments: The graphics are good.
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HannyaShingyo by Kazuhide Yasuda
This program displays hannya-shingyo (a sutra).

Judge's Comments: The display method is good - easy to follow.
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KuJi by Kazuhide Yasuda
According to an old legend, these nine words (Ku-Ji) have a POWER. It can destroy something evil.

Judge's Comments: It looks cool!
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Liliwatch by Megumi Takeshita
This program displays the current time and date with cute characters.

Judge's Comments: It's cute!
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LinkMe by Gentatu
This is an application alternative to Memopad. It is capable linking memos, managing them with unique categories, reading from/writing to Memopad, and searching data. It supports Jogdial.

Judge's Comments: It's an interesting approach.
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Longhand by Shiro Sugimitsu
This program is to help memorize things such as spellings, phrases, idioms, historical events, etc. by repeatedly writing answers to questions on screen.

Judge's Comments: It is a nice use of the signature capture.
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PhotoDB by Ariju
This is a database program to record information about photographs that you take. For each picture you can record date, which camera, lens and film used, settings, etc.

Judge's Comments: It is well implemented and very professional.
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TravelCalc by Toshiro Takeuchi
It is a money exchange program that converts Japanese Yen to and from foreign currencies.

Judge's Comments: It's a handy application.
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TravelDictionary by Toshiro Takeuchi
It is a dictionary program for travelers. It translates sentences and displays them. The dictionary is editable.

Judge's Comments: The user interface is good and well organized.
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Tsubo by Toshiro Takeuchi
This program displays "tsubo" (points for Shiatsu finger pressure therapy). It introduces another way to use the stylus.

Judge's Comments: It is unique and an interesting application.
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