Language Aid 1.1 is out!

April 21st, 2007
Spencer Nielsen Follow snielsen42 on Twitter
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It has been a while (Oct 2006) since the last release of Langauge Aid and it is high time for a revamp. Language Aid 1.1 is actually a fairly big upgrade from the previous version of 1.0.1. This is mainly because the nature of Language Aid is changing from that of being an exclusively Japanese oriented tool to one of a more general nature. The most requested feature for Language Aid by far has been something like… “Can you get Language Aid to support language _______?” To which I have had to previously answer that it does not :(. But with the release of version 1.1 now a lot of text processing functionality has been exported to plugins! This means that anyone with some programming experience can now write a plugin that will interface with any web service or lookup system that they want by using a straightforward SDK. The hope is that people who desire functionality for using Language Aid with other languages or services now have the power in their hands to make it happen. I would also like to foster a community around Language Aid plugins as well as expand the number and variety of plugins that are shipped with Language Aid. All in all, a very exciting release for me. However, there is a lot more good stuff coming in the future so stay tuned.

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