Chinese Handwriting Recognition

TGIF !!! It's time for my weekly blog. Let me tell you...blogging is a great way to relieve your stress away from work and focus on something different. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed writing.

Last night, while waiting for my wife to come back from work (she's been working till 11+ for the past few nights..sigh), I was browsing AppleiPhoneSchool on my iphone, i read up a recommendation on a handwriting app. This web site is a great place to visit regularly, it really goes through the many apps that were release on installer and recommends them.

This app is call : HWPen and is available from the iphone Cake source.
The source address : http://iphonecake.com/src/all

Once you install it from the installer, you will activate it from anytime you need to enter info through the keyboard. This is great for those of you who prefers to write in Chinese rather than PinYin. You use your fingers to scribble on the screen. The word recognition is really good and I reckon it is at least 95% correct most of the time in trying to decipher what I am writing.

This is one of the better apps I have seen and it is still in Beta. One work to describe it : Outstanding !!!

New Tools, Games, Utilities from Installer

Saw a couple of new things in the installer that could interest you :

Snapture is somewhat like CameraPro but I feel that it is much better. It has zoom features, black and White photo feature, burst mode, timer etc. It also allows you to snap using the voulume control or tap anywhere on the screen. Snapture is available through the BigBoss source. and....this is FREE.

Sudoku : For those of you who likes this, you can get this from the Weiphone source. Great app, but you need to be able to read Chinese as the menu items are in Chinese.

Pocket Guitar is also finally able to run on firmware 1.1.4

300 MB Limit on iPhone

Have you ever wondered why sometimes you get the message that you are running out of space even though you still have loads on your 16 GB or 8GB? Or sometimes, after installing an application, the icon isn't there or it doesn't work properly....most of this is due to the fact that one of your partitions on your iPhone is either nearly full or full.

The iPhone has two disk partitions. The smaller one is 300MB and is used for OS contents. The larger one is for media and others. Whenever you install applications, it is actually installing on the 300 MB OS partitions. Very soon....it gets filled up.

You either have to uninstall unused applications or you can move them to the bigger partitions. If you are good at UNIX, you can terminal into your iPhone and put some commands to do this. However, someone out there already has written a great tool to do just this.

BOSS TOOLS allows you to move ringtones, fonts and applications to the larger partitions.
It also allows you to see how much space you have left now. You can get this from the installer.

Here is also the tutorial link from the iClarified site I mentioned in the previous post :

How to Free Space on Your iPhone Root File System

P/S : Do it with care. test out with fonts and ringtones first before applications. If you have enough space, don't move the applications.