Feature Overload Pt. 2

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Next up of the features we released on Tuesday is the custom definitions system. This feature allows you to change any Skritter definition to whatever you want. So while you’re practicing, if you see a …

Feature Overload Pt. 1

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Earlier this evening we launched a big wad of much-awaited features! Skritter now displays character decompositions, allows you to add personalized mnemonics, lets you build lists on the fly, sports a new list editor, and …

Malaysian Chinese vs Mainland Chinese

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This post has a Chinese version below. Feel free to test your Chinese by reading the Chinese version first! When I first came to Shanghai it took me some time to adapt to the usage …

Nick to Visit Shanghai

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In between finishing up all the awesome features in alpha testing now, I’m preparing for a trip to Shanghai at the end of this month. I’ll be there between the 20th and 3rd and I …

Smartphone Operating System Wars: Who will win?

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Many moons ago, when PCs (personal computers) were new (displacing “big iron” mainframes the size of rooms), there were dozens of operating systems competing for dominance. Microsoft’s MS-DOS (and IBM’s PC-DOS) weren’t guaranteed to win, …

New Member of Skritter, Michelle

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Hi, I am Michelle. I am a new member of the Skritter community, and I am currently interning as a marketing assistant. My full name is Michelle Ying Huey, Lai (赖盈慧), but you can just …

Cacairl, A New Member of Skritter

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This post has a Chinese version below. Feel free to test your Chinese by reading the Chinese version first! Hello—nice to meet you! I’m a new member of the Skritter community, and I am currently …

Marketing Skritter

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My job should not exist, at least if you take an economics-inspired, idealized view of the world. In classical economics, lower prices should automatically bring more customers, reducing the field of selling to merely order-taking …

Heisig Keywords Are In

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I’ve just finished adding, for Chinese and Japanese, support for Heisig keywords built into the practice page. This uses the upcoming custom definitions to replace the standard definitions with the Heisig ones for the applicable …