Welcome to "Ringo no Sono"
This web site is aiming to introduce softwares for Mac and iPhone, written by web master. You can download softwares freely from this site. Your kind comments would be welcomed. And softwares published in "KCTRANS Web Site" are still available here.
yubiDia for iPhone
"yubiDia" is an iPhone version of CoreDia & CocoDia. The application software is available in App Store. "yubiDia" is a useful application software for railfans. It shows service planning diagram for a certain section of railroad, with inputting data from timetables by users. A brief explanation for the app is here. You can get usage of the app here.
Improved stability on iOS5 as bugs are fixed.
CocoDia for Snow Leopard
Data editor and viewer application software for railroad operation diagram running on MacOS X. It consists of data editor "CoreDia", diagram viewer "CocoDia" and timetable viewer "CocoTable". Users input and edit data from published timetables or other materials on "CoreDia". "CocoDia" and "CocoTable" is responsible for showing data as diagram style or timetable style each. The file created on "WinDIA" and "OuDia" can be readable by "CoreDia", "CocoDia", and "CocoTable". Usage of software is here. You can also check update history.
The default file format for "CoreDia" is SQLite(extension is "sqlite"), and it is compatible with one for "yubiDia" running on iPhone. Users can transfer data created on MacOS X machine to iPhone via "Google Docs", and vise versa. You can see details here.
CocoDia for Leopard
"CocoDia" for MacOS X Leopard. The last version for PPC machine.
CocoDia for Tiger
"CocoDia" for MacOS X Tiger. All functions are included in one application software.
Pinxie & XiaoPinxie
Pinxie
The software "Pinxie" ( pronouced PIN-SH-YE, for Macintosh only ) adds phonetic symbols to each Kanji( Hanzi ) characters in the text file. Symbol to be added is Pinyin or Zhuyin( known as Bopomofo ) to GB encoded text, and Pinyin or Katakana to S-JIS encoded text. A detailed explanetion for "Kctrans" is here (sorry Japanese only.)
Xiao Pinxie
The software "XiaoPinxie" is a simplified version of "Pinxie". It transliterate word to word style, while "pinxie" text to text.
Kctrans & Gaijconv
Kctrans
"KCTRANS" translates GB encoded text which is used in Mainland China, or BIG-5 encoded text which is popular in Taiwan and Hongkong to S-JIS encoded text which is common in Japan. And vice versa. A detailed explanetion for "Kctrans" is here (sorry Japanese only.)
Gaijconv
"GAIJCONV" converts codes which "KCTRANS" leave untranslated, to Synthetic Kanji Character ( SKC ) expression in S-JIS.
