Babelingo makes a cameo appearance in an Apple commercial

Apple has been producing some excellent commercials promoting the iPhone since it launched. This latest round is no exception. So you can imagine my surprise when I noticed Babelingo’s icon on the screen of the iPhone used in one of their commercials.

For however brief a second you can see it in the latest iPhone commercial titled ‘Read‘ or the one that featues the sweet book app called Classics (from tap tap tap). The Babelingo icon shows up at the very begining of the commercial as the hand swipes through the second screen of iPhone apps.

Update

Babelingo also makes a brief cameo appearance in the commercials ‘Fix’ and ‘Check’.

Babelingo 1.3.5

This is a maintenance release which contains the following fixes:

• Fixed potential crasher.
• Fixed a couple of memory leaks.
• Updated the copyright statement.
• Fixed an issue with Favorites phrase selector table row not deselecting properly.

Babelingo 1.3.4

Babelingo 1.3.4 is a maintenance release which fixes a bug in the search screen and adds help to the settings section.

• Fixed issue with search results being enabled while still entering a search.
• Added help text to settings.
• Added a title to the General settings section.

Babelingo 1.3.3

Babelingo 1.3.3 is now available on the AppStore. This is a minor update which includes Russian for all phrases. In addition, Romanized Russian may be enabled for those familiar with the language or wanting to learn it.

• Added Russian
• Added phonetics for Romanized Russian

Babelingo 1.3.1

Babelingo 1.3.1 is now available on the AppStore. This is a minor update with some performance improvements and a couple of fixes to typos in a phrase or two. Also, a new ‘Follow Babelingo on Twitter’ link now exists in the Settings section. Following Babelingo on Twitter is a great way to stay in touch with the ongoings of the apps development in addition to current project status. If you haven’t tried out Twitter then head on over and take a look: http://www.twitter.com/babelingo

• Minor performance improvement in phrase search.
• Fixed typos found in a few phrases.
• Added ‘Follow Babelingo on Twitter’ link in settings.

Babelingo 1.3

Babelingo 1.3 has finally been released. This version of Babelingo includes the much requested Portuguese langauge. In addition, phonetics are now available as subtexts for Japanese, Chinese, and Hindi. In order to enable Romaji, Pinyin, or Romanized Hindi, simply select the ‘Phonetics’ row in settings and change the switch for your desired phonetics to ‘On’. Phonetics are disabled by default.

Release Summary:

• Added Portuguese
• Added phonetics for Japanese, Chinese, and Hindi
• Minor bug fixes

Babelingo 1.2.1

Babelingo 1.2.1 has been released on the AppStore. This update includes:

• The ’swap’ languages button now swaps between the source and target language in-place on any screen. It even works with search results!
• Category icons have been added to the category selection list when adding a favorite.
• Minor performance improvements.

Romaji and Pinyin

While Babelingo 1.2 was just released we’re already hard at work on the next release. One of the major features of the next major release (hopefully) will be the addition of phonetics to phrases in Japanese, Chinese, and Hindi. We have been working to create the Romaji and Pinyin versions of phrases but we need some help with reviewing them. If you are familiar with either Romaji or Pinyin and would be willing to review the quality of a few of our conversions please contact Babelingo support via support [at] ibabelingo [dot] com. We would be most grateful!

Babelingo 1.2

Babelingo version 1.2 has just gone live on the AppStore. Apple officially published it yesterday, September 1st, but for some unknown reason it did not appear until today. In any case, version 1.2 adds two new languages: Czech and Hindi. Each with all professionally translated phrases.

One neat feature for Hindi speakers is the ability to search for Hindi phrases by using the English keyboard to enter in Romanized Hindi representing the phonetic spellings of various Hindi  words.

Babelingo 1.1.1 hits the AppStore

Version 1.1.1 just hit the AppStore. This is a minor update with a few fixes and improvements. Version 1.2 is hot on its heels and will include new languages and some enhancements. Stay tuned to the blog for updates…

Release Summary:

• Alpha sort languages on configuration screens.
• Fix issue with the last favorite not rendering correctly.
• Punctuation refinement for some phrases.