The Mental Case Mac OS
The Mental Case Mac OS
You can now take your flashcards with you to study on your iPhone or iPod touch. Mental Case for iPhone, which is available via the iTunes App Store, can sync with Mental Case on your Mac, and even allows you to download flashcards from FlashcardExchange.com, the largest online repository of flashcards in the World (16 million cards).
Mental Case Lite
Mental Case Lite is a free iPhone app that is designed to be used in combination with Mental Case for Mac OS X. You create and organize flashcards on your Mac, and sync them via a wireless network to your iPhone or iPod touch to study on-the-go.
Mental Case Lite has the following features:
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- Sync flashcards from a Mac with Mental Case installed via a wireless network
- Syncs your study progress back to Mental Case on your Mac
- Flashcards can contain text and/or images
- Browse your flashcards in a list view
- Study flashcards in full-screen slideshows, in portrait or landscape orientation
- Navigate slideshows by flicking your finger, or touching the sides of the screen
- Correct notes as you study (ie mark them right or wrong)
- Double tap large images in slideshows to zoom and scroll them
- Browse and search the World’s largest online collection of flashcards, Flashcard Exchange.
- View flashcards on Flashcard Exchange in a built-in web browser
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The paid edition of Mental Case costs $7.99, and includes all of the features of the lite version, plus the following:
- Download flashcards directly from Flashcard Exchange for free (usually requires $20 subscription)
- Create new flashcards and card sets on your iPhone
- Take photos to include in flashcards
- Edit or delete flashcards
- Sync all changes, including downloaded flashcards, back to Mental Case on your Mac
Flashcard Exchange
Support for Flashcard Exchange, the World’s largest online repository of flash cards (16 million flashcards), is included in both editions of Mental Case for iPhone. The Lite version only allows browsing, and viewing in a web browser, whereas the full version allows you to download cards to your iPhone, and even sync them back to your Mac.
A $20 subscription is normally required to download from Flashcard Exchange, but when you purchase Mental Case, you can download flashcards immediately even without an account. If you want to add your own flashcards on the Flashcard Exchange site, or use the Favorites functionality, you only need to sign up for a free account at flashcardexchange.com.
Syncing
Mental Case for iPhone can sync with Mental Case for Mac OS X across a wifi network. The iPhone and Mac must be on the same wifi network, and there must not be any router or server between them.
If you cannot get your Mac and iPhone to sync when they are connected to your standard wifi network, it could be because there is a router or server between them. If this is the case, you could try creating a ‘computer-to-computer network’ on your Mac, and connect to that with your iPhone. The best way to learn how to do this is to search for ‘creating a computer-to-computer network’ in your Mac’s help pages.
Windows Users
With Flashcard Exchange integration, even Windows and Linux users can take advantage of Mental Case on the iPhone. Just create your flashcards on the Flashcard Exchange web site in a standard web browser, and then download them to Mental Case.
At this stage you cannot upload flashcards from your iPhone, so if you want to keep your cards, you should create them on the Flashcard Exchange web site, rather than on the iPhone.
Also, the ‘lesson’ functionality is only available to Mac users, because it requires functionality only found in Mental Case for Mac OS X. However, you can still use Mental Case as a standard flashcard application, and study your cards in slideshows; the only thing you miss is the lesson scheduling functionality.
When you run Terminal in OS X 10.3 or 10.4, you’re working with something called the bash shell (in 10.2 and earlier, Terminal used the tcsh shell ). Both bash and tcsh feature something called tab completion—start typing a command or directory path, press Tab, and the shell will do its best to complete things for you. For instance, if I want to change to the system-level directory that holds the default Apache webserver pages, I could simply type cd /Li[Tab]/We[Tab]/Do[Tab]
. Each time I hit Tab, the shell will complete the remainder of the word that I’ve typed, assuming it can find a match. In this example, the command line would read cd /Library/WebServer/Documents
after my three presses of the Tab key.
The one annoyance about this feature is that it is, by default, case sensitive. So I have to type the case of the letters as shown above, otherwise no matches will be found when I press the Tab key. Most typists, myself included, find that having to capitalize letters slows down one’s typing speed, and adds wear and tear (“excess finger presses”) to one’s hands. Thankfully, it’s easy to change the shell’s behavior to ignore capitalization.
If you’re running 10.3 or 10.4, just execute this command in Terminal:
This command is actually creating (or adding to) a file in your user’s home directory named .inputrc
. The double greater-than signs route the output of the echo command into that file (by using two greater than signs, the new line will be appended to an existing file; if only one greater than sign were used, the entire file would be overwritten). And exactly what is the echo
command echoing? It’s the command to set a bash variable to ignore letter case when calculating auto-completion.
After running the above command, open a new Terminal window and try typing cd /li[Tab]/we[Tab]/do[Tab]
. Each time you press Tab, you’ll see that the lower case letters are replaced by their upper case versions, based on where the shell finds a match (i.e. /li
becomes /Li
, etc.).
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If you’re running 10.2 or earlier (or using the tcsh shell in 10.3 or 10.4), then you’ll need this command:
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The end result in either bash or tcsh is the same: capitalization is no longer required for auto-completion. Let your fingers fly at full speed, without the need to slow down for the occasional capital letter! If you ever wish to undo this change, it’s fairly simple. In bash, repeat the above command, but change On
to Off
. In tcsh, remove the = enhance
bit of the command, leaving just set complete
. Open a new Terminal window in either shell after running the revised commands, and you should find that case once again matters for auto-completion.
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