Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Technology Tip: Downloading Apps To Your iPhone (+ Brief Introduction of Pleco - The Chinese Dictionary App)

Introducing: Pleco

大家好!So yesterday night I was trying to download an app into my iPhone as per my younger sister's suggestion: Pleco, a Chinese Dictionary app that allows you to approach the Chinese language in various ways (pinyin pronunciation, traditional Chinese dictionary searching technique, google-translate style) and it's FREE! Check out its website here.

(Image borrowed from https://www.pleco.com/pleco2ip.html)

The App-Downloading Issue:

I was having trouble downloading it due to some reason or another (even while connected to a VPN), and I thought: great, how am I supposed to get this app now that I'm stuck in China, where I MUST have this app? 

The solution I figured out (haven't tried it in different contexts, so I'm not sure if it'll work 100% of the time):
  1. Connect to a VPN on the laptop
  2. Download the app into iTunes
  3. Connect your iPhone/iPad to the laptop and transfer/install
Voila!

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