karatasi - flip cards on iPhone Files

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# This file is part of the karatasi project.
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# Copyright 2009, 2010, 2011 Christa Runge, Mathias Kussinger, Christian Hujer
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# karatasi is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
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# karatasi is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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This is 'karatasi-java'.
karatasi is a flip-card based training program.

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########## karatasi components
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At the moment we provide the following karatasi components:

- karatasi-iphone: an iPhone application.
  * can be used as stand-alone application for flip-card based learning
  * uses the SuperMemo SM-2 learning algorithm with spaced repetition intervals

- karatasi-java: a basic Java desktop application.
  * backup and restore of the databases from the iPhone
  * import of SuperMemo databases for Palm
  * import of csv-encoded files

- karatasi-tools: Perl scripts.
  * import of SuperMemo databases for Palm
  * import of csv-encoded files
This component is out of maintenance. It has been replaced by karatasi-java.

- karatasi-httpd: cgi scripts for an Apache web server.
  * backup and restore of the databases from the iPhone
This component is out of maintenance. It has been replaced by karatasi-java.

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########## Links
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Good sources for further information are:

- the karatasi web page: http://karatasi.org

- our project page at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/karatasi

- our user manuals 
  http://karatasi.sourceforge.net/manual/en/index.html (English)
  http://karatasi.sourceforge.net/manual/de/index.html (German)

- SuperMemo
  http://www.supermemo.com/

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########## Requirements 
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*** karatasi-java

- JRE 1.5 or higher

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########## Run it (command line)
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java -jar karatasi.jar

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########## Release notes for version 0.4.0 beta
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released 14 Jun 2011
new features and enhancements:
* automated check for new versions (#2874381)