• Three Sections:
  • English words - Click for Screen Shot
  • Thai words written with an English-Like phonetic alphabet - Click for Screen Shot
  • Thai words written with the Thai alphabet - Click for Screen Shot
• Lightning-fast searches: Just enter a few letters to jump right to your word!
• Four crisp fonts designed to be readable to Thai learners, including a large font that lets you leave your reading glasses in your pocket!
• Convenient, optional on-screen keyboard for English, Phonetic, and Thai.
• Complete Solution: No need to buy extra "Thai Enabler" software. Thai built-in!
• Runs on any Palm OS® PDA with Palm OS® 3.5 or later, including:
  • Sony Clié series
  • Palm IIIc, Vx, VIIx, m-series, Tungsten, Zire
  • Handspring Visor, Treo
  and many other Palm Powered devices. For an easy way to tell if your Palm OS® PDA will work, see See Requirements below.
• Super-crisp enhanced text on Palm OS® 5 and Sony High Density devices.

You can hide the on-screen keyboard to display more text on the screen, and you can choose from four crisp font sizes (two on standard-density devices). Click here to see how the fonts look on an actual device: it's even better than the picture above!

Use your page up/page down key or jog dial to browse the dictionary. When you re-start the dictionary, it remembers the section and place where you left off.

Click on one of the font samples below to see it on an actual device:

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On standard-density (160x160) Palm OS® devices you can choose from two fonts, which are the size of the larger two fonts above: you get the font sizes where you have either 6 or 8 lines on the screen, including the "Find:" line. Standard-density devices don't have fine enough pixels to draw the smaller fonts.

The Problem

The Solution: Search-by-Sound™

Not only is every Thai word in our dictionary written with both the Thai alphabet and this Thai transliteration system, but there's even a whole extra section of the dictionary sorted by the transliterated Thai words.

For example, if you hear someone say "sanuk," you just flip to the "Phonetic-Thai-Eng" section of the dictionary and enter "s-a-n-u-k":

The dictionary provides you with the exact pronunciation, the word written using the Thai alphabet, and a definition.

Conquer Those Terrible Tones

Search-by-Sound™ makes this much easier by allowing you to search for a word without needing to know its tones. You can then look at all the possibilities and choose the correct meaning from context.

Throughout our dictionary, Thai words are always shown in both the Thai alphabet and Thai phonetic transliteration. So, if you look up an English word, you can rely on the transliteration to help you pronounce the word correctly and be understood.

In particular, there are no hidden costs or prerequisites. There is no need for you to purchase and install any separate "Thai Enabler" software. Our dictionary is not a "Hack"--it is a real Palm OS® application. So you only need to install (HotSync) one file and there is absolutely no configuration or need to tinker around with "HackMaster," "X-Master" or other frightful hobbyist's wares.

One low price gets you a complete package, including four crisp Thai fonts designed to be readable to non-native learners of the Thai language.

Paiboon Publishing is the world's leading producer of South-East Asian language learning materials, including the famous Thai for Beginners and the infamous Thai for Lovers. There's even an audio companion to the learning books, a guide to pronunciation, and a multi-volume series on how to Speak Like a Thai.

Our Palm OS® dictionary is the perfect companion to these materials because it uses the same transliteration system as all other Paiboon Products. All Thai words are written in both the Thai alphabet and an easy-to-use, English-like phonetic transliteration system. For more detail on the transliteration system, see Search-by-Sound™.

For more info on Paiboon Publishing products, see www.paiboonpublishing.com.

• Sony Clié series
• Palm IIIc, Vx, VIIx, m-series, Tungsten, Zire
• Handspring Visor, Treo series

Our dictionary will work on both color and black-and white PDAs. It will work on PDAs with standard-density (160x160) displays and PDAs with the newer, crisper high-density displays (both the Palm OS® 5 high-density devices and the older Sony Clié high-density devices). If you have a double-density (320x320) display on your PDA, then the dictionary automatically gives you the choice of two extra font sizes, and nomatter what size you choose, the text is extra-crisp and easy to read.

Our dictionary runs on Palm OS® devices with a "soft graffiti" area (also known as a "virtual silkscreen" for Sony units or a "dynamic input area" for other devices) just as it runs on devices with a traditional graffiti area: the application runs in the standard square area of your PDA's screen.

To determine if our dictionary will work on your Palm OS® PDA, start in the Application Launcher and tap in the upper-left corner (where the current time is shown) to call up the menu. Choose the option called "Info...":

An "Info" dialog box will pop up. Tap the button labeled "Version." The Palm OS® version of your PDA appears at the top of the screen:

If you've got 3.5 or higher, you can use our dictionary!

To install the dictionary on your PDA in the first place, you may also need to connect your PDA to a Windows PC or Macintosh computer with the Palm Desktop software. For details, see installation below.

• Beam It: If someone you know has the dictionary on their PDA already (either because they purchased it or they are currently evaluating it), ask them to beam it to you! You can find instructions here. This is perfectly legal and we encourage people to beam our dictionary to as many others as possible. When the dictionary is beamed onto your PDA, it will start on your PDA in 150-word evaluation mode. You can then purchase a license from this website and unlock the full 21,000 words. You don't even have to connect your PDA to your desktop computer!

• Download and HotSync It: If you know how to connect your Palm OS® PDA to your desktop (Windows PC or Macintosh) computer, then you can download the dictionary from our web site to your computer and then HotSync it to your PDA. To HotSync the dictionary, you use the standard Palm Desktop software (the same software you use to synchronize your appointments, calendar, contacts, etc. and perform a back-up of your PDA to your computer). It's surprisingly easy (just a few mouse clicks). In our evaluation page and registration page, we walk you through the whole process visually.

• HotSync it off the CD-ROM: You can also order the dictionary on CD-ROM, along with a printed manual, by mail. You insert the CD-ROM into your desktop (Windows PC or Macintosh) computer and HotSync the dictionary to your PDA as above. The CD-ROM is convenient if the computer that connects to your PDA is not on the internet, or if you want a physical back-up copy of the dictionary.