Luach

There are two possibilities to use the Luach: on- or offline.

The first possibility (recommended in order to test the Luach or use it only online - without vocabulary trainer feature) is to view the Luach without saving it locally to your phone in the Offline Application Cache. This can be done by performing the following steps:

Connect your mobile phone with the Internet In the Internet browser of your mobile phone, go to the address https://tichnut.de/luachon or scan the QR code on the right Suggestion: create a bookmark which can be also possibly placed on the home screen.

The second possibility is to install the Luach to your mobile phone via Offline Application Cache so that you do not need an Internet connection when viewing it - this can be done via the following steps:

Connect your mobile phone with the Internet In the Internet browser of your mobile phone, go to the address https://tichnut.de/luachoff or scan the QR code on the right the Luach is automatically saved to your mobile phone Now you can use this address to access the website even if you are not connected to the Internet anymore Suggestion: create a bookmark which can be also possibly placed on the home screen.

For installing an update, the following steps have to be performed:

1. Connect your mobile phone with the Internet
2. In the Internet browser of your mobile phone, go to the address https://tichnut.de/luachoff
3. Tap in the browser on the icon to reload the page to make sure that the Luach is stored on your mobile phone

Here are instructions for Android devices how to remove the Luach from your mobile phone:

If the Luach symbol was added to the home screen, tap on the Luach symbol a longer time so that a trash bin is visible at the bottom of the home screen and drag the Luach symbol drag it to the trash bin.

In order to remove the bookmark to the Luach, tap in the browser on the Bookmarks icon on the right, tap on the bookmark "Luach" a longer time and tap on "Delete".

In order to delete the visited pages and settings (please note that the history and settings of other visited websites are also deleted), tap in the home screen on "Menu", "Settings", "Applications", "Manage applications", "All", scroll down to the application "Browser", tap on it and then tap on "Clear data". When the dialog "All information you've saved in this application will be deleted permanently", tap on "OK". Then tap in the browser on the Menu key, tap on "More" and "Clear history". When a confirmation dialog appears that you want to clear history, tap on "OK".

Operating the month view

• Displaying the previous month: possible by
  • tapping/selecting arrow pointing to the left in caption (see 1 in screenshot)
  • using the Tab hardware key to select the arrow pointing to the left in caption (see 1 in screenshot) - for mobile phones with hardware keyboard
  • putting finger down on the screen, moving it from left to right and lifting it up (if your mobile browser supports the ontouchstart, ontouchmove and ontouchend events, modern browsers should do it)
  • pressing the left arrow key (if your mobile phone has a hardware keyboard)
• Displaying the next month: possible by
  • tapping/selecting arrow pointing to the right in caption (see 4 in screenshot)
  • using the Tab hardware key to select the arrow pointing to the right in caption (see 4 in screenshot) - for mobile phones with hardware keyboard
  • putting finger down on the screen, moving it from right to left and lifting it up (if your mobile browser supports the ontouchstart, ontouchmove and ontouchend events, modern browsers should do it)
  • pressing the right arrow key (if your mobile phone has a hardware keyboard)
• Displaying a specific year by entering its number: tap on year number in caption (see 3 in screenshot)
• Switching between displaying whole Gregorian or Jewish month: tap on month name in caption (see 2 in screenshot)
• Displaying day information with holidays, Yizkor, omer count, Daf Yomi, Mishna Yomit, Halacha Yomit, Yerushalmi Yomit and Zmanim: tap on clock symbol ; if the clock symbol has a yellow background, in the day info an anniversary, birthday or Yahrzeit is shown.

When being in the anniversaries/birthday/Yahrzeit list, date converter, Bar/Bat Mitzvah calculator, holiday list or Molad list and tapping on the month symbol (see 5 in screenshot), the month is shown which was displayed previously. By tapping the month symbol again, the month of today's date is displayed.

Available calculation methods for Zmanim:

HaNetz HaChama: sunrise

Shkia: sunset

Sha'a Zmanit: 1/12 of daylight = 1 proportional hour