Archive for June, 2009
BibleReader and iPhone 3.0
Jun 16th
Many iPhone users have already heard that Apple plans to release the iPhone OS 3.0 software update tomorrow, June 17. And those who haven’t will learn about it when they connect their iPhone to their computer tomorrow, and iTunes pops up the window that asks “A new version is available . . . would you like to download it now?”
Many Olive Tree customers will be able to use BibleReader on iPhone OS 3.0 without any problems, but depending on which BibleReader features you use regularly, you may encounter some technical difficulties. We’ve discovered two BibleReader bugs that users may experience in iPhone OS 3.0:
Split screen. If you activate the split screen function, BibleReader may begin to run extremely slowly.
How to avoid this bug:
- Don’t slide the split screen slider up. Read using full screen only.
- Turn split screen off, using the following commands: Information > Settings > Split Window Settings > Split Window Slider Position > Turn off the split screen slider.
Table of Contents. If you try to go to a new chapter or section using the “Table of Contents” menu, BibleReader may crash.
How to avoid this bug:
- Navigate using the Verse Chooser.
- Navigate manually by scrolling down or up.
We have already submitted an updated version of BibleReader to Apple, but as of today, Apple has not yet approved it for sale. Look for the corrected version, BibleReader 4.07 (or 4.08 Amplified Bible for BibleReader), which fixes both bugs above. As soon as Apple approves it, you can download it to resume a fully-functional Bible reading experience.
New Features for Olive Tree Books
Jun 11th
Two exciting resources are now available at Olive Tree: John Piper’s Sermons (1200+ of them!) and the New Living Translation Study Bible. Having had the pleasure of working these from start to finish, I just wanted to share the best parts with all of you. Beyond the content and quality inherent in each product, we’ve done some different things in the creation of the electronic form that we simply must highlight.
The NLT Study Bible has several firsts for Olive Tree.
a. First Bible with a Table of Contents! The entries follow the outline in the paper book, complete with book-sections and story headings.
b. First Study Bible with links to its Study Notes! This is due to the fact we’ve always used the standard Bible bundled with the notes.
c. First link with an icon! The icon doesn’t distract the eye from reading, while still enabling easy navigation to the notes.
d. First resource with a Verse Chooser, Table of Contents, and a Dictionary.
The traditional Table of Contents has items in the order they appear in the book. We’re now able to build a Table of Contents that can also function much like an index.
a. For John Piper’s Sermons, we wanted to allow you to browse the sermons by date, by title, etc. In the past, we could have sorted the sermons in any order and then created the table of contents, but that would leave the other browsing methods jumbled. We enhanced our format to allow the table of contents to point to anywhere in the text.
b. For the NLT Study Bible, we wanted to give you an easy way to access the maps, charts, in-text articles, etc. Like the sermons, they are out of order, but the table of contents still works.
—Adam H., book formatter