Archive for November, 2009
Bible Software Shootout Presentation
Nov 24th
Olive Tree was proud to perform in SBL’s Bible Software Shootout, a friendly competition that pitted Bible software contenders like Logos, Bible Works, Accordance, and SESB against each other, showcasing each software’s ability to perform detailed original language research.
To see Olive Tree’s presentation from SBL’s Bible Software Shootout, click here to read the presentation (.pdf), especially if you use BibleReader’s Greek and Hebrew tools.
Many thanks to everyone who stopped by the Olive Tree booth at ETS and SBL. Engineers Stephen J (@stephenljohnson) and David T (@dtrotzjr) and original language specialists Drayton B and Steven C (@steventcummings) enjoyed meeting you! Meeting our users makes a big difference for us. You can read David T’s blog post about his ETS experience to learn why.
Thanks also to those of you who signed up for the Olive Tree Newsletter and entered the ETS/SBL prize drawings. We’ll announce the winners of our drawing for a free iPod Touch, preloaded with Olive Tree resources, soon!
“Olive Tree University” is Live on iPhone BibleReader
Nov 19th
New in BibleReader 4 for iPhone, we’ve released a library of instructional videos to teach you about BibleReader’s features. Learning your way around BibleReader has never been easier!
From the main reading screen, touch Menu (bottom right), then touch Olive Tree University in the pop-up menu. You’ll see a list of instructional features that begins with “What’s New in This Version”. It opens a short instructional video that demonstrates all the new additions to the latest BibleReader release for iPhone.
Watch this video to learn about
- new original languages support, including parsing, glosses, and lexical information for Greek and Hebrew texts. Take advantage of our highly advanced search function and learn how to search by morphological code.
- online backup for notes. By syncing notes with your EverNote account, you can keep a backup of notes in your Bible and access it on your device or on your desktop.
- new display and navigation customization to make pop-up reference windows even more useful.
Olive Tree University is new in version 4.10 of BibleReader for iPhone. Version 4.10 has been submitted to Apple, and Apple has approved the upgrade for some BibleReader Apps, but others are still in the approval process. If you haven’t yet been notified that an upgrade is available for your BibleReader App, be patient—you will soon!
Visit Olive Tree at ETS/SBL Conferences This Week
Nov 17th
Are you planning to attend one or both of these meetings? If so, come visit Olive Tree at our display booth:
ETS – Evangelical Theological Society, New Orleans, November 18-20
Olive Tree Booth # 100
SBL – Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, November 21-24
Olive Tree Booth # 808
We’ll be happy to give you a demo of our latest BibleReader release on iPhone, which implements new features especially for original languages. We’ve also released an entire bookshelf’s worth of original language texts, tools, and resources for iPhone, including
- Greek New Testament (NA27) with Mounce’s Morphology and UBS Dictionary,
- LXX (Septuaginta) with Parsing and LEH Lexicon, and
- BHS (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia) with Westminster Morphology and BDB Lexicon.
Engineers Stephen J (@stephenljohnson) and David T (@dtrotzjr) and original language specialists Drayton B and Steven C (@steventcummings) will be happy to show you around these new resources.
And if you’re interested in seeing the best of BibleReader software for Greek and Hebrew study, be sure to watch Olive Tree in SBL’s Bible Software Shootout. Side-by-side with Bible software peers like Logos, Bible Works, Accordance, and SESB, Olive Tree will demonstrate how our software answers real-world research questions, like:
I want to study a part of speech, e.g., demonstrative pronouns or interjections. How do I get all of the lemmas for that part of speech, get all the occurrences of those lemmas, and the results organized in such a way that I could write an article/monograph on that part of speech from the data?
If questions like these spark your interest—because of your academic work or your personal study—watch Olive Tree perform at the Shootout, and see how Olive Tree’s latest tools can help you in your own Greek and Hebrew study:
Bible Software Shootout
Saturday, November 21
4:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Rhythms Ballroom 3-SH, at SBL
We’ll also post this presentation on our website later, so everyone can take advantage of the information presented by Drayton and Stephen J.
Fall News: 3 New Betas and 2 Conferences
Nov 5th
Is everyone’s fall this busy? We’ve barely squeezed in time to Twitter, let alone write blog posts about
- our new beta for Android. Anyone who’s been watching the growing strength of the Android operating system will understand our glee over completing this beta! Right now, it works on Android 1.6. We hope to have beta builds for 1.5 and 2.0 up by Friday. Keep an eye on OliveTree.com/m. When we complete a new build, it’ll be available there.
- our new beta BibleReader for BlackBerry. Check it out for a bunch of new features, including a redesigned library and catalog, and new visual toolbars! Easy to download from OliveTree.com/m, and even easier to use.
- our new beta for Symbian 60-5. This runs on Nokia phones like the N97 and 5800. So, all you Nokia users who’ve been asking us about BibleReader for Symbian, go to OliveTree.com/m and download it! Let us know how it works for you.
- preparing for ETS and SBL annual meetings. If you’re planning to attend either meeting (or if you live in New Orleans and want to stop by), be sure to come visit our table. We love meeting our users, and we’ll have some new original language features and resources to demo for you.
A few words about OliveTree.com/m:
The page is made for mobile browsers (the web browser on your smartphone).
If BibleReader for your platform/device has been updated, you can always come to OliveTree.com/m to download and install the latest version.
All the beta versions mentioned above are available on OliveTree.com/m too, so visit us there if you want to try a beta build for a new device!