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It’s already a busy summer here at Olive Tree! This last week we posted more new products, and I thought you might be interested to know what a couple of them were. Also, in case you haven’t noticed, many of the new commentaries that we have been releasing are now supported on Windows Mobile Smartphone and Symbian devices - the study tools available on these platforms are increasing!

Here’s a couple of the new products we’ve recently posted:

C.A. Coates Commentary and Articles
Available for Palm OS, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphone, and Symbian phones!

This collection of C.A. Coates’ ministry contains 37 volumes of his commentary and articles. We made this excellent resource simple and easy to use by adding in the Table of Contents Chooser, which makes navigation to a particular location in these 37 volumes easy and quick.

NET Bible® First Edition, free version
Available with limited notes for Palm OS and Pocket PC.
Available with no notes for Windows Mobile Smartphone and Symbian phones.

The NET Bible® is a modern translation of the Bible based entirely on the original languages. The full version, available for Palm OS and Pocket PC, includes almost 60,000 translator notes from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts, as well as more than 700 references to scholarly works.

How Biblical Languages Work
Available for Palm OS and Pocket PC.

This eBook is an excellent resource for study of Greek and Hebrew. It serves as an engaging introduction to these languages, and makes learning Greek and Hebrew much easier.

I hope you check out these and our other new releases soon - enjoy!

~ K

With the release of a new beta version of our software, we at Olive Tree are always curious to see what kind of user feedback we will have. The latest beta version of the Palm BibleReader was no exception. And with this reader, we were even more expectant, because there are some really neat features that we added this time, as you probably read about in an earlier blog post. Sure enough, the user comments have been coming in, and we wanted to share a couple with you. Here’s what one avid Olive Tree user wrote in to tell us:

Thanks for not leaving out Palm users on all of the wonderful new features that you have just released. The new beta is incredible. The new search options are second-to-none and the secondary toolbar is just AMAZING! I have never seen a company so dedicated to constant improvement of their products. I am so glad that I am a customer of Olivetree. Thank you for being so attentive to the requests of your customers.

Today we also came across an article recently posted on PalmAddicts that gives a good discussion of Bible software for Palm devices, and talks in particular about OliveTree’s BibleReader software, our frequent updates, and some of the new features we’ve just recently added. Here’s a quick look at what this article discusses:

Recently (in about the last 2 years), Olive Tree improved their BibleReader by leaps and bounds! So much so that it is now the most used Bible reading program on my Palm device … I carry 12 different translations of the Bible with me, including a French Bible. It has commentaries, cross reference links, life application notes and a dictionary … Navigation through the Bible and searches are very easy to do. There are a variety of choices for programming your hard keys for certain tasks while using BibleReader. They put a high importance on you being able to customize the program to do whatever you want … The best part about Olive Tree is that their basic reader and a few of the most basic Bibles come absolutely free!

You can read this full article at:
http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/05/bible_software_.html

So if you’re a Palm user, why don’t you download our new beta reader and checkout these new features for yourself!  

~ K

We have added a secondary customizable toolbar to the Palm OS beta BibleReader. You can choose what buttons you want on this toolbar and where this toolbar should be placed. When you don’t want the toolbar visible you can even hide it using the blue arrow button on the top of the toolbar. We have had many requests for a popup highlighting palette so that you would not have to always go to the highlighting preference screen each time you want to change your highlighting color. You can now do this with the secondary toolbar. First, go to the secondary toolbar preferences (Menu->Preferences->Secondary Toolbar). Second, remove the buttons from the secondary toolbar that you do not want. Finally, select the highlight colors from the drop down list that you want and click on Add. Now you can use the secondary toolbar to easily highlight with the colors that you want and you can hide the toolbar when you just want to read text.

We are in the process of testing some new features on our website, and are looking for some outside testing. The basic changes we’ve made:

1. You can customize the website to be “device dependent” so that you can browse olivetree.com just based on your device and the features and products that will work for you.
2. You can now build your own software bundle, and get discounts accordingly. This new discount system is already in place, and the discounts will apply to any purchases you make, once you turn on the testing mode for the site.

If you are interested in helping us test these exciting new changes, go to the link below and read the instructions there to get started. Please send all comments, suggestions, and feedback to beta02@olivetree.com.

http://www.olivetree.com/store/dd_beta.php

Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
~ K

Yes! Our licensing agreement requires that you install each purchased product on only one device, but you can switch which device the product is installed on. For Palm OS, Windows-Mobile Pocket PC, Windows-Mobile Smartphone, and all Symbian platforms, you can just login to your Personal Library, click on the Download link for the product, and select the download that matches the OS for your phone. If you aren’t sure what OS your device is using, just email us at support@olivetree.com and we’ll help you sort it out. BlackBerry downloads will be incorporated into the download page for the products soon, but until then, if you let us know you’re switching to BlackBerry as your PDA platform, we will transfer your license to the BlackBerry files, which will then show up in your Personal Library. Once you’ve purchased a product from Olive Tree, it’s yours - you can access file updates, switch devices, whatever you need.

~ K