Archive for July, 2007

Olive Tree at ICRS

July 27th, 2007

For five days at the International Christian Retail Show (ICRS)—Sunday, July 8 through Thursday, July 12—attendees were surrounded by a wealth of opportunities for learning, networking, discovery, joy, and prayer. Olive Tree was one of the many companies from around the world represented there. We met with national and international publishers and distrubutors, working to [...]

NIV Study Notes

July 17th, 2007

Having done a number of conversion projects for Olive Tree Bible Software in the past year, perhaps none have been as satisfying as finally being able to offer our users the NIV Study Bible Notes. What I like so much about this resource is its versatility. The casual reader can take advantage of these notes [...]

The oFone and Cross Platform Development

July 13th, 2007

Working with mobile devices is a lot of fun and very challenging. New devices and mobile platforms are springing up all time. For example, see the new ofone from Microsoft. This phone does things most developers would not have thought about when writing applications for mobile devices. (In case you didn’t catch it during this [...]

Reading Electronic Books Made Easier

July 5th, 2007

I have been doing most of my reading electronically on a PDA or smartphone for the past 2 years. When I first started reading books electronically I did not like how much I had to scroll. When reading a paper book you can usually read for a few minutes before turning a page. [...]