Archive for the 'What's New?' Category
Watch Olive Tree on YouTube, learn BibleReader’s newest features
December 8th, 2009We’d like to welcome you to Olive Tree’s YouTube Channel, the home for BibleReader demo videos.
Have you ever wished someone could sit down and walk you through how to use BibleReader’s more advanced features, like morphological searches? Our demo videos are designed to do just that. These demonstrations are created by our engineers and book [...]
iPhone BibleReader In-App Purchases and Price Change
October 2nd, 2009We are adding In-Application purchases to iPhone BibleReader. This will let you purchase books directly from within BibleReader using your iTunes account. In-Application Purchases will make the process of purchasing books much easier. Apple requires that all applications with In-Application Purchase be for sale. To meet this requirement we are going [...]
A Different Kind of Summer Vacation
July 21st, 2009Instead of a vacation to Mediterranean beaches this summer, Olive Tree developers are taking an intellectual vacation to the Eastern Mediterranean, the ancient home of Hebrew and Greek, the original languages of the Bible. Academics, lay people, and clergy alike have benefited from the convenience and affordability of Olive Tree’s original Greek and Hebrew products for [...]
Help Direct Olive Tree’s BlackBerry BibleReader
February 19th, 2009See this blog post for how Olive Tree decides where to spend engineering time.
We would like your help to direct where we should spend our time in the BlackBerry BibleReader.
Click here to take the survey.
Stephen
Help Direct Olive Tree’s iPhone BibleReader
February 12th, 2009We are so excited about the level of enthusiasm and interested in Olive Tree’s iPhone BibleReader! We gets lots of excited users asking us when will feature XYZ be in the iPhone BibleReader. I want to explain a little about how our engineering process works and then give you a chance to help us decide [...]
Newest Display Technology for Biblical Languages
June 30th, 2008On June 16-18, I attended the conference “The Bible and Computers: Present and Future of a Discipline” in the suburbs of Madrid, Spain. At this conference, a group of people from many different nations interested in the intersection between Biblical studies and computer technology gathered together to hear presentations on current research. Most [...]
Advanced Rendering of Hebrew and Aramaic Texts on Palm and Pocket PC
January 22nd, 2008We at Olive Tree are excited about new developments in our handling of Hebrew and Aramaic texts. Over the past several months, we have moved to UNICODE!
In recent years, there have been impressive technological advances made for displaying languages like Hebrew and Aramaic with complex scripts, from the establishment and expansion of the UNICODE [...]
Olive Tree Announces the Qumran!
January 4th, 2008We at Olive Tree are announcing the release of a new Qumran (non-biblical scrolls) module. The discovery of thousands of documents and fragments thereof, known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, at Khirbet Qumran beginning in 1947 is the greatest archaeological discovery related to the Bible in modern times. Dating from 250BC to 70AD, the Dead [...]
IN HIS OWN WORDS – Classic eBooks on Prayer by E. M. Bounds
December 14th, 2007In this article, we want to let author E. M. Bounds tell you in his own words about the importance of prayer to God, to the Church, to the world, and to you. Thus, we will quote a little from five new classic eBooks by this author available from Olive Tree. First, however, let’s talk [...]
Build Your Own Bundle – Software Discounts from Olive Tree
December 5th, 2007Olive Tree offers a number of different software bundle options that provide users an excellent way to purchase software at a discounted price. Among the pre-selected collections and CD packages, there is also a Build Your Own Collection option, which offers the most flexibility. You can choose the resources you want to add to include [...]