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I’ve been using Olive Tree’s BibleReader Soft­ware for a few years now. I really enjoy BibleReader’s abil­ity to orga­nize and tag user typed notes for easy retrieval — as well as col­lect­ing them in one place. How­ever, I’ve recently improved my note-taking strat­egy by using a sec­ond hand­writ­ing app. Now, I have a two-app-workflow using […]

This is the first of a three-part series of arti­cles dis­cussing anno­ta­tions in Olive Tree’s BibleReader soft­ware, as of ver­sion 5.0. If you are unfa­mil­iar with BibleReader, a very nice Bible study/reading app that runs on Apple iOS devices, you may want to take a look at an intro­duc­tory video first. In BibleReader, anno­ta­tions are […]

In an effort to pro­mote some out­stand­ing mobile Bible soft­ware, I would love to post a whole series of videos that demon­strate capa­bil­i­ties of Olive Tree’s BibleReader app. This is a kick off post towards that effort; we’ll see if time per­mits for oth­ers to fol­low — I have sev­eral ideas for more advanced tutorials. […]

One of the biggest com­plaints from long-time users of Olive Tree’s soft­ware update, Project Glac­ier, comes from not being able to find that ever-so-handy verse chooser! May I be very quick to assure you … IT IS THERE! How­ever, after upgrad­ing, it’s not easy to find. By default, a “List View­ing Mode” is used behind […]

“Project Glac­ier” is the given code-name for the upcom­ing release of Olive Tree’s free Bible Reader soft­ware. Beta-testers (or in this case, an alpha-testers), have the unique priv­i­leged of being first users to assist in iron­ing out any wrin­kles. I can assure you, this release is major! It cer­tainly deserves it’s own code name! If you’re […]

Olive Tree’s Bible Reader soft­ware for the iPhone can be highly cus­tomized to obtain many dif­fer­ent looks. David Trotz has agreed to allow users to sub­mit their favorite color schemes to be used as future instal­la­tion default color schemes. Click here to see favorite color schemes entered so far. If you would like to share your […]

The fol­low­ing stats are the results of com­par­ing the amount of text dis­played when Olive Tree’s Bible Reader soft­ware is run­ning in “full screen” dis­play mode, vs the dis­play mode when the Main GUI Menu Tool­bar is used.  Full Screen was a ver­sion enhance­ment described in the pre­vi­ous post. Using NASB ( no ref­er­ences included in the […]

Olive Tree devel­op­ers have been very busy lately with enhance­ments to the iPhone ver­sion of their Bible Read­ing Software.   David Trotz has been doing an out­stand­ing job in lead­ing this team of devel­op­ers. These are excit­ing days for users of their soft­ware!   Beta testers are cur­rently review­ing ver­sion 4.09.001868; I’m excited to post some of the enhance­ments we’re […]

Although I pre­fer scrolling as the method of choice with e-reading devices, I’m forc­ing myself to re-evaluate this deci­sion. Seems the swip­ing page by page method is pop­u­lar with e-Readers like Stanza, and Kin­dle. ( Cer­tainly, Ama­zon, being the super-sized com­pany that it is, must have placed much effort, time, and money into research­ing this […]

After send­ing a request to become a beta tester for Olive Tree, ( pro­duc­ers for what I con­sider to be one of the best Bible Reader/Studying pieces of soft­ware for the iPhone ), the ini­tial response looked to be less than promis­ing. How­ever, just three days ago, I received an email from Stephen John­son, saying […]