We just got an email from Apple saying PocketBible for iPhone/iPad is approved for the App Store. It could take 24 hours for it to become visible to you. The rest of this posting is a repeat of the announcement we made when we uploaded this new version.
Features are described here.
Video preview here: www.youtube.com/user/laridianinc.
This version adds new features to the iPhone/iPod touch and has native support for the iPad. Current users of PocketBible will see this new version as an update in the App Store app just like any other update.
If you have notes, bookmarks, etc. in MyBible for Palm OS, PocketBible for Windows Mobile, PocketBible for Windows, or iPocketBible.com you’ll be able to move these notes to your iPhone or iPad with this new version. If you have Palm OS or Windows Mobile you first need to synchronize this data with PocketBible for Windows (desktop). Then synchronize from there to iPocketBible.com. Details are here. PocketBible for iPhone/iPad syncs with iPocketBible.com so you need to get your data there to start with, then when you sync with PocketBible for iPhone/iPad it will get your notes, bookmarks, etc. from your other device(s).
Search results are displayed in the Toolbox at the bottom of the screen. Your entire library is searched, usually in a fraction of a second. Library results are on the left; results for the selected book are in the list on the right. |
Split the screen into as many as five panes (three shown here) to reference commentaries and other reference books. |
Here I’ve changed the font and expanded the Toolbox to give me more room to type my notes. The notes viewer supports HTML so I can create this outline using nested ordered lists. Bible text can be pasted in HTML. Here I’ve made verse numbers bold and made the text small. Any unambiguous references (such as “Col 1:3-8″ at the top) are automatically linked. |
When the iPad is rotated, the Toolbox moves to the side (either right or left). |
The new calculator-style verse selection method is shown here. Select the book from a drop-down list, then key in the chapter and verse on the keypad. |
The Bk/Ch/Vs (“3-tap”) verse selector sports larger buttons on the iPad and is ten buttons wide to make it easier to find chapter and verse numbers. |
PocketBible is great for daily devotional reading. Here Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening is shown on the left and the Bible on the right. The Reading Progress window show what you’ve already read (in green) and what you need to read (in red). I’ve hidden the Toolbox to maximize space for reading the text. |
Edward,
This feature is built into your iPad. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility and choose White-On-Black. While you’re there, choose “Triple-Click Home” and set it to toggle White-on-Black. Now, when you want to go to white text on a black background in ANY app, just triple-click the Home button.
Sweet! I learn something new everyday with this. Thanks for the tip.
I thoroughly enjoy your iPad version and it is now my main study tool. I would however like to be able to copy definitions from the dictionaries and pieces from commentaries to use in sermon notes. That does not seem possible at this time. It seems like it would be easy to use the tap and hold so the select, select all, and paste options menu pops up as in most other aps. This would let me copy and paste into pages for my sermon notes. Thanks in advance for your comments. – By the way – I tried to send this comment on my ipad but it rejected the antispam word every time I tried it, so I am now sending from my macbook.
Agree with others. I do not like having the toolbox visible in landscape ( my preferred) orientation. Gotta resolve this one
Aloha from paradise
Last week I purchased an Ipad, to assist me with technical documentation in my work. The first thing I did was to check the appstore for an Ipad version of Pocket Bible. And all I can say is WOW!!!
I have been a Laridian user for a few years now. I started with a Palm OS, migrated to Windows Mobile and will soon be moving to Android. (hint hint, beg beg, plead plead).
I just want to say THANK YOU. All versions have been great! (I am still learning my way around the Ipad). I have already discovered a few things I like better than either of the two other versions I have used.
You have a superb program and I appreciate all of your hard work and dedication.
Again thank you!
(off-topic slightly). The new web site and information available is also great.
Mahalo and God Bless
Terry