The Bible Scholar App for iPad, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone (Mango) Helps Christians Simplify Learning the Roots of Their Faith

Broken Arrow (PRWEB) November 03, 2011

In addition to the iPad, the Bible Scholar app is also supported by the following devices: iPhone,Android (smartphones and tablets), BlackBerry, Windows Phone (Mango), and Symbian (Nokia).

A deep knowledge of the Scriptures and an understanding of the history of the Christian Church are essential to the foundation of every Christian. For so long it has been a big challenge to gain access to a historical account of Christianity with ease without attending a Bible College. Hence, individuals on the go with busy schedules could not fully participate in this quest without radically changing their schedules. To gain this knowledge required attaining a massive library costing hundreds, even thousands of dollars.

The Bible Scholar Interactive App for iPad is the first and only app for the iPad and all major smartphones that successfully provides an in depth account of the Churchs origin by shedding light on the age of the Apostles, Medieval Christianity, Christianity in the Middle Ages, and explores the German and Swiss reformations.

Now any serious student of the Bible can access this information with a simple tap on his or her iPad or smartphone. Considering the wealth of information in this app, it is amazing to know that this iPad app is available on the iTunes App Store for just $ 3.99.

The Bible Scholar app was named one of "25 Incredible iPad Apps Every Theology Student Should Have" by Theology Degrees Onlinea site dedicated to the promotion of ensuring the quality of future religious leaders and scholars learning.

Additionally, The Bible Scholar Interactive App for iPad has a Bible, a quiz with hundreds of questions, two Bible dictionaries, one topical Bible by Naves, seven separate Bible commentaries, The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin, eight volumes of Church history, and much more. This app contains more than 14,000 pages of Bible study gems.

The Bible Scholar was also named one of "40 Awesome Android Apps for Scripture Study" by Masters in Divinityan online site that focuses on promoting advanced degrees for pastors and professional ministry.

The Android version for smartphones and tablets (which is split into two sets) is available on the Android Market and Amazon Appstore for Android (Kindle Fire).

Talking about the Android version, one Dr. Nathan wrote: "Fantastic volume of information. It's equal to 20 volumes of history and contemporary learning that's sure to provide hours of interesting research sufficient to form an apologetic learning foundation. A Great find. Price these apart and $ 200 would be a bargain."

Users of this app can copy and paste the content into emails and transfer to a desktop or laptop and incorporate it into study notes, sermons, articles, research papers or just to share with a friend. Users can also use the share feature to post to Facebook or Twitter.

The Bible Scholar Interactive App for iPad is a scholar's gold mine.

The new Windows Mango version of The Bible Scholar app has all the amazing new features that this new platform offers.

In this premier value rich Bible-based iPad App, the developers have included more than 20 volumes (with more than 14,000 Pages) of wonderful Bible study tools that answer all the questions a person could have about the Holy Scriptures.

Some of the content in the Bible Scholar Interactive for iPad are:

Matthew Henrys Bible Commentary

Institutes of the Christian Religion, four volumes by John Calvin

Peoples New Testament Commentary

Smiths Bible Dictionary

The Treasury of David, Six Volumes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Introduction to the New Testament
Lewis Berkhof's famous introduction will help the student to understand the history, culture, and authorship of the New Testament books of the Bible. It has more than two hundred pages.

History of the Christian Church Volumes 1 to eight by Philip Schaff

Updated King James Version of the Holy Bible. This contains more than 1800 pages.

Charisma News (founded by Steve Strang), recently reported a study conducted by LifeWay that surveyed 2,000 Bible readers. The article concludes that respondents overwhelmingly prefer a Bible translation that is simpler to understand.

The Updated KJV Bible is the King James Bible without the antiquated words as a way to appeal to a modern generation. Yet, this version retains the poetic flow of the King James Version that has endeared many to this most beloved Bible version.

This is arguably the most comprehensive Bible related app on the iTunes App Store. Every Christian or student of history will find this app to be worth the investment.

About The Bible Scholar

The Bible Scholar was designed to empower the believer to understand the

Scriptures through innovative tools, Bible commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and Church history; thus providing a firm foundation that will stand the test of time.

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Individuals with Print Disabilities Gain New Opportunities to Read Bookshare Digital Books Using Mobile Speak Phone Technologies

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) July 6, 2009

Individuals with print disabilities can now choose new, low-cost mobile technologies to read more than 50,000 digital books and periodicals thanks to a partnership between Bookshare, the world's largest online library of accessible books for people with print disabilities, and Code Factory, Barcelona Spain; a leading global provider of screen readers, screen magnifiers, and Braille interfaces for a wide range of mainstream mobile devices.

The Mobile Speak screen readers for mobile phones developed by Code Factory use synthesized speech to read aloud information displayed on the mobile phone screens including ebooks stored on their phones. Using this technology, Bookshare members who are blind or have visual impairments will have new alternatives and features like navigation, bookmarking and text search, to access digital books for work, study or reading pleasure.

"For years, individuals with print disabilities have needed the ability to read books on a readily-available, low-cost, portable device such as the mobile phone," said Jim Fruchterman, CEO of Benetech, the nonprofit organization which operates Bookshare. "We envision students with visual impairments or learning disabilities on the bus reading textbooks and other assignments with their phones; in rural areas or homes without computers, individuals can download digital books at school or a community center with computer access and read the content anywhere using their mobile phone. Mobile phone technologies will bring Bookshare books to people and students who previously lacked a portable technology solution to read digital books, magazines and newspapers on the go."

To read Bookshare books, users of Mobile Speak can download books and periodicals from the Bookshare website (http://www.bookshare.org) to their PC and transfer them to their mobile phones or PDAs. Code Factory provides accessible solutions for Symbian phones as well as Windows Mobile Smartphones and Pocket PCs.

If users have a Symbian phone (e.g. Nokia phone) they can install the Mobile DAISY Player application in addition to the Mobile Speak screen reader application. Mobile DAISY Player is a book reader which will allow users with sight and visual impairments to read Bookshare files in DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) format. Mobile DAISY Player is the first and only mobile phone DAISY application to support both DAISY 2.02 and DAISY 3.0 (NISO) book formats. Users can adjust the speed of reading without changing the pitch, set bookmarks to favorite places in the contents screen, navigate by character, word, sentence or paragraph, and configure font sizes and screen colors.

Individuals with a Windows Mobile device can also read Bookshare books in BRF (Braille Ready Format) through the built-in Braille reader implemented in Mobile Speak Smartphone and Mobile Speak Pocket. The Braille reader application will read Bookshare BRF files in English through users' active speech synthesizer whether or not a Braille display is connected. Users having a refreshable Braille display can read Bookshare books in Braille which is particularly useful for deaf-blind users.

Bookshare member Larry L. Lewis, Jr., President and Founder of Flying Blind, LLC, uses the Mobile Speak application to read Bookshare books on the go. "My Mobile Speak-equipped Smartphone is convenient and allows me to accomplish more tasks while carrying fewer devices," said Lewis. "Code Factory's BRF reader allows me the flexibility to read Bookshare books with a wireless Braille display or to simply listen to the text while it is read by Mobile Speak."

"Bookshare and Code Factory share a vision to provide individuals with disabilities around the globe with greater access to a vast collection of digital books and information," said Eduard Sanchez, CEO of Code Factory. "We value this introduction from Bookshare, a social enterprise, to identify the latest mobile technologies as a solution that will raise the level of access for these individuals."

Product Information Links:

Bookshare Membership - Code Factory Promotion Code

Bookshare offers memberships to individuals in the U.S. and around the world for a nominal fee. The library has tens of thousands of books including fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, educational reading, newspapers and magazines, plus two free software applications that read digital content. To learn more visit http://www.bookshare.org/signUpType.

Applicants, other than U.S. students who qualify for free memberships, will receive a $ 25 waiver on a set up fee. To receive this waiver, you must: 1) enter promo code: Codefactory in your registration form and 2) send an email to membership@bookshare.org to request the waiver. http://www.bookshare.org/signUpType?promoCode=Codefactory)

Mobile Speak Pricing and Distribution Information

Code Factory's accessible solutions are available in the U.S. through several distributors, including AT&T. The price for Mobile Speak starts at $ 89 for AT&T customers. For more information about the AT&T and Code Factory partnership visit http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/articles-resources/disability-resources/mobile-speak-magnifier.jsp.

To find the closest distributor visit http://codefactory.es/en/purchase.asp?id=54

To download Mobile Speak screen readers, visit http://www.codefactory.es/en/downloads.asp?id=44.

To learn how to get a trial, visit http://www.codefactory.es/en/purchase.asp?id=285.

Mobile DAISY Player Information

To download Mobile DAISY Player for a free trial for 30 days, visit http://codefactory.es/en/downloads.asp?id=43#version_2_57

To buy Mobile DAISY Player, contact the following distributors or look for other Code Factory distributors at http://codefactory.es/en/purchase.asp?id=54: