The second alpha version of Bible Reader - version 0.12a - is now available for download and testing. Quite a few small bugs have been squashed and a number of small changes have been made to make the application more useable on a daily basis.
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Having got the first ‘release’ out the door, I turned my attention to tidying it up and adding a few more features, to improve the overall browsing experience. I about ready to put the second Alpha out, which will hopefully by much more useable. Watch this space!
The very first alpha version of the new Bible Reader software is now available for testing! Remember it’s not complete, so don’t expect everything to work as it should. You will be able to browse the books of the Bible though. Find out more
After a hectic busy year I’m back into coding once again. I hope to release an early Alpha version very soon, which will demonstrate the basic navigation that’s available in the current 0.99 version.
I’m hoping to get feedback from you if you download the early releases so please post your comments (I would NEVER share your email address) and let me know of bugs and features you might be interested in.
Prompted by an email from a BRF user, asking what’s happened to the new version, I’m reporting that not too much has happened in the last few months. Life has got in the way of my Cocoa coding, and I also seem to be doing a lot of ‘on the side’ web work for friends in the ministry, my church, and family members, who all seem to need websites these days!
Not too much else to say at this point, other than I’m still thinking about the development of Bible Reader. Shame my thoughts can’t produce actual code…
Seeing as Bible Reader Free was started before OS X was much in use, I had been using Stuffit to compress all of the downloads. For some strange reason (call it habit) I continued this up until today. I’ve had a few people contact me to say they downloaded BRF but don’t know how to open the program. Seems the new generation of users don’t know what Stuffit is! And to be honest, why use a method of compression that requires a third-party expander when OS X is well furnished with its own built-in zip compression method?
So from now on, all downloads will be created as .zip files, which automatically expand when double-clicked. This will result in a folder containing all of the files necessary to run Bible Reader Free.