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PRODUCT SHOOTOUT
Red state vs. blue state software for your PDA and laptop
By David Gewirtz
For all my life, at least until recently, I've lived in blue states. I was born in New York, grew up in New Jersey, went to engineering school in Massachusetts, went to grad school and did my early professional work in California's Silicon Valley, and spent most of the 90s and the first five years of the 21st century in New Jersey again.
But last August, seeking to escape the snows of the Northeast, Denise and I moved to Florida, and we've been slowly aclimating ourselves to the world of the red state.
Some red state life is really nice. For example, when you leave a Wal-Mart, the nice people often wish you a blessed day. That's a lot better than the New Jersey Wal-Mart employees swearing at you in ten different languages. In fact, people down here are generally more polite. The lawn guy likes to randomly show up without warning and preach at us, but he does a fabulous job trimming the grass and laying down mulch.
It's in this spirit of newly discovered brotherhood (and grits, did I mention the grits?) that we bring you our review of red state vs. blue state software for your PDA and laptop. To be fair, I've discovered I really love grits, and, frankly, there's been no really good hate mail for months. With all the warmth made possible by a sunny Florida summer, I bring you Red vs. Blue, state edition.
Red state software
It's difficult, really, understanding red state software unless you've really lived here for a while. Then, eventually, themes begin to take form. First and foremost is The Bible. And no one does the Bible on PDAs better than Laridian.
Get thee to a Bible program
Laridian sells MyBible 4, as shown in Figure A.
FIGURE A
If it's your Bible you want, it's MyBible.
MyBible allows you to go directly to any verse in the Bible, search your Bibles and books by word or phrase, open up to three windows at once to view Bibles and books side-by-side and much more. The program even lets you choose the Bible you want, including:
- American Standard Version
- The Amplified Bible
- Darby's New Translation
- English Standard Version
- Holman Christian Standard Bible
- King James Version
- The Message
- New American Standard Bible
- New International Version
- New King James Version
- New Living Translation
- Revised Standard Version
- Today's New International Version
- Today's New International Version - New Testament
- World English Bible
- Young's Literal Translation
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