Mobile Ministry Magazine: Bible Study Software: Part 3 (SwordSearcher) @ J4L

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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Bible Study Software: Part 3 (SwordSearcher) @ J4L

Yesterday, we took a look at our first software package, e-Sword, which was a freeware application. e-Sword proved to be a very valuable resource at a very minimal fee. Today, we're going to take a look at a low-priced software package from Akamai Software and see if it can hold its own. The application from Akamai Software that we're going to be taking a look at is called SwordSearcher.

To give you a little bit of background about SwordSearcher, it is the product of Brandon Staggs and is a piece of software that he has been working on for some time. I'm not exactly sure when he began work on this software, but the latest release of SwordSearcher (v. 4.7) was recently released in July 2005. Brandon Staggs was gracious enough to donate a full copy of the Deluxe Version of SwordSearcher (v. 4.7.1.4) so that we could review his beautiful software package. You can download a limited evaluation version of SwordSearcher, as well as purchase your own copy for $49.95, at http://www.swordsearcher.com.

On their website, Brandon Staggs says "the purpose of SwordSearcher is to improve and aid Bible study," so we will see if it does just that.

Click here to read the rest of Part 3.