Comments on: Hebrew In Hand - Free Hebrew Texts On Your BlackBerry http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/ BlackBerry News and Reviews Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:43:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ronen Halevy http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-12683 Ronen Halevy Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:35:10 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-12683 What device does that work with David? What device does that work with David?

]]> By: David http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-12677 David Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:43:52 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-12677 to get hebrew font on your BB open the following link and download the file. http://cheservices.com/blackberry/hebrew.jad to get hebrew font on your BB open the following link and download the file.

http://cheservices.com/blackberry/hebrew.jad

]]> By: Marsha Hopp http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1910 Marsha Hopp Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:49:24 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1910 Ronen--I will keep you up to date as we go. Thanks for the suggestion about the memory card; we will certainly take a look at that for a future version. Regarding slowness: as we rewrite the user interface, we will also be looking at ways of improving that. Ronen–I will keep you up to date as we go. Thanks for the suggestion about the memory card; we will certainly take a look at that for a future version. Regarding slowness: as we rewrite the user interface, we will also be looking at ways of improving that.

]]> By: Ronen Halevy http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1887 Ronen Halevy Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:40:30 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1887 Marsha, Let me know about the new interface. I really wish you could store text on the BlackBerry memory card. Also the speed on a BlackBerry is pretty slow. Marsha,
Let me know about the new interface. I really wish you could store text on the BlackBerry memory card. Also the speed on a BlackBerry is pretty slow.

]]> By: Marsha Hopp http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1833 Marsha Hopp Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:00:36 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1833 Jay -- We have found that files under 8K (8,182 bytes) tend to not have this problem. Jay — We have found that files under 8K (8,182 bytes) tend to not have this problem.

]]> By: jay http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1832 jay Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:01:52 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1832 Hi r there any files that u suggest I try Hi r there any files that u suggest I try

]]> By: Marsha Hopp http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1829 Marsha Hopp Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:06:51 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1829 Jay -- Thanks for the additional information. This sounds like a problem that we are aware of, related to the length of the text to be displayed. We do not yet know exactly what is happening, but larger texts can sometimes cause the program to freeze. (The sizes of all the available texts are listed at http://www.zigzagworld.com/hebrewinhand/texts.html) We are working on this. Ronen -- We are working on the user interface, including a Hebrew font with a more traditional appearance and a convenient way to handle much longer texts (e.g. mincha). I do not yet have an expected date for when the improved version will be available. Will keep you posted. Jay — Thanks for the additional information. This sounds like a problem that we are aware of, related to the length of the text to be displayed. We do not yet know exactly what is happening, but larger texts can sometimes cause the program to freeze. (The sizes of all the available texts are listed at
http://www.zigzagworld.com/hebrewinhand/texts.html)
We are working on this.

Ronen — We are working on the user interface, including a Hebrew font with a more traditional appearance and a convenient way to handle much longer texts (e.g. mincha). I do not yet have an expected date for when the improved version will be available. Will keep you posted.

]]> By: Jay http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1827 Jay Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:02:52 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1827 Hi, Yes I do see the welcome and when I tried to get the text it did show up on the list but when it loaded the screen was all white=blank and kind of froze. When I shut the phone and then turned it back on. I got a message uncaught exception: Aplication Hebrewinhand (275) is not responding; process terminated The things I tried to download are stil on the list but when I try to open them it happens, I have the welcome plus shema and Yiddish Shema-Excerpt Hi, Yes I do see the welcome and when I tried to get the text it did show up on the list but when it loaded the screen was all white=blank and kind of froze. When I shut the phone and then turned it back on. I got a message uncaught exception:
Aplication Hebrewinhand (275) is not responding; process terminated
The things I tried to download are stil on the list but when I try to open them it happens,
I have the welcome plus shema and Yiddish Shema-Excerpt

]]> By: Ronen Halevy http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1821 Ronen Halevy Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:27:12 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1821 Thanks for handling that Marsha. I like the coverage of all the Purim texts. Very useful. Any chance you will be updating the interface? Thanks for handling that Marsha. I like the coverage of all the Purim texts. Very useful. Any chance you will be updating the interface?

]]> By: Marsha Hopp http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1812 Marsha Hopp Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:48:00 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1812 Can you tell me what text you were downloading, and if there were any error messages? Were you able to view the Welcome text? Thanks for letting us know about this. You can also write to us directly through our website at http://www.zigzagworld.com/hebrewinhand/writeus.html Can you tell me what text you were downloading, and if there were any error messages? Were you able to view the Welcome text?

Thanks for letting us know about this.

You can also write to us directly through our website at
http://www.zigzagworld.com/hebrewinhand/writeus.html

]]> By: Jay http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1810 Jay Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:33:35 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-1810 Hi, I download the hebrew on hand but when I download text and try to open in the 8830 it wont open? anyadvice Thanks so much Hi, I download the hebrew on hand but when I download text and try to open in the 8830 it wont open? anyadvice

Thanks so much

]]> By: Marsha Hopp http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-92 Marsha Hopp Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:56:14 +0000 http://www.berryreview.com/2007/07/18/hebrew-in-hand-free-hebrew-texts-on-your-blackberry/#comment-92 Thank you for reviewing our software so quickly! You are correct that this is an early version of Hebrew in Hand, designed with cell phones in mind, and that it does not make use of the specific user interface features for the BlackBerry. Improvements in this area are on our "to do" list. We are also planning for the other user interface improvements, such as different font sizes and styles, scrollling/paging, bookmarks, search, etc. Currently though, we are continuing to improve the core text display capabilities -- both in terms of efficiency of the implementaion and correctness of the rendering. And, of course, expanding the collection of available texts. We would appreciate knowing more specifics about the bugs you encountered. Please feel free to write to us directly. Thank you for reviewing our software so quickly!

You are correct that this is an early version of Hebrew in Hand, designed with cell phones in mind, and that it does not make use of the specific user interface features for the BlackBerry. Improvements in this area are on our “to do” list. We are also planning for the other user interface improvements, such as different font sizes and styles, scrollling/paging, bookmarks, search, etc.

Currently though, we are continuing to improve the core text display capabilities — both in terms of efficiency of the implementaion and correctness of the rendering. And, of course, expanding the collection of available texts.

We would appreciate knowing more specifics about the bugs you encountered. Please feel free to write to us directly.

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