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Blue Nomad Announces the Release of `WordSmith 2.0'.


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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2001

Latest Edition of the Award-Winning Word Processor (1) Software that provides word processing functions on a computer.

(2) A computer specialized for word processing. Until the late 1970s, word processors were always dedicated machines. Today, computers have replaced almost all dedicated word processors.
 for the Palm(TM)

Organizer Features FineType(TM) High Resolution Font

Technology, Full Bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. See Favorites, bookmark portal and bookmarklet. Support, and More

Blue Nomad A relational DBMS for IBM mainframes, PCs and VAXes from Select Business Solutions, Boulder, CO (www.selectbs.com), a software division of Gores Technology Group. Introduced in the mid-1970s and sold to Thomson Software Products in the late 1980s, it was one of the first database systems to provide a non-procedural language for data manipulation. NOMAD can also access data on Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and other databases., LLC (formerly, BackupBuddy Software, LLC), announced today at PC Expo the release of WordSmith 2.0, the latest edition of its award-winning word processor, enhanced memo pad, and rich document viewer for the Palm Organizer.

WordSmith 2.0, which will be demonstrated throughout the show in Booth No. 2636 (Main Hall), features a host of important enhancements, most notably Blue Nomad's new FineType high resolution font technology. FineType is an innovative display option for Palm-based documents that makes text crystal clear and sharper than ever. Now with the addition of FineType, only WordSmith combines rich text (1) Text that includes formatting commands for page layout such as fonts, bold, underline, italic, etc. It may also refer to a multimedia document that can include graphics, audio and video. See rich media.

(2) Text in Microsoft's RTF format. See RTF.
 formatting with hi-resolution fonts (available on color devices only).

WordSmith 2.0 also offers full bookmark support, the ability to create new bookmarks, and the ability to go to, count, hide or show bookmarks. In addition, with Version 2.0 users can preserve, edit, and create new footnotes, endnotes and comments, and can preserve page setup (i.e., paper sizes, page orientation, margins) and default language as well. The feature-packed WordSmith 2.0 also provides a greatly enhanced find & replace feature that is significantly faster, and which offers a new search progress meter, a "replace all" option, and the ability to cancel search and replace To look for an occurrence of data or text and replace it with another set of data or text. all operations. Other refinements include improved support for the onscreen keyboard, and more display options, including the ability to "archive" documents, hide or show archived documents and the tags (icons) for bookmarks, comments, footnotes, images, tables, and more.

"With the release of WordSmith 2.0 now Palm users can effectively declare their independence from any need to rely on either desktop or laptop computers," said Alexander Hinds, President & CEO of Blue Nomad. "Our new FineType technology in particular brings such clarity to text displays that users can now use their Palm to support virtually all of their word processing and electronic book reading needs."

Other noteworthy new features provided by WordSmith 2.0 include:
-- Ability to preserve tables, images, footnotes and more

-- True tab support, including hanging indents

-- More navigation and counting options, including the ability to "go-to" and
count bookmarks, comments, footnotes, images, and tables

-- Ability to password-protect documents and assign the same or different
passwords to any of your documents

-- New preferences for saving documents, memos, and Asian language hacks


Blue Nomad's WordSmith is the most advanced, intuitive and full-featured word processor, enhanced memo pad and rich document viewer See file viewer and document exchange software. available for Palm Powered organizers. This powerful and versatile package not only supports rich text, such as bold, italics and underline but also paragraph formatting and indents To align text some number of spaces to the right of the left margin. See hanging paragraph., justification, font selection and color. In addition, its unprecedented support for the Palm(TM) Portable and Targus Stowaway(TM) keyboards makes text inputting on the Palm easier and faster than ever.

WordSmith is fully compatible with Microsoft Word, includes a bi-directional synchronization conduit for Windows and the Mac OS, and offers a command-line document converter for Linux/Intel users. It is likewise compatible with any word processor capable of reading and writing "RTF" files, and is the only word processor available for Palm OS that allows users to synchronize documents between more than one desktop computer.

WordSmith 2.0 will be available in early July at a price of just $29.95, and interested users can also download a free trial version of the software by visiting www.bluenomad.com. The trial version allows for 200 editing sessions and unlimited use of the enhanced memo pad and rich document viewer.

About Blue Nomad

Blue Nomad, LLC formerly known as BackupBuddy Software, LLC, was founded in 1997 by Alexander S. Hinds, M.D. Blue Nomad has developed a comprehensive suite of backup, installation and productivity software for the Palm OS. In March 1999, Blue Nomad's popular backup utility, BackupBuddy for Windows, received Platinum Certification from Palm, Inc. BackupBuddy is the only backup application to receive this designation. BackupBuddy was also named Best Palm OS Program of the Year by ZDNet in 2000 and Best Utility of the Year in 2000 and 2001 by Handheld Computing Magazine. WordSmith, the latest product from Blue Nomad, was released in January of 2001 and was named Best Doc Editor/Viewer of the Year by Handheld Computing in the same year.

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