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Dear StillTruth.com Viewers,

Dear Logos Users,

Recently Logos has put into pre-pub John G. Butler's Analytical Bible Expositor commentary series. I would like for all of you to do me a favor.

BUY THIS PRE-PUB!

This is absolutely the best commentary series Logos could ever put into production, & it's just begun! Butler is working on many more titles to eventually cover the entire Bible. Butler is my favorite author of all time, & I can't wait to have this series under my Libronix library. I want this to be Logos' best selling pre-pub ever. If Logos can sell enough of this collection then I hope they will be compelled to produce the rest of these commentaries (when available) & all of Butler's other resources into Libronix format. I have all of his other resources in print & they are absolutely vital to my Bible study. They are the most truthful, uncompromising gems I've ever read. After consulting the Bible text itself, my next step is always Butler.

Please add these wonderful resources to your Libronix library, & tell all of your friends to to the same as well. No library is complete without these amazing tools!

Whew! Sorry I haven't blogged here in a while. I've been extremely busy lately with our severe weather here, & the fact that I've recently started my own corporation known as Mallard Computer, Inc. I've just become the President/CEO & am really excited about the new technology items we're working on delivering.

I've recently upgraded my Logos Bible Software version 3 to the free ND Upgrade that's available when you order the upgrade media DVD from Logos. I placed my upgrade over the phone with my favorite salesperson Jared Bryant (if you don't have a personal Logos sales rep, you do now!) & received an activation key with my upgrade DVD. I installed & activated Logos as usual & everything seem to be going smoothly...

Until I opened My Library. I discovered that neither the NIrV nor the TNIV were unlocked during my upgrade, as they should have been. After posting to the Logos newsgroups someone (I believe it was Dave Hooten) was able to help me get my resources unlocked, & I decided to post the tips from that discussion thread here so if anyone ever has this issue come up, you'll be able to easily find it.

First of all, make sure your Logos base package qualifies for the unlocked resources. If you own a package such as the Original Languages Library or you live outside the US, chances are you don't qualify to have these resources unlocked during your upgrade. Clicking this link will give you some more information about determining if your collection qualifies for these unlocks. Since I live in the US (Arkansas to be exact) & own Scholar's Gold, I definitely qualify for the unlocks. So we move on to Plan B.

Whew! Finally got my DSL hooked up so I can begin blogging again! Sorry for the long wait.

In addition to my wealth of Bible software, I also do own a nice sized print library, which while it has decreased after investing in Bible software, it still exists in my home. And trying to keep track of my printed library can be a hassle. I started off trying to create a hand written catalog of my books, which quickly became way too tiring. My pastor then showed me how to use Microsoft Works to create a searchable database of my resources, but I still felt limited to what I could do. I then tried Excel to create a spreadsheet of resources, export that as an HTML, & load it into WORDsearch in order to search my library that way. But it still had issues...

Finally I found a free application for my Mac that allowed me to easily & powerfully catalog all of my books. It's called Books, & it works really well! The app has a clean, Mac-friendly interface, it's Universal, & it runs beautifully on Leopard.

Cataloging books in Books is as easy as typing in the ISBN number (or scanning it with your barcode scanner or webcam) & hitting the enter key on your keyboard. Various quickfill sources allow you to insert data from places such as Amazon.com & the Library of Congress, so in a few easy clicks I was able to have all of my catalog data, covers, & even Library of Congress numbers added right into the catalog. I was quite amazed! For the books that didn't automatically-insert information, it was very easy to add it into the database.