TomeRaider a finalist at Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine Best Software Awards for 2008

Yadabyte is pleased to announce that our Ebook reader TomeRaider 3 is a finalist at the eighth annual Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine Best Software Awards for 2008 in the e-Book Readers category. The award winning TomeRaider Ebook Reader has consistently been in the nominations/ finals for Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine Best Software Awards over the past 8 years.

View more details on Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine 2008 awards click here

TomeRaider 3 ebook reader, the most versatile and only ebook reader that allows you to carry and easily reference data such as the entire Wikipedia and IMDB. Get TomeRaider 3 Ebook reader today, and gain access to over 4,000 ebooks and reference books available for TomeRaider 3 Ebook reader for free.

To download the latest version of TomeRaider Pocket PC (ver 3.62) from the following weblink(s)
http://www.yadabyte.com
http://www.tomeraider.com

justanothermobilemonday.com Reviews TomeRaider 3.5

Two new and great reviews in a day of TomeRaider 3.5:) There was this one and now this one:

This is on justanothermobilemonday.com

Another site I haven't heard of but looks pretty good. Its bookmarked:)

Nice writeup of the new TomeRaider PPC on mobilitysite.com

Just found this new post:

http://www.mobilitysite.com/2007/03/tomeraider_35_beta_now_available.php

When they say, "...it's the best reference E-book reader in the world ever. You buy the reader but all the books are free, and no DRM stuff to get in the way either..." they are 100% right:)

Seems a cool site too if your into PDAs

Introducing the new TomeRaider 3.5 Pocket PC Beta

Last summer we released a new version of TomeRaider that had a very innovative new interface. We took out the toolbar and made the scrollbar do all the work. In terms of design ergonomics is was state, but, it seems, that people didn't like the way it looked so bland. And you know, with hindsight, they are right.

So we went back to the drawing screen and now are happy to announce the all new redesigned TomeRaider 3.5, available first for Pocket PC and WM5.


Really we should call this TomeRaider 4 but we like the TR3 icon too much and don’t want to confuse by naming, or not naming, .tr3 files to .tr4 files.

With TomeRaider 3.5 we have simplified the interface at the front and made good use of Drop up menus and scroll lists – in this version you should never need to leave the page view.

What’s new:

• Total Interface rewrite. We have come up with what we think is the close to perfect interface for big file browsing. It still works great on smaller ebooks but on the 1.3 million entry Wikipedia or the IMDB TR3 file it really shines.
• Aesthetic Improvements. The last version worked well but nobody liked it stark UI. We are back to pretty with 3.5.
• In page index list. This is a huge advance. No more zipping back between page view and index view. You can now navigate the file from within the page using the pop up index list.
• Elastic Scroll bar. This is like in Picassia, it works really well on large files. There is no point having a traditional scroll bar when you have a million plus entries because one pixel equates to tens of thousands of entries.
• In page find. Sadly missing from the last versions you can now jump to any page just by typing the name. This was in version 1 and 2 of TomeRaider and its reintroduction changes the app quite significantly.
• Much better ergonomics. Try it, you will see what we mean.
• In page history view. Like the in page index list ect.

You can download the TomeRaider 3.5 beta from here or the non beta older uglier and less cool version from www.tomeraider.com

A New TomeRaider PPC Is Imminent

We started this blog a few weeks ago because there were imminent changes afoot that we thought might be cool to put down in a public blog. As always in software development things take about 3.8 times longer than expected, but, those imminent changes are getting their shoes and socks on and will soon be afoot.

The first thing we are going to do is release TomeRaider Pocket PC 3.5 at some point this week.

What’s going to be new in TR PPC 3.5?

The last version of TR on the PPC had a new kind of handheld interface that prized screen real estate over the aesthetic. It didn’t look very in interesting because it was just a “smart” scrollbar. I really liked it, some of us didn’t and the general consensus from the users was a thumbs down. In fact it was so badly received that the editor of Pocket PC Mag refused to publish a review that a PPCM journalist had written essentially on the grounds that the screen grabs would look bland in the mag.

So we went back to basic and came up with what we now feel is a close to perfect compromise. The new UI is very simple, focussing the use on browsing rather than the sundry features like bookmarks, categories and the like.

It makes good use of “drop up” menus, which on the small screen size of a PDA or Smartphone are very useful features. You can have the core feature, say Index find, on the tool bar prime and then the features that are related but less used in the drop up, such as Full text search.

Stay tuned….