WordSmith Named Best Doc Editor/Viewer and BackupBuddy Named Best Utility by Handheld Computing Magazine

Redwood City, California (April 23, 2001).   Handheld Computing Magazine, the premiere news magazine for Palm Powered™ device users, awarded 2 of Blue Nomad’s products with prestigious Best Products of 2000 Awards.  Blue Nomad’s WordSmith, the first real word processor for the Palm OS™, was named Best Doc Editor/Viewer.  In addition, BackupBuddy, the only Palm Powered™ Compatible backup solution, was awarded Best Utility for the second year in a row.  Blue Nomad was the only software developer to win 2 Best Products of 2000 Awards.

“2000 was big year for Blue Nomad.  We changed our company name and decided to expand our company’s focus beyond backup and synchronization tools by entering into the rapidly expanding business productivity application market,” said Alexis Hinds, M.D., president and CEO of Blue Nomad.  “We are extremely pleased to see that WordSmith, our first foray into this competitive market, has received such a high honor.”

WordSmith is the most revolutionary, intuitive and full-featured word processor, enhanced memo pad and rich document viewer available for Palm Powered organizers. Not only does WordSmith support rich text, such as bold, italics and underline but also paragraph formatting, justification, font selection and color.  In addition, its unprecedented support for the Palm™ Portable and Stowaway™ keyboards makes inputting text into your organizer easier and faster than ever. WordSmith is fully compatible with Microsoft Word and includes a bi-directional synchronization conduit for Windows and the Mac OS. WordSmith is also compatible with any word processor capable of reading and writing "RTF" files.  Lastly, for Linux users, WordSmith includes a command-line converter for document conversion.

BackupBuddy is the most popular and only Palm Powered™ Compatible backup application that allows Palm users to effortlessly back up their files to their desktop computer. BackupBuddy for Windows features the ability to mirror backup files to a network file server or local directory outside of the Palm desktop installation directory, call an external program or script to process backup directory contents after a HotSync operation completes, automatically schedule HotSyncs, beam Palm files and more.

WordSmith and BackupBuddy Availability

WordSmith version 1.12 by Blue Nomad is available for $29.95 from www.bluenomad.com.  The trial version allows for 200 editing sessions and unlimited use of the enhanced memo pad and rich document viewer. 

BackupBuddy version 1.43  by Blue Nomad is also available for $29.95 from www.bluenomad.com.

About Blue Nomad

Blue Nomad, LLC formerly known as BackupBuddy Software, LLC, was founded in 1997 by Alexis 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. 

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