San Jose, California (February 7, 2002).  

At the PalmSource® Conference & Expo, the annual gathering of the Palm Economy, Handheld Computing Magazine announced that for the second year in a row, Blue Nomad’s WordSmith® has captured its prestigious Best Products of 2001 Award.  Blue Nomad’s WordSmith, is the first real word processor for the Palm OS® and has won numerous awards, including Best Doc Editor/Viewer of 2000 by Handheld Computing Magazine and Best Application of the 2001 by VisorCentral. 

“This is a fantastic way to celebrate WordSmith’s 2nd year in the Palm economy,” said Alexis Hinds, M.D., president and CEO of Blue Nomad.  “We are extremely pleased to see that WordSmith has received such a high honor in an increasingly competitive business productivity market.”

WordSmith is a 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.

WordSmith Availability

WordSmith is available for purchase online at Blue Nomad’s website (www.bluenomad.com) The trial version allows for 50 editing sessions and unlimited use of the enhanced memo pad and rich document viewer. 
About Blue Nomad

Blue Nomad is the leading provider of backup, installation and productivity software for the Palm OS. Its award-winning solutions include BackupBuddy®, WordSmith® and InstallBuddy™. Blue Nomad’s popular backup utility, BackupBuddy for Windows, is the only backup application to receive Platinum Certification from Palm, Inc. and was 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 and Best Software Application of the Year by VisorCentral. For more information, please visit www.bluenomad.com.