FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PC Expo, Booth #2636 Main Hall
Jacob Javits Center, NY

Blue Nomad Announces the Release of ‘WordSmith 2.0’

Latest Edition of the Award-Winning Word Processor for the Palm Organizer Features FineType™, High Resolution Font Technology, Full Bookmark Support, and More...

NEW YORK, NY (June 26, 2001) -- Blue Nomad, 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 # 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 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 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 Alexis 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 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, justification, font selection and color. In addition, its unprecedented support for the Palmä Portable and Targus Stowawayä 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.

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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 2001and was named Best Doc Editor/Viewer of the Year by Handheld Computing in the same year.

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