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Blue Nomad Releases Full Macintosh Version of WordSmith

Blue Nomad releases Mac OS conduit for WordSmith, its award winning word processing application for Palm Powered™ handheld computers

Redwood City, California (April 16, 2001). Blue Nomad today introduced an updated version of WordSmith that includes full support for Macintosh users.  The new version incorporates a bi-directional synchronization conduit that provides Macintosh users of WordSmith the ability to synchronize Rich Text Format files, such as those created by Microsoft Word, to and from their Palm Powered™ organizers.  The new Macintosh conduit replaces the old WordSmith Mac OS document converter and provides generally the same features as the Windows version of WordSmith.

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 and indents, 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, and is the only word processor available for Palm OS that allows users to synchronize documents between more than one desktop computer.  Finally, WordSmith also includes a command-line document converter for Linux/Intel users. 

WordSmith 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. 

The new version with the Macintosh conduit is a free upgrade to all registered users of WordSmith.

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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