Daily Gleanings: Freedom for iOS (30 September 2019)
Daily Gleanings about the return of app blocking to Freedom for iOS.
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Daily Gleanings (8 May 2019)
De Gruyter Open has a number of volumes in classical and Ancient Near Eastern studies via open access.
HT: AWOL
Freedom continues the dialog over Apple鈥檚 added rules that effectively removed much of Freedom鈥檚 functionality for new iOS users.
...How Can You Get SBL BibLit on iOS?
One of the less-than-ideal features of using an iOS device for editing or producing documents in Biblical Studies has been the difficulty of getting standard biblical language fonts (e.g., SBL BibLit) to work on the device. There are now, however, at least a couple solutions:
- Chris Heard has discussed how AnyFont can resolve the issue successfully and allow users to install SBL BibLit (or other fonts) onto iOS devices and use them within standard productivity tools (e.g., Pages, Word, Keynote, PowerPoint). In the App Store, AnyFont goes for $1.99.
- On the freemium side of things, Fonteer will also do the same thing. Fonteer’s free version allows users to install up to 3 fonts. So, if you anticipate only using this number or fewer, the free version will do the job. Fonteer premium (also $1.99 via in-app purchase) allows unlimited fonts to be installed. Below is an example of Fonteer working with a draft excerpt from my essay in Explorations in Interdisciplinary Reading ( affiliate disclosure).
Example of Fonteer working with SBL BibLit
...Creating series in Logos
Under the heading of “keeping your Greek and Hebrew skills sharp,” Mark Ward has some helpful advice about creating a serial biblical text in Logos Bible Software. For instance, if you create a series between BHS and NA28 and you have BHS open, you can type a New Testament passage in the go box and run straight there. Logos will treat the two resources as combined.
SBL annual meeting mobile apps
The SBL annual meeting mobile apps are available for both Android and iOS. In each case, after the app installed, I opened it and started looking around for a minute or so before the app pulled in the current conference program version.
...Edit Spreadsheets on Google Drive for Mobile
The Google Drive mobile apps for Android and iOS now allows users to create and view spreadsheets:
Photo credit: Google Drive Blog
Previous versions had allowed creating and editing of documents but only viewing of spreadsheets created elsewhere. For more information and links to download the appropriate apps, see聽here.
On the Web (July 24, 2012)
On the web:
- Tommy Wasserman notes a new iOS app for New Testament manuscripts.
- E. K. McFall has the latest article in the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism: “Are Dionysos and Oedipus Name Variatnios for Satan and Antichrist?”
- Dan Wallace recounts an experience of reading a manuscript that “doesn’t exist.”
- Alin Suciu highlights Lorenzo Perrone鈥檚 lecture on recently-discovered texts of Origen鈥檚 homilies on the Psalms. For a selection of previous background posts, see here.