Torah Tidbits in the PALM of your hand - Technology serving Torah The Palm version is now fitted with bookmarks for each Aliya and for all features. A tap or two and you can jump from the Sedra Stats to the Haftara to Word of the Month to the lead tidbit to the Back Page (with the Center's schedule of shiurim and lectures) to Tiyulim... Get the idea? Recommended sites with Jewish "stuff" for the Palm: www.pilotyid.com and www.penticon.com. Check out Eli Mayerfeld's siddur. The Birkat haMazon has AL HANISIM and YAALEH V'YAVO on "tap" if needed, as hypertext. Requires Hebrew support. It doesn't have R'TZEI. Nice touch. (There is also a transliterated bencher available for the Palm for those without Hebrew support). An example of Technology serving Torah.
We've had different computer and web problems for the past couple of weeks and the Palm version of TT has not been posted. We hope that it will be there this week. As of this writing, it's a maybe. Anyone who has downloaded Birkat HaMazon (and used it) knows that Al HaNissim and Yaaleh V'yavo are user activated. That means that if it is Rosh Chodesh, you tap on the box marked Yaaleh V'yavo and it pops up. If it isn't Rosh Chodesh, you just bench past the box. That makes a computer program more "friendly" than a printed bencher. The Mincha and Maariv that are downloadable for free are not like that, but the registered versions are. It is a good idea to register these kind of programs so that those who write these programs will be encouraged to continue to do so. The fees are not at all high, but the statement to the programmer is strong - I appreciate your efforts and I'd like to see more. Click here to download the file
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