Glo - Interactive Digital Bible Study Software from Zondervan

Steven Yu

I am currently installing the software at the moment, it is huge, 3 DVD, and it use MS SQL Express for it's back engine, which is kind nice if the table are open, and I can play it at the back end.

If any of you are intrested, here is the website - http://www.bibleglo.com/

It will be good if there are some kind of API for Logos to serve as a bible search engine for theologies college online study...

Graham Owen

I attended the UK launch last week and it is certainly an impressive piece of software which takes a different approach to Logos. I have a copy installed so that I can review it for our denominational magazine what interested me most was watching my 15 year old son use it. He found the interface very natural and it did not take him long to drill down and start finding information that interested him. He loved the graphics especially the virtual tours. I agree that it would be great if this and Logos could interface in the future Glo appears to have been designed to collect and present information from other sources so it certainly looks possible.

Kevin A. Purcell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/22326#Comment_22326

This is certainly no competitor to Logos.  It is truly a non scholarly approach and would be a companion to those of us who use logos for study.  I like how easy it was to export the images for showing in my church.  If you have used iLumina, then you have a good idea of the look/feel of this thing.

I will be doing a review for Christian Computing Mag soon.

Graham Owen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/22386#Comment_22386

Kevin A. Purcell said:

This is certainly no competitor to Logos.

Totally agree and based on what I have seen so far I hope that they continue to follow their own unique approach leaving Logos to focus on the Digital Library market. Based on my son's experience I know that my daughters will love Glo as well but I am not sure what my wife will make of it. She struggles with Logos 3 and can just about handle Bible Explorer 4. Most of the time she uses e-Sword on an MDA Mobile PC Phone.

Mike W

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/22386#Comment_22386

Kevin A. Purcell said:

This is certainly no competitor to Logos.  It is truly a non scholarly approach and would be a companion to those of us who use logos for study.  I like how easy it was to export the images for showing in my church.  If you have used iLumina, then you have a good idea of the look/feel of this thing.

I will be doing a review for Christian Computing Mag soon.

Agreed, this seems to be aimed at a different market  than Logos.  The walkthrus are the same ones used in iLumina and there have been several updates to the program since it's release(there are still features not completed yet and I've seen a few links that pop up a dialog box saying "Some Text Here" or "video here"0.  The visual presentation of information is interesting and it would be fun to have an interface like this with the depth of Logos (especially in the area of timelines and topics).

Dr. Charles A. Wootten

I mostly agree with the comments here. Especially that it will never, ever be a competitor to Logos. So far, there are no competitors -- just a few programs that come at it slightly differently.

It seems that those who are experiencing frequent fatal errors are in the minority of users? I get these at least twice per session especially in the graphics sections. So, I'm taking a moment to type this since the last crash. (In fairness, I did not install Glo on the C:\> drive, but on the other hard drive in the desktop tower. I've always had 2 hard drives.) Not having experienced iLumina, this software is not as "intuitive" as it claims, even though I did watch the demonstration videos to get an idea how to use it. I'm using the latest version of XP with 3-gigs of RAM on a machine less than a year old. It takes almost 10 seconds to load and become operational.

Actually, it is more of a Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia on steroids rather than anything marvelous and wonderful. After almost 2 hours to install, I think I may wind up deleting it, the atlas not withstanding.

There really is nothing new that catches my attention. I can find the pictures on the 'net, althugh ones that allow me a 360-degree view are admittedly relatively rare. When the timelines aren't crashing I don't get as much out of them as I was led to believe. I wandered over to look at what they think of the Greek and Hebrew languages ... and they never did show the alphabets!

The atlas is a bit fun -- somewhat similar to the user-generated app that someone made for Bibleworks that is overlayed on Google Earth. This one in Glo is not quite as good, but it is worth using.

The Scripture, Articles, and Photos links on the same page is OK. But not good enough for serious academic study.

The "how to live it" segment (my interpretation of a segment of the Topical section called "Life") is a bit toooooo touchy-feely. I can actually read, say, the book of James, and get more out of how to be a Christian. But, there are people who like light-weight stuff and they will simply be tickled pink.

I can't wait to see how Kevin Purcell reviews this ... I enjoyed the recent article on notetaking. I use several of those apps myself.

OK...enough rambling. Logos is still safe. There are no threats.