The Setting: You. In front of a computer. Reading Christian articles, essays, blogs, and devotionals. Also, you’re reading and composing e-mails, and even blogging a bit now and then.
The Scenario: The text of all these readables is chock full of Scripture references that you’d like to inspect quickly and easily. Oh if only they would’ve put the the reference AND the verse text!
The Solution: InstaVerse. Free software that, when you hover over any Scripture reference whether full or abbreviated, brings up a small window with the text of the Bible verse. It’s a fairly light (uses about 10MB of RAM) program that runs in the background and automatically brings up said window upon reference-hovering. It’s also lightning fast, simple, and flat-out practical because it will help you actually read more of God’s Word during the course of a day (2 Timothy 3:16). <— If only you had InstaVerse right now!
This is software I recently stumbled upon, and I must say I am pleased with it. InstaVerse works great in MS Outlook, Word, and IE. For those of you browsing with FireFox, you’ll have to make sure and upgrade to FireFox 1.5 Release Candidate 3. I did. It’s probably better than the Firefox version you’re using now, and InstaVerse works swell in the new environment.
So what’s in it for InstaVerse? Besides the ministry aspect, a couple things that I can tell:
1. They sell other Bible translations that you can download for your InstaVerse program. Only the KJV comes with the free version.
2. There is a tiny advertisement on the menu bar that spotlights additional non-free software products they produce. The ads are not annoying. No flashing GIFs.
For my Mac using friends (may both of you live long and prosper), I have no solution to offer you other than a fading hope which is this: may this attractive software which you cannot currently use be further impetus to convert you from your whitewashed ways.
InstaVerse Website. Additonal note: This plug for InstaVerse is an unsolicted plug. The only way I stand to profit from this is by helping you read more of the Bible every day.
P.S. I have found that it works in some other text-editing programs like “BlogJet.”