TSB HD - 30 volumes of knowledge [Software for iPad]

Encyclopedia is not only one of the largest and most authoritative universal encyclopedia in the world, it is also a symbol of the era of the country. The memory stayed kilograms knowledge that as a boy, first-grader, is enclosed in the hope to reach the candy on the top shelf.

According to the present progress of mankind feel when you take into the hands of the very BES, while it weighs 700 grams which is. For fifty years the history of three editions of the encyclopedia was released last publication was carried out from 1969 to 1978. TSB contains about 100 thousand articles and about 35 thousand illustrations. All this diversity fits into 30 volumes. They contain a wealth of information on all areas of human knowledge.

Opening TSB HD, I caught myself thinking. In the age of the Internet and Wikipedia goes one of the primary skills that we learn in the beginning of our journey - the ability to use a paper encyclopedia. How to say the modern student: "Search decides!", And maybe he's right. Rather, as a tribute to tradition, comprising TSB HD Index alphabetically similar to that in the paper edition.

There is a TSB for the iPad, and the same "search", but it is done in this case is very crooked. When typing characters in the search box time-out is too small, and the iPad starts to brake terribly, peretryahivaya huge database of articles (1.04 GB), which is impeding the request to enter the remaining letters. So search turns into things torment, here perhaps, useful to the same Index.

Future versions will not be superfluous to the presence of "search history".

Building articles TSB HD like the pages of Wikipedia. "Tricky" words appear to the reader as a link to a separate page with a detailed description of the term. So in the article of Archimedes, by clicking on the link, you can get acquainted with "Archimedes 'axiom' or learn Eratosthenes of life, which has had no small influence on the development of outstanding ability of the Greek scientist.

Many articles have illustrations that complement the test information with visual materials

it makes sense to redirect the request directly to Google or Wikipedia, which are dedicated buttons for the most up to date information. Unfortunately TSB HD does not have its own browser and will transfer the user in Safari. Internet mobile TSB enhanced with standard buttons for publishing content articles on Facebook and Twitter and sending to E-mail.

Articles with the necessary data can be delayed in a special section of 'Favorites', with a star at the end of the page

Make it work with an encyclopedia of more convenient designed to adjust the text size, variable lighting levels screen and change the text of a substrate with a monochromatic white sheet on an old sheet with a picture sailboat.

Undoubtedly, the information presented in the BES can not be compared by its relevance to those from the same Wikipedia, many of the articles suffer from excessive ideologization, but in spite of that most of them can be useful today. Yet the difference between the free encyclopedia encyclopedias and there, and sometimes not in favor of the latter. Software implementation for applications with such a significant price tag might be better left with the impression that the TSB was tested in HD popypah. And essential to correct bugs no hurry, the first and only version weighs already in the AppStore from 13 July.

Page in the App Store:TSB HD
Developer website: Alisa Media Group
cost: 49.99$
Personal rating: ★★★