Program for iPhone: Britannica Encyclopedia 2010 Table

Encyclopedia "Britannica" one of the most respected and well-known reference works. Its history dates back as many as in 1726. For over 240 years, and it worked on the world's leading experts, Nobel laureates. The authors of the articles for the "Britannica" were Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Henry Ford. Despite the old restrictions, this work became famous in our country, in the cult show "What? Where? When? "One of the best connoisseurs of the super prize was precisely this encyclopedia.

Earlier availability of a complete collection of "Britannica" is measured not only by the high cost, but also the level of English proficiency. With the release in July of this year, Encyclopedia Britannica Desktop for iPhone, much has changed.

25000 Articles 1900 illustrations and a lot of reliable information in the field of politics, business, science and technology, literature and art, history and geography in the version in Russian, are available at any time from your mobile phone regardless of whether it is connected to the Internet or not.

Working with the "Britannica" begins with the tab "Encyclopedia". At the top right of the screen there is a search box call button. In addition to the date, place and name, while entering a search word, you can use special characters (* ,?) to replace unknown letters and numbers. Will contribute to more rapid information retrieval system prompts and history of the last 100 queries to the encyclopedia.

Tab "Encyclopedia" shall owner of the program including educational function. One has only to lightly shake the iPhone, as the screen will be a randomly selected article on the event, object or person. Virtually the same offer links at the bottom of the window, where the three options may choose to become worthy of your attention.

Use the buttons with a pattern that runs through the entire interface, a transition from any part of the program on the tab "Encyclopedia". More logical would be taken directly to the search box.

Unlike many programs that show the history of events for the current date and addressed to a greater extent on US Customers tab "On this day" is an interesting event as the Europeans and north-amerekantsy in equally. And of course it is worth considering omni directional information provided by the "Britannic". Since August 12, the program reported on birthday magnificent tennis player Pete Sampras and least successful American financier George Soros. Of the forty-nine articles of this date, two are devoted to Russia, namely Ivan VI Antonovich and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Russian writer and mediums.

Tab "Favorites" speaks for itself. This list contains articles to which access must be obtained immediately. Any article can not only add to the "Favorites", but sent to the mailbox. All these operations are carried out from the preview window. Also during the reading of historical information available navigation buttons, which function similar to those in any Internet browser. The font size is quite comfortable for extended reading, and at the same time not too large, which could hinder the rapid retrieval of information. The app supports landscape mode.

The following versions of the program would be very useful to the presence of the body of the article search function, as well as the option to change the font size. The rest of the program is easy to use and provides quick access to a huge database of reference information. Undoubtedly, this is the app for $ 19.99 will be a good acquisition in the end "Britannica" in the cover would have cost at a price of 3-5 thousand rubles.

application page in the AppStore (19.99 $)