{"id":44,"date":"2016-08-06T02:15:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T02:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verseview.info\/vv\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2021-05-19T01:17:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T01:17:23","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/verseview.info\/vv\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2006, I recognized the benefit of a Software that could present Bible verses in English and Malayalam on the same screen. Since then I have developed different versions of the software to arrive at the current version of VerseVIEW. The software architecture supports multiple versions of the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>This started as a small tool for my church (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppchchurch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PPCD<\/a>) but now benefits several churches, ministries and individuals around the world. VerseVIEW 3.0 is free and available to be used for the Glory of God.<\/p>\n<p>Nov 2008: Released VerseVIEW 2.0 for public use.<\/p>\n<p>Jan 2009: The 1,000th download of VerseVIEW occurs.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/verseview.info\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_2711-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2711\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/verseview.info\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_2711-216x300.jpg 216w, http:\/\/verseview.info\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_2711-768x1067.jpg 768w, http:\/\/verseview.info\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_2711-737x1024.jpg 737w, http:\/\/verseview.info\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_2711.jpg 1323w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mar 2009: The 2,000th download of VerseVIEW occurs.<\/p>\n<p>May 2009: Released VerseVIEW 3.0 for public use.<\/p>\n<p>Dec 2009: The 4,000th download of VerseVIEW occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Jun 2010: The 5,000th download of VerseVIEW occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Jun 2010: Released VerseVIEW 4 for public use.<\/p>\n<p>Oct 2010: Over 6,000 downloads. Released VerseVIEW 4.5 for public use.<\/p>\n<p>Jan 2011: Over 7,000 downloads. Released VerseVIEW 5 for public use.<\/p>\n<p>Jan\u00a0 2012: Over 13,000 downloads. Released VerseVIEW Mobile Bible and Malayalam Song Book Android app and web app.<\/p>\n<p>2012: Mr. Abraham George from Doha, Qatar created the lyrics database for Malayalam and Hindi songs along with the English transliteration for VerseVIEW.<\/p>\n<p>June 2012: Released VerseVIEW 6.0 for Windows and MAC<\/p>\n<p>2013: Mr. Jaimon Kuriakose from Thrissur, India started supporting VerseVIEW with some of the graphics work for VerseVIEW<\/p>\n<p>June 2014: Released version 5.2 of VerseVIEW Christian Songbook<\/p>\n<p>Oct 2014: Crossed 50,000 downloads on the VerseVIEW Mobile Bible for Android<\/p>\n<p>Oct 2014: Over 50,000 downloads. Released VerseVIEW 6.5 for Windows and MAC<\/p>\n<p>Oct 2014: Crossed 100,000 download on the VerseVIEW Songbook app for Android<\/p>\n<p>Dec 2014: Mr. Sam Mathew started helping with creating Tamil song database for VerseVIEW<\/p>\n<p>Dec 2014: Released version 6.0 of VerseVIEW Songbook app<\/p>\n<p>July 2015: Mr. Deepu Thomas started helping with the VerseVIEW Mobile Bible software effort and other software tools to build database in various languages.<\/p>\n<p>Jan 2016: Interview about VerseVIEW by Thoolika TV<\/p>\n<p>Jan 2016: Released version 6.0 of VerseVIEW Mobile Bible app with downloadable Bible<\/p>\n<p>March 2016: Mr. Prasanna Souza started helping with creating Kannada song database for VerseVIEW.<\/p>\n<p>April 2016: Released version 6.6 of VerseVIEW PC software for Windows\/MAC<\/p>\n<p>Jun 2016: Released version 7.0 of VerseVIEW Songbook app<\/p>\n<p>Aug 2016: Mr. Sijo Paul from Dubai, started helping with social media aspects of VerseVIEW.<\/p>\n<p>Sept 2017: Started the effort to compile chord progression for all the common Malayalam songs and released the Songbook web application with music chords.<\/p>\n<p>Sept 2017: Mr. Wilson Thoppil started supporting the music chords effort for VerseVIEW songbook.<\/p>\n<p>Jan 2018:\u00a0 Mr. Jerry George and Mr. Manu Prasad started supporting VerseVIEW to create promotional videos and testing upcoming releases of PC software.<\/p>\n<p>Jan 2018: Mr. Godly Alias started supporting VerseVIEW with support software.<\/p>\n<p>July 2018: Released Songbook application with much chords for Android<\/p>\n<p>Dec 2018: Releases VerseVIEW 7.0 for Windows and Mac<\/p>\n<p>2019: Added stageview video output with VerseVIEW<\/p>\n<p>2019: Updated Songbook app and Bible app with new UI<\/p>\n<p>2020: Added remote lower thirds feature to integrate advanced themes for live stream\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dec 2020: Added word search for VerseVIEW Bible app<\/p>\n<p>May 2021: Created English transliteration of Malayalam Bible and integrated with VerseVIEW Mobile Bible app<\/p>\n<p>May 2021: Released VerseVIEW 8.0 with chords feature and auto transliteration feature for Malayalam<\/p>\n<p><em>VerseVIEW website has been visited by people from almost every country in the world\u00a0<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"641\" height=\"388\" src=\"http:\/\/verseview.info\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/map.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252\" srcset=\"http:\/\/verseview.info\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/map.png 641w, http:\/\/verseview.info\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/map-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2006, I recognized the benefit of a Software that could present Bible verses in English and Malayalam on the same screen. 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