Archive for August, 2008
Microsoft’s Latest Internet Explorer Shaping up to be Not Evil
MS recently released the Beta 2 of their latest iteration of Internet Explorer, and it’s looking pretty nice. It boasts substantially higher security and a wealth of new features (most of which are already available in other browsers).
The most important advance is IE8’s promised standards compatibility (enabled by default). This is huge. Why? Because the [...]
Back to School Web Apps
Web-based applications are a handy way to stay organized and get-things-done both on and off campus. The advantage of web-based applications is that they are accessible anywhere there’s a computer, and are are usually free.
Here is a list of 10 handy web-apps that are perfect school (and office) needs. A couple are particularly noteworthy: google [...]
Microsoft Office at 90% Off
If you did not catch the last sale, here’s your chance. Microsoft recently released this press release with the details.
Here’s the run down: anyone with a .edu email address is able to get 90% off Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate addition. That’s $60 for Microsoft’s flagship Office product. This is truly a great deal. Ultimate Edition [...]
A Pixel Ruler for you Computer Screen
If you have ever designed your own website, or modified you blog’s banner, sidebar, etc., then you may have spent a good amount of trial-and-error time trying to guess how long your image should be. No longer. Pixus, an application that runs on Adobe’s new AIR technology, does that work for you. If you’re a [...]
Coordinating Meetings with TimeDriver
I have never used it, but check out this post about a newly released web application that helps busy folks schedule meetings. It looks like it would be great for the frazzled pastor, and it syncs with Google Calendar, which is certainly a plus.
The Many Uses of Wordle: Politics
I have mentioned wordle before, the cool free web-app that turns a pile of words into a occurrence-based cloud image.
John Schweneler has recently applied wordle to the official campaign blogs of McCain and Obama. This is interesting on so many levels, but of particular note is that the most frequently used word on both blogs [...]
Poll: What Operating System are you Using?
My subscriber list has gotten long enough that I can no longer guess who is subscribed to this blog. More importantly, I have a lot of post ideas, with little notion of what to prioritize. So, I am instituting my first user poll: what Operating System do you use? You will find the poll in [...]
Send Web Documents Straight to Google Docs
Google Docs is great, but it can often be a pain to add files to your account. This post links to a Firefox plugin that makes adding files a little easier, at least for documents hosted on the internet. Right click on any supported file on the web (such as a PDF) and send it [...]
ESV Banners
The ESV blog has new banners available for your web site, blog, email signature, or any other medium that allows users to paste HTML code (facebook, myspace, friendfeed, etc.). Get the code here.
Run Bibleworks 7 or 8 with Wine in Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10)
My Windows readers will be perplexed by this post, so as a brief preface, let me just say feel more than free to skip this one (and any other “Linux how to” posts that might pop-up in the future). I spend most of my computer time in Linux, but there are a couple of Windows [...]
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