Archive for September, 2008

Big Leaps with Zotero

I am repeatedly impressed by the work going on at Zotero. The latest feature: online access to your data. That’s right, the data that you have synced with Zotero’s servers can now be accessed anywhere in the world; all you need is a web browser.
And here’s the beauty of it: any browser will do, even [...]

RefTagger Now Supports Movable Type

Previously mentioned RefTagger now supports Movable Type, so if you use that platform, check out Logos’s recent how to.

Google Audio Indexing and the Church

Here is a nice little snippet about Google’s new audio indexing technology from Justin Taylor’s blog, complete with a couple of ideas about how it might be useful for pastors and churches.

Discourse Analysis Software from Logos

Good translations require a good understanding of how languages work. This requires more than just knowing a list of words and grammatical structures; it requires an understanding of why an author chooses this structure instead of that one. It requires an understanding of linguistic context, of the rules of discourse, of conventions of speech and [...]

Google Takes a Stand

Google makes a rare (for Google or any other publicly-owned corporation) stand on a California legislative initiative that does not affect Google’s core business, Proposition 8:
While there are many objections to this proposition — further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text — it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on [...]

Another Web-based Bible Application

Logos software is up with the times. From their blog:
Most of us still use desktop applications when we want to do serious work, but web applications are improving rapidly and fast becoming viable alternatives, at least when it comes to basic functionality. Desktop applications simply can’t compete with the convenience of being able to access [...]

Follow Me on Twitter

OK, I’m taking the plunge. Follow me on Twitter, especially if you want to keep up with this blog (and don’t want to subscribe).
If you haven’t heard of Twitter, it’s a “micro-blogging” (or “life-streaming”) service that allows you to post mini-updates about your current state of being. It has a variety of uses–from simply [...]

File Conversion Tools You Should Bookmark

“How do I convert format x to format y?” I get that a lot, and I have already posted a couple of ways to turn Word docs into pdfs. Here are a couple of other services that can convert files from one format to another.

From Lifehacker:
Zamzar is a web-based file conversion tool that can convert [...]

An Open-Source Alternative to Apple’s iPhone

No one can dispute it: the iPhone is cool. But Apple maintains absolute control over the software you can install and the services you can use, so the iPhone is still tethered to your home computer. The problem with the iPhone is that it is not open-source.
Google has been working on an alternative platform for [...]

Zotero Supports 1100 Bibliographic Styles

From their blog:
As the launch of Zotero 1.5 approaches we are excited to announce the availability of specific bibliographic styles for more than 1100 journals. Zotero now supports such diverse publications as French Historical Studies, the American Sociological Review, Accounts of Chemical Research, the Chinese Journal of Clinical Oncology, the British Medical Journal, American Political [...]