Archive for January, 2009
New Features at Bible.Logos.com
I’ve mention Bible.Logos.com before. It’s a pretty handy and fluid online Bible. Today it gets an upgrade:
As you navigate through the Bible, we dynamically pull relevant content—both sermons and illustrations—from our Sermons site and display the top three hits with a link to all of the other contributions that deal with the passage of Scripture [...]
Preach your Greek
Mounce fields a question I get a lot: how do you use your Greek in the pulpit? His answer is well worth a read. My favorite part:
It starts with your homework. The most important place to use biblical languages is behind the scenes in doing your research, whether it be sermon preparation or getting ready [...]
File Your Taxes Online for Free
Sorry for two-in-a-row from Lifehacker, but this is important stuff.
By the way, Lifehacker is a really wonderful blog. Whether you’re a tech-guru or not, they always have wonderful advice, most of which will save you money. Visit their site, or just subscribe.
Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 RC
Lifehacker recently announced that Microsoft has made available the first release candidate of Internet Explorer 8. While I’m still not moving away from Firefox, I am excited about this new release. I have been using the IE8 Betas for awhile now and am impressed—it is definitely a step in the right direction, if only because [...]
Old Institutions, New Media
Several stories have caught my intention of late. We all know, of course, that the proliferation of computers, and especially the Internet, has changed the way we communicate, shop, talk, think, and research. What’s interesting to me is the trickle-up trends that have been occurring more recently. Old and stalwart institutions are often the slowest [...]
Ubiquity Command for the Westminster Library
If you frequently search the Westminster Library then you may be interested in this post. I have created a command for Firefox’s Ubiquity that allows you to search the Westminster Library Catalog without ever leaving your web page. You can even highlight text on any web page and automatically search the library catalog using that [...]
Add the Westminster Seminary Library to your Browser Search Bar
As a follow-up to my Westminster Bookstore Search Plugin I have created a similar plugin for the Westminster Seminary Library, which works in both Firefox and IE7. So now you can search Westminster Seminary’s library right from your browser, and since the site natively supports Zotero, this makes research all that much easier.
The same instructions [...]
Was Lincoln the First to Use Emoticons?
Well, was he? Read about it here.
Update: Phil Gons has the answer for us.
HT: Digital Inspiration.
What Blogging Platforms do Churches Use?
ChurchCrunch has compiled a list of blogging platforms used by the top 60 church blogs. Wordpress Wins (of course), but the results are interesting.
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