Archive for January, 2009
Catch the Inauguration Online
Aren’t going to make it to the inauguration? No worries. This is a Web World. Follow this guide to catch all the action online.
Even More Greek Advice
How many times have you learned Greek? There is something enormously discouraging about spending all that time taking a year’s worth of Greek only to forget it in the course of a summer. Con Campbell has been instructing us how to avoid the forgetfullness that sets in as soon as Greek is over (start here). [...]
More Greek Advice
Here is some more sound advice from Con Campbell regarding how to keep up your Greek:
Burn your interlinear
‘nough said in my opinion, but he explains his reasons, with a promise to unpack the relationship between this advice and software tools.
Getting More Use out of Firefox’s Search Bar
So you’ve installed a bunch of new searches for Firefox, like this one for the Westminster Bookstore, but don’t want to always be switching back and forth between Google and your other favorite searches. Well there is an easy way to automatically switch between searches: Firefox Keywords.
Setting things up is easy. First drop down your [...]
Publish your Zotero Collections Online
Ever wanted to turn you Zotero database, or a portion thereof, into a web page? I have. It would come in very handy for publishing bibliographies for class or even a simple blog post. Well now you can, with a pretty simple plugin called Zotz. Check it out, and don’t miss the screencast.
Add the Westminster Bookstore to your Firefox Search Bar
Who needs Google when you’ve got the Westminster Bookstore, right? Well now you can add that famed repository of Reformed Christian resources right into your Browser search bar.
How? Easy. If you are viewing this page (and my guess is you are), just click on the search engine toolbar in your browser and select “Add [...]
Ubiquity Command for the Westminster Bookstore
If you love the Westminster Bookstore, then you’re going to want to read this post. I have created a command for Firefox’s Ubiquity that allows you to search the Westminster Bookstore without ever leaving your web page. You can even highlight text on any web page and automatically search WTS Books using that text.
If you [...]
How to Keep your Greek
There is nothing worse than learning Greek again. Learn it once! Constantine Campbell has some sage advice on how to keep up with your Greek so you can spend time improving your Greek, rather than learning it over again each time you need it. Here is an excerpt:
From my background in music, I’m absolutely convinced [...]
Using Zotero for Web-page Annotation and Highlighting
In addition to a whole host of great features, you can use Zotero to annotate Web pages that you have saved as snapshots.
Zotero allows you to take a snapshot of any web page for later viewing. If I then view that snapshot (all the files for which are stored on your hard drive, and therefore [...]
Which Greek Text?
For those trying to decide which Greek Bible they should purchase, Mounce has posted a helpful rundown of your options.
If you’re serious about learning and using Greek, I recommend you get two Bibles. (1) First, you need a Greek NT with a critical apparatus, either the UBS 4 or the NA 27 (both editions optionally [...]
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