Archive for June, 2009
Firefox 3.5 is Faster, Slicker, and Ready to Download
The latest version of Firefox is ready for download, and it will be worth the time.
There is a lot to love about the new release, but perhaps the most important improvement is speed. Speed matters now more than ever. We’re not talking about download speeds here, but more important things like application speed—how fast your [...]
The Phone Gets an Upgrade: Google Voice
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If you haven’t already heard about Google Voice, now is the time to play catch-up, and this is an excellent article for doing so (complete with video). Long story short, it’s gonna be awesome, and you should make every effort to get a Google number as soon as it’s available to you.
Too [...]
Lawsuit against Zotero Dismissed
Good news! The lawsuit filed against the developers of Zotero (which I wrote about here) by the makers of EndNote has been dismissed. There are few details as yet–like whether or not the suit will be refiled–but hopefully this is a sign of things to come. From ArsTechnica:
Thomson Reuters, which makes EndNote, an academic reference [...]
Exegetical Insight: Luke 8:10
Every once-and-a-while I have an edifying experience in the course of grading. It’s rare, but it happens. In the course of reading over Luke 8:10, which my Greek students had to translate for their exam, I was forced to ask (and answer) a basic question. The question is begged by the Greek, but not by [...]
New Digital Greek Text Available
Copies of Westcott/Hort and Tischendorf have long been available online in digital form. Tragelles’s Greek New Testament predates both of these and is now available as a digital (Unicode!) text. Even better: the text is open licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license, which means you can use it, modify it, and distribute it [...]
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