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eBook of the Greek New Testament (UBS4) for the Kindle, iPod, or iPhone
Update: The links to the ebook in question have been (preemptively) removed pending licensing discussions. See here. Perhaps I will have time in the future to provide a Tischendorf version, which is in the open domain.
Having Googled long and hard for a free, accented, open-source, Unicode eBook of the Greek New Testament, and to no [...]
Songbird 1.1 Released
If you’re looking for a good open-source media player alternative to iTunes or WMP, consider Songbird. Songbird 1.1 was released today and shows significant improvement over previous versions.
drop.io Gets Streaming and Realtime Media
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The excellent web service drop.io has recently received the most significant added feature upgrade since its launch. From their announcement:
drop.io is now fully realtime enabled. this means realtime rich-media streaming collaboration and chat like never before. in one click set up a drop, invite participants, and seamlessly exchange any media on the fly. [...]
Find, Write, and Rearrange Church Music with Ease
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NPR’s All Things Considered reported yesterday on an interesting web-app that allows churches to write or rearrange hymns and easily distribute new music. It’s called SongMap and is available through LifeWay Worship. NPR explains:
The Southern Baptist Convention has introduced a new Web-based application called SongMap, which allows music ministers to rearrange hymns and [...]
SBL’s Unicode Greek Font Finally Released!
It’s been a long time coming, but SBL has finally released their promised Greek Font. The download page is here, or you can download it directly here. There is also a Hebrew font.
The fonts work in all Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, Mac). They are not open-source (so a couple of other fonts are still my [...]
Unicode Guide for Mac Users
If you ever type in Greek, Hebrew, or any other language that requires special characters, then you need to make sure you are using a Unicode font. I have written up a pretty thorough guide to using Unicode fonts in Windows and/or Linux, but my Mac knowledge is flaky. If you’re a Mac user and [...]
Next Version of MS Office Will Support OpenOffice Files
Some good news from Microsoft: Office 14 and the next Service Pack for Office 2007 will natively support the OpenDocument format (ODF) used by such software as OpenOffice.org and Google Docs. This open-source format has been adopted as a standard by recognized computing organizations and governments worldwide, succeededing to gain support in many areas that [...]
Even More PDF Tools
As a follow-up to my previous post, here is an excellent review of some more great PDF conversion and manipulation tools.
Also I am happy to report that I have had good success converting PDF images to plain text with OCR terminal, so give it a try!
New Unicode Greek Font with Text-Critical Glyphs
Rod Decker and Danny Zacharias have reported about a new unicode Greek font that will be of particular interest to those that need text-critical glyphs. From Zacharias’s blog:
I’ve just been made aware of an excellent Greek unicode font that is the most thorough I have ever come across. Designed for the papyrologist and text-critical scholar [...]
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