Webapps and Websites

Zotero 2.0 Launches (What a Pleasant Surprise!)

Zotero has just released the beta of their 2.0 upgrade, and it looks awesome. Here is the announcement.
The most important upgrade is the promised addition of groups and collaboration.
Groups provide a powerful way to share collections with a class, work closely with a colleague on a project, keep track of conversations in your field more [...]

Nerdlets Makes the Biblioblog List

The good folks over at Biblioblog have added Nerdlets to their list of Biblical Studies Blogs. Sure we’re just “related blogs” (under the “techie” category) for now, but maybe someday we’ll be upgraded!
Every month Biblioblog posts the Top 50 BiblioBlogs based on their specified constraints.
A blog is included in the rankings if it contains [...]

BibleArc Gets an Upgrade

I’ve mentioned BibleArc before. Apparently it has recently received a major upgrade with some new features, including automatic parsing of Greek words, the inclusion of the Hebrew OT, and enhanced sharing capabilities. Check it out.
Don’t know what arcing is? Check out this video from John Piper on how he uses this tool. If you [...]

Online Reader’s Bible

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Mourning the loss of Zhubert? Me too, and I will have an update on the copyright discussions soon, and a new eBook of the GNT as well.
In the mean time there is an excellent new reader’s Bible available that is based on Tischendorf’s Greek New Testament. Check that out here. It features handy [...]

Academic Earth Helps You Educate, or Get an Education

Think Hulu, but for nerds. TechCrunch has the scoop:
Ludlow launched Academic Earth with the goal of building a user-friendly platform for educational video that would let anyone be able to freely access instruction from the scholars and guest lecturers at the leading academic universities. The site offers 60 full courses and 2,395 total lectures (almost [...]

New Bible Search Bar for your Blog (from Logos.com)

In addition to their excellent reftagger plugin, which provides blog readers with Bible verse popups whenever they hover over a Biblical reference (try it with Heb. 1:1), Bible.Logos.com is now offering a free Bible Search Bar widget to put in your sidebar. Biblical Bloggers should definitely look into this as it makes things easier for [...]

Troubles for the Open Scriptures Project

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The Open Scriptures Project, which I describe here, has hit a (hopefully temporary) snag. The project is dependent upon James Tauber’s excellent MorphGNT, which is open-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. That license should protect derivative projects, but the German Bible Society has called that into question. You can [...]

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 [...]

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!