Webapps and Websites

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!

Search your PDFs with OCR

Paper isn’t going away, of course, but having all your documents on such an antiquated medium is often less than ideal. There is at least one major disadvantage to paper: searching is much more difficult. That’s just one of the reasons PDFs are so popular! Anybody can open a PDF file for free, search it [...]

The Open Scriptures Project

We have had many occasions to mention the variety of online resources available for reading and browsing biblical texts here on Nerdlets.org. There is a lot of data online, and the continuing digitilazation of texts means the wealth of data is growing every day.

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Here’s the problem: every website or resource database or [...]

NTGateway Gets an Upgrade

NTGateway.com, an excellent repository of resources and articles about the NT, has recently been upgraded to make it more searchable, maintanable, and easier to navigate. Check it out.
You can read about the background for this upgrade here. From that post:

We’ve moved all of the content over to WordPress, slightly reworked the organization, added site navigation [...]

Use PostRank for Customized Feeds

On Monday I mentioned the usefulness of using a feedreader to collect information and stay up-to-date. What I did not mention was a web service, PostRank, that provides some very handy advanced features for feeds that may be of interest.
In addition to a whole set of wonderful free services for bloggers, PostRank allows blog readers [...]

Multitasking Mondays: Use a Feedreader to Keep Up-To-Date

News travels fast, especially on the net. You probably use a variety of web sites to stay up to date, so let’s make this simple: if you regularly check more than one website, then a feedreader will make your life much much easier. Whenever a site you want to follow—a blog, the New York Times, [...]

Google Will Archive Your Sermons (and Papers)

Google has issued a call for religious writings, including sermons, papers, pamphlets, etc. From their site:
Share your sermons, essays and other religious writing with Google users worldwide by uploading them for free to Google Base.
Google Base is a place where you can submit information about all sorts of interesting items you want to showcase or [...]

Sync Your Cell Phone with Google Contacts and Calendar

Google has implemented cell-phone syncing of your contacts. From their blog:
Once you set up Sync, changes you make to your calendar or contacts are reflected on your device within minutes since the connection is over-the-air and always on. And it’s two way, so your calendar and contacts are always up-to-date, no matter whether you make [...]

Amazed by Google Books

Digitalization is the way of the future, and with the recent deal between authors and Google books, that future may in fact be bright for all parties.
In the course of my dissertation work I often have to track down primary sources, and when those sources are particularly rare it becomes difficult. Or it used to [...]