Webapps and Websites
Get a Free Domain Name and Hosting From Microsoft
I can’t believe it either, but it appears to be true: Microsoft is giving stuff away for free. Here’s the scoop.
Multitasking Mondays: New Features in Gmail
In honor of my 200th post here at Nerdlets, I am introducing a couple of new segments. The first, Multitasking Mondays, will feature posts designed to help you use technology to get things done. The second, Security Saturdays, will feature posts that help protect and secure your data. You will have to wait a couple [...]
Real Time Twitter Chatter and its Implications
A variety of applications (like TweetDeck) can monitor twitter chatter based on keywords and other filters. Imagine if you were monitoring this data during a certain important time period. You could put your finger on exactly what people were interested in at a certain place and time, and the difference between interests at different places. [...]
Choose the Right Platform for Your Blog
Thinking about starting a blog for personal or church use? Your first decision is what platform to use. It’s an important choice since it is difficult to change services. ChurchCrunch has an excellent overview and analysis of the available options.
Google Earth Lets you View the Past, and More
Google Earth, an already amazing technology, today received a serious upgrade. Once “limited” to contemporary snapshots of the Earth made through a composite of satellite imagery, Google Earth now provides a whole set of overlays that allow you to view the earth’s past as well as its present.
In addition, Google Earth 5.0, the most [...]
How I use drop.io for Sermons, Papers, and GTD
The web service drop.io is an excellent site that allows you to store just about anything you might want—text, pictures, audio, video, phone calls, etc.—in a secure, easily accessible “drop.” This may sound pretty basic, and it is, but what makes drop.io worth your time and attention are all the fancy features surrounding it. Let [...]
New Features at Bible.Logos.com
I’ve mention Bible.Logos.com before. It’s a pretty handy and fluid online Bible. Today it gets an upgrade:
As you navigate through the Bible, we dynamically pull relevant content—both sermons and illustrations—from our Sermons site and display the top three hits with a link to all of the other contributions that deal with the passage of Scripture [...]
File Your Taxes Online for Free
Sorry for two-in-a-row from Lifehacker, but this is important stuff.
By the way, Lifehacker is a really wonderful blog. Whether you’re a tech-guru or not, they always have wonderful advice, most of which will save you money. Visit their site, or just subscribe.
Ubiquity Command for the Westminster Library
If you frequently search the Westminster Library then you may be interested in this post. I have created a command for Firefox’s Ubiquity that allows you to search the Westminster Library Catalog without ever leaving your web page. You can even highlight text on any web page and automatically search the library catalog using that [...]
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