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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Old Institutions, New Media
Several stories have caught my intention of late. We all know, of course, that the proliferation of computers, and especially the Internet, has changed the way we communicate, shop, talk, think, and research. What’s interesting to me is the trickle-up trends that have been occurring more recently. Old and stalwart institutions are often the slowest [...]
Getting More Use out of Firefox’s Search Bar
So you’ve installed a bunch of new searches for Firefox, like this one for the Westminster Bookstore, but don’t want to always be switching back and forth between Google and your other favorite searches. Well there is an easy way to automatically switch between searches: Firefox Keywords.
Setting things up is easy. First drop down your [...]
Add the Westminster Bookstore to your Firefox Search Bar
Who needs Google when you’ve got the Westminster Bookstore, right? Well now you can add that famed repository of Reformed Christian resources right into your Browser search bar.
How? Easy. If you are viewing this page (and my guess is you are), just click on the search engine toolbar in your browser and select “Add [...]
Subscribe to ESV Bible Reading Plans
My Google Reader is full of wonderful subscriptions to wonderful web sites. Little did I know that I can subscribe to daily Bible Readings courtesy of ESV. There are a number of different options available on this page. There are a wealth of different options, including a Study Bible option, Daily Reading option, and a [...]
Get Maps of Biblical Places
Ever wanted to see what Jerusalem looked like in Biblical times? Biblical Studies and Technology Tools tells you how in this post.
You can find another site with high quality maps at BibleMap.org. This site will map out places based upon selections of Scripture, which is very handy indeed. The functionality for this and the aforementioned [...]
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