Multitasking Mondays: Access Files on Your iPhone
The best kind of multitasking system is the one available to you anytime and anywhere. In today’s electronic world, that often requires having access to your files. What articles do you need to read? Or maybe you have some sermons or lectures you’d like to listen to? Regardless of your specific needs, if for whatever [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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