Run Bibleworks 7 or 8 with Wine in Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10)

My Windows readers will be perplexed by this post, so as a brief preface, let me just say feel more than free to skip this one (and any other “Linux how to” posts that might pop-up in the future). I spend most of my computer time in Linux, but there are a couple of Windows [...]

Web Tools for Writers

Check out this list of handy websites for writers. Here are a couple that I have found particularly useful:
SparkNotes Ultimate Style. The web’s ultimate guide to grammar provides a searchable database of topics and an easy-to-search A-Z list of common questions.
MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT offers dozens of free writing courses through their OpenCourseWare program. Course topics [...]

Garfield and Open Source

At first it may seem that the Garfield comic strip has nothing to do with my aforementioned open-source agenda. But check out this post, which not only tells us about the benefits of a culture of sharing, but also provides an interesting perspective on art, language, hermeneutics, and the contextual nature of meaning.

The Times, They are a-changin

Several factors have contributed to a recent surge among big-name companies in supporting open-source software. Chief among these is the increasing importance of interoperability in a Web 2.0 world. This is true across the board, from big-business capitalism, to the little-guy blogger, to governments around the globe–the world needs its data in transparent patent-free formats.

Microsoft [...]

How to Type in Greek Part III: The Best Greek Fonts

This is the third past in a series of posts about typing in Greek. The first post was about the the joys (and necessity) of Unicode character encoding. The second detailed how to set up a Greek keyboard. Now you need a good font. While up to this point we have been dealing with encodings [...]

Firefox 3 and the Colbert Bump

According to Google Analytics, at least 5 people downloaded Firefox 3 due to my post. Apparently, however, my contribution to Firefox’s World Record was fairly meager. The fabled Colbert Bump had far more impact. The Mozilla Foundation (the company behind Firefox 3) has provided precise measurements of the effects of the Bump, but are apparently [...]

Zotero 1.5 Preview Released

For those who use the excellent bibliographical software Zotero, a major milestone is in the works. The 1.5 release will support, among other features, keeping a full copy of your bibliographic database, which can be accessed by and synced with any of your computers, regardless of Operating System.
The latest release is still in development, and [...]

Firefox 3.0 Released!

The much anticipated release of the excellent web browser Firefox 3.0 is available for download. Curious what all the fuss is about? Wondering if you should switch from Internet Explorer (you should, by the way)? Check out the discussion here and here for the best Firefox analysis. Wondering what’s new? Check out this list or [...]

Why Open Source?

Many potential readers of this blog may be unfamiliar with the concept of “Open Source” software. There are a variety of possible definitions (depending on your preferred open source licensing schema), but what essentially qualifies software as being Open Source is the availability of its underlying source code for reading and editing. Why is that [...]

Zotero: An Introduction, now with SBL support

If you have not already downloaded Zotero, the free, open source bibliographical reference manager for Firefox, now would be a good time. It now supports the cutting edge Firefox 3, and, for all those interested in writing papers in biblical studies, there is now an extension that produces SBL-compliant citations and bibliographies.
Installation is easy enough. [...]