A Guide to Using Zotero in Biblical Studies: Collecting, Annotating and Citing Bibliographic Data

Zotero is free bibliographic software that allows you to easily collect, annotate, and cite bibliographic data. It runs as a plugin for the excellent Firefox browser, which means that you have the web at your fingertips as kyou manage information, and also that it can run on any operating system that Firefox can run on [...]

A Helpful Bible Atlas

I often find it helpful to have a Bible Atlas near me when I’m reading through large chunks of the Bible. I have been unable to find a real good online version, but here is a pretty decent offering from the Access Foundation. It is listed on Scribd as licensed under the Creative Commons non-Commercial [...]

New Bible Search Bar for your Blog (from Logos.com)

In addition to their excellent reftagger plugin, which provides blog readers with Bible verse popups whenever they hover over a Biblical reference (try it with Heb. 1:1), Bible.Logos.com is now offering a free Bible Search Bar widget to put in your sidebar. Biblical Bloggers should definitely look into this as it makes things easier for [...]

Wear Your Network on Your Sleeve

In today’s troubled times, it’s a wonder that so many strange ideas can survive. Today’s Strangelet: a T-shirt that notifies you of adjacent Wi-Fi networks. From DigitalInspiration:
The wi-fi shirt, made of pure cotton, can detect wireless networks in your vicinity and displays the signal strength as animated glowing bars as shown in the picture.
It [...]

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 [...]

YAPFA (Yet Another Plug for Archice.org)

Though I’ve mentioned it several times, it’s worth repeating: the Internet Archive is a truly wonderful resource. It contains a wide variety of legal downloads in the open domain. I’m currently reading a little Origen (disseration work) while listening to recent Béla Fleck Christmas Concerts.
For the latter below, go here or here, or just listen [...]

Sync Google Calendar with Desktop Applications

Google Calendar now syncs with Apple’s iCal, Mozilla’s Sunbird, or Thunderbird (with the Lightning extension) without any additional plugins or even all that much work. Follow these instructions.
Google Calendar with one of these applications provides the perfect online/offline solution to scheduling. Individuals and organizations alike can benifit from this.

Setting Up Zotero: Link by Link

The following is a set of links that will be useful for those trying to set up Zotero on their computers. (Not sure what Zotero is or why you would want it? Check out their site, and don’t miss the demo video).
Initial Setup

Firefox Web Browser. Zotero runs as a plugin within this excellent browser.
The Zotero [...]

Sync Thunderbird Address Books using Funambol

There is now an easy way to sync your Thunderbird addresses and calendars with, well, anything!
Our family uses Mozilla’s Thunderbird to get things done–it syncs up perfectly with Gmail (use IMAP for best results) and Google Calendar (with this plugin). The only persistent problem I have had is getting all our address books to sync [...]

Free Media Players and Media Tools

Some time ago I posted this introduction to free software, promising a series of articles about good free products available for all your computing needs. The promised posts have been slow in coming, but the next in the series is ready for release! You can find other posts in this series here.
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