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 [...]

Get Real Text out of your Scanned Documents

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OCR is the technology used to turn an image of text into plain (editable, search-able) text. If you’re like me (i.e., a nerd) you probably have a pile of scanned journal articles and books and such meticulously sorted on your hard drive (PDFs for example). You can read them and print them, but [...]

BibleArc Gets an Upgrade

I’ve mentioned BibleArc before. Apparently it has recently received a major upgrade with some new features, including automatic parsing of Greek words, the inclusion of the Hebrew OT, and enhanced sharing capabilities. Check it out.
Don’t know what arcing is? Check out this video from John Piper on how he uses this tool. If you [...]

Protect Yourself from the Conficker Worm

You may have heard about a new threat to your computer: the Conflicker worm. Over 3 million computers are infected, and the scary thing is, you won’t know if you’ve got it until it’s too late. By too late, I mean tomorrow, when the worm “activates” and starts making a real mess of things. What [...]

SBL’s Unicode Greek Font Finally Released!

It’s been a long time coming, but SBL has finally released their promised Greek Font. The download page is here, or you can download it directly here. There is also a Hebrew font.
The fonts work in all Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, Mac). They are not open-source (so a couple of other fonts are still my [...]

Even More PDF Tools

As a follow-up to my previous post, here is an excellent review of some more great PDF conversion and manipulation tools.
Also I am happy to report that I have had good success converting PDF images to plain text with OCR terminal, so give it a try!

NTGateway Gets an Upgrade

NTGateway.com, an excellent repository of resources and articles about the NT, has recently been upgraded to make it more searchable, maintanable, and easier to navigate. Check it out.
You can read about the background for this upgrade here. From that post:

We’ve moved all of the content over to WordPress, slightly reworked the organization, added site navigation [...]

Use PostRank for Customized Feeds

On Monday I mentioned the usefulness of using a feedreader to collect information and stay up-to-date. What I did not mention was a web service, PostRank, that provides some very handy advanced features for feeds that may be of interest.
In addition to a whole set of wonderful free services for bloggers, PostRank allows blog readers [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]