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Computer Tips

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Data projection software

Question: It’s taken a while, but our church is finally getting a data projector installed. The majority of it’s use will be for displaying song words and maybe bible verses, but it’ll also be used for things dvds and powerpoint presentations. So, I’ve been looking around at different projection software options to run for it […]

The Sony CD Saga

The last four months has brought to light one of the hidden foibles of digital technology. Sony introduced “Digital Rights Management” to a number of CDs which installed root kit software on the user’s computer which protected it from being copied, as well as allowing it to track usage of the CD, but which also […]

Some technological gifts for you all

From a friend: Dear all, In the spirit of the season, I’d like to offer you some free programs for your computer. These are basics for security. Free anti-virus Grisoft AVG Free Edition, which has received the VB 100% award from The Virus Bulletin for the last three years: http://free.grisoft.com Free firewall. Simple to set […]

Online Reference

Reference Tools Refdesk – In a library, if you don’t know where to look for a reference book, you go to the Reference Librarian. On the Internet, if you don’t know where to look for answers, you go to Refdesk.com. At first glance, the sheer amount of useful links on the Refdesk home page can […]

Computer TIP: Where Did the Pictures Go?

From a friend: Computer TIP Where Did the Pictures Go? Recently I was asked a question by a person who is having trouble forwarding images. via e-mail. He asked, “almost always when I forward e-mails containing pictures (whether the pictures are photos, drawings, cartoons, whatever) I inevitably get replies from people telling me that the […]

Internet Addiction

How can I overcome this &*^%$#* addiction to ng’s!!?? If there is “net police” is there also “net ambulance”? 🙂 “What most people online who think they are addicted are probably suffering from is the desire to not want to deal with other problems in their lives. Those problems may be a mental disorder (depression, […]

Dump your iPods, mobiles: try living in the real world

Dump your iPods, mobiles: try living in the real world By Chas Savage in The Age (Melbourne)… February 10, 2006 These days, as we sit in front of computers, we have at our fingertips the new Library of Alexandria – virtually the entire knowledge of the world. On the surface of things, this has to […]

How far can churches go online?

February 08, 2006 9:56 PM How far can churches go online? Sheila Jacobs* The Internet is a revolutionary new communications space of fascinating diversity. It reflects the richness of real life, with some of its truths but many of its half-truths (and untruths!) too. As a virtual place, it poses a particular conundrum to churches […]

God on the Internet

——————————————————————————– Jonathan V. Last ——————————————————————————– Copyright (c) 2005 First Things 158 (December 2005): 34-40. Even diligent students of the papacy may be unfamiliar with the pontificates of Michael and Pius XIII. Pope Michael, born David Bawden, was crowned on July 16, 1990. He has spent his papacy mostly at home, in Delia, Kansas, where he […]