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PICLENS Firefox Plugin

I discovered the PicLens Firefox Plugin today and was impressed with its abilities to pull photos from a Picasa Web Album or Flickr collection and on the fly create a fully 3D photo browser. From the website: PicLens provides an immersive full-screen experience for viewing photos on the supported sites listed below and on sites [...]

WordPress 2.5

I upgraded the WordPress installation on this blog to version 2.5 today.  There are more changes in this update than in any previous one that I’ve encountered.  My favorite is the media browser that allows you to view all your uploaded audio/images/video in a very elegant way.  Of course the entire admin section has been [...]

Bible Desktop – Software Review

I’ve been using some new Bible study software called Bible Desktop. It is written in Java, which for you non-techies simply means it can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux with a few minor differences in the way it works on each. For Bibles, dictionaries, commentaries, glossaries, etc., it uses modules from the Sword project, [...]

Find Us Faithful

My sister recently purchased the album Find Us Faithful (AP860) from Altar of Praise. The recording mentioned contains some excellent work from a technical perspective… male vocals with piano, but beyond that, I found the title song speaking directly to me. Here are the words penned by Jon Mohr: Find Us Faithful by Joh Mohr [...]

Google Reader – How do you read the news?

Twenty years ago, the average American would sit down to a cup of coffee in the morning and read their favorite newspaper such as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times or perhaps a local newspaper.  If you wanted to find out how your out of state relatives were doing, you’d sit down and [...]