Windows Shutdown Problems

Tiny application ShutdownGuard puts Windows automatic restarts back into your control.
I run an automated backup program on my Home computer (Vista) every night at 1am. Well, almost every night. Well, about every other night. The problem is that I have Windows set to download and install all those security updates, and it often decides [...]

Visit Rome, 320 c.e.

Take a tour of ancient Rome, courtesy of Google. Read a description of the project here.

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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 [...]

Get a to-do List in Gmail

Ever wish Gmail had a simple to-do list? Follow this guide, which describes how to add the services provided by Remember the Milk, a web-bsaed to-do list manager, to Gmail’s sidebar.
I have been a user of Remember the Milk since it was released over a year ago, and it’a pretty powerful stuff. You can tag [...]

Google reaches Settlement over Google Books/Scholar

Google Books currently allows you to search and browse a massive number of copyrighted material online. Google has been digitalizing books for some time, and the number of available books is growing quickly. Since Google generates ad revenue from this feature, it is no surprise that they were sued by book publishers in 2005. That [...]

Free Office Software: OpenOffice 3.0 Released!

In honor of the release of OpenOffice 3.0 I thought I would make it my first post in the Don’t Pay for Software Series.
What is OpenOffice.org?
It is an office document suite, similar to (but better and free-er than) Microsoft Office or (for those of you who still use it) WordPerfect. Now don’t be nervous because [...]

More Gmail IMAP Options

For those of you who use gmail, and have IMAP enabled (IMAP allows you to keep your email client–such as Thunderbird, Outlook, iPhone, or Blackberry–perfectly in-sync with all your other email clients, including Google’s web client, so you only have to check your email once), now there are even more options available to you. Read [...]

Google Audio Indexing and the Church

Here is a nice little snippet about Google’s new audio indexing technology from Justin Taylor’s blog, complete with a couple of ideas about how it might be useful for pastors and churches.

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Google Takes a Stand

Google makes a rare (for Google or any other publicly-owned corporation) stand on a California legislative initiative that does not affect Google’s core business, Proposition 8:
While there are many objections to this proposition — further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text — it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on [...]

An Open-Source Alternative to Apple’s iPhone

No one can dispute it: the iPhone is cool. But Apple maintains absolute control over the software you can install and the services you can use, so the iPhone is still tethered to your home computer. The problem with the iPhone is that it is not open-source.
Google has been working on an alternative platform for [...]