If your internet service provides a cable modem for you to use to get your internet from the wall to your computer, they’re probably also charging you $5 a month for the modem rental (like Comcast has been doing to us for the last two-and-a-half years). Save yourself the $60 a year by buying this […]
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How to Use Greek and Hebrew in Blog Posts
If you use Greek and Hebrew in your blog posts, here’s a tip that will help you make it look good and give you the ability to make changes across your entire site in just a few seconds. There are two main things you need to do. Step 1: Add Styles to Your Style Sheet […]
Open an ING Checking or Savings, Get $25
For the last two-and-a-half years I’ve been using ING Direct as my primary bank for checking and savings. They offer lots of great benefits, and they’re all free. Since I pay just about everything online, I have less and less need for a traditional bank. In addition to paying nearly all of my bills, I […]
Subscribe to Any Page with Google Reader
Have you ever come across a webpage that you wanted to subscribe to in your RSS reader only to be disappointed to discover that it didn’t have an RSS feed? Perhaps it’s the occasional “blog”1 that for some strange reason lacks RSS (e.g., Tim Keller’s or David Alan Black’s). Well, Google Reader has come to the rescue […]
Wasting Time with Technology
Josh Harris shares some good and convicting thoughts about wasting time with technology. https://youtube.com/watch?v=EzxmMvbBilM I need to be far more intentional about how many times a day I check email, Twitter, and Google Reader. Life is fragile, and every moment is a gift from God to use for His glory and the good of His […]
Ref.ly Makes Sharing the Bible Easier
Logos Bible Software just launched a new website called ref.ly (think bit.ly). It allows you to share Bible verses as links via Twitter and other places where you have a limited number of characters and want to keep the URL as short as possible. Enter a Bible reference, and ref.ly will instantly generate a short […]
OpenLibrary.org: “Every Book Ever Published”
I knew that would get your attention. Internet Archive, a site I use regularly for researching public domain books, just announced their newest project: OpenLibrary.org. Here’s the site’s description: One web page for every book ever published. It’s a lofty, but achievable, goal. To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a […]
MS Word Tip: How to Replace Hyphens with En Dashes
Though most people don’t know (or care when told), the correct character to use for a range of numbers is the en dash (–), not the hyphen (-). Even if you’re committed to using en dashes between digits, hyphens are a tad easier to type,1 making a find and replace necessary at some point. If […]