Any time I begin to collaborate on documents, I inevitably come up against one of the greatest banes of the desktop publishing world, manually formatted text. This is a particular difficulty with website submissions. In submitted web articles text comes in manually formatted with headers, often with line breaks following to make the text look…
Category: Geek
Using Google Voice as a “home” number
Last month we finally “cut the cord” and rid our house of both cable television and home phone service. We still wanted to have a “home” number to give out to business and acquaintances, however, so we set up a Google Voice number and set it to ring the phones of both my wife and…
A thought on iBooks
I am writing my first book using iBooks author. It's nothing major, just about 50 pages on a presentation concept I call “Idea Painting.” As I continue to research the concept, and do more reading on communication theory, I be adding to the book over time, and issue updates through the iBooks store. Yes, there…
Dear Barnes & Noble
For Father’s Day my family got me a Nook SimpleTouch with GlowLight, I love it. I love that I can carry around all of Tolkien and Harry Potter in my pocket. Â I love that I can pick up reading material for my sermon research in seconds. Â I love that my annotations and highlights are available…
Simply the Nook
I received my Father’s Day present a bit early this year. My wife let it slip that she was planning on getting me an eReader as a present, and had to pick the model I wanted. Thanks to some sleuthing I managed to track down a Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light at a local…
The odd-relevance of “hoodie-gate” for the Church
Mark Zuckerberg, who is a rather odd guy (I say that by way of affection, “normal” people annoy me), started Facebook. Â He made millions upon millions of dollars and created a platform where people re-connect and share with one another. Â Yes, it has problems. Â They like to play fast and loose with privacy a good…
