Technology – Page 2

Different Kind of Present

joe December 30, 2008 Church, Faith, Technology

Before Christmas, finally decided to install my Bible software on my Blackjack. Well, even though it said it worked with Windows Mobile, it would not load on my phone. Like every phone is a little different, and takes some special software.

The Bible Reader with 11 or 12 Bible translations was a Christmas gift a few years back, and had worked well on my Palm Pilot, Palm E and a couple of Treo phones. I was really missing the ability to look up a Bible verse wherever I happened to be.

Needless to say, I contacted Olive Tree, the creators of the software and asked if there was a way to get my Bible versions to work on my Blackjack. Got super fast response from their Support people, and after giving them my original serial number and list of Bibles on the old software, they updated my account on their website and had me download everything.

What a wonderful surprise to find helpful people like that! My thanks to Olive Tree for putting the Word back on my phone. This is fantastic stuff – you can switch versions of the Bible, do a search for words or phrases, even compare different versions on a split screen. Really great! Take a look for yourself.

There are some free Bible translations and books, and some that cost, but they are well worth the investment.

Now, what was that verse you mentioned?

Are Facebook and MySpace Good Ideas?

joe December 5, 2008 News, Technology

Seems that nothing is safe from scammers and other bad people. If you think all those people who are your "friends" are really your friends, you might want to think again. If you have ever gotten an anonymous invitation to accept someone as your friend, then you may have fallen for the scam – and that's just the beginning of the tower of trouble.

IT World's headline reads "Why you can't trust 'friends' on Facebook". They even walk you through how the scam is done. Think about how many people can access your MySpace or Facebook page and see all your friends. From there, it's an easy jump to who knows what. Watch yourselves, it's a jungle out there – and you don't have any weapons except common sense.

Go Figure!

joe February 22, 2008 Technology

Interesting article today in one of the computer “trade” papers about Windows Vista. You can find the article here. Vista is not something I want here yet – too many horror stories about problems or difficulties getting things done. Some of you know that for the past several years my computers have used OS/2 for an operating system. Started that when Windows was a baby (3.0) and did not work well. This year, I finally converted my computer to XP simply because of all the things I wanted to do that OS/2 couldn’t quite do or do well, like graphics, music (for my IPod), digital photos, PDA/phone sync, etc. However, my web server still runs under OS/2 because of it’s reliability. Not quite ready to jump to Mac, Linux or Windows Server/Exchange.