Tech Tips for Catholics

This tutorial will help you replace that “blank page” that comes up when you open a new tab in Mozilla Firefox.  There are a lot of add-ons that deal with the tab feature, including: Setting the “new tab page” to your homepage, Custom tab settings, or Removing the “new tab” button all together.  But, this tutorial is for the New Tab Page add-on.

As you see in the below screenshot, the page that opens by default (in Mozilla Firefox) is a blank page.

Step 1: Go get the New Tab Page (add-on).  Click on the “Add to Firefox” button and then restart Firefox.

Step 2: Once Firefox restarts, open a new tab (Ctrl+T).  You will see the custom page, but none of the “Favorite Sites” are filled in.  Click the “New Tab Settings” button at the bottom right of the page.

Step 3: On the settings’ page, click on the “Add Site” button and fill in the name and url of your top favorite site.  Click the “Add Site button again to add additional links to the list.

Step 4: When you are done, click on the “Save Settings” button.

Here is a screenshot of what your new tab’s page should look like when done.

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Every Friday I post the top 5 favorite blogposts that I’ve come across throughout the week. You have all weekend now to check them out : )

1. 14 Year-old Speaks Out about the Danger of Internet Creepers, Grateful for her “nosy mum”
2. Child Molesters, Anonymous Proxy Servers, and Spyware
3. GE VScan Portable Ultrasound (How great this device could be for the Pro-life Movement)
4. Twitter Founder Speaks About His Catholic High School
5. Creative Kids Spreading Awareness About Cyber Bullying

*Bonus Tweet

If you have a blogpost that you would like to share with me feel free to contact Catholic Tech Tips and I will get it.

Have a great weekend!

Joshua

In a fairly recent article, written by William J. Doherty, Ph.D., he points out the importance of eating meals as a family.  He says, “Research has continually confirmed that eating meals as a family affects nearly every area of a child’s life.  Kids who eat regular family meals get better school grades, are better off psychologically, receive better nutrition, don’t smoke as much or do drugs, and are less sexually active as teens.”  He goes on to say, “… it’s not only the quantity of family meals that contributes to their life satisfaction, but also the quality of meals. For years, experts on family meals have preached turning off the TV — but now texting, iPhones, and video game consoles also compete with family dinner.

Tom McGrath and Bret Nicholaus have teamed up to improve our “quality of meals” with The Meal Box.  The Meal Box contains 54 cards, each one featuring a creative question guaranteed to spark fun family conversation during family meals.  The questions, such as If you could have the voice of any famous person, whose voice would you have?, are sure to engage everyone in the family.  The reverse side of each card features a quick “Food for Family Thought” tip from family expert Tom McGrath.

“The Meal Box” card game would make a great expansion pack for the “Loaded Questions” or “Loaded Questions Junior Edition” Board Games!

And now, you can Get The Meal Box on your Kindle! This would be great for long, family road-trips.

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Today, you may have noticed that the leading, trending topic around lunchtime was “No God”.  Apparently, Christians all over Twitter tried to get the trending topic to be “No God, no peace; know God, know peace.”  Not a bad goal, except for the fact that Twitter only picked up “No God” and “Know Peace”.

But, I don’t think all has #failed.  More and more people are talking about it now than had the plan worked as intended.  It’s funny how God works.  He can take something bad and turn it into something good.

As always, feel free to comment. God Bless : )

Angela and Joshua (myself) have joined up to bring you a new micro-blog on Twitter called HolyRoadies.

Angela brings a healthy dose of Christian Rock tweets and I pretty much post stuff about Catholic/Christian Hip-Hop.

If I were asked, “Have you any Twitter tips for the Christian music community,” I’d probably answer this one of two ways:

• For the fan of Christian music, searching for #catholichiphop, #christianhiphop , #christianrock or #christianmusic on Twitter is a good way to read about the latest in the Christian music scene.
• Because we follow so many Christian artists, our Twitter stream is very wide and flows very rapidly—the chances of us seeing a general tweet from an individual band is slim-to-none.  So, for the Christian band or musician who has some news that they would like for us to share with our readers, they can either “@” HolyRoadies or direct message us by putting “d HolyRoadies” in front of their tweet (we must be following you to receive a direct message).

Follow HolyRoadies and pray for Righeous B!