http://catholictechtips.stblogs.com How-To's, Computer Tips & Tricks, and Faith. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:30:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 : ) BXVI: Proclaim the Gospel on the "Digital Continent" TheCatholicDirectory.com iPhone App Ministry and connections in 140 words or less Thesis on the Church & New Media Protecting Our ... http://catholictechtips.stblogs.com/2009/11/06/favorite-five-friday-vol-44/ 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" ... http://catholictechtips.stblogs.com/2009/10/26/create-a-custom-new-tab-page/ 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 : ) 14 Year-old Speaks Out about the Danger of Internet Creepers, Grateful for her "nosy mum" Child Molesters, Anonymous Proxy Servers, and Spyware GE VScan Portable Ultrasound ... http://catholictechtips.stblogs.com/2009/10/23/favorite-five-friday-vol-43/ 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 ... http://catholictechtips.stblogs.com/2009/10/22/the-meal-box-for-the-kindle/ 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 ... http://catholictechtips.stblogs.com/2009/10/20/twitter-trending/ 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 ... http://catholictechtips.stblogs.com/2009/10/12/holyroadies/ Many of you know that my son Eric is in the throes of applying to college. It's likely during the next several months that I'll be writing a great deal on this topic, not only for those of you with high school seniors, but also for those with younger children ... http://catholictechtips.stblogs.com/2009/09/17/college-admissions-and-facebook/ "You know it's funny, we live in such a wireless age, where you can't see stuff.  And we have no problems with wireless routers, hot-spots, wi-fi's, and cell-phones—mobile phones that send wireless signals—and you can't see them, but there you are holding this piece of plastic up to your head ... http://catholictechtips.stblogs.com/2009/09/01/quote-eucharist-2/ In this YouTube Video, Eric Giler demos MIT's breakthrough version of WiTricity.  This was recorded back in July, at TED Global 2009, in Oxford, England. Below are some related links to this topic: WiTricity Technology: The Basics TED Global 2010 (July 13-16, 2010) http://catholictechtips.stblogs.com/2009/08/31/wi-tricity/ If you've been using MyChurch.org for an extensive amount of time, as I have, then you've probably seen the site go through many changes over the years.  I really miss some of the old features!  One of the features that I really miss is the capability to search blogs. I contacted ... http://catholictechtips.stblogs.com/2009/08/27/miss-the-blogsearch-feature-on-mychurch/