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The easiest way I’ve found to make a booklet

From time to time I’ve had to make a booklet for a camp or bible study or something – you know the ones where you have to shuffle the pages and hope that page 8 follows page 7 etc…
Here is a great little bit of software which makes it a cinch.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/86349
It adds an item to [...]

Prezi = Presentation Win

I just discovered a brilliant online presentation tool called Prezi. It lets you create stunning presentations that go beyond the boring slide to slide Powerpoint experience we’ve grown accustom to.
Anyone game enough to use it in a sermon?
(Via TechCrunch)

Plainview Browser Released

Plainview, just released by The Barbarian Group, is a full-screen, WebKit based, browser designed specifically for presentations and kiosks. It looks very slick and could be very handy.

Live Via Skype – Part 1

A great thing Churches across the world do is support missionaries overseas. One way of supporting missionaries is by keeping congregations informed so they can pray effectively. Learn how to do this by interviewing missionaries, live, during your services using Skype in this 4 part series.

A Better Greek Keyboard Layout

I love the way you can seamlessly switch between Latin, Greek and Hebrew on the mac, but it wasn’t perfect until I made this custom unicode keyboard layout.

Realising the Rostering Dream

Every Church has Rosters. At the churches I’ve been a part of this usually means a spreadsheet document which is handed out at the start of each term which tells you who’s on what each week. Some church go-ers are excellent at writing these dates in their diary and then showing up dutifully when they are rostered on. If they can’t make it, they arrange a swap with someone else and then let the right person know. The problem is, not everyone is like this.

Safari 4 Beta

Today Apple released the Safari 4 Beta for public download.

With Microsoft’s IE8 almost upon us, along with Google’s Chrome and the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox, it’s great to see us moving beyond the browser dark ages and competition heating up again.

With Safari 4, Apple is continuing to push browser technology ahead and is showing itself as a real contender at having the best browser available.

Read on for my impressions.

ProVoc for iPhone

I don’t have an iPhone yet, but the case for getting one just got even stronger. At college me and my mac buddies go to town with a program called ProVoc to drill all our Greek and Hebrew vocab. I would know just about zero Greek and even less Hebrew words if it wasn’t for [...]

Testing … Check – 1 – 2

Welcome to our new site: check – 1 – 2

Allow us to introduce ourselves. We are Ben and Caleb, two mates from Sydney, Australia. This is site is dedicated to making technology serve our churches. We have a passion for Jesus Christ, a desire to see his gospel grow, and a hunch that technology and new-media might present some opportunities to this end by helping us communicate more clearly, widely and efficiently.