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Reubenland goes mobile

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Jodie got herself an ipod touch yesterday… seems to be enjoying it greatly!

I noticed, however, that reubenland.com is pretty much unusable on it  …so i’ve just installed a plugin (WPTouch) which makes it look a whole lot better on your iphone/ipod touch/android/blackberry.

Just in case you want to pay a visit to reubenland.com on the road :-)

Wordpress plugins I like (and you might too)

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

I’m a big fan of wordpress, and I know a number of you use it too…

so here are a few plugins which I think you might want to use.

1. Backup wordpress

If you are self-hosting your site (i.e. its not at wordpress.com etc) you should really get this going in case you suffer a crash or get hacked. Set it to back up weekly or similar. It can send the files to a gmail account.

2. Login lock-down

Add some protection against hackers guessing your password.

3. Google analytics plugin

If you like graphs and statistics, this is a lot more detailed than the built in stats. Also you can display them nicely in the dashboard using Analytics360

Which plugins do you recommend?

Macs do Hebrew

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

I feel really bad about how long it’s been since I last posted! so…here is an attempt to remedy that.

I installed Mac OSX snow leopard today. Pretty much the only reason I got it was for the claimed improvements for handling right-to-left languages like Hebrew. For anyone that has tried to create a document with mixed English and Hebrew on a Mac you will know how incredibly frustrating it is!!

Well, at last it seems to work like it should. Latest version of OpenOffice.org and snowleopard = Hebrew without the cursing.

Blindsearch – a new spin on Coke vs Pepsi

Friday, July 10th, 2009

See if you can really tell the differences between your search engine results…

http://mashable.com/2009/06/07/blindsearch/

Moore college nerds

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

nerd

Wow, another interesting search term that will land you on this blog!

I’m #1 on google for “moore college” nerds. Stan is second…

Oh well. good thing nerds don’t care about image :-)

MTC Zotero Stylesheet

Monday, June 1st, 2009

I recommended Zotero for bibliographic goodness a while back, here is the Moore College style produced by Dan Saunders for anyone who needs it. Thanks Dan!!

MTC Stylesheet (136)

To install you’ll probably have to save the file to your computer then in firefox choose the menu option ‘file > open file…’. Zotero will then offer to install the style.

(It is the SBL style with Brittish variations like single quotes)

Wolfram Alpha

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

For the geeks: WolframAlpha

With its help I have discovered that i’ll be living my 10,000th day next year on the 6th of March. I’ll have 12 hours and 39 minutes of daylight to celebrate it…

Adding celebration to the list

via:CraigS

Easier Bibliographies

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

I particuarly hate spending time formatting references in essays and inputting titles/publishers/authors etc. I’ve found that Zotero is really useful and for MTC peeps you can load it up with the SBL style.

Biggest plus for me (over endnote) is that it runs in firefox so as you browse the library catalogue or EBSCO you can click a button in the address bar to add books straight into your referenced items. Sweet! There is a plugin for word and OpenOffice too.

Check it out: http://www.zotero.org/

SBL Style is in this list: http://www.zotero.org/styles

Blogging and Bible references

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

If you include Bible references on your blog, you might want to think about installing a plugin called RefTagger.

It automatically picks up references that you type into posts, turns them into a link and displays a popup when a reader hovers their mouse over the reference.

Like this: Jn 3:16ff

Pretty handy I reckon…!

New iPod Feature

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Check this video. people with faces hooked up to electrodes causing them to twitch in time to music.

Next on the list of features available on your iPod? would make my bus trips more entertaining I think!