In order to appreciate how hateful people are, check out the “apology due” section.
…because surfing the net on your laptop while driving isn’t illegal in CA – yet.
Autonet Mobile is the first internet service designed for your car. Unfortunately, it is too overpriced for me to even want it. I mean, maybe for that long roadtrip with youngish kids, but really? A one year contract at $30.00? It is pretty cool though….
Anyway, here it is:
In order to appreciate this post, you probably have to:
A) Own a Mac
B) Own Accordance Bible Software
C) Need to learn a load of vocab in Hebrew or Greek every week
D) Attend a seminary (like Westminster Seminary in CA) where they actually force you to learn Hebrew and Greek.
First, download Flashcord from Joe Weaks: You can find FlashCord here.
I got that from this forum on Accordance Bible
Below there are links that will take you to screencasts that show you how to do these basic functions:
This first one is the most useful function (to me). It takes a passage that you’ve defined (i.e. – Friday’s quiz on 2 Sam 7:1-17), and it gives you a list of all the words in the passage in order of how many times they appear in that passage. Then when you export it, you can cut out some of the easier ones and just review the words you need to review:
1. Frequency in TEXT: Extracting vocab from Accordance for quiz using frequency of use in specified passage (my recommendation)
Extracting vocab from Accordance according to overall frequency of use in Hebrew:
(Note: The Hosea import is for #2 above; The 2 Sam import is for #1 above.)
Hope that helps, let me know if you have any questions.
If you have trouble using Google, here is the site for you:
(hint: Search for something and then click on the “go” button that appears under the link.)
And here is some weirdness:
And here are some facts and figures about Valentine’s Day for your Valentine’s Day reading pleasure:
- The lovers’ holiday traces its roots to raucous annual Roman festivals where men stripped naked, grabbed goat- or dog-skin whips, and spanked young maidens in hopes of increasing their fertility.
- In the Middle Ages, there was a belief that the first unmarried person of the opposite sex you met on the morning of St. Valentine’s Day would become your spouse.
- Hallmark began selling cards in 1913. Since then the market for Valentine’s Day cards has increased beyond lovers to include parents, children, siblings, and friends.
- Americans will spend about $14.7 billion in retail sales on Valentine’s Day in the United States.
- The average U.S. consumer is expected to spend $103 on Valentine’s Day gifts, meals, and entertainment, down from $123 per person in 2008. (from seattlepi)
If you haven’t enabled labs like “attachment reminder” or put a new background on your gmail, you’ve probably never heard of Gmail Offline. Either that, or you got the floot from Adam.
I think my favorite thing about google and apple is that they give me what I want before I know I want it. It is so frustrating to sit in class or somewhere without internet and be unable to access information online. I dislike downloading through outlook – that is sooo old school, and besides what else am I supposed to do when someone interrupts class lecture to inquire about how a particular point applies to (insert random hard-to-pronounce philosopher’s name here).
Best thing is, it is just a minor add-on to gmail’s already great lab features.
Check it out:
Gmail Offline
Whenever we take a long trip, we bring along some audio books that make the trip fly by. Here is a site that gives you that luxury for free. It can be hit or miss from what I’ve heard (they are volunteer readers), but if you’re persistent there are some solid narrators out there.
Sorry for the hiatus, finals are killer. Here is a site that lets you listen to the music you want when you want.
Thanks a lot. It would’ve been nice if Google had released this a little earlier so I could have added it to my last google post, but it probably deserves its own space anyway. If they do things right they’ll be able to pull the Skype community off that sometime terrible software, and give us something stable to communicate with. Let me know how you guys like it….
Click here for a quick summary of how to work it:
Bored? Cakewrecks has you covered. Go through a few of these pages and you’ll see why we love it. The rules, as I’ve gathered, require every submission to be a professionally made. You’ll find that these are no “professionals”.
Here is the link to the first post that got us hooked:
Other Honorable mentions:
In Honor of the 2008 Olympic Games
The blog commentary is a must…..
Google offers a lot of great stuff. Here are my all time favorites (many of you will already be familiar with some of these – let me know your favorites – any from the labs that I don’t know about yet?)
Goog 411 – Free 411! 1 800 GOOG 411 - Absolutely the best tool I have on the road.
Gmail – the best email service ever – I still don’t understand why people are still using hotmail or anything else for that matter.
Google Chrome – I’ve posted this before, but it is the only PC browswer that doesn’t crash constantly
Google Docs – Good for collaborative efforts
Google Alerts – Searches the internet for news about anything you ask it to (try making one for your name)
And of course Google Maps – wouldn’t leave home without them:
Hmmm seems like I use Google a little more than I thought I did.
