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Glo. The Bible for A Digital World
Dec 19th
Glo is the newest digital bible study tool from Zondervan. Glo is a inexpensive highly visual bible study tool for the masses. This tool does not have the depth of Greek / Hebrew tools, concordances, and commentaries that many preachers, teachers, and pastors want. However for the regular church member or small group leader this is a phenomenal resource.
The Spiritual Home Base and use of Lenses are brilliant breakthroughs for a digital tool.
The Spiritual Home Base tracks and reports your progress of what you have read, watched, experienced, as well as how much time you’ve spent in Glo.
The Lenses allow you do drill down in to content using a tagging system. Just think of this as very powerful topical and timeline search. To to BibleGlo.com to see more.
The only downfall I have seen with Glo is only avaliable on the Windows Operating Systems. And I’m waiting to see how well their share and socialize functions work. Haven’t seen much in their tutorial and demos.
Coming in at a very modest price tag of $50, Glo is a great bible study software!
Logos Bible Software
Dec 17th
For those who don’t know Logos Bible Software is the power house of Bible Software Packages. Although I have read many mixed reviews of the changes that have been made in version 4, Logos is still the most comprehensive and powerful software on the market. Logos has recently added a iPhone/iPod app. In a society that is on the go, it is very important to have access to your bible tools where ever you are.
The biggest downfall with Logos software is it’s price tag. You are easily going to spend $1000 to get one of their robust packages.
During Christmas they are running a 25% discount code: DECKTHEHALLS
If you were thinking of purchasing Logos Bible Software, take advantage of this discount!
Poll: Best Bible Study Software
Dec 15th
This week I’m going to feature some different bible study tools / packages. Before I do, what software packages are you use?
The WayBack Machine: A Place Where Everything Old is New Again
Mar 9th
There are, of course, far greater tragedies possible in life, but there is a certain special sadness– at least a kind of virtual sense of loss– felt when a favorite, happily-discovered bookmark link is clicked and turns out to be broken, empty, or over-written/replaced.
Now, thanks to the archive.org, we have recourse to a remarkable resource which might help us fight off a creeping sense of existential displacement or nostalgia-stained despair. What is this welcome source of cyber-comfort? What else could it be but the “Wayback Machine?” It’s like a time warp for the interent. By simply pasting or typing in the URL in question, WayBack does its work and searches back months, even years, to find the missing information. No warranty is offered to guarantee that every data point on every page has been preserved, but it’s worth a try. Even if the links aren’t recovered, it’s fun seeing what Google, USA Today, and other sites of interest looked like years ago.
As with any other recommendation we make, we invite comments and questions, and we are happy to offer help as much as we are able in response to reader requests.
updated 24.09.10, tms
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