Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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Turning MS Word files into web pages can be a really painful experience – particularly if you have to go through them by hand looking to change or modify them. I’ve had some days when I’ve given up trying to get Word content into a nice web format and just gone and recoded the content…
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Commenting on a couple of talks he did with groups of librarians, Henry Jenkins notes: Across both conversations, it was clear that librarians are on the front lines, dealing with those who have been left behind by the participation gap, struggling to deal with those opposed to or frightened by the participatory turn in our…
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Received The Mediated Spirit multimedia CD-ROM by Peter Horsfield in the mail the other day and I’m looking forward to having a moment in the next week or so to have a good look at it. Initial surveys look promising. Here’s the blurb about “The Mediated Spirit” off the web site: One of the first…
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To add to my mostly Mac OS X based list of writing tools – Bean: An OS X Word Processor. (Oh, and I think I left NeoOffice (based on OpenOffice) off the original list too.)
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Adobe make a version of Photoshop – Photoshop Express – available as a free web-based application adding yet another application type to the burgeoning area of free web apps offered to allow companies like Microsoft, Google and Adobe carve out their own corner of the internet – and hence a source of consumers to manage…
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Love to share is a downloadable resource from the World Council of Churches that aims to give some direction and guidelines for churches when considering intellectual property rights and copyright and looking at alternatives to the current situation. At some point I’d like to have some students theologically investigate these ideas so I’ll be downloading…
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Not that I’m going to buy a MacBook Air in the near future, but this might make some people think twice – Wide Awake Developers: Steve Jobs Made Me Miss My Flight.
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In the next few weeks we’ll be wanting to get a basic Windows notebook computer for home for Kim to use for the various things she does. Looking around the place there seem to be a plethora of low-end models selling from between $800-$1000 depending on the rebate given by the manufacturer. I was wanting…
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Kevin Kelly ponders the result of including a computer in the ‘social space’ that is the kitchen over at Conceptual Trends and Current Topics – The Kitchen Computer. It’s something I’ve thought about as we think about rearranging things in the house as our what we need to do with the internal space changes.
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A new documentary about Mac users and their love affair with the Apple brand. See Doco puts Macheads under the microscope – Stuff.co.nz. Trailer available here and movie web site at MacHEADS. Related link: May the Force of the Operating System be with You: Macintosh Devotion as Implicit Religion | Sociology of Religion