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Did you know? Fastracking

Did you know that by simply copying and pasting a UPS or FedEX tracking # into either a yahoo or google search engine, it will bring a up a link directly to the webpage tracking your package?

How to: use gmail as personal file server

How to use gmail

This is a fairly simple and useful trick to score yourself a gigabyte’s worth of free online file storage.

Typepad vs. blogger

Yet another reason that typepad far surpasses blogger. It doesn't go down when google does.

From Wired

Vlogging

Will Samson gives us a step in the new direction of a post blog world: vlogging. It's basically video blogging and here is a sample:

This is just a picture, you can check out the real thing here .

Got Mail?

I finally got my hands on a gmail account. I had given up on it actually, b/c I have used yahoo since day one (back in 97) and that bumped up their features. Then I thought gmail was public, but for some strange reason, it's still in beta. I even turned down a few offers from readers of this site.

Anyway, if you would like a free gmail offer with no strings attached, leave a comment or email me.

New Links

I discovered a few cool links while online tonight:

the first is google maps, which is beta form now. Its a new, dynamic, interactive kind of online maps. Check it out here!   Thanks to DJ Chuang for the link.

And also, there is a must read article from Wired about SmartWater  that contains microscopic particles encoded with a unique forensic signature that can provide a precise trace back to the owner.

SmartWater Link

Worship Software

If you are in the market for a worship software program and have realized that powerpoint sucks for it, I highly recommend Presentation Manager . It does everything you could want, including video over text and whatever else Mediashout or Sunday plus can. The best part? Instead of 300 or 400 bucks, you can get started for only 200. We use it every week and totally love it. The trial version that you download is the full program, you can use it right away and save your work, unlike Mediashout.

Sermon Spice

Instead of having to buy an entire volume of videos that you don't need or can't afford, why not just get the one clip that you need? 

sermon spice

RANKING THE BIG CHURCH WEBSITES

The May/June, 2004 issue of Outreach Magazine contains their annual listing of the one hundred fastest growing and largest Churches in the United States.

Here is a review of the websites of these large and growing churches.

Top 100 church websites

Online schools clicking with students

Online schools story

With your pajamas snug, your feet clad in bunny slippers, and a tub of ice cream on the desk, your computer glows in front of you. The clock reads 2 a.m. In other words, time for class.

This isn't a dream, but a reality for hundreds of thousands of students. Although brick-and-mortar institutions still dominate the educational landscape, a new form of schooling -- called online or e-learning -- has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years.