Posted on 01 February 2010
Other than Open Source Catholic and Catholic Tech Tips, there aren’t many Catholic sites out there where you can learn new skills on the web. Of course, there are tons of sites where you can learn apologetics, philosophy, and theology, but anything else is pretty much non-existent. So being the shrewd servant that I am, [...]
Tags: Add new tag, Cascading Style Sheets, HTML, InstantShift, PHP, W3Schools, web, Web design, wordpress
Posted on 18 January 2010
Not too long ago, I was followed by Petros Media on my Twitter account. Unfortunately, somehow I got distracted and never got around to checking out their site. Boy was that a huge mistake. Petros TV is a fantastic site that brings together Catholic media projects and video into one easy place. Whether it is [...]
Tags: art, catholic, entertainment, film, media, video
Posted on 14 December 2009
As I mention in the video, I am not a guru of the technical side of Google Wave. However, I do believe that the concept of Google Wave itself is something that everyone needs to grasp. Why? Because it is truly going to revolutionize the way that we communicate on the internet. Google Wave is [...]
Tags: Business, collaborate, collaboration, communication, google, google wave, wave
Posted on 10 December 2009
Well… something interesting happened last week that took me a while to process. If you have been following my blog for a while, you’d know that I had been trying to convince my pastor that he needed a new Church website. Well, for a while it looked like I was going to get my wish [...]
Tags: catholic, church websites, parish, tithe, tithing, web, websites
Posted on 03 December 2009
iGoogle, MyCatholic, and a couple of other homepage sites offer a one-stop shop for keeping track of your web presence and interests. But I have yet to find one that comes close to what Netvibes has to offer. In this video I explain why Netvibes is different than iGoogle, and – in my humble opinion [...]
Tags: dashboard, information, netvibes, reader, reading, web app, web apps
Posted on 17 November 2009
Thank you to everyone that participated in the search to find the top 5 Catholic web apps that are currently available out there on the interwebs. Although there is a lot of growing that needs to be done in the Catholic web development community, you all had some great suggestions! Now, without further delay, and [...]
Tags: catholic, catholic apps, web, web applications
Posted on 16 November 2009
As you could probably guess, this is a follow up post to Saving a Church Website, Part 1. Now, although the website that I was aiming to rescue has not been totally saved yet, the reason for the post is that a milestone was hit today. I won’t spoil the surprise, you will have to [...]
Tags: church websites, natural talents, parish leadership, talent, web
Posted on 12 November 2009
Last week I asked for help in deciding what were the top 5 Catholic web apps out there on the Internet. Well, time is beginning to run out, and there are still a lot of voting to be done. As of right now, thanks to Suzanne Sadler, Jeff Geerling, and Steve from Catholic Q and [...]
Tags: Applications, catholic, catholic apps, catholicism, web applications, web apps
Posted on 04 November 2009
Hey guys! I love the web (if you haven’t noticed), and it’s only getting better and better every day. But I can’t keep track of everything. That’s why I need your help to find out which Catholic web applications out there are the best of the best. I have already listed a few in the [...]
Tags: apps, catholic, catholic media, Catholic Social Networking, catholic web, web, web apps
Posted on 26 October 2009
Times have definitely changed. My daughter, who is now 2 years old, discovered how to do some simple addition and subtraction this week. Not only that, for quite some time she has learned to match, do puzzles, name just about every animal, and do some simple addition and subtraction. Did she learn all of this [...]
Tags: apps, game for kids, home schoolers, Homeschooling, iphone, puzzles, tutor