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03.27.08

The Usual Suspects Geeky, Humor, Musings | (2)
Heh, I just started using Google Alerts to not only keep up with things of interest to me, but also as another way to find like-minded bloggers I've never read before. If you've not seen Google Alerts, you just plug in your desired keywords, choose the type of alert (news, blogs, web, comprehensive, video, groups), choose how often to be alerted, and give up your email addy. The result is a concise email report of Google's finds based on your keywords. I've set up about 20 different alerts, one of which is a very broad, blog specific search of the keyword ...

Tagged: blog, blogging, blogs, consuming worship, google, google alerts, joel klampert, matt odegaard, rich kirkpatrick, victor estrada, Worship, worship blog, worship bloggers, worshipcity, worshipguitarguy
02.08.08

Free for all Friday #5 Free for all Friday | (0)
Here's a VERY belated Free for all Friday. Why belated? Well, Friday's nearly over and I'm just getting around to posting this, and also because I haven't done one of these in weeks. I think I've got some good ones though, so those of you reading this on Saturday/Sunday/Monday, I hope you get some use out of these links. Graphics CreativeMYK.com: I just learned about this one today. This is a community fueled website, offering an index of user submitted graphics from Christian photographers and church graphic designers. The site is still in it's infancy, so there's not a huge amount ...

Tagged: creativemyk, free for all, Free for all Friday, freebie, freebies, google, indesign, lakeview church, mac os x, microsoft, open office, openoffice.org, photoshop, scribus, senuti, sketchup
02.08.08

Increase your Google-Fu Geeky | (2)
As wonderful as Google is for searching and finding stuff on the ol' intarwebs ("official term"), you will be much more effective in your searching if you learn and utilize the special search functions built into Google. Granted, some of these trick will work in other search engines, but we all know Google is dominant for a reason, it's the absolute best search engine currently available. (And will only get better as they continue to develop new products, and even better if they successfully buy Yahoo.) So, here are some tricks I use on a regular basis I wanted to share ...

Tagged: advanced, advanced search, blog search, book search, boolean, cache, exact phrase, force include, google, google fu, google hacks, google tips, google tricks, googlefu, group search, info, link, misspell, negative search, numrange, omitted results, operators, related, search, search engine, site, specific date range, synonym, terms, video search, zeitgeist
02.07.08

From the Feed Reader Musings | (1)
You know what time it is? Time to click. Carlos and Shaun have got discussions going on about "Alpha Male/Pope pastoral leadership." Join the discussions. David Crowder answers your questions in his own quirky style. shawn dubya dot org takes a look at communion. Stephen Barry has a post so good I'm printing it out and hanging it in my office. worship trench is offering two free Good Friday services. Perry with another great post. Trust me. Just read it. Go check out Phil Wickham's new web digs. The Tall Skinny Kiwi on adding a sitemap for Google webmaster tools. Consumerist on How to Save a Million Dollars. Create your ...

Tagged: $, alpha male, blog links, carlos whittaker, communion, david crowder, feed reader, good friday, google, homeless, link dump, los, million dollars, pastoral leadership, perry noble, phil wickham, ragamuffin soul, ragamuffinsoul, secularism, shaun groves, sitemap, stephen barry, tall skinny kiwi, that guy, Worship
01.27.08

Google 1960 Humor | (1)
(HT: Boing Boing)

Tagged: 1960, google, search, search engine