Tag Archives: Google
How to Turn Your Voice Mail Into Text
Converting your regular voice mail messages into text messages is extremely useful. I personally haven’t called my voice mail box in years thanks to this handy innovation. {Not true, thanks to transcribed messages!} It is useful, simple and streamlines communication – and is good for the occasional laugh when it incorrectly transcribes the message with hilarious results. There are [...]
Using Your Phone to Build Your Prayer Life & Meaningful Relationships
Two weeks ago we talked about how we should be using technology to encourage and love others, today we will explore a couple of ideas for using our cell phone toward this endeavor. {note: this is written with an iPhone in mind. adapt as necessary.} As mentioned in the original post, text messages are an excellent way [...]
David and Goliath of the Internet
Google has become the Goliath of the Internet. This should be obvious to anyone who spends time online. No matter where one goes Google’s fingerprints are everywhere…. from chain stores using Google Maps to indicate their stores’ locations, to Google Calendars, and even ads placed by Google’s AdWords. However, Google’s Internet dominance is most apparent [...]
Another Day Another Major Security Breach – What Can You Do To Protect Yourself?
It seems as if everyday we wake up to the news that there has been another major online security breach. Headlines such as: ‘One Million Credit Card Numbers Stolen From A Major Retailer’ and ’600,000 Facebook Accounts Compromised Daily’ (source) are so common that such news is no longer shocking. However such revelations SHOULD shock [...]
Internet Culture
In an earlier blog post, Modern Day Elementary Education, I attempted to demonstrate that it is no long necessary to have extensive technical knowledge to use modern computers or the Internet — but there IS something else that we DO need to understand. We need to understand the environment — or culture — of the [...]
5 Great Features of Google Reader
In an earlier post I recommended the free Google app Google Reader to simplify your online reading of periodicals such as blogs and news sites. In that post I described what Google Reader is and how to set it up. In this post I would like to point out five of Google Reader’s more powerful [...]
Google Reader
In an earlier post Crawford wrote about six of Google’s free apps. In his post he explained the power of each app and how you can use them to greatly increase your productivity online. I highly recommend reading his excellent post… it could literally save you thousands of dollars in software costs. In this post [...]
4 Tips For An Effective Website
The above video is the touching story of how God’s love reached a suicidal man through the Internet. The video was produced by Global Media Outreach, an online ministry that is using the web to share the gospel message with thousands of people around the globe– everyday. To God be the glory! As I watched [...]
Why Google Matters
Google is to the internet like Microsoft is to the PC and Facebook is to social media. Google’s vision is to provide easy to use internet tools for every person on the planet. So far they have done a pretty good job of it. Most people think of search when they think of Google but [...]