Archives for November 2014

Dear Christian, The Internet Is Not Evil

November 4, 2014
by Sean Nolan

No, not what you’re thinking.

I’m not talking about Net Neutrality.

I’m talking about the silly statements I hear from time to time from well meaning but theologically shallow Christians. You know that friend or family member who reminisces about the “good ol’ days” before the Internet, with a statement like, “computers are evil” or “the Internet is ruining this world” (I’ve heard both in real life).

The fact of the matter is that technological advance is inherently neutral, always has been always will be. The Internet is no more evil than the scalpel. Each can be used for good or for evil.

eBook Backups [Images]

November 4, 2014
by Eric Dye

Do you have your ebooks backed-up beyond what’s on the cloud?

Did you know that Amazon and other services can remove books from your mobile devices? While deleting your content is sometimes done erroneously—like what happened to Kenny Jahng—there are times when it’s done intentionally.

Take the ironic removal of George Orwell’s 1984 from users Kindles:

Wunderlist Hack: Contexts

November 3, 2014
by Chris Wilson

I recently made the shift across to using Wunderlist to management my todo lists. I’ve been using Omnifocus on the Mac and iOS for a while, but I wasn’t using many of the advance features and when my Mac crashed I needed to shift my tasks onto a system that could work on the Windows computer I could borrow from work. Wunderlist seemed to have a good balance of nice looks, universality, all the core features I needed (like reminders and due dates) and a killer price for everything I need (that’s free).

Unfortunately, Wunderlist doesn’t have all the features that make up a good “GTD” or similar task management system like contexts or perspectives. Initially, this had put me off Wunderlist, but as I was forced to shift system quickly and found that Wunderlist was enough for me, at least for the time being. However, it did make me wonder if there was a Wunderlist hack that could help me get past it’s basic simplicity.

The first idea I had was to add contexts.

The Exponential Increase of Big Data [Infographic]

November 3, 2014
by Eric Dye

Big data is growing at an incredible rate. It’s growing four times faster than the world’s economy! If that keeps up, we won’t be able to afford to store our own data.

In fact, 90% of the world’s data has been created in the past two years. That’s a lot in a short amount of time and it would seem as though it’s showing no signs of slowing down. And to make matters worse, 90% of the data being generated isn’t organized in any way. These are tweets, photos and user history.

There’s a lot of noise online, what is the Church doing to set itself apart from it?