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High Tech Tools for the Productive Pastor #4

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Here is another tool I use weekly….Zamzar.
Zamzar is a free file conversion website. Suppose you get an PDF file you would like to be able to convert to a .doc file. No problem. Just surf over to Zamzar, upload it, choose .doc from the drop down menu to have in [...]

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High Tech Tools for the Productive Pastor #3

So far I have covered using iTunes and IWantSandy. Today I want to cover another high tech tool….your cell phone.
I would guess that 90% of pastors have cell phones and just recently have I started to see the power of my phone beyond making and receiving calls.

photo credit: Alan_D
Here are some of the [...]

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High Tech Tools for the Productive Pastor #2

Before I begin highlighting tool number two, a word of clarification on the first tool…I want Sandy. I mentioned that one of the things I did not care for was receiving an e-mail reply on every reminder request I sent. I just felt it was one more e-mail to delete.
One of the team [...]

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High Tech Tools for the Productive Pastor #1

This week I want to highlight five high tech tools for the productive pastor. These are five tricks and tools I use to stay on top of the massive number of details those of us in ministry are expected to stay on top of. The first is my assistant, Sandy.
Okay, she is not [...]

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speed your computer up with the Foxit Reader

Have you ever had the feeling after clicking on a search result that you made a big mistake? You were scanning quickly in your search results, clicked on something you thought might have the information you were looking for, only to be frustrated when your hard drive started whirring and computer came grinding to [...]

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A look at our changing culture on YouTube Friday

A pastor friend of mine sent this to me and it is worth a few minutes of your time. It takes a look at the massive shifts taking place in our world today. I can not vouch for all of the data though I have no reason to doubt its validity.

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Run Meebo in a sidebar

Today in Firefox Evangelism I want to finish up by thinking running Meebo (previous write up on Meebo) in a sidebar.
Why would you want to do this?
1.  You can do other things on the web (like Bible Gateway) while chatting.
2. Running Meebo will keep your hard drive free of crap.
To do this simply add this [...]

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Upload to ImageShack Firefox Extension

I love this extension. It allows me to take a picture I find online and, with a few mouse clicks, save it for later use. So today on Firefox Evangelism I want to highlight the upload to ImageShack Firefox extension.
Why might this be valuable? Suppose you run into a picture online you [...]

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Foxmarks for smart pastors

Today on Firefox Evangelism, I want to highlight a powerful Firefox extension guaranteed to make your life easier if you work on more than one computer. It is called Foxmarks and it keeps your bookmarks syncronized between two or more more computers.
If you are like most pastors and work both at home and at [...]

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Using Del.icio.us as an online file cabinet

I have written about this before so will not take much time to today. But I want to point out again as a part of Firefox Evangelism that using an online book marking service such as del.icio.us is a great way to keep track of articles you like from around the web.
And if you [...]

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