Catholic Tech Talk

At my day gig, we’re celebrating our 100th anniversary on January 7th, 2011. In honor of that, we’re holding a little shindig and I was asked to put together a video displaying some of the features of our websites.

About 3 weeks ago, I decided it was time to upgrade our ‘media center’. We have 2 boys (aged 8 and 6) with significant special-needs and the TV setup is an integral part of their daily lives.

A catechetical colleague recently emailed me to ask about my use of social media — specifically, how much time I spend in social media and do I find it beneficial. Here is my (rambling) response: Yes I think it is beneficial, although I vacillate on just how beneficial. I get something different out of each [...]

We are all hearing this concept of “the cloud” when it comes to computers these days.  “The cloud” simply means that your files are not stored directly on your computer.  They reside on computers elsewhere called servers.  You access your files through the internet.  The benefits are enormous for users and organizations.  Here’s some of [...]

This past year when I set our parish up with Google Apps one of the downfalls was it was a bit complicated for a user to easily get access to their information. It required the installation of the Chrome Browser and individual applications for email, calendars, docs, etc. Recently, Google added personal ‘Start Pages’ for users.

At the risk of upsetting a number of good Catholic bloggers (including some friends), I want to talk for a minute about the practice of adding “emphases and comments” to someone else’s work and uploading it as a blog post. [2010-12-10 Author's note - I realize I was unclear here. I'm talking about copying most [...]

If you are a web developer or aspire to learn in the near future, be sure to check out SitePoint ‘s Holiday Sale. SitePoint offers books, online courses, and other resources to the web developer community. I have purchased books from SitePoint and have found their quality first rate and definitely recommend them. Take today’s [...]

This is a video of a demo of the Playbook at Rogers TabLife.ca event. You can see it play 1080p video while multi-tasking and you can get a good feel for the interface. I can not wait to see this thing in person! A 7 inch play book is just right for taking out and [...]

I cannot go into too much detail, but I’m involved with a group that is starting to look into building an iPad app, and by sharing the high-cost of development – we hope to create a top-notch product. From what I’ve seen so far, the slick apps can cost between $100-$200K upfront. The idea we [...]

The answer to the question is – 42. OK, seriously…it depends – but my rule of thumb is no more than 5 times a day and preferably spaced apart. One of the first Facebook pages I ever set up, I had configured an RSS feed to auto-post to the page from a very active website. [...]

Oh…the fun iPad toys.

Ever get an email from a friend or colleague that was sent to an entire distribution list and wish you could add all the contacts to your BlackBerry without having to do it manually one by one? Now you can! Effortlessly capture contacts with Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry. Xobni Mobile is a contact aggregator which [...]

Ever since Steve Jobs dismissed Flash a few months back, it sure seems the interest in Flash has cooled. Now, multitouch and gesture support has arrived for the Adobe Flash platform. Will it be enough to restart long-term interest? Only time will tell.