Catholic Tech Talk

Kids should be and shouldn’t be online is an argument that has gone back and forth for a while.  We have all read the reports where this or that bad thing happened.  I personally feel that kids should learn about the internet and have exposure to it.  This is not because I think the internet [...]

As one of the best and most popular open source CMS currently available, Drupal owes to a great extent its status to the talented contributors that keep it alive. Though the standard version of Drupal is powerful by itself, it’s only when you add certain modules to it that you unlock its full capabilities. Here are 6 of the best modules out there that improve functionality.

I just went on a walk, played Tumbling Tower, and Blind Man’s Bluff with my wife and daughters. We made silly jokes and laughed hard enough to make our bodies ache. It was totally unplugged and it was a blast! The rest of my day was spent building a website, setting up a client’s Facebook [...]

Work with people who are in a state of denial about mobile? Show them this…

Ok.  First, I know, there’s 4G also.  This will be about whatever number ‘G’ is available at this particular minute in the tech world since by the time you read this we may in fact be at 10G. Anyway, signal type for the delivery of data over the air is becoming more and more confusing [...]

Weak passwords make data stored on your computer vulnerable. It is important to create and maintain secure passwords

Picking up from Brad’s excellent post on technology in the Church, I’d like to talk about a communications technology he failed to mention: online meetings. The diocesan office I head started using online meeting software (specifically GoToMeeting) in January of 2009. The immediate impetus was to give some relief to our regional lead principals — some [...]

There is a lot of talk among legislators, educators, and parents about ebooks in schools (both public and private such as our Catholic Schools)at the k-12 level.  I agree that there are potentially great benefits for improving education as well as huge long-term cost savings.  This is not an easy move either, and in many [...]

Looking for some inspiration? Here are the 5 best looking and designed websites across the U.S.

In modern society, we have undergone several eras of technology. With the advent of computers, we experienced the ability to program this “machine” to perform mundane tasks of the everyday work experience. The advancement of the archaic computers made them not only faster and “smarter”, but more and more mobile. Think back when we got [...]

I am a Mac fanboy. For almost 2 years, I’ve been happily swiping away on my iPad and iPhone, with no interest for the tidal wave of Android-powered smartphones and tablets flooding the market. Then 2 weeks ago, the Verizon XOOM and Thunderbolt landed on my desk for review.

LAMP is an acronym for the Open-Source software applications Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP – probably the most common website ‘stack’ platform on the Web. If you are a serious blogger or operate a website, it’s worthwhile to be familiar with them.

Editor’s Note: This guest post by Frank Eybsen is just as useful and relevant for Church Ministries as it is for business.

As I talk with Catholics working in parishes, Catholic schools, and diocesan offices about social media, people often tell me that they don’t “get” Twitter and how it can be used. This is a short video explaining how I personally use Twitter in my work on behalf of the Church.

It’s only been a few weeks since Lent ended. We went through 40 days of fasting, abstinence and penance; and hopefully some of us experienced renewal in a great way. There were some who gave up sweets, or beer, or meat, and some of us decided to go hard core giving up more than one thing while promising all kinds of new resolutions for the Lenten season.

Skype interview with Jeff Geerling, past director of web development at the Archdiocese of St. Louis and current Chief Technology Officer at www.FlockNote.com.

It can be easy, yet unnecessary, to drop hundreds of dollars on the software packages that make your computer do the things you need it to do.

HTML5 is being hailed as the new age of the web and few would argue that it fills in some of the gaps in Flash and Silverlight but what does this mean to web designers?