Catholic Tech Talk

For years backups have always been a challenge.  For anyone else who has lost a hard drive or had a computer crash you know the importance of backing up your files and data.  The solution has often been a local external hard drive connected to the computer and or a local network.  This is ok [...]

When I recently asked a church how they liked their new Online Giving program, they responded with “its like getting a 5th Sunday in every month!”.  I’ll take that as a good indication they’re happy with their program.  By tradition, Catholics give to their church every week.  Actually, and unfortunately, Catholics tend to give to [...]

Anyone who spends time on the Internet, ends up with a multitude of passwords, far too many to effectively manage and keep safe let alone even remember.  A few years ago I got excited about the prospect of OpenID, an open source foundation with the mission of implementing a single sign on solution across the [...]

Ever since I was a kid I have loved music.  I remember spending hours sifting through and listening to 45′s (yes, I’m that old).  Later on, like many people, I amassed the large number albums, then cassettes, and then CD’s.  There was always a few problems I ran into with these: Storage Finding the music [...]

Software As a Service (SAAS) SAAS is becoming rather commonplace in Corporate America, but has only recently started to enter our world. The idea that your church’s software and data is housed ‘somewhere’ in the Internet cloud may leave some uneasy, but I’d like to make the case that its actually a better place for [...]

This past weekend me and my wife went away to help our daughter with her move.  I’ve been using Four Square for her for her business for some time now, but she hasn’t played with it  all that much.  She decided to check it out more in depth and found out she could obtain points, stickers, [...]

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.

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.

For the uber geeks who like to setup RSYNC to do offline storage to FTP sites, I’ll save you the time — nothing to see here, have a nice day. Today, on a bit of a whim, I decided to take SugarSync for a 30-day test drive. I went ahead and signed up for the [...]