Archive for April, 2009

My favorite Twitter clients for Mac

It seems today that Twitter has hit the mainstream. This means that there will be a lot more businesses using Twitter as a means to pimp themselves and there will be many more annoying people using Twitter to post every meal they eat and every thought they think. However, this also ...

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Compassion Bloggers in India

A group of several bloggers are on a trip to Kolkata, India, right now. Each day they are visiting projects run by Compassion International--meeting kids, discovering hope in the midst of poverty, taking pictures, and telling their stories on their blogs. It's probably the closest we can come to being ...

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Cool enough for target

I've spent a lot of time the past five years traveling with guys who play instruments on stage. That means I'm used to being the "uncool" one. I have accepted this role. I am married to a hottie who loves me and so I have no one I need to ...

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Exporting your stuff from Evernote

I really like Evernote. I suggest it to a lot of people, especially anyone who owns an iPhone. Evernote makes it so easy to take a picture, write a note, or record some audio on your iPhone and retreive it later on your Mac, PC, or even online. This has ...

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Michelle Torentino’s Story

I had the privilege of attending Compassion International's artists dinner (a part of GMA week) last night. The main speaker for the evening was a former sponsored child through Compassion named Michelle Torentino. She was an amazing reminder of why we do what we do. She also challenged me to consider ...

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Some great free WordPress themes

It is so easy to give your blog a professional look these days by grabbing a well-made, free Wordpress theme and tweaking it to your specific tastes. The biggest hurdle is filtering out all of the poorly-made themes that are floating around the interwebs to find the right one to ...

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The future of the American Church

Shaun Groves is participating in a blog-based book tour where he asks Skye Jethani, author of the book The Divine Commodity, a question about the future of the Church in America. I have to say, I very much agree with his response. I don't think that the Church has to ...

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How to identify a modified WordPress theme

I see a lot of websites/blogs and a lot of them are running WordPress. Sometimes I see a blog with a theme that looks familiar... as if someone took a standard theme freely available online and just tweaked it a bit. Inevitably one of those "tweaks" is to take the ...

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