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And The Winner Is

May 23, 2013 — Leave a comment
Doodle 4 Google winning entry by Sabrina Brady.

Doodle 4 Google winning entry by Sabrina Brady.

After sorting through over 130,000 entries and thousands of votes cast online, Google has announced the 2013 Doodle 4 Google Contest winner. This year’s winner is Sabrina Brady of Sparta Wisc.

This years contest theme was “my best day ever” and Sabrina touched the hearts of the voting community with the story of her reunion with her father after he returned from an 18 month tour in Iraq. Sabrina is a senior at Sparta High School and will receive a $30,000 college scholarship, a Chromebook computer, and a $50,000 technology grant for her school.

And if you are living in the US, you can head over to the Google search homepage today and see Sabrina’s winning entry proudly displayed for all to enjoy. And if you happen to be visiting New York City now through July 14th, you can view all of the 50 different state winners’ artwork proudly displayed in the American Museum of Natural History.

Did you vote for this year’s winner?

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Geeking Around The Web

May 15, 2013 — Leave a comment

These are a few interesting and geeky finds that I have discovered around the web in the past few days.

Klingon

Bing Translates Klingon

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I’m not really a trekie but there are few things any more geeky than a good old Klingon translation. And now Bing has gotten into the act by adding Klingon to their web translation tools. You can check out your favorite sites by visiting the Bing Translator. Or if you are feeling even more adventurous just watch as ChristianDroid is transformed into the 24th century when you click here.

Breakout

If you are as old as I am then I know you will remember the old Atari Breakout game. I remember going to the Sears & Roebuck store and being fascinated by Pong when it was introduced and Breakout just took things to a whole new level of entertainment. Google is celebrating the creation of this video game legend with its very own search game. Just go to Google and type in Atari Breakout, then click on the image search and sit back and play a cool little game of Breakout. Or if you can’t wait to play, just click here.

Google I/O

The Google I/O conference starts today, for those of you who are not geeks, the Google I/O conference is the annual Everything Google Event. To celebrate this years conference, Google has hidden some Easter Eggs into its I/O website. Go to the Google I/O page and type or click the I and O in the following patterns to see the different I/O font schemes.

Google I/O Homepage

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Doodle 4 Google Voting In Progress

May 2, 2013 — 1 Comment

Doodle 4 Google contest voting beginsA couple of months ago I told you about this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest. The contest this year, which was open to school students across the country, drew more than 130,000 entries. The folks at Google have been hard at work combing through all of those entries and have now selected the finalists for each age group.

Now through May 10, 2013, Google is asking for your vote to help determine the winner. All you have to do is visit the Doodle 4 Google finalist page and cast your vote for your favorite in each of the grade groups. Your vote will determine the 5 national finalist from which the winning Doodle will be chosen.

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eBible Online Bible Study Tools

April 22, 2013 — Leave a comment

eBible for Android, iOS, and on the webIt could have been enough to gather and publish over 40 different translations of the Bible online. Some may have been content to create one of the fastest, best looking, Bible application for your mobile device. Others may have decided they had done enough when they created web tools for embedding the Holy Scriptures right into your own website. But none of this has come to the mind of the folks over at eBible.com. While creating one of the simplest, easy to use, best looking Bible software online; they have not been content and continue to examine new ways in which your ministry and your people can interact online with the Scriptures.

As you know, I have long been a proponent of the work that they are doing at eBible.com. I have used their embedded Bible here and on our church website since the beginning. I have also used their VerseLink application on both websites as well. VerseLink looks at your page or post and highlights any Scripture reference that appears and allows the actual Scripture verse to pop up whenever a user hovers their cursor over the hyper linked text. For example; just place your cursor over this Scripture reference, John 1:1, to see VerseLink in action. (Note, once this is set up on your website it requires no extra effort, it works automatically.)

But this is old news. What I want to tell you about today is a couple of new innovations that your ministry can now take advantage of at eBible.com.

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Be Careful What You Type

April 8, 2013 — 2 Comments

The Twitter universe was buzzing as normal today, however, not everyone understood exactly what was going on! A website that is “celebrating” (that’s a whole other story) the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher encouraged their fans to flock to Twitter and let the world know how they were “celebrating” using the hashtag #nowthatchersdead.

The problem with Twitter the hashtag is that there is no punctuation or spacing, so instead of reading

“now Thatcher’s dead,”

fans of a pop music icon were astounded to read the hashtag

“now that Cher’s dead.”

The social network soon exploded with astonished fans, condolences, and stories about the singing legend’s demise.

We have always been told to “think before we speak” but in this age of technology, the same can be said of the typewritten word. Be careful what you type, words are powerful whether spoken are written.

<via Mashable>

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