There are a lot of great things about using a Mac, too many to count. But one thing that Mac software developers as a group don’t do well is right-to-left text editing.
TextEdit, the built-in lightweight text editor, handles right-to-left, pretty well actually, and it’s good for jotting things down, but isn’t up to formatting an [...]
After ripping into Accordance maps the other day, I had a detailed to-and-fro with one of the developers there, Roy, who listened very carefully to my comments, pointed out a couple of misunderstandings on my part, and was altogether very willing to hear my feedback and work it into potential future plans.
This morning, David Lang, [...]
Posted in college on Aug 8th, 2008
I schpammed the college pigeon holes last night.
At college, everyone has a pigeon hole, and people put all sorts of junk mail in there, like I did last night (for an Indonesia prayer group gathering).
I wonder, though, if the people towards the end of the alphabet get significantly less spam than others. I made 300 [...]
I’ve just come across VUE, Visual Understanding Environment, a cross-platform, open source information manager and mind mapper.
It looks pretty cool (although because these sorts of apps are ported cross-platform, they never really fit in, visually, in Mac OS X).
As I understand it, you can do a regular mind map to organise your research, [...]
Posted in college on Jul 25th, 2008
Our OT3 Hebrew exegetical classes on Ezekiel are a revelation (literally).
The lecturer is one of the gems of college, Barry Webb, who is an internationally renowned biblical scholar and all round nice guy.
Today we went round the class translating a phrase at a time of Ezek 2:3-7, which was fun and instructive, if a [...]
Where’s the best place to sit down a read a book with a coffee in Newtown?
Campos is terrible (seating-wise). I like the atmosphere at Urban Bites, but the chairs are uncomfortable. Gloria Jeans has couches but… sorry, nevermind.
Is there somewhere else; somewhere that has couches and makes a decent flat white?
As a college student, [...]
There’s a first for everything. I just found out I’ve already read the 90 pages of reading required for today’s ethics lectures, from Marriage: Sex in the Service of God by Christopher Ash.
Of course, I didn’t just find out I’ve read it - I found out it’s required. I haven’t ‘accidentally’ read something for [...]
Posted in college on Jul 18th, 2008
For those of you theology nerds out there (read: college students), the American Theological Library Association has just updated their database. It’s about time.
And the library has introduced a new catalogue system and new scanning facilities. You can now scan to OCR PDF in a flash and even see a preview of each page before [...]
Oooh. This could be really good. Michael has asked the question and I know lots of people with lots of opinions.
I love college. I’m having literally the best time of my life (thus far) at college, but I wish there was more room to sit around and work in groups, talking-like.
That’s got nothing [...]
Apologies to those of you who don’t care.
Sam Freney has developed (and is developing) a Hebrew paradigm trainer for Mac: Paradigmatic.
It’s clean-looking and he’s constantly updating. I think this has the potential to be the Hebrew trainer for Mac. I hope it Goes Global.
In a couple of weeks third year Hebrew students have our final exam. It’s the final, final exam, which I think means we’re supposed to know Hebrew by now.
Ouch.
Via Mikey, I’ve been using an excellent paradigm training/testing tool from Animated Hebrew. It has a Shockwave interface, which isn’t very pretty and doesn’t allow for [...]
As someone who uses Accordance Bible software almost every day, I’m keen for the new release. It will (finally) be Universal Binary, which means it will run natively on Intel machines, like my sweet MacBook.
It’s due in the next month or so (Joe has a countdown), which puts the release before the Sydney training seminars. [...]
