We’ve already noted how we’re fans of Google Apps and the robust number of features that is offered at minimal cost (free)! One of the features that we started using just a little while ago was the ability to create user groups for easier communication. For example, we created a “Staff” email address and “Team” [...]

It’s so easy to get lured by the latest and greatest technological bauble. Oh how they sparkle! Or to find opportunities to leverage a great product with, what is perceived to be, the perfect problem. Over the years, I’ve been caught in this trap. I’m searching for the perfect solution for my actual problem and [...]

Sometimes it’s the small things, right? There are a few things more satisfying than knowing that your work has been “accepted.” I like emails like these:

Keyboard, Mouse, & Video (or KVM) Switches aren’t what we’d call new technologies. Though they’re still useful (in fact, I have one in a drawer beside me right now), but I don’t know how common they really are in the home. Still , it’s not terribly unusual to have a couple of machines running side-by-side [...]

This is pretty neat stuff if you ask me. Joel Lingenfelter shows us how they created a simple way for volunteers at their other sites to create a wireless network that connected to the main campus via VPN. Check out this video walkthrough:

It’s been a long time coming but it’s finally here: Google Voice is now open for business without an invite! Thank goodness, because I, for one, have loved the use of Google Voice, even if the auto-transcription service still has a little to be desired. Is this something that you would suggest your ministry team [...]

We wrote about OpenVBX, an open source phone system, the other day and one commenter (thanks Ben!) noted another system that I wasn’t familiar with (but am now!). Enter FreePBX, a free phone system for businesses (and ministries)! Here’s what they say: FreePBX is an easy to use GUI (graphical user interface) that controls and [...]

Back in the 90′s, we used to pay for our Internet service by the minute. No unlimited access (unless you had, you know, unlimited funds). Then, towards the end of the decade, that all changed with a flat free for unlimited access. Win! Right? It’s funny – web hosting has somewhat of the same history. [...]

Wow. Really? This article here mentions that a new bill being proposed that gives “absolute power” to “kill” the internet: The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill [...]

Pastor Joe Schmoe has a problem: His laptop is toast. Every time he tries to listen to the latest Wow worship compilation CD, he cannot hear the sound. Whatever will he do? Jane Schmoe (no relation to pastor Schmoe) is the church secretary. Her problem? She printed out too many email forwards (and a couple [...]