Category: internet

  • 2017 Best Christmas Gifts on Amazon

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    Christmas shopping can be so much easier without the pain of trying to find a parking spot and standing in lines. Through amazon.com, and especially if you have Amazon Prime, you can shop online and get the gifts delivered to your friends and family. Plus you get the bonus of not paying for shipping, not packing…

  • Grammarly adding extra HTML code?

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    I want to like Grammarly. I really do. And for the grammar errors that it catches for me, Grammarly is working pretty good. But the other day, I noticed that the Grammarly extension was adding extra HTML code at the bottom of some of my blog post. I haven’t figured out the pattern yet and…

  • How to register an expired domain name

    How to register an expired domain name

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    There’s 2 reasons you might want to register an expired domain name: It’s your own domain name and you forgot to renew. Or, it’s someone else’s domain name and you want it. Unfortunately, it’s complicated, because different registrars and different top-level domains have different terms for how they do things. And there’s not a precise…

  • Looking for smart sermon podcasts

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    Someone asked me for sermons and sermon podcasts with smarter preachers, with more intellectually engaging content. This would be in contrast to the many other popular sermon podcasts that might be described as “putting cookies on the bottom shelf” and everyday language to try to reach the largest number of people, per se. Here’s what I…

  • How to Restore from Free WordPress Backup Plugins

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    Sure it’s important to have backups of your WordPress websites and blogs, but it’s just as important to be able to restore those backups. After all, what good are the backups if you can’t restore them? It seems many of the popular backup plugins will do the backup for free but make you pay for…

  • Apple AirPort Extreme USB hard drive not showing up

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    I’ve used the AirPort Extreme as a WiFi hotspot for several years. Then I recently learned that USB devices can be connected to it and shared, like a USB printer and a USB hard drive! I was very happy to see that when connected my legacy USB printer (Canon MX330), it just showed up on…

  • List of beautiful Starbucks destinations in the USA

    List of beautiful Starbucks destinations in the USA

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    Starbucks stores around the world are serving up espresso drinks and coffee in over 25,000 convenient locations. Some of these locations are destinations that have made adaptive reuse of existing architectural buildings or have created special spaces with cool aesthetics and beautiful design. Several lists have highlighted many of the coolest Starbucks spaces around the world:…

  • List of church apps for mobile smartphones

    List of church apps for mobile smartphones

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    With so many people with smartphones, there are now so many church apps too. Most church apps have custom branding & design specific to a church; common features include: sermons, events, announcements, church info. Less common features: Bible, prayer, social. Some vendors focus on just developing customized church apps; other vendors have church apps along with other services…

  • Best of the new top-level domains

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    In our crowdsourced world today, indicators of what’s best could be measured by: what’s most popular, the best reviews, the highest ratings, the most likes, the most shares, the highest score. In this new era of the Internet namespace, with nearly a thousand new domain extensions (technically known as generic top-level domains or gTLDs), there are different…

  • Networking Christian Developers and Technologists for Kingdom Impact

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    Recently heard about a great network of networks for Christian developers, technologists, and entrepreneurs in the tech sector that stems from the Code For The Kingdom hackathons, an initiative launched by Leadership Network, that has an online connection point via the Google+ Community

  • Buy discounted gift cards: easiest way to save money

    Buy discounted gift cards: easiest way to save money

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    This isn’t so much a money back and it won’t prepare you for being crowned the next coupon king or coupon queen. but it does beat skimming around for 1% or 2% rebate on credit card spendings. Here’s the crazy thing about gift cards- some people don’t want them because it’s not where they shop.…

  • Christian Faith of The Voice’s Jordan Smith

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    [update 12/26/15] Plus, on December 22, Jordan Smith was invited to Saddleback Church (Lake Forest) and was interviewed by Pastor Rick Warren! Watch video>> And other write-ups since: The Voice From Above: The Messiah has arrived, and he’s on the increasingly religious reality singing show The Voice (Salon), Jordan Smith Could Be ‘The Voice’ but…