Comments on: 071 – Electronic Church Doors http://blogs.wels.net/welstech/2009/05/13/071-electronic-church-doors/ WELSTech Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:14:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jeremy Johnson http://blogs.wels.net/welstech/2009/05/13/071-electronic-church-doors/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Jeremy Johnson Wed, 13 May 2009 21:10:37 +0000 http://welstech.wels.net/wpmu/2009/05/13/071-electronic-church-doors/#comment-31 I enjoyed the software picks section because you mentioned two things that I have been using for a while now. First of all, I really like the Gmail extensions. Adding "+something" to your e-mail address allows you to do a lot of interesting things. For one, it allows you to easily filter your incoming mail. For example, I signed up on the WELSTech listserve using the +welstech extension on my address, and I post to WELSTech sites using the same extension. I can filter all incoming WELSTech related e-mail easily by checking what e-mail address is being used. You can also use this feature as a junk filter. For example, if you sign up for a service but are afraid they might send you unwanted ads, sign up using an extended e-mail address. You can also use the Gmail interface to send e-mail from an extended address. In fact, the WELSTech listserve won't publish my e-mail unless I send from the extension because that's what I used when I signed up. I've been enjoying Foxit PDF Reader for years. I completely agree that it runs much better than Adobe. I switched from Adobe when I accidentally discovered that Adobe Reader was trying to secretly install adware on my machine. If I could find a working replacement for Adobe Flash Player, I would happily be free from using any Adobe products. I've tried Gnash but it's too incomplete right now. On my Linux builds, PDF readers are installed by default. Gnome uses Evince and KDE uses Kpdf, and both seem to work great. I think both are basically front ends for Xpdf. The Xpdf website does have a Windows build available, but I've never tried it. It would be interesting to see how it compares to Foxit. On the subject of Bible software, I like using biblegateway.com as an online reference. I also like using conservapedia.com instead of Wikipedia because of the issues Wikipedia has with censoring conservative/Christian information. It doesn't have as much content, but it's still a breath of fresh air. This might fit in with your upcoming discussion on virtual integrity. By the way, when you discuss accountability software next week, would you mind addressing how the software might take measures to prevent "workarounds" that hide activity from accountability partners? I understand that a determined person cannot be totally prevented from doing what they want to do (locks keep honest people out), but I think it's a topic worth considering. Jeremy Johnson I enjoyed the software picks section because you mentioned two things that I have been using for a while now.

First of all, I really like the Gmail extensions. Adding “+something” to your e-mail address allows you to do a lot of interesting things. For one, it allows you to easily filter your incoming mail. For example, I signed up on the WELSTech listserve using the +welstech extension on my address, and I post to WELSTech sites using the same extension. I can filter all incoming WELSTech related e-mail easily by checking what e-mail address is being used. You can also use this feature as a junk filter. For example, if you sign up for a service but are afraid they might send you unwanted ads, sign up using an extended e-mail address.

You can also use the Gmail interface to send e-mail from an extended address. In fact, the WELSTech listserve won’t publish my e-mail unless I send from the extension because that’s what I used when I signed up.

I’ve been enjoying Foxit PDF Reader for years. I completely agree that it runs much better than Adobe. I switched from Adobe when I accidentally discovered that Adobe Reader was trying to secretly install adware on my machine. If I could find a working replacement for Adobe Flash Player, I would happily be free from using any Adobe products. I’ve tried Gnash but it’s too incomplete right now.

On my Linux builds, PDF readers are installed by default. Gnome uses Evince and KDE uses Kpdf, and both seem to work great. I think both are basically front ends for Xpdf. The Xpdf website does have a Windows build available, but I’ve never tried it. It would be interesting to see how it compares to Foxit.

On the subject of Bible software, I like using biblegateway.com as an online reference.

I also like using conservapedia.com instead of Wikipedia because of the issues Wikipedia has with censoring conservative/Christian information. It doesn’t have as much content, but it’s still a breath of fresh air. This might fit in with your upcoming discussion on virtual integrity.

By the way, when you discuss accountability software next week, would you mind addressing how the software might take measures to prevent “workarounds” that hide activity from accountability partners? I understand that a determined person cannot be totally prevented from doing what they want to do (locks keep honest people out), but I think it’s a topic worth considering.

Jeremy Johnson

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