The Bible in Church and Academy
Posted in Academia, Gadgets, Open Access Scholarship, Technology on Sep 11th, 2009
Yesterday I posted:
It is clear to me that Apple now needs an iTune U app for the Touch and iPhone. The content I have grabbed through iTunes U is still mixed in with other videos and audio files in my Videos and Music applications. In Music, they are not even with the podcasts, but rather [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Technology on Sep 10th, 2009
I just posted about iTunes U, but I wanted to add one complaint to the mix.
It is clear to me that Apple now needs an iTune U app for the Touch and iPhone. The content I have grabbed through iTunes U is still mixed in with other videos and audio files in [...]
Posted in Academia, Gadgets, Technology on Jul 25th, 2009
Abilene Christian University began a program last year to outfit students and faculty with iPhones and iPod Touches to be used for academic and social purposes on campus. TUAW has a year-end report here. Those who were part of this year’s program were very happy about it:
On the faculty side, about 65% of the 167 [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Technology on Jun 18th, 2009
Duke is making its digital image collection available in an iPhone app, and Jim asks “but why would you want it?“ This is a very astute question, and he’s correct that a small iPhone screen is not ideal for critical work.
He is especially right that you need a bigger screen to work with a manuscript, [...]
Holy Moley! You can read Jacob Milgrom’s Leviticus commentary in the Continental series on your Kindle. I discovered this while looking up links for a post on “5 books on Leviticus I could not do without” in answer to John’s interesting list of his favorite Genesis books.
Poking around, it seems that you can [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Technology on Jan 31st, 2009
I just bought my first Kindle edition of an academic text, Christopher Seitz’s Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets. I read the library’s copy when it came out, but I have been motivated to read it again more carefully along with Phil Sumpter’s review series on it. I figured I would [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Technology on Oct 20th, 2008
These new netbooks are driving me mad with desire. Whenever I get excited about something new, I go through this line of reasoning
A Two-machine Setup.
I have a suddenly out-of-date 2006 Macbook Pro that is due to be refreshed from the University next year. The hard drive is too small, the RAM is [...]
Posted in Gadgets on Jun 26th, 2008
One of my first posts was about the idea of the “paperless academic,” in which I decided that the Amazon Kindle was not quite the final answer for such a thing. I still think that’s true, but given the rave reviews over the months by people I respect I decided to give it a try.
My [...]
Posted in Academia, Gadgets, Technology on Nov 19th, 2007
Steven Levy, expert on another famous item, is positioning himself as the chronicler of the next great media device: the e-book reader. He provides an in-depth analysis of Amazon’s coming efforts, the Kindle. Between the iPhone (and coming knock-offs) and the Kindle, are we are one step closer to research nirvana: all of our texts [...]
Chasers…