Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

iPad coming to church altars?

June 20th, 2010 | No Comments

The Associated Press reports “[a]n Italian priest has developed an application that will let priests celebrate Mass with an iPad on the altar instead of the regular Roman missal.”
Read the full story on Yahoo! News: iPad coming to church altars with daily missal app.

Want to blog, but don’t have the time? Read this.

June 14th, 2010 | No Comments

David Spark hits the nail on the head: Blogging advice for people who “have no time to blog”.

Your Brain on Computers

June 10th, 2010 | No Comments

The law of unintended consequences at work? Are we actually harming ourselves with our focus on electronic devices? Very interesting read at the New York Times: Your Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price .

Starbucks Shows How It’s Done in Social Media

June 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Mashable.com reports that Starbucks Used Social Media to Get One Million to Stores in One Day. Starbucks is leveraging Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter to drive customers into their stores.

Facebook Clickjacking Attack Spreading Through ‘Likes’

May 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Mashable.com issues a warning:
Facebook Clickjacking Attack Spreading Through ‘Likes’
The moral of this story? Be very selective when “liking” pages — or installing apps, or even joining groups. All these behaviors carry risks, for that matter. Make sure that you’re interacting with legitimate entities for legitimate purposes.

"Top Ten Reasons Facebook Has a Limit of 5,000 Friends"

December 29th, 2008 | No Comments

So, today I discovered that someone has created a group on Facebook entitled “Petition Facebook To Raise The Maximum Friends Count.” The number of friends one may have on Facebook is currently capped at 5,000. At this writing, the group has 2,990 members, all of whom are gravely concerned about this limitation on their social [...]