My goal: Move my email safely from one email service provider to another (IMAP). I was surprised that it wasn’t that easy to find a simple step by step tutorial out there to do this. I hope this tutorial will help someone. If your email account is old, this process may take quite a bit of time, so please allow…
Category: Life Skills
Cardboard Electronics by NewFoldr Most Exciting thing in Hardware for a While
Check this out. Just so cool. The hipsters should be all over this, I’m thinking. I like the idea of being able to add your own creativity to something electronic. This is the missing ingredient for our generation. We need to go back to the days when there was a ‘radio shack’ and dad and kid worked together on something…
Are You a Victim of Abusive and Addictive Technology?
An article was forwarded to me this week by someone I know who believes strongly in the importance of ethical technology. He is heavily involved in the Ubuntu project and we all share a desire to see a paradigm shift in the role of technology in our lives from that of a harmful consumable to a helpful benefit. If you…
Healthy Biblical Position on Privacy and Security
Second revision: March 17, 2016 The other day I indicated to a Bible-believer friend that I would prefer to only communicate with this person (and everyone else) by means of Telegram or secured email, rather than SMS messaging or totally unsecured email. To my surprise, this person replied back that they were ‘unsure of their biblical position on privacy’. Being…
Life Hack: Using Clips to Improve Your Life
I don’t usually find a lot of videos that have a wide appeal, but this bad-boy is really good. Except for his use of unsafe technology (apple) in his demo and their nasty proprietary adaptors, this is a very inspiring and useful video. USEFUL VIDEO TO USE CLIPS EVERY DAY I had some challenges replicating his ear-bud trick because my…
What does your Email say about you?
I love this post and I come back to it time and time again. However, it is now both out of date and also needs further commenting. First, though, go take a look and enjoy the original here: COOL CARTOON THAT EXPLAINS HOW YOUR EMAIL REPRESENTS YOU Here are my updates, and I’d love any extras or edits you could…
Friends, Family and the Flesh
My dear spouse, why do I find it hard to receive biblical perspectives and teachings from you? Why do my family and friends always discourage me from my heart’s desires? Why are my family and friends not as excited about my prospective mate? Do some of these questions hit home? For Bible believers, they are tied together quite intimately. Last…
The Race to Convergence: Or is it a Marathon?
This article started out kind of exciting. It explained how Ubuntu was about to show, on a large commercial scale the unveiling of convergence of multiple devices. For those who don’t know what convergence is, it’s the ability for multiple devices to converge into one user experience – without the need for multiple processors and hard drives. For a company…
The Most Relevant Documentary of Our Age
I’ve seen a lot of documentaries, a lot of conspiracies, a lot of interesting things. Nothing comes close to the importance and relevance of this one.
How to View Multiple Page Fax with Ubuntu
I got a fax recently as a .tif image file and when I went to open it on the world’s best operating system ubuntu, and it wouldn’t view anything except page 1! I thought there was a bug with the operating system but it turned out that they actually had, built right into ubuntu a viewer designed specifically to handle…