tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112397612011-11-27T22:13:05.970-08:00A place for the discussion of the uses of Tablet PCs in the Christian's life.Mark Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06858175839274272285noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11239761.post-73936279048560261622008-02-08T09:52:00.001-08:002008-02-08T10:07:49.605-08:00

One of the reasons that this blog has languished over the last few years is that relatively little has changed in the landscape of Bible study oriented software. To my knowledge, there is still no real Tablet PC software designed to aid someone who wishes to study scripture for him- or herself.e-Sword has been updated a number of times since I first wrote about it. While many of the new features

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While I haven't written in a while, that isn't because there is nothing new to say (in fact there is lots of news on the BIT front, mostly about a newer program called BeST that is being regularly updated) but mostly because life is just too hectic to even sit and think let alone put my thoughts down.But there is one thing about Tablets that I discovered today that is a huge boon to those of us

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Blogger has a means of thwarting the bots that post comment spam so I am re-enabling comments for this blog. I hope that I can get back on track and actually post some new content, too.

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Owing to the sudden appearance of lots of comment spam, I am disabling comments on my blogs for the time being. This saddens me as the few comments I have received have had good things to say and this could be a good medium for discussion. But, owing to the self-centeredness of a few, the many lose out. Again.If Blogger.com can get it together to stop this kind of behavior, then I will reinstate

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We recently installed a new pastor, who is interested in using technology as an aid to the work he is doing. Not only did he get a Tablet PC, I was able to help him install wireless networking in the parsonage so that he can use it anywhere in his house--not just in his office.The first major stumbling block to his productivity, however, was that he wasn't able to connect to the Internet, and his

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We recently had a missions team go to Mexico with YWAM. As is usual, when they returned the team members spoke about the mission trip, what they learned, how they saw God work, the people they met, etc. During the trip, they took between 600 and 700 photos with a digital camera and wanted to show some of them during their presentation. They wanted the photos synchronized with the talks (each of

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..but should is to function as a prayer journal.This is not through any limitation of the technology, but rather owing to a failing on the part of the user. I currently have at least three separate pieces of software installed that would be excellent tools for helping me to track and remember the various things that I need to be constantly praying for or giving thanks and praise for. (Indeed, I

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If anyone is still reading this after such a long hiatus, I am still alive and kicking. It was a pretty brutal end of school this year with not much time for anything but work and home responsibilities. Add to this a vacation, much needed, but tightly scheduled with me leaving barely 2 days after graduation, and a lot of garden responsibilities that had to be tended to before I left and there has

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I previously mentioned the discussion that was taking place in the e-Sword group on Yahoo about the legality of using a third-party tool to import Bibles from the web into e-Sword. Since that time, I have done a lot of thinking (also some praying and talking) about the morality and legality of doing this and I want to put my conclusions current thinking out here publicly for others to read and

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I had been planning to post about an add-on tool for e-Sword that I have found, which allows one to import some additional Bibles and make them available for use on the Tablet.At the moment, though, there is quite a discussion going in the e-Sword group on Yahoo about the legality of using this tool, particularly with regard to the NIV. While I think that the tool is still useful and that the use

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In my last posting, I wrote about Microsoft Reader and Adobe Acrobat Reader being great tools for reading a variety of books and other documents on the Tablet. I mentioned a couple of sites where you could download books in either Reader's .lit format or Acrobat's .pdf format. Unfortunately, the selection of free books in these formats is fairly limited. There are other sites with many free books

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My wife and I were talking the other day, when I mentioned that I had read "my book" while riding a stationary bike. She laughed and asked, "Which one? You are always reading six books."Little does she know.Not only do I usually have a half-dozen books of various kinds going, I have that many again, or more, in progress on my Tablet. Many are technical, some are for pure enjoyment, several are

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Inductive Bible study is surely one of the best means of understanding God's word, and I am a strong advocate of it. Formerly, my primary study tools were a typed page of the section I wished to study and a pencil. I did use a good Bible dictionary as a secondary tool. My Tablet has changed all that.My primary tools now are a typed page of the section I wish to study and a pen.The typed page, of

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This catchy question has been seriously abused by politicians who use it to justify all sorts of power and money grabs for pet programs. I would like to make an effort to redeem it, however, and put it to what I consider to be a better use. I want to talk about things to have on your Tablet to keep the kids (the ones beside you, though they may apply to the ones inside you, too) from wriggling

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With OneNote and e-Sword on my Tablet, my notes from sermons, conferences, discussions, etc., are more complete than ever before. Not only can I include diagrams and sketches in my notes (just as I could on paper), I can quickly include whole passages of scripture (in any of the 28 translations or languages I have installed!) rather than just the reference. It is wonderfully convenient when I am

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Now I don't know if anybody is reading this blog, let alone whether there are any women (other than, I suspect, my wife--Hi, honey) reading it, but I'm going to address these comments mostly to the men.I tend to have my Tablet with me all of the time and turned on most of the time. We have a campus-wide wireless network at work, and have wireless at home as well. My Tablet has become my one-stop

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OK, so that is probably not the most accurate title for this post, but it will have to do.I wanted to talk about how I use my Tablet to take sermon notes. I think it is pretty slick and if it doesn't work for you, maybe it will at least give you some fodder for your own thinking.I use two applications primarily when I am sitting in the pew: OneNote and e-Sword.If you aren't yet familiar with

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I will freely confess to being a bibliophile and this love of books extends to a love of multiple translations of the Bible. I have a smattering of Greek study in my past and can muddle my way through German text so I like having the Bible in these texts available to me as well. Since adding software to my Tablet doesn't increase the weight or bulk of the computer, why not have a dozen or more

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I'm a regular member of TabletPCBuzz (http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com), which I consider the best source for information on Tablet PCs around. I noticed there that a large number of the members were Christians. The TabletBible (http://www.tabletbible.com/) as far as I know came about because of discussions there. Since public forums like that tend to degenerate too rapidly into flaming and antagonism

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