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Free Stuff!

There is a lot of cool free stuff on the web these days, so I thought I’d make a small list of stuff that I have found. Enjoy!

No MoneyFree Albums

Free Pictures (these all have little to no copyright and can be reproduced as long as you don’t make money from them, but check out each one’s terms of use)

Free fonts

Everyone likes free stuff! Do you know of any other free things on the web?

UPDATE: If you liked this then read Free Stuff #2

How to use Twitter

Twitter bird 2So you joined up and now you have a Twitter account (yay). But what happens next.

Get Tweeting!

Easy enough. I’m sure you have already Tweeted (posted) something along the lines of “Setting up my Twitter account” or “First post on Twitter”, now to tweet a few more times…

Maybe consider using Twitter in serving God, and be active about it from the start. Tweets about what you read in the bible, or what you learnt at church are awesome! As are tweets about going to bible study, and tweets about what you are looking forward to in the day are pretty cool as well. But as you tweet, consider how it is serving God.

You have probably seen some weird lingo being used, things like @ symbols, or the letters RT. Don’t worry, here’s what they mean.

  • An @ symbol before someone’s username just means that the tweet is directed at them. It is also the common way to refer to someone in a tweet. They will get a specific notification that they were mentioned somewhere.
  • RT simply stands for Re-Tweet. Which means that you could find something like this showing up: “RT @calumhenderson How awesome it is to be assured of salvation! Romans 8″. This just means that someone else has Tweeted (posted) what I had already said.
  • #(something) just means that it is specifically tagged, if multiple people tag the same word or letters, then it will come up as a trending topic (#mhc is a good example).
  • You may also see OH (but barely ever), this just means over heard, as in real world over heard.

Continue using Twitter to serve God friends!

5 Reasons to Tweet

Twitter BirdsIt’s time to Tweet.

Tweeting is the act of posting updates on Twitter. Twitter is a growing social network and is massively increasing it’s user base, all over the world. It now has over 32 million monthly viewers, which is more than the NY Times (from here). Both Dave Miers and Steve Kryger have posted on the growth of Twitter.

So here’s how Twitter works.

  • You sign up for an account
  • You follow people
  • You tweet (140 character posts, or “microblogs”)
  • People follow you and they receive your tweets
  • You receive the tweets of those whom you follow

It is catching on, and I think it has reached a point where it is valuable to be using Twitter. Here are 5 great reasons to get tweeting.

Continue Reading…

iPhones serving God: 5 Free applications

A post about iPhone applications that can help you in serving God.

Why Blog?

Here is the first post by Calum Henderson, on a blog.Keyboard

In mid-semester break of semester 1 in 2009 I stumbled across an article about twitter and usernames. Basically saying that you should sign up for your name now while it is still available. Made sense to me, so I scored twitter.com/calumhenderson. Then I started using twitter, and got a bit excited by the possibilities to share ideas immediately with millions of other people (even 100s would do fine). I then talked to a guy at my church called Dave Miers, and he has thought a lot about this stuff (see his blog here), and he also encouraged me to get a blog.

So over the past month I have been considering it, and I will be testing out this site for about 6 months. Sharing ideas about education, technology and life, all with a Christian perspective. Doing this so that there can be a collaboration on these ideas, and also for personal reflection and collection of my own thoughts.

Hope you enjoy it…

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