Year: 2014

3) The Right Bible

If we line up a dozen smartphone and tablet users, asking them for their favorite Bible app, my guess is we’d get a dozen different answers. By now, maybe every smartphone user has downloaded at least one Bible app, even...

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4) Cool Tool: The Right “Grass-catcher” app

This one continues to be easy. I have yet to meet anyone who, upon having given Evernote a fair try, isn’t impressed. It’s fast, it’s synchronized (with every device you own), the notes are always available...

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5) Cool Tools: the Right Camera for Travel

            I was hauled into the back of a swat truck once in Uruguay because, unbeknownst to me, policemen were making a drug bust in the market I was photographing. I think they concluded I was...

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6) Cool Tools: The Right Photographer’s Vest

I admit: I was always just a tad embarrassed to wear a photographer’s vest, even though it was extremely handy, just because it made me look like a gadget freak. With the development of the new slender profile...

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8) Cool Tools: Back up Your Work

Sooner or later, you’ll unintentionally overwrite your work, or worse yet, your equipment will fail or be stolen. Online back-up software came on strong last year, asking you to rent their space for a price. As a result,...

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9) Cool Tools: World Phones

Get a phone with a SIM card (GSM chip). [Note that “GSM” does not translate into GPS. We’re not talking about Global Positioning System here. GSM stands for “Global System for Mobile” Communications...

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10) Cool Tools: Secure Your Email —

If you’re using Gmail or the equivalent (seems like almost everyone has switched), you’re probably good to go. Many vendors (like Gmail) are fairly secure now, if you’re logging on to their server (and you...

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13) We’re Grateful!!

*** $100 The Mission Network *** $50 from Hartford City, IN *** $100 from Minneapolis, MN, with note, “Thank you for your dedication to Brigada. I’ve been on the receiving end since 1996 but have never helped pay...

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