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Win a free Flickr Pro account for Christmas!
Congratulations to Dickie Adams and Goa Observer for being the lucky winners of a brand new shiny Flickr Pro account for Christmas. Check out Freelance Switch where Dickie Adams is a contributing editor: http://www.freelanceswitch.com Check out Goa Observer’s Flickr page at: http://flickr.com/photos/goaobserverstream/ For Christmas this year I am giving two blessed Mister Nifty readers a free Flickr Pro [...]
Continue reading...Optimize Your DVD Sermons for iPods/iPhones
25. October 2008
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I’ve had several people ask me how to transfer sermon DVD’s to the web and more frequently to mobile devices. For smaller churches it’s not a reality to stream your services live, let alone archive them on a computer. It takes expensive equipment, streaming server bandwidth and trained volunteer staff that most churches just cannot [...]
Continue reading...Create Awesome Flash Widgets
23. October 2008
Sprout Builder is a great tool that helps you easily build flash banners and widgets for your site. It’s free and you can build all kinds of cool things that interact with social platforms. This is a great idea to build MySpace banners for youth events that young people can embed on their sites. I [...]
Continue reading...Basic Photography Tutorial
11. August 2008
I came up with this illustrative concept a few years ago and I’ve used it teach the basics of photography to my students. This is a short abbreviated version that will help you visualize the process of how a good photograph is made. Hopefully it will challenge up-and-coming photographers to switch to the manual mode [...]
Continue reading...Is your church guilty of theft?
14. July 2008
Have you ever installed a copy of pirated software on a church computer? Does your church record and sell your worship services on CD/DVD without paying royalties to the writers? Have you ever taken an image off the internet and used it on your projection system without checking the usage rights? If you can answer [...]
Continue reading...GIMP - Powerful Photo Editing for Free
8. July 2008
Almost everyone has heard about Photoshop, but let’s face it, you have to pay for its nearly endless creative options. Usually, when I mention the GIMP as a budget conscious alternative, people look at me funny. Sure, it has a strange name, but it is a powerful tool for editing and creating graphics. As you would [...]
Continue reading...Design Business Cards Online
1. July 2008
Many times budget issues keep smaller churches from hiring a graphic designer who knows about commercial printing. Deyey takes the guesswork out of designing business cards. Use their WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) editor to position all of your information and then download a high resolution file that you can send straight to your commercial printer. The best [...]
Continue reading...Free ID Badge Creator
29. May 2008
I just found this awesome tool! It’s a web app that allows you to create custom badges for any purpose. This can be useful if you are taking a missions trip and need id’s for your travelers. If you have an event, this can help identify staff. Another application might be for [...]
Continue reading...Free Online Image Editing
21. May 2008
There are plenty of times I’ve been away from my design software and I need to do some retouching, but I don’t have access to good tools. Splashup is an awesome way to edit your images online. It has layering, effects, blending modes, and a multitude of other features. You can [...]
Continue reading...Working With Photos
20. May 2008
In the past six months I have clicked over 10,000 frames at weddings, studio sessions, engagements, graduations, and anything you can think of. That’s a ton of photos to manage. This post is by request of several people wanting to know about my workflow when I post process my photos. I [...]
Continue reading...Free Video Software
28. March 2008
If you are looking for a professional grade video software and don’t have a budget to buy big name products, look no further! A sister (or brother) program to the last posting of Wink is Wax. Wax allows you to do all the cool things big time video producers do. You can [...]
Continue reading...Create e-books for free!
12. February 2008
Issuu is a great tool I just found to publish virtually any type of static material on the web. Issuu has a neato interface that lets you read the content like a book. Say you want to publish an article on your website, all you have to do is upload your pdf, doc, [...]
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Random Goodness 
Keep track of what the web is saying about your church or you personally by signing up for Google Alerts. Plug in some keyword searches to track. It’s easy! http://google.com/alerts/
If you record your services on CD chances are the audio is broken up into tracks. For those who don’t record digitally, this is a problem when trying to create a podcast. Now you can take all of those annoying little tracks and combine them into one with Merge MP3. Grab it here. (via Lifehacker)
If you use Wordpress, you will want to grab All In One Search Engine Optimization pack. This adds a tab below each page/post that allows you to create a unique title/description/keywords for each post entry. This is important stuff for search engines to rank your pages. Grab it here!
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20. November 2008
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