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For this final Tuesday Tech Talk entry before Christmas, I thought I would share my last minute low cost, gift ideas to give your Catholic techie. Most of the items I recommend are priced under $20 and can be downloaded instantly or picked up at a local office supply or electronics store.Amazon Gift Card -... Continue Reading →
The USCCB website has recently updated their online version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The "e-book" version of the CCC is now more user friendly. You can now make searches, use hyperlinks to maneuver around on the book and you can even print pages from the site.Here is an image of the homepage:
Today, in honor of the Feast Day of St. Ignatius, Loyola Press is making one of its books available for FREE download in all major ebook formats. The book is entitled Call Me Lopez written by Margaret Slif and is a fictional account about a 21st Century woman's encounter with St. Ignatius.You can download the... Continue Reading →
Today, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan's book True Freedom: On Protecting Human Dignity and Religious Liberty is available to download at Amazon for 99¢. This short book (only 37 pages long) is an important resource in helping one learn the Church's teaching on freedom. This particularly important as the Church in the United States faces the... Continue Reading →
We recently celebrated the feast day of St. Francis de Sales who is the patron of writers (presumably this would include bloggers). One of the great gifts he has given the Church is his spiritual classic, Introduction to the Devout Life (At the end of the post, I provide additional links for obtaining a copy of... Continue Reading →
This last Tuesday Tech Talk I thought I would list out the basic tech tools every Catholic techie should have in his toolbox.Bible - The mobile app created by Olive Tree is the still the best functional way to read and access the Bible when on the go. They have a New American Bible Catholic version... Continue Reading →
Today's Tuesday Tech Talk continues the discussion about e-books. If you have recently purchased or been given an iPad, Kindle, Nook or other e-reader, you may be wanting to download some of your Catholic reading onto them. If you will recall, last week I reviewed some of the Catholic publishers who have entered the digital... Continue Reading →
Photo by librarymanToday’s Tuesday Tech Talk focuses on e-books, the fastest growing sector in the publishing industry. Last year, e-book sales increased by 177%. Amazon recently reported that e-book sales on their website exceeded regular books. Only recently have Catholic publishers and authors entered the world of e-book publishing in earnest. The purpose of this... Continue Reading →
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