Rural American Pastor » Technology

Dropbox Invites

ruralamericanpastor — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:27:50 +0000

UPDATE V on 9/19/08: Don’t know why but they gave me 5 more invites. They may be easier to find now, but if you want one, post a comment and I’ll send it.

UPDATE IV: No More Invites.

UPDATE III: I have 1 more invite left, so first come first served.

UPDATE II: I have only 2 invites left if anyone is interested, just comment.

UPDATE: I have 4 invites left so if you stop by feel free to comment, and I’ll send it immediately (8/17/08)

I’m currently testing out one of the coolest ways I’ve yet seen to keep my files synced across computers. It’s called Dropbox. It’s still in beta testing mode, and is invite only, but it is well worth trying if you can get an invite. I managed to scrounge one up, and I currently have 9 invites to give out. If you’re interested, look up Dropbox, research its magic, and comment here with your e-mail address, and the first 9 that are interested I’ll send out an invite to. If I already have your e-mail address just ask for it, and I’ll send it. Follow the link in the invite to set it up, and then give it a try. It may be a real lifesaver for me working between work and home computers. No more e-mails to myself, zip drives, etc. Very fast, almost instant synching. And almost failsafe backups. Give it a try, you may enjoy it!

Tech Obsessed

ruralamericanpastor — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:20:00 +0000

I can’t stop. I’ll admit it. Every time I get some free alone time I’m obsessed with messing around with technology that is relatively new to me. This blog, my family blog, our church website and now Google Analytics, Picasso web galleries, and web hosting for podcasting. These are all amazing tools to help connect with people via a medium that wasn’t available for most of the last several thousand years. This stuff is keeping up at night. Instead of sleeping I’m researching whether .mac is a worthy investment to get 10 gigs of web space for podcasts and sermon audio, or whether another option is better. It’s 1:25 am and I’m writing about my obsession. I should have been in bed an hour and a half ago. Somebody please stop me.

Can I Get a Witness?…

ruralamericanpastor — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:38:00 +0000

Please! If a blog falls in the forest and no one is there to see it fall, did it really fall? So, nobody I know has access to this blog. I could post all day long for me and go back and read it. But why would I blog for myself. I’m tempted to propose that the entire church have high speed internet capabilities. But then I wouldn’t be the rural American pastor anymore would I?