The USB Switch (w.o. batteries!) One of the challenges of the book scanner I looked forward to was the making of a USB remote which allows the user to snap pics from two cameras at the same time (important when scanning a book with two cameras!). Daniel Reetz’ original instructions (and most users in the… Continue Reading
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DIY Book Scanner (intro)
I have recently decided to undertake a little do-it-yourself project: a book scanner! The final straw was pulled the other day when I needed a chapter out of a book for my research in Luke-Acts. My little scanner (Canon MX700 all-in-one) could barely fit 2 pages per copy. It took me 20 mins or so… Continue Reading
Logos 4 for Mac
I’m glad to hear that Logos is throwing a lot at the mac development side of things: The good news is that the Logos 4 Mac team is seeing success after success. Our shared-code strategy is working, and ensuring compatibility of both content and documents. And as the platform becomes more stable we’re seeing increased speed… Continue Reading
Demo of Latest Logos Improvements
As mentioned in the last post, the 4.0b upgrade is now available. Logos has kindly shared a demo of the latest improvements: New features in Logos 4.0b from Mark Barnes on Vimeo. Continue Reading
Logos Update Available
From the logos blog: There are hundreds of new features, improvements, and bug fixes in 4.0b, but here are some of the most significant ones: Import your notes, highlighting, favorites, and prayer lists from Libronix 3. Tomorrow’s blog post will deal with importing in detail. In the meantime, check out “Importing from LDLS 3” and… Continue Reading
Searching Recent New Testament Abstracts via EBSCO
[If there is a better way, please let me know!] If you want to search New Testament Abstracts by date of the NTA publication… Short Method (1) Log into EBSCOhost (2) Uncheck ATLA Religion database (3) Check “New Testament Abstracts” database. Click “continue.” (4) In the search box, type (ZR “YYYY”) . Example: (ZR “2008”)… Continue Reading
Use Zotero for Your Bibliographic Needs!
Zotero is a firefox browser plugin which can do some quite amazing things (and save you tons of time in the process). I’ve been using it for about a year now, and I love it. For more info, you might check out Lifehacker.com’s recent post, or some of Thomas Keene’s posts on the topic (he… Continue Reading
Parallels and a Third Partition
Problem: When I run Windows XP in Parallels, I cannot run a program (in my case, Logos) which is on a partition separate from the one from which Parallels runs. (I split my hard drive into 3 partitions: (1) mac osx; (2) extra stuff (FAT32); and (3) Windows XP. Logos is on “extra stuff” drive,… Continue Reading
Creating Three Partitions with Bootcamp
Starting from a single mac osx installation… Install Windows with Boot Camp Assistant Open the disk utility and shrink the mac osx partition leaving the amount of space you desire for your new partition. Create the new partition using disk utility (I used it via install disk in snow leopard). I formatted my new partition… Continue Reading
Logos 4 Review (part 2)
Logos 4 is fast…sort of I tested the speed of Logos 4 on the following two hardware configurations: Windows XP (running on Mac OSX w. Parallels)…1536MB DDR3 RAM devoted to XP, and 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 duo processor shared between XP and Mac OSX. Windows XP (running alone)…4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM, 2.53 GHz… Continue Reading