I am pretty good at getting my Hebrew fonts to play nice on my computer. I use Mellel for wordprocessing most of the time. Scrivener does a decent job handling the mix of R->L and L->R text that I create. I’ve come to accept (after a great deal of weeping and gnashing followed by much [...]
Update for Snow Leopard: 10.6.2 is out! MacStories lists the full changelog: The 10.6.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for: an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly; [...]
TechCrunch has a terrific post today about fonts, font utilities, and much more. Check it out! HT: @BoraZ via Twitter
A few weeks ago I reviewed some Hebrew vocabulary resources (Part One, Part Two) that readers submitted for my first B2B contest. There are a few vocabulary resources that were not mentioned, but which I want to draw attention to. The first one is a project from The University of Auckland (that’s in New Zealand, [...]
Many of you are familiar with the MP3 files of the Tanakh that are available online at Mechon Mamre (if you are not aware of them, stop reading this and go to the site right now and start downloading some Hebrew to listen to!). Mechon Mamre links to the files made available at the Israeli [...]
A.K.M. Adam (on his blog AKMA) pointed out the article from Inside Higher Education which reported a study about technology in the classroom. Campus Technology, likewise, has an article discussing the report. Read their summary here. The surprising (really??) result is that faculty think they do a great job and students don’t think their profs [...]
Great news! The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more inclusive. Entire article here. HT: Mark T.
Today is the release of the new GLO digital bible. Many of us are hoping to get a chance to see it “up close and personal” to find out more than what the promo material tells us. Lisa Miller at Newsweek had just that chance (for an hour, when the GLO reps brought it to [...]
My recent Boulders2Bits contest asked readers to submit suggestions for vocabulary resources. Here’s the second (of two) posts giving an annotated list of the suggestions (Part One can be found here). I’m apologizing up front for all the screen captures. I know it makes the post look cluttered, but I think it helps to visualize [...]
Dr. Chris Heard (of Higgaion) reports on the Accordance training seminar that he attended this week at the Master’s Seminary: Session 1, Session 2, Session 3 and Session 4. His comments about Session 3 just explain that they covered language searches (which he already knew how to do, so he didn’t take notes). But Session [...]
Need something to keep the ol’ Hebrew grammar exciting? Show this animation: Shewa Fight by Chris Huff! Note: I could not embed his flash video. The links lead to his website, just click the “play” button there. The objective of the video is to show (dramatically) that when two shewas are found at the beginning [...]
Hebrew and Greek Reader has two new Accordance User tools available that they generated (and are generously sharing): We’ve created an Accordance user tool compiling many of John Hobbins‘ posts on biblical Hebrew and translations of various passages of the Hebrew Bible. We hope you find it useful. As of now, its only up through [...]
Several years ago, I wrote a bit about fractals. I am revisiting that post here. I am so in favour of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of [...]
Disclaimer: Except for the links to the free online GKC, the rest of this post assumes you own a Mac (don’t you?) and you are using Accordance. Indeed, why bother? Isn’t it an old book in the public domain? Isn’t GKC available online? Now, don’t get me wrong. I think it is wonderful to be [...]
