Final Dark Ritual Announcement

The deadline for entering the Dark Ritual contest is approaching quickly: Oct. 30, 2008 @ 11:59 (your time zone). Get your correct entry in now to have a chance at winning a digital download of Spirit Blade: Dark Ritual or the original Spirit Blade on CD.

I will hold the drawing LIVE on Oct. 31, 2008 at 12PM EST. Just visit the contest page or http://www.mogulus.com/jesusgeek to watch the event LIVE.

Thanks for sticking me in your ears and as Paeter says, seek the truth.

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Something Scary for Halloween

I’m normally not one to try and scare my listeners, but, if you really want to get freaked out, listen to this podcast I recorded with Chris and Clifford from The Jesus Geeks and Scott Roche, the Spiritual Tramp and author of Arch Angel.

We had a political battle-royale and I’m sure I stepped in a mess a few times then stuck my foot in my mouth. Of course, we solved the world’s problems in under 2 hours and managed to upset nearly every Christian on the planet in the process.

I’m posting this in lieu of a podcast this week as I will be doing the Dark Ritual drawing live on Friday night via Talk Shoe. More details to follow. If you haven’t entered the contest yet, it’s getting down to the wire!

Safe Chicken Bass Searches

This week I cover some news, give you an update on the contest, and provide another part to the Internet Awareness series: Safe Searches.

Searching the Internet safely can be difficult at times. With searches it’s sometimes possible to circumvent filtering software because the results are often cached by sites like Google. This can cause some challenges when you’re trying to prevent the viewing of explicit content. While safe search settings on search engines aren’t 100%, they can help drastically reduce the chances of unwanted content showing up in an image or video search.

News links:

• 40 Mac keyboard shortcuts for Finder
• 5 best compression tools according to Lifehacker
• Things to fix on the iPhone
• Do you really need to remotely control your iPhone?
• Gmail hints and hacks
• What to do with 1,000 old cassette tapes

Safe search links:

• SquirrelNet kid-safe Google search
• Yahoo! image search safety guide
• Google’s Web Search Help Center
• Ask Kids
• Dogpile — use to search Yahoo! images if you do not have a Yahoo! id to configure preferences

Feel free to leave comments or send feedback to geek{at}jesusgeek{dot}info. This podcast is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Jesus Geek is a weekly Christian technology podcast with news, how-tos and a little bit of spiritual know-how hosted by John Wilkerson. Jesus Geek is a member of the My Life Ministries Network: a community of ministries that views the everyday Christian life as a ministry and seeks to encourage Christians in their daily walk with Christ.

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Dark Ritual promo Video

Eliminating Dead Air in GarageBand

One thing that has bothered me for some time now is that frequently in GarageBand after I export a files there is dead air at the end of the file. Well, I finally stumbled upon the reason for this. Watch the video linked below and you’ll see why this happens and how you can correct it.

Eliminating Dead Air in GarageBand

Internet Accountability and Filtering

This week’s podcast covers the topic of Internet accountability and filtering and is part 3 of the Internet Awareness series. Also an update on the Dark Ritual Contest and a promo from The Jesus Geeks.

A sad note: The My Life Ministries forum succumbed to a technical glitch that resulted in resetting to an older version of the forum’s database. As a result, if you’ve registered since April 2008 your account information may be gone. You’ll need to re-register. For more information please read the announcement that was made on the forum.

Some additional notes: I used a different mic configuration, I’d like your opinion on the sound quality. It’s the same mic just setup a little differently. Also, the GSM mosquito struck again. You may hear an occasional buzzing in the podcast. I’d re-record it but I just don’t have the time.

Free Internet filtering and accountability products:

• OpenDNS
• X3Watch
• Astaro (takes some technical chops)
• Vista parental controls
• OS X parental controls

Software for Internet filtering and accountability:

• X3Watch Pro
• SafeEyes
• Covenant Eyes

Hardware for Internet accountability and filtering:

• iBoss (residential)
• ethershield
• Astaro

Feel free to leave comments or send feedback to geek{at}jesusgeek{dot}info. This podcast is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Jesus Geek is a weekly Christian technology podcast with news, how-tos and a little bit of spiritual know-how hosted by John Wilkerson. Jesus Geek is a member of the My Life Ministries Network: a community of ministries that views the everyday Christian life as a ministry and seeks to encourage Christians in their daily walk with Christ.

Jesus Geek is a member of the Tech Podcast Network; if it’s tech, it’s here.

Sponsor: Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at http://gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts

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Guest Appearance in Archangel

Check out my performance in Scott Roche’s audio novel Archangel: Legion, Episode 3. I play Pastor Ben Cain. I like that name, it sounds like a character out of Gunsmoke.

Too bad Scott listed my name as Jack Wilkerson, yeah, he’ll never live this one down.