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Posted - July 07 2011 : 21:27:46
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Question: Which do you prefer, wired or wireless network connections?
Answer: Good question. The answer unfortunately is: It depends. The thing is that your usage needs are going to be what determines whether you need wired or wireless. Here are the pros and cons. Wired connections are more secure, more reliable, and potentially faster than wireless connections. But, wireless connections are easier to set up and more flexible in terms of adds/moves/changes because while wired connections are tied to a wall jack, you only just need a good signal to get your wireless working. The situation is in many ways analogous to the difference between cell phones and land line phones.
Cool Site: YouthWorker.com: This week, we look at another site related to youth workers, called youthworker.com. This site is run by the same people that have brought Youth Worker Journal to print. You'll find practical youth ministry ideas and insights, discussions of important theological issues, Bible resources, youth culture updates, youth ministry games and activities, reviews of the latest youth ministry books and music, information about youth camps and retreats, professional development articles and resources and much more. The site seems free, except for the magazine and you can subscribe to it right online. They've got curriculum, music and movie reviews, and all kinds of stuff to help with your youth ministry.
Cool Gadget: Joystick-IT: This one's on Daine's wish list. Ok, if you have an iPhone or iPad, and you want to play a game that needs a joystick, you have to contend with a virtual joystick. Well, no more. Now, at ThinkGeek you can get the Joystick-IT, a joystick for your iPad/iPhone; your i-whatever. You stick it on top of the virtual joystick, and it works just like you'd expect. It has a suction cup on the bottom and is very soft so it won't scratch your device's screen. It is really simple since it seems all mechanical. There's nothing electronic about it, which is great because that means no batteries to change or power draw to run down your i-whatever. The iPhone model is $17.99, the iPad model is $24.99 or 2 for $36.99 over at ThinkGeek.
It's All "Geek" To Me: SourceCode: This week's term is Source Code. Hardware is useless by itself. It all needs software to make it work. That software has to be written in one or more computer programming languages. That program, as written by the programmer, is called source code. Since computers don't understand the source code, it is always transformed by a program called either a compiler or an interpreter into something that the computer can understand. So, source code is a description of program in a human-readable programming language.
Links
Tech Tip Friday's Show Notes RSS Feed:
http://www.daconsult.com/downloads/rss.xml
Youth Worker:
http://www.youthworker.com
Joystick-IT at Geek.com:
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/thinkgeek-unveils-the-joystick-it-arcade-stick-for-iphone-20110616/
Joystick-IT at ThinkGeek:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/e8f5/?cpg=cj&ref=&CJURL=
Source Code at TechTerms:
http://www.techterms.com/definition/sourcecode |
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