Brigada

I’m not talking about a person. It’s software.
http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal.htm
If you have a tablet computer or a computer with a touch-sensitive screen, this program will truly shine. But either way, Jarnal will be fun, especially if you’re the least bit graphically inclined. What’s more, you can always pick up a slate input device to make it even [...]

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Try PrimoPDF (alias PDFCreator). It’s fast, it’s effective, and it’s free. See it at…
http://www.primopdf.com/index.aspx
As far as we can tell, there are no malware or adware programs installed. You can choose a paid version… NitroPDF Professional, but even it is just $69 (but only ’til Nov. 30th). With the free version, you get a file similar [...]

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Now you can use…
http://www.truecrypt.org/
to completely envelope your laptop’s hard drive in a proective shell. Check it out. You can encrypt a folder, or force encryption of an entire hard drive, pre-boot. What’s more, after that, ancryption is “real-time.” You can even hide keep a hidden volume within the encrypted portion, thus tricking an adversary into [...]

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This high quality CDrom is being used creatively around the globe in many mission contexts. Students develop their English skills while comprehending a dramatic presentation of God’s redemptive story in 12 chapters from creation through Jesus Christ. This CDrom utilizes beautiful images and audio while ALSO including the full film of The Hope (see
http://www.thehopeproject.com/
This resource [...]

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Which kind do you prefer? Quickbooks? “Church Missions”? What’s your favorite and why? Just click on “Comment” below and don’t forget to provide a link to the site for your preferred tool. Thanks!

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There’s been some chatter recently, stirred in part by Brigada participant, Doug W., as to whether or not he might be able to use Twitter in overseas communication and reporting. If you’re a regular Twitter user, would you jot a note in the Comments below about how you employ it??? Please mention any limitations and [...]

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Does anyone know of a cell/smart phone that has (or could get) software which would allow an incoming call to (A) immediately be responded to via a text message and (B) simultaneously forward the caller’s information to another assigned phone number? If not, would anyone have the ability or interest to develop a little application [...]

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Here’s a mission team in a Muslim land with 6 local volunteers who are wanting to help answer 400 emails from seekers that are starting to rot in our inbox. After finding them, the team put together a pretty good plan for getting them access to computers/DSL/VPNs, etc. But now they need a secure way [...]

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We know every tongue, tribe, and nation will be in heaven! Frequently this will be preceeded by ‘foreigners’ bringing the Good News. Most language software will be irrelevant for those foreigners, though, because it only targets big markets (French, Spanish, Chinese, etc.), ignoring 99% of the world’s 6000+ dialects. If you have computer programming talent [...]

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See a sample digital library at
http://library.maf.org/
This can be put on a CD for those without internet access. If you are interested in creating an electronic library, view the collection, “How to Build Your Own Digital Library”. Contact the librarian

working with MAF Learning Technologies
http://maflt.org/
for more information. Got a question or comment? Just click “Comment” below.

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Along the same theme as the item above, Phil and his colleagues are experimenting with
http://unlibrary.com/
which he thinks will be interesting for missionaries. You can set up private communities in your areas, put your books on there (along with your friends), and then *borrow* a book instead of buying it. As Phil points out, this could [...]

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The Evangelical Training Database is a searchable online database at
http://www.trainforChrist.org/english
The project seeks to give information on all evangelical pastoral, theological and missionary training courses world-wide, so that people everywhere can more easily find the training they need to serve the Lord. As well as English, the database has interfaces in Afrikaans, French, German, Portuguese, Serbian [...]

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Here’s a user that would like to improve the look of his emails to his prayer supporters and donors. He’d love to improve the graphics and the look with a hyperlink index, etc. Can you recommend a program that can help him with this that is not to difficult or costly? Also, what program and/or [...]

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Allan is a People Group Advocate looking for tips regarding software that might help him do a better job. The people group has experienced significant migration, with pockets of people now in scores of localities in about 30 states in Mexico and the US. He is looking for a more integrated way to keep track [...]

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Perhaps you’ve noticed the new way we’re converting email addresses for use in Brigada’s website. We first tried an online conversion program, but because several users feared that it was somehow going to keep track of the email addresses (and spam them), we switched to a new approach where we use a piece of software [...]

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Early in the life of assembling Brigada, we needed a way to handle all the little items and clips that come down the pike here. Clipmate came to the rescue — stripping out carriage returns, straightening out mixed case, removing leading or trailing spaces, etc. Now, years later, we still use it *daily* to assemble [...]

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I’m amazed at all the digital media our generation is producing. Yikes. If we don’t start teaching our peers to catalogue it, we’ll face the biggest maze of useless artwork in the history of the *world*. Learn to tag your photos by using a simple photo tagging program like iTag. Get it at:
http://www.itagsoftware.com/

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It had been a while since I visited Joshua Project’s data downloads. I think last time, they had about 5 or 10 items. Yikes. Visit …
http://www.joshuaproject.net/download.php
You’ll be *shocked*. Now they have materials in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and more. Get it in Access, Excel, Word, as a PDF, and more. Even get the entire [...]

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Want to avoid spammers harvesting your email address on the web? Just feed your email address into the form at:http://www.converttojpg.com/(At present, you have to refresh the page sometimes to get the output to show up.) Once the chart produces the picture of your email address (which spam-harvesters would ignore, because it’s a graphic rather than [...]

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This is an ongoing challenge… how to deal with all these digital media we make today. Working with pictures can be so time-consuming — tagging, captioning, cleaning up the image, posting on a website, sharing the site with others, Yikes…. What are we thinking? :-) Sounds like we need some really good tools. Try…

http://www.itagsoftware.com/

It just [...]

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If you run Windows XP, Windows 2000, or good ole NT, you can clock your network speed for free by picking up the QCheck tool athttp://www.ixiacom.com/products/display?skey=qcheckIt’s cool, it’s fun, and it’s efficient — and it installs no spyware on your system.

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Compu-Books of Glendale, AZ is offering their Church Missions 3.0 software free to Christian churches and Mission organizations. This solution tracks church mission projects with missionary information, contribution records, communication log and reports. They give you a free single-user version – a contribution receipt for the donation is requested in return [...]

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