Phil GonsAndy Naselli, a good friend of mine and an avid Logos user, points out a relevant quote in a new book from Crossway: The New Media Frontier: Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ, edited by John Mark Reynolds and Roger Overton. In his...
Movable Type is probably the most common platform for corporate blogging and happens to be the software that we use to power our blogs. It’s also used by many for personal blogging. Adding RefTagger to a Movable Type blog is can be...
We just posted a new video from Steve Runge about the Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament. You can watch it on the LDGNT product page or right here in the blog post. Steve’s been working hard for the last few months on a new discourse-related...
Most of us still use desktop applications when we want to do serious work, but web applications are improving rapidly and fast becoming viable alternatives, at least when it comes to basic functionality. Desktop applications simply can’t...
Today’s guest blogger is Adam Navarrete, who works in the marketing department here at Logos. The Logos Lecture Series is back in action after taking a month off. Tomorrow, September 24, we will host Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum of Ariel...
Today’s guest blogger is Kent Hendricks, the main Pre-Pub man here at Logos. A few weeks ago, Phil mentioned several big shipments of books headed to the Pre-Pub page. Since then, we’ve brought you dozens of collections and hundreds of...
Today’s guest blogger is J. D. Elgin, a new addition to the marketing team and the organizer of this year’s BibleTech conference. Back in January Logos hosted BibleTech:2008. BibleTech is a conference for people interested in the...
Over the weekend I got an email from a forum moderator in Australia who convinced the admins to add RefTagger to their site. He requested that we provide some instructions specific to phpBB, which is popular free forum software. So for all you phpBB...
We launched RefTagger at the end of February, and in the six months since it has spread to more than 1,000 websites. Read the press release that went out yesterday: “1,000+ Christian Webmasters Install RefTagger.” You’ll now find...
Creating collections is essential to getting the most use out of your digital library. They serve two main purposes: organizing My Library and enabling more targeted and faster searching. I have dozens of collections and use them all the time...
I mentioned in yesterday’s blog post that you may want to keep locked resources on your hard drive so you can (1) search them and (2) find cool new resources to add to your digital library. If you’ve managed to stumble across a locked...
A couple of weeks ago I showed you how to free up some hard drive space by deleting duplicate resources. There’s another way to make even more space available: deleting locked resources. Searching Locked Resources Now, before I show you how to...
A while back someone sent me a question about how to use the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary to the fullest. Any good ideas on where I can go to learn how to most effectively use this dictionary in my study process? Is there a way to integrate it into...
MediaWiki is the open source wiki software behind Wikipedia and the lesser known Theopedia, which is now powered by RefTagger. (See an example at .) A couple of weeks ago I downloaded and installed MediaWiki so I could test it out with RefTagger. It...
Pastor and Logos user Mark Barnes blogs about his process for preparing a sermon. His five steps are nicely alliterated: Divide Dissect Discover Digest Disseminate In his very helpful post, he shows how he makes use of Logos both in the dissecting...
Over on his Exegetica Digita blog, Mike Heiser has been doing some tutorial videos on the Andersen-Forbes syntax resources. The Hebrew Bible: Andersen-Forbes Analyzed Text The Hebrew Bible: Andersen-Forbes Analyzed Phrase Marker Analysis A...
Hard drive prices continue to plummet. I was surprised to notice a couple of days ago that you can now get a 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 desktop hard drive for under $75. The 7200.11 is only $5 more. When I checked a few months ago, they were...
Drupal is popular open source Content Management System (CMS) software. Many churches and ministries use it. A few days ago I got a request from an individual who wants to add RefTagger to his Drupal site but isn’t sure how to get it set up, so I...
When we first launched it back in February, RefTagger simply turned Bible references into hyperlinks to BibleGateway. Then in May we added the ability to have the text pop up when you hover over references, making the web a little more like your...
I read with interest over the last month or so LaRosa Johnson’s 30 Day Challenge. He wanted to see if Logos was best suited to meet his Bible study needs. In his own words, The reason that I came up with this challenge is because my needs and...
Three years and 700 posts later . . . The Logos blog officially launched on July 29, 2005. If my math is correct, that means that today is our 3rd birthday! No need to buy us any presents, but you’re welcome to buy yourself one if you want. :)...
The 60th annual Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) meeting, which is on the subject of Text and Canon, is right around the corner. The event will be held in Providence, Rhode Island on November 19-21, 2008. The tentative schedule is now up at the...
As many Bible college and seminary students (and teachers!) can attest, learning Greek can be a challenging task. Its Greek to me! hasnt become a well-known expression without good reason. One of our goals here at Logos is to facilitate learning...
Over the last couple of months, several people have asked me if it is possible to add RefTagger to a forum site. I’ve set it up on a couple of different test installs, and it works very nicely. Forums are perfect places for RefTagger. If you run a...
Jacques Paul Mignes Patrologia Graeca is a massive series of 166 print volumes of Greek writings from the 1st century through the 15th century. Weve been asked many times if wed consider making this indispensable set available, and were finally...
Textual apparatuses (a.k.a. critical apparatuses) are essential tools for serious exegesis. They list alternate readings, the texts that contain those readings, and often the level of certainty the editors had in choosing the reading they went with...
A couple of people have inquired recently if there is a way to change the font in their notes. One user asked, Is there a way to set the default font & font size for Note Files? The default font of 10pt Arial is a tad too small for my eyes...
Have you ever wondered how to open the same resource in two or more separate windows? This question comes up regularly in the newsgroups and in comments on the blog. Rick addressed this about three years ago, but it’s probably about time to cover it...
Have you ever wondered what the differences are between the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th ed. (NA27) and the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament, 4th ed. (UBS4) or between the various Greek New Testaments available for Libronix...
I read a request last week from someone wishing for a way to search the footnotes in the NET Bible. If you’re familiar with the NET Bible, you know how valuable the notes are. While you probably normally want to see notes when you’re looking at a...