This is a great drive for use with a laptop and Time Machine. It only costs $109 USD and is 350GB. It’s powered from the USB drive so it doesn’t need a external power supply. It’s USB 2.0 so it’s very fast. Very small, great looking, easy to use!

Movavi is an online video convertor. You can upload and convert up to 5 videos at a time. It’s output formats included .avi, .mp4 (apple), .mpeg, .3gp (cell phone), .mov, and .flv (flash). It’s best feature is that it’s free.

Craigslist.com is a free online classifieds. You can find all kinds of stuff locally or sell that old organ and get yourself a “keyboard”. Don’t be surprised by the lack of design, I’ve heard they’re not changing it for at least 10 years either.

If your looking to simplify things and for stuff to just plain work, get ready for Leopard. Leopard is the newest version of Apple OSX Software. It’s release date, for now, is “October 2007″. It’s been pushed back a few times. Check out Apple.com for some of the new features.

If you’re looking for easy and safe backup then Drobo is your best choice. All you do is plug it in, drop in 2-4 SATA drives and you’re done. It automatically protects your data. Your computer sees it as one large USB drive. The great thing is you can use different sized drives. It’s $499 but if you were thinking of buying a server just get this and share the drive and your done.

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Plugged in magazine and website is a great place to keep up on both Christian & secular music, movies and T.V. They are ran by Focus on the Family. Here’s a link (www.pluggedinonline.com) or you can order their magazine to come straight to your door.

Unfortunately even in churches you need security. I know for both the college and youth group we use iPods to pump music into our sound systems. Yeah this might be the perfect answer but it’s better than nothing.

Ok, I’m sure you’ve seen things like this at the mall. The first thing you want to do is touch them. So can you imagine what it would be like if you had these hanging out in your youth room, maybe near a announcement board or information table? Now all it needs to do is respond to music!

del.icio.us is a website. I know, it looks weird, no www, no .com but it really is a website. It’s using .us instead of .com, and a subdomain of del so there’s no need for www. So all you have to do is enter in the word delicious with some stratigicly placed dots and you’re in. del.icio.us is a web based bookmarking, or favorites program. You can organized all your bookmarks online and share them with others. You can even automatically post them back to your website with some of their widgets and codes.

If you’ve been wondering what RSS is all about listen up. RSS (or Really Simple Syndication) feeds are free content feeds from websites that contain article headlines, summaries and links back to full-text articles on the web. Most websites, especially ones with changing content, have RSS links that you can subscribe to. This will save you a lot of time from having to go to every website everyday to check on the newest stories. So now all you need is a RSS reader, or a feed reader. I am suggesting Google Reader for the following reasons:

• You can just enter the main address of a website, like faithhacker.com, and if finds the feed for you.
• It is web based so you can access it anywhere.
• You can organize multiple feeds into different categories.
• It supports video and other content.
• You can access it on your cell phone at www.google.com/reader/m