If you’re considering adding video to your ministry, you’re going to need a machine to create it. You wouldn’t need to upgrade for quite a while with these specs:

• 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
• Front Side Bus: 1066MHz
• L2 Cache: 4MB Advanced Smart Cache
• 2GB DDR2 Memory
• 1TB (250×4) Disk Space
• Blu-Ray Drive
• NVIDIA® GeForce® 7600GT graphics
• Card Reader
• Vista Business
• Jog Dial™ Controller

Sony Vaio VGC-RM1 @ Sony.com

Add-ons extend Firefox, letting you personalize your browsing experience. They can make a tiny tweak, or bring a whole new range of features. Here are some of my favorites:

• Flashblock – Blocks all flash on webpages. Only loads if you click on it. Great for sites like MySpace that have unwelcome and risky ads.
• Forecastfox – Weather in your lower info bar; current temp and conditions, 2 day forecast, hover over for radar.
• del.icio.us Bookmarks – If you have a del.icio.us account you can post sites with one click.
• Download Statusbar – Instead of a pop up with download status, you get a nice little progress bar in the bottom left of the status bar.
• Google Browser Sync – Syncs your passwords, bookmarks, & more with Firefox on different computers.
• StumbleUpon – tool bar that allows you to randomly find kewl websites with one click.
• Tab Mix Plus – Tab manager for Firefox. Total custom controls.

Web based program that helps you discover new music based on your currents favorites. Just enter in a favorite band and album and Pandora matches you with other music, most undiscovered bands.

• buy straight from itunes
• free streaming music

I don’t know a lot about Guitar Hero but our youth kids play it all the time on Playstation. It’s great to set up and youth parties. Now it’s on Xbox 360!

• It comes out April 3.
• The controller plus game bundle will cost $89.99
• Downloadable content on Xbox Live (songs, themes, pictures)
• A Leaderboard (!)
• Multiplayer: Co-Op, Face-Off and Pro Face-Off
• 11 characters, including three new to Guitar Hero 2: Eddie Knox, Casey Lynch and Lars Umlaut.
• Eight venues
• Practice Mode.

This browser for your cell phone is now one of the most used feature on my phone. The start page includes an address bar, search, bookmarks, rss feeds, & history. It’s also very fast. Just go to mini.opera.com on your cell phone and download it. Or you can go to www.operamini.com on your computer and text the download to yourself. The processing of the website is don’t on Opera’s servers so you can visit almost any website out there and it adapts to your phone.

Think of eBible like a web 2.0 Bible. But eBible.com is not only an online Bible, it has multiple versions of the Bible, commentaries, dictionaries & encyclopedias. It is also a place to get a greater understanding and share. eBible.com is adding more tools all the time like browser toolbars & rss feeds.

Wordpress is prewritten software you can upload to your website that creates a blog-based website on your own servers. Then you can customized it with predesignedtemplates, plugins, and widgets. It’s a quick way to throw up a website without a lot of work. This site, FaithHacker.com is built with wordpress. Here are some examples of sites I’ve made using wordpress:

EngageConference.com
SaylorvilleBaptist.com
SaylorvilleYouth.com
ImpactAustralia.com
ExperienceImpact.com