Monday, October 15, 2007

MillaMeter Studios - Free design downloads

MillaMeter Studios provide web/graphic/GUI designs that are VERY nice! They also have a free download section of wallpapers, dual-wallpapers and WindowBlinds. Have a look at their free Photoshop CS Tutorials as well - well worth it!

NOTE: Please be aware that these downloads are for your personal/pleasure use only. None of these downloads are to be used in any other manner other than for your desktop. You may not use portions from any of these images in any way to use them towards skins or to lift elements and insert them into your own art.




Saturday, September 15, 2007

Rainlendar - A free customizable desktop calendar

Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn't take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it both on Windows and on Linux. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together.

It is possible to use Rainlendar with other calendar applications too. Rainlendar uses the standard iCalendar format to store its events and tasks so you can easily transfer them between applications.




Thursday, August 09, 2007

Free Christian Marketing Resource - "Church Marketing Sucks"

The blog to frustrate, educate and motivate the church to communicate, with uncomprimising clarity, the truth of Jesus Christ.



Free faith photos and graphics from Christian Photographers and Graphic Designers

CreativeMYK.com is a resource and index to free faith photos and graphics from Christian Photographers and Graphic Designers around the world. Visit our Gallery page and download an assortment of photos and designs in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, .eps, .jpg & more.




Sunday, August 05, 2007

Free Christian Resources

While running this blog I bookmark a number of links for future posting. I've found a number of good websites that supply very good free christian resources. Have a look through and see what you think.


The Basics of Christianity ... and then some ...
A Christian center with FREE Resources, Information and Links
Testifying of God, Heaven and of Eternal Life through Jesus Christ the Savior both now and yet to come!


eBibleTeacher.com
Resources for the Computer in the Bible Class and Worship.


The Digital Seed Sower
Christian Graphics Worship Backgrounds
Helping Bring a Centuries Old Message to the World With Tools From Today


The blog of Andrew Jones.
I am the Project Director for the Boaz Project. We are developing a support structure for church in the emerging culture. My blog is about God, spirituality, new media and new expressions of church. Currently nominated for best blog award.


Jack Chick is the most succesful underground comic artist in the world. Since the 1960's he has produced over half a billion pocket sized religious comics (also called tracts). First printed in 1964, 'This Was Your Life!' has sold over 80 million copies, making it the world's most famous tract. The secret fun spot is proud to bring you the first-ever fully authorized, flash animated version of Jack's masterpiece.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Over 75,000 FREE MP3's!!!

I recently discovered that download.com were serving up free MP3's on their site. I found it while searching for free latin american music for a Nacho Libre night we were having with friends.

This site is awesome to say the least! All songs are fully categorized into many genres and sub-genres and are rated by other listeners. The site also feastures it's own media player that pops up when you want to listen to any song. You can then add further songs to the media player to create your own personalised playlist!

While you can't save the files to a particular folder on your hard drive through the media player, the files can be copied from the temporary internet files folder.




Friday, July 13, 2007

Open Song - free worship presentation software

"OpenSong is a free, open-source software application created to manage lyrics, chords, lead sheets, overheads, computer projection, and more. Download the full application for free and give it a try!"




Sunday, May 13, 2007

Logopond

If you need inspiration for logo branding have a look at Logopond. Click on the image below.




Paint.NET

As stated in an earlier blog entry, the freeware graphics programs I use are either Irfanview, Faststone Image Viewer or PhotoFiltre. I have now found another one that is also very intuitive and unlike PhotoFiltre also manages layers! It's called Paint.NET and it's a great program. Click on the image below and give it a whirl!




Saturday, May 05, 2007

Moffsoft FreeCalc

Moffsoft FreeCalc is a great replacement for your existing Windows calculator. It not only includes the standard Windows calculator functionality but also the following added features:

  • Adjustable calculator size - Make it any size you want and Moffsoft FreeCalc will remember the size and position next time you use it.
  • Tape - Save, print, or clear the simulated paper history tape.
  • Color schemes - Select a color combination or use your Windows color settings.
  • New keys - Clear Tape {CT}, double zero {00}, triple zero {000}, and memory subtract {M-} keys have been added.
  • Visible memory value - You'll always know what's in memory because it's displayed on the calculator status bar.
  • Option settings - Flat buttons, always on top, tray icon, run on startup, and hiding the tape are some of the calculator options.
  • Digit groupings - Number groupings for easy to read numbers.
  • International support - Digit grouping and decimal point characters change based on your regional settings.
  • Tray icon - Turn on the tray icon for quick and easy access.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

The Vision

Signs seen on a wall at the Papanui Christian Youth Centre in Christchurch. A vision for youth and for all that call themselves children of God.


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THE Vision...

SO this guy comes up to me and says "Whats the vision? What's the big idea?" I open my mouth and words come out like this....

The Vision?

The vision is JESUS -
obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.
The vision is an army of young people. You see Bones?
I see an army!
And they are FREE from Materialism.

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They Laugh at 9-5 little Prisons
They could eat caviar on monday and crusts on tuesday.
They wouldn't even notice.
They know the meaning of the matrix, the way the west was won.
They are mobile like the wind they belong to the nations.
they need no past port {passport]. People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existance. they are free yet they are slaves of the hurting and Dirty and DYING

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Whats the VISION?

The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes. it Makes children laugh and adults angry.

It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars. It scorns the good and strains for the best. It is dangerously pure.

Light flickers from every secret motive, every private conversation.

It loves people away from their suicide tears, their satan games.

This is an army that will lay its life down for the cause.

A million times a day its soldiers choose to lose that some day they might win the great "WELL DONE" of faithful sons and daughters.

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Such heroes are as radical monday morning as sunday night. they don't need fame from names. Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again "COME ON"

and this is the sound of the underground. The whisper of history in the making. Foundations shaking. Revolutionaries dreaming once again. Mystery is scheming in whispers. Conspiracy is breathing... this is the sound of the underground. and the army is discipl(in)ed.

Young people who beat their bodies into submission. Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms. the tattoo on their back boasts "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain"
Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes
Winners, Martyrs
who can stop them?
Can hormones hold them back?

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Can failure succeed?

Can fear scare them or death kill them? And the generation prays like a dying man with groans beyond talking, with warrior cries, sulphuric tears and with great barrow loads of laughter! Waiting - watching: 24:7 - 365

Whatever it takes they will give:
Breaking the rules. Shaking mediocrity from its cosy little hide. laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs, laughing at labels, fasting essentials.

Advertisers cannot mould them, hollywood cannot hold them. Peer pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late night parties before the cockerel cries. They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive inside - on the outside? they hardly care. they wear clothes as costumes to communicate and celebrate but never to hide.

Would they surrender their image or popularity?

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They would lay down their very lives - swap seats with the man on death row - guilty as hell. A throne for an electric chair.

With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days, they pray as if it depends on God and live as if it depends on them.

Their DNA choose JESUS . (he breathes out, they breathe in) their subconscious sings. they had a blood transfusion with Jesus.

Their words make demons scream in shopping centres. Don't you hear them coming?

Herald the weirdos!

Summon the losers and the FREAKS

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Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes. they walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension. thjeir prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of eden.

And this vision will be. It will come to pass, it will come easily, it will come soon. How do I know? Because this is the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the spirit, the very dream of God.

My tomorrow is his today. My distant hope is his 3D. My feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking great AMEN from Angels, heroes of the faith, from Christ himself. And he is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner

GUARANTEED.

© Pete Greig The Vision ___ prayer

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Britain's Best Sitcom - Wallpapers

The Beeb ran a poll to find out which programme would receive the ultimate comedy accolade of Britain's Best Sitcom. The final Top Ten are listed here.

Wallpapers for your PC from each of these Top 10 sitcoms can be downloaded here:



Monday, January 01, 2007

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone!

2 Timothy 1:6-10
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God, who has saved us and called us to a holy life--not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace.

This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.