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Ancestry.com redesign offers personalized content
Ancestry.com has recently redesigned its home page to make its site easier to navigate. They have combined elements from the old home page and the My Ancestry tab to provide the following information:
Summary of recent activity on your family tree
List of new historical records made available
Links to flagged records in your data for easy retrieval
Links [...]
Going to church made easier with Google Maps
This week the LDS Church has launched a beta for the new meeting house locator at http://beta.maps.lds.org. The current site at http://www.lds.org/basicbeliefs/meetinghouse has been adequate, but the new site utilizes both Microsoft and Google mapping technologies to provide the kind of mapping experience that most of us have come to expect from online maps. [...]
Using Technology for Humanitarian Projects
The LDS Church has received great appreciation for its efforts from Hurricane Katrina. President Henry B. Eyring even mentioned a personal phone call from Pres George W. Bush to Gordon B. Hinckley at a recent multi-Stake Conference address, admiring the quick and effective efforts of local church members. But even the best organizations would be [...]
Got a jet pack in your 72 hour kit?
For just a bit of fun on a Friday, take a look at this guy who created jet powered wings (from CNN). He needs the help of a plane to take him to a high enough altitude (rather than taking off from the ground) and he uses a parachute to land. Now that would [...]
Global Positioning Systems
There are many technologies and gadgets I like. But one of the most fascinating to me is Global Positioning. I’m still amazed by the fact that Global Position Systems (GPS) work, and work as well as they do. Maybe its my love of clocks and timepieces, maybe its the thought of receiving messages from a [...]
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