Fr Simon's Secondhand Bookstall
Selling my books to make space (for more books)
You can entertain/challenge and even (because I’m a big boy) abuse me via the power of the Internet and my fridge. Send an email to roboroughvicarage@gmail.com consisting of a picture attachment and the message in the subject, and my fridge will read it. I had an old Kindle lying around underused, and have it connected permanently…
My Latest Android Utility Download from here for just 50p I am releasing a new utility written for Android which I use for logging when I call people and when they call me. Others can use it to track calls for billing/invoicing purposes. When it runs in the background, you can select it and it…
My second Android Application There are times when you need to control Easyworship yourself – in schools or in small group worship settings. You can down this from the Google Play Store here I wrote this client to interact with my PC-based Server Program which can be downloaded from Here You will need to download and…
UPDATE! I have just finished my first app running on Android: a conversion of my Electric Ordo. You can find it here on Google Play. This is my annual release of an Electronic Ordo or Church Calendar, containing daily information and readings for Mass each day according to both the Roman Lectionary and an alternative…
No, you can’t have it. The Common Worship lectionary is copyright. That bunch of bible verses is not mine to give away, for prayers or anything. I have withdrawn it from Google Play, which is a pity because a) It was a good way to learn Android App development because I compile the data each…
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Please excuse this necessarily techy post – there’ll be something about the Church along in a minute… I have all my key data on a number of Network Attached Storage devices: hard disks which are directly wired to the network rather than another PC. This all gets backed up on the cloud and so (hopefully)…
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Motorola used to be massive: the major player in mobile phones alongside Nokia and then… well, they just got overtaken and the likes of Apple, Samsung and HTC put them into the second division. This must have been the point when Google snapped them up as a bargain. Google license the Android OS and specifically…
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Yet another little experiment with Prezi, the awesome presentation tool. Probably best viewed directly on the Prezi site via this link: http://prezi.com/9wmcnz5eaaus/evening-prayer-for-christ-the-king/ in case this embedded version doesn’t work… [gigya src=”http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf” allowfullscreen=”true” allowscriptaccess=”always” width=”550″ height=”400″ bgcolor=”#ffffff” flashvars=”prezi_id=9wmcnz5eaaus&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0″ You can download and reuse this, so if you want to remove the Diocesan Logos, change the Psalmody etc,…
When you start looking for a product review, especially for a laptop or somesuch, usually what you get is just a copy-and-paste job of the technical specifications: no-one actually tells you what the machine is like and whether it is actually worth the money. I want to give you a real-life user review for my…
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Although I have a reputation as an early adopter, and a willingness to use any technology to support the liturgy and witness of the Church, I have been careful in my use of electronics as a paper substitute for the priest. I have over time preached from a Kindle device and nowadays almost exclusively say…
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