Church Tech Dump

EllisLab, creators of the always impressive ExpressionEngine CMS, have released a new, light weight (as in feature set) CMS called MojoMotor. My first impressions of MojoMotor is that it would be perfect for small church or business websites that need the ability to change content easily but can do without more robust features like blogs, calendars, etc.

However, perhaps the coolest thing about MopjoMotor is that if you find yourself needing such features, they provide a tool that imports your MojoMotor site into a fresh install of ExpressionEngine.

Will you be using MojoMotor for an upcoming website? Let us know about it in the comments!

A few weeks ago, Terrell Sanders at MinistryCOM suggested that a lot of churches would be better off with simple, one page websites with just the basics rather than not have a website at all.

I agree, so I’ve come up with a solution for small churches who wish to follow Terrell’s advice.

I call it OnePageChurch.com and, in a nut shell, it lets users create simple, one page sites using a provided design. There is a spot for your church’s logo, photos and all the information a visitor to your site might need. The site even renders nicely got smaller screens of the mobile variety.

It’s quick, easy and free:-) I hope someone finds it useful.

It turns out a colleague down the street created his own digital signage as well and it looks rad!

Sometimes I come across a blog post that is not only informative and inspiring, but also just plain well written and entertaining to read. This is one such post.

Have you heard of OnyX? It’s a free utility that lets you maintain and tweak your Mac to keep it healthy and squeeze every drop of processing power from it.

In their own words:

OnyX is a multifunction utility that enables you to verify the startup disk and the structure of its system files, to run miscellaneous maintenance and cleaning tasks, to configure parameters in Finder, Dock and some of the Apple-own applications, to delete caches, to remove certain problematic folders and files, to rebuild various databases and indexes and more.

I use it at home on my 7-year-old PowerMac G5. Without OnyX, I would have junked this computer years ago, but it’s still humming along and works well enough for some light Photoshop and Illustrator work.

Whether you’ve got a late model Mac Pro or something a little more vintage, OnyX can help you out and might even save your hide some day.

Ever wish you could put cool looking animation of tweets about your event or organization up on the screens for everyone to see? Now you can with twistori Desktop Edition!

I saw this sweet screen saver while visiting the Element Fusion offices a few weeks ago.

For around $14 you get an app that lets you search twitter for keywords, filter out the naughty stuff or other things, and display them in a fun, full screen manner. Want to customize the look? Know some CSS? Make your own twistori theme! Awesome!

Twistori even lets you export your searches as screen savers to share with the office or your friends. Go get it!