Posted by universalis on 29 May 2009
In the last mailing to the Universalis mailing list I forgot to mention that the new version of the Windows download now has easier ways of copying to the Clipboard. In addition, the Windows Mobile download , which couldn’t copy at all, now has that ability. In both cases you can copy the current reading or the whole page.
Follow the links to get the downloads and see the instructions.
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Posted by universalis on 18 May 2009
There is a debate in the e-book world – well, not so much a debate as an extended rumination – about how to make e-books worth more to the people who buy them. We know the conveniences by now – easy portability – and the inconvenience – slowness for flicking through, and expense when you leave them on the train. New e-book readers are coming on the market every week or so, and people do buy them. But still the question remains: how do we make people want e-books, and how do we make them want them more than they want books? As Joe Wikert says, “Figure out how to add more value to the ebook“. But how?
This post will give a possible answer to that question, and also give an explanation to the people who email me every day to ask whether there’s going to be a version of Universalis for the Amazon Kindle (and if not, why not).
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Posted by universalis on 17 April 2009
Many people will more or less rely on the Church, who will somehow, and from the outside, as it were, share her inner life. The parish will remain the essential cell of community life, but it will scarcely be possible to keep up the entire parish system as it now exists (a system that is of rather recent date). We will have to learn how to come together, and that will be an enrichment. In the astonishing diversity of Christian forms of life today, the Church tomorrow is already very clearly among us.
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Posted by universalis on 16 April 2009
So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence, while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear… The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels… never concealed His tears. Yet He concealed something… He never restrained His anger… Yet He restrained something… There was something that He hid from all men when He went up a mountain to pray. There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or imperious isolation. There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that is was His mirth.
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Posted by universalis on 25 March 2009
This reflection appears on the Universalis web site each year on the feast of the Annunciation. I have reproduced it here because some people have asked me if they can link to it.
The question may strike you as irreverent. How dare I suggest that the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven, Tower of David and all the rest, could have left us in the lurch like that?
But what if she had?
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Posted by universalis on 17 February 2009
If you’re using the Universalis web site, your browser will display it for you just as easily on Linux as on any other system. This posting is about using the downloadable Universalis on Linux.
There is no specific Linux version of the downloadable Universalis. However, one user has written to us about his experiences of using the Windows version under Linux. Here is his story:
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Posted by universalis on 6 February 2009
If you copy and paste the contents of a Universalis page (for example, Vespers) from Microsoft Internet Explorer to Microsoft Word, then you will find that the leftmost half an inch of each psalm is missing. This is a Microsoft bug. If you use a different web browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, you will not have the problem.
Here are two ways of working round this problem.
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Posted by universalis on 5 February 2009
We’ve changed the layout of the daily Liturgy pages to make them clearer. We have tested the changes on several browsers, and they should work correctly on AvantGo as well.
If you have any problems displaying the new layout, please let us know by following the “Contact Us” link at the bottom of every Universalis page.
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Posted by universalis on 28 January 2009
The latest downloadable Windows, Mac, Windows Mobile and Palm versions now include the antiphons. You can download the software here. If you have already bought a registration code then it will continue to work and you won’t need to buy a new one.
The updated iPhone / iPod Touch version has been submitted to Apple and will be available as soon as they have approved it. If you already have the software then you will be notified automatically through the App Store as soon as the updated version is available. The update is free of charge.
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Posted by universalis on 26 January 2009
I’ve now added the antiphons to the Divine Office. There are over 2,000 of them. You’ll find them attached to the psalms in Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and the Office of Readings; also to the Benedictus in Morning Prayer and the Magnificat in Evening Prayer. This makes Universalis more complete.
If you’re looking at the web site, you can see the antiphons now. The downloadable Universalis will be updated soon – when that’s been done, an announcement will be sent to the mailing list and I’ll post a blog entry here as well.
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Electric Prayer 