tl;dr : A great pocketable camera that shoots RAW, gets pretty good low-light results, and has a sharp new HD video recording mode.

After having used an excellent RAW-capable point and shoot, the Canon PowerShot G11 , for about 6 months, I sold it on eBay and bought the new Canon PowerShot S95, the G11's smaller sibling. I had originally been looking into buying the S90 (another excellent

Due almost exclusively to the Articles section of this website, it seems that Lifeisaprayer.com (this website) ranks at number 422,290 of approximately 180,000,000 websites on the Internet (according to Alexa).

The most popular content on the site, by a very large margin, are the following articles:

• My Mac is Running Really Slow - Help!
• DIY: Greenscreens and Backdrop or Background Stands
• iPhone 4 (and iPad) - External Mic for

The Archdiocese of St. Louis is celebrating the feast of its patron saint today, St. Louis IX. Saint Louis was a very generous man, always giving to the poor, helping charitable organizations and religious orders, and generally being the kind of king who tries to please God rather than man.

You can read more about the feast of St. Louis IX (and about the man himself) on the Archdiocese of St. Louis' website.

I recently had the first of, I hope, many columns on Catholic online evangelization in the St. Louis Review . I will post the column here for archival purposes, but you can read the column on the Review website as well:

The Digital Continent | Catholics should become leaders in online communications

by Jeff Geerling

The status quo is no longer acceptable.

That was the gist of the two keynote talks during this year's Catholic New Media Celebration in Boston. The Catholic Church needs to become a leader in online communications

This year's CNMC MMX (Catholic New Media Convention 2010) was bigger and better than last year's convention; the venue had excellent WiFi access, there were even more Catholic media/new media representatives, and the atmosphere was generally more lively and exciting (mostly due to the great number of amazing people).

Here are some of the

I was in a small group with Thomas Peters , @applemachome , @aquinasnmore and a few other awesome attendees at this year's CNMC breakout session #2:

Expect a wrap-up post for this year's CNMC sometime tomorrow, or maybe Monday.

Lino Rulli —a man with a large nose (an Italian)—spoke to the attendees of the Catholic New Media Celebration during a keynote address on Saturday, and talked about the importance of "doing things right" in new media.

He made three main points:

1. Study what others are doing, and copy what others are doing right.
2. Identify your passion and pursue it.
3. It is not *just the message* that matters.

I fully support these points, and I wish to highlight a few more salient points

Fr. Robert Reed's keynote at this year's CNMC MMX was excellent. He started by giving us a 'goody bag' with something sweet, something neat, something deep, and something to eat. He then spoke about each topic and summarized the reason why we evangelize—not just online, but also on a personal level.

Something Sweet

Takeaway quote from this portion:

"There has to be an appeal, a professionalism, a standard to our craft."

I couldn't say it better

I'll be hanging around a bunch of other Catholic techies this Saturday in Boston, MA, at the Catholic New Media Celebration . In case you haven't heard, I just started a new podcast, Catholic Car Wash ( read more about it ), and I thought CNMC MMX would be a great venue for its introduction.

A good friend and fellow Catholic programmer/blogger, Matthew Warner, spent much of last night individually uploading tons of photos from last night's meet-and-greet. I

Please read this article for background/more info: iPhone/iPad external microphones

I am now pretty confident in my portable video/audio recording solution using my iPhone 4. Everything I need to do on-the-spot interviews, B-roll filming, and even more advanced shooting, I can fit in my iPad's bag.

Here's my basic setup - everything I need (with the exception of the iPhone 4), I put together for under $100:

• iPhone 4 Tripod mount