Articles by Timothy R. Butler

Timothy R. Butler is Editor-in-Chief of Open for Business. He also serves as a pastor at Little Hills Church and FaithTree Christian Fellowship.

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Dec 03, 2025

Is the iPad Finally Ready to Be a Computer?

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 11:00 PM

I became the lab rat. Three weeks ago, I put away my trusty MacBook to discover if the technically powerful 11” M4 iPad Pro could handle everything this solo pastor’s jack-of-all-trades work demands — writing, video editing, programming, system administration, the whole enchilada. A year ago, the answer was clearly “no.” Now, I wasn’t so sure.

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Nov 19, 2025

Amazing Apple “Black Friday” Deals

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 5:26 PM

Black Friday no longer happens on a Friday or even in the week of the namesake Friday. It’s in full effect now and some of our perennial favorite fruity themed deals are back and worth grabbing before the deals sell out.

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Oct 29, 2025

Can Grokipedia Tesla-fy Wikipedia?

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 12:30 PM
We all love to hate Wikipedia: it is imperfect, but unavoidably useful; biased, but somewhat correctable. Could Grokipedia take what is good about it and round off the rough edges? Maybe.
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Oct 15, 2025

Is OBSBot's Tail Air the Goldilocks Live-Streaming Camera?

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 11:17 PM

Beyond the desk and fancy backdrop of the average TV studio broadcast, there is a set of giant cameras, each with a technician behind it, panning to follow movements on set. In the era of everyone-as-a-broadcaster, OBSBot’s Tail Air offers a way to achieve a bit of that high production value without the high production crew price tag.

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Sep 11, 2025

Fury or Prayer: We Have a Choice

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 12:37 PM

Such a weird flood of emotions. My church is part of a twice yearly, live streamed “Online Community Prayer Walk.” It always strikes me deeply, but how much more so as it falls on 9/11 and, more immediately, amidst two nation-shaking murders.

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Aug 27, 2025

Whether Apple Crate or Cracker Barrel, Change Ain't Improvement

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 12:22 PM

The Cracker Barrel rebrand ought to remind everyone, change and improvement are not the same. Amongst others, I hope Apple is listening.

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Aug 20, 2025

Get the Church Out of the Political Dump

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 11:07 PM

Some piles of garbage are better than others. But if you asked me which one I’d like to lie down in, I’d say, “None of them.” The answer should be the same when answering about which sort of politics should influence Christianity.

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Aug 13, 2025

No Actors Were Harmed in the Making of this Video

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 2:47 PM

My congregation got a preview of a new show set in Biblical times. By the look of the clips, it could be a spinoff of The Chosen. There’s just one peculiar difference that makes all the difference, for good or ill.

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Jul 28, 2025

Vortex’s Take on the Model M: Cover Band or New Legend?

We test the Model M SSK Triple Mode WK (TKL)

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 11:15 PM

What would happen if you took the classic layout and look of the Model M and rebuilt it with modern mechanical guts? Vortex decided to find out and the result is a unique keyboard with one foot in two different decades. Passed up the Legend itself because it lacks too many modern comforts? Then read on for the Remix.

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Jul 08, 2025

The Best Prime Day Deals Are Slightly Hidden

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 1:11 PM

The next few days, we’ll all be bombarded by Amazon’s Prime Day deals and the equivalents from other stores. But, the best are just off stage. A new Mac Mini for less than $287, for example.

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