Tech for the Local Church
Posts tagged iPad
10 Killer iPhone Apps: #8 Dragon Dictation
Jan 11th
Dragon Dictation
The verbage from their website says it best…
Dragon Dictation, powered by Nuance’s world-renowned Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, allows you to stay connected all the time, even when your hands are busy.
10 Killer iPhone Apps: #7 GoodReader
Jan 9th
GoodReader does magic with PDF files. It does a lot more, as its description in the iTunes app store mentions…
Quick summary: super-robust PDF reader with advanced reading, annotating, markup and highlighting capabilities, excellent file manager, TXT file reader and editor, audio/video player, Safari-like viewer for MS Office and iWorks files.
I attend Metro Calvary, and our pastor, Richard Cimino, posts his notes in their entirety each week. They are, essentially, manuscript sermons. We used to post the notes online after the sermon audio was posted, but people began to ask for paper copies of the notes to follow along during the service. People saw others with the printed notes and before long, we were photocopying over 100 copies of the notes – sometimes over a dozen pages each! Before long, the folks with smart phones asked to have the notes available BEFORE the service on the website. That was good, but when you are used to handwriting notes on paper, or highlighting certain sections, reading text online doesn’t satisfy. More >
10 Killer iPhone Apps: #4 Elements – Dropbox Powered Text Editor
Oct 24th
Elements – Dropbox Powered Text Editor
Elements is a beautiful, versatile text editor for iOS. Elements allows you to view, edit and share plain text documents on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. All of your data is stored in a folder on your personal Dropbox account so that it’s accessible from any device you have. Whether you are a pastor, a church volunteer, or a member taking notes during the sermon, this is a great app that will help you write long documents, or capture short lists. The Dropbox sync is the killer feature, but read on to see the rest… More >
10 Killer iPhone Apps: #3 Instapaper
Oct 22nd
Instapaper isn’t instant. It has nothing to do with paper either. Instapaper is essentially a simple tool to save web pages for reading later on your electronic devices. (Is it just me or does the title of this Read-Later-Without-Paper app just kill you?!) You flag the content you want to save by using a BOOKMARKLET – essentially a little app that looks like a bookmark button in your browser. To get started, go to instapaper.com/extras and drag the button to your browser bar. Then you view a page and press the “Read Later” button. All major browsers support it – even Mobile Safari on your iPhone (although Apple makes it much harder than it should be). Press that “Read Later” button and BOOM! – it magically appears on your Instapaper app. On your iPhone. Brilliant. This simple little one-trick pony has the potential to transform the way you read online content. Listen to Marco, the author or this app, explain the thinking behind it: More >
Pastors Took Up An Offering To Buy Me An iPad
May 12th
Seriously. Yesterday, after I finished teaching a class of pastors and volunteers how to save money and still have a killer website, one of the pastors stood up, came to the front, and told the others who attended to get out their pocketbooks and put their cash on the table to by me an iPad.
THAT IS AWESOME. This could possible be the first iPad offering in history. I suppose my efforts to “convert” them to the Mac side is working.
No, I don’t have enough to buy it yet, but I am on my way.
iPad Review – First Observations
May 6th
Fan Boyhood
I have to admit at the debut of this blog that I am an Apple Fan Boy. But, it may help to explain my history with the forbidden fruit tattooed tech company. I was first introduced to computers when my father first brought home a Radio Shack TRS-80 with a whopping 4K of memory. Then, in college I got my first geek job in a Macintosh Lab in the Business School at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. At the time, Macs were squatty, beige boxes with green screens… but I was hooked. Even though my experience with and knowledge of Apple Computers pre-dates the Genius Bar, I think I can give fair assessment of the good, bad and the ugly of the Kingdom of Jobs. More >
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