Update:
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— Microsoft OneNote (@msonenote) March 17, 2014
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You asked for it, and #OneNote for Mac is HERE! Download it free in the App Store. http://t.co/EOKVAxJX9Y pic.twitter.com/0f575NM2dQ
— Microsoft OneNote (@msonenote) March 17, 2014
So my primary go-to tool every day for ministry is Google services: especially what we now call Google Drive (formerly Google Docs), which includes Docs, Sheets, Presentations, Forms, Drawings, and an “upload anything” storage feature which will take everything from photos to PDFs.
But while Google tools are cloud-based and killer at collaboration, there’s one thing that Google doesn’t do so well: HELP.
Support for a lot of Google services often seems limited. Having trouble figuring out that spreadsheet formula? Unsure what’s going on with your e-mail settings? Usually the choices are to browse a set of overly brief help pages, or head into the wild west of the Google product user forums, which are hit and miss (at best) and are punctuated by posts of people crying out for any official Google rep to stop by and even acknowledge the question. You’re not going to find a easy access “Contact Us” or support ticket submitter or phone number.
Yet we don’t complain because the product is so good, works well, and let’s be honest, it’s usually free.
That is until I discovered today that Google Drive offers free live chat support. In two clicks I was live chatting with a Google support rep who was fast and knowledgeable. Wait time? About 10 seconds.
Here’s what I found out:
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Today is my two year anniversary switching from a corporate Dell to the Macbook Pro, and my wrists are still very much enjoying their luxury aluminum resting places.
But you know what I do still miss?
Microsoft OneNote.
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I was set to kickoff our sermon series on Romans this semester, and we realized we wanted a more interactive method for handling questions & answers that we couldn’t get to Live. Since half the room at our University focused church is using YouVersion’s Bible app on their Android or iOS devices, we figured it was a good chance to kick the tires of YouVersion’s Live Events feature.
It’s been around since 2009 or so, but we hadn’t used it.
Does it work?
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Anyone else do this? At least for my generation, the cool thing to do in the back of high school math class was to pretend to punch equations into your Texas Instruments graphing calculator while your aging math teacher recited the lesson. But we weren’t doing our homework: we were doing programming! Our “TI” calculators came with a stripped down version of BASIC, with simple if-then loops, variable storage, key capture and everything. Why do pre-Calculus when you could be programming a game?!
This is why I’m loving Phil Nichols’ nerdy Atlantic article on his own TI-82 calculator experiences, and why some new gadgets at school—like the iPad—aren’t teaching kids the same thing.
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Lots of stories in the news recently about technology and privacy: many of them political. All three major phone carriers and many Internet companies are included.
Yet a new study by Pew Research and Harvard confirms a significant generational trend:
Teenagers are not nearly as worried about online privacy as their parents.
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