When John Saddington announced Pressgram a few years back, I was using an Android phone and was completely envious. It sounded like a great idea, to own your own content and publish it to your WordPress site. Especially with the changes in Instagram and the worries about privacy, it seemed like a good idea at the right time. In the end, things didn’t work out and Pressgram went away, but I suspect many people still want an easy way to publish images to their WordPress blog. So I made a workflow in workflow app to replace Pressgram which I’m going to share and let you customize.
Shields Up Automation: How to Build Your Own “Red Alert” System
Have you ever felt like you needed to go to red alert?
Perhaps there was an important meeting coming up or you got some good news. Well, Dan Moren over at Six Colors has worked out how you can use a Google Home (or Amazon Echo) with some other home automation tools to activate and deactivate red alert.
Check it out in action:
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3 Simple Tips When Introducing New Worship Songs
Recently, our church has been introducing some new songs. Some of these were written by members of the congregation and some are from other churches and worship bands. As a bi-lingual church we have some added issues of learning new songs as we usually have to learn all the lyrics in two languages and this can be confusing for church members who only speak one language. Still we’ve been using three simple tips to help our church members learn these new songs quicker.
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6 Photographers Shoot a Portrait in Very Different Ways [Video]
The way you set up your lighting and pose a subject can have a dramatic effect on the types of images that you get and the impression you present of a person. This is a skill of a great photographer, to not just take the same bland image of everyone but to add real character and personality to the portraits they take via the posing and lighting they choose to use.
With that in mind, you should check out this photo challenge called “Decoy” where six photographers were presented with the same subject, but they were given very different backstories. Have a look at the video.
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The Best Bible App for You [2017]
For many Christians, a Bible app is one of the first apps they go searching for once they’ve got their smartphone up and running. I was no exception when I got my first smartphone back in 2012 and I bet you weren’t either. The extreme portability and decent reading experience makes them a great tool to help you get into God’s word on the go. As long as you have your phone in your pocket (which, let’s be honest, is probably 90% of the time) then you can access a Bible (and not just one version).
However, just as with many of these modern tools, there are a wide variety of bible apps out there which can make it very difficult to find the best one for you. Depending on your wants and needs, you may find that a different bible suits you more, but a simple App Store search might not help. With that in mind, we’ve put together a review of some of the best Bible apps out there.
What We Can Learn From Instagram’s “First Posts in a While”
Recently I noticed Instagram had quietly rolled out a new feature that stood out to me. No it wasn’t the live video, stories or any of that, instead it was the simple addition of a “first post in a while” notification.
I want to look at it today and what you and your church could learn from it.
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