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The Incident – 8BIT Action for iPhone and iPad!


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There are some very stunning games coming out these days for iOS. Take Madden ’11 just released this week and Osmos the week before that.

Graphics and game play like this were once reserved for the latest-greatest, most expensive, beefy powerhouses of game consoles. Now, we’re playing them on handheld devices.

And while all of this is good, there is something missing – a simplicity that still strikes a chord in all of our 8-bit hearts. Something that embodies the nostalgia of the games we grew up with.

That something comes in the form of The Incident…

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Defender iPad Case Protects Against Knocks and Multi-Story Drops


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Most of us have some form of protection for our phone. Honestly, they’ve become a major part of helping us keep up with email, news, and our various social networks wherever we are.

Then again, cell phones and laptops aren’t the only mobile devices we have anymore. So what’s one supposed to do with something such as, say, their iPad?

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Model Your Ministry After iOS, Not Android


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If we put aside preferences for Apple or Google for a couple of minutes, we can get a great perspective of not only two companies’ strategies in the mobile market, but we can learn about how we build our ministries.

A close observation of iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad and Android devices (too numerous to list), reveals distinctly different strategies. The two companies, Apple and Google, have similar target audiences, yet very different approaches to how to get their Operating System into users’ hands and in turn get the users’ money into their pockets.  What is even more telling is that the strategies not only reflect the way things have happened in the past (the way Windows spread to many machines), but they also reflect some strategies prevalent in the modern Christian church.

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Share the Bible with Your Kids with KidBible HD for iPad


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I’ve got a 3 year old and we make it a habit of spending time in the Word every night before she goes to sleep. We throw in some other cool books as well.

But I like it when she engages with the Scriptures in different mediums as well, and the iPad has been so-so because all it has are apps that are just text.

What I’ve wanted it something more like a kid’s bible, and perhaps I’ve found one:

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