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Almost four years ago, I reviewed Echo, a prayer app. I thought it would be helpful to an individual's prayer life. But recently, Echo was updated to include a new feature that might actually be a huge help to a church's prayer life. ... Read More
Recently, I've been feeling more distracted by my phone and social media noise. This led to me finally giving in and trying Forest app as one tool to help and I have to say I've been impressed. It's really helped me adapt more "Deep Work" principles that I had gotten worse at. So here's a quick review of Forest app and why you should consider giving it a go. ... Read More
Back at the end of 2014, I noticed that a few apps had a radical impact on my life. So much so that it justified the title "5 apps that changed my life last year". It was popular so it, of course, justified a follow-up article the next year. By 2016 I decided that "change my life" was no longer justified and instead I went for "had a big impact" and last year I simply did a review of "apps to start the new year right". But this year I thought I'd share my personal top apps from 2018. These are ... Read More
This week, Apple held its yearly World Wide Developer Conference. It’s an event where Apple shows off what its next operating systems and changes are going to be so developers can start work updating their software so it is ready and can take advantage of the new features. This year there were a few themes and new technologies that might be interesting to those of us at Church Tech (even if you aren’t an Apple fan). ... Read More
If there’s one app I have that has made more people think about getting an iPad than any other, it’s Onsong. Although there are many other apps for musicians, this one leads to my bandmates eying it with envy. It does something very simple but in such a well thought out that it blows the competition away. For various reasons, it's not coming out on Android anytime soon. So, what is Onsong and why should you think about getting it? ... Read More
Habitica is a task manager app that was recently featured in the iOS app store. It is also available on Android. What caught my attention about it was that it used gamification as a motivator to help you accomplish your task. Gamification is the act of adding game-like elements to make something that may be mundane to make it interesting. It is usually used for education. This 8bit RPG style game/task manager allows you to first create a character for yourself with sever customizing options. A ... Read More
The New Year is more than a date change for many people. It is also a time of recalibrating, setting resolutions and goals (I chose one word instead of a set of goals or resolutions.) At this time, people tend to commit to doing something about their spiritual formation also. They commit to attending church more often or being more active in small groups. Prayer and Bible reading are also included in some of these personal goals. For this post, I'd like us to focus on Bible Reading plans on ... Read More
"Magic." "Seamless. Literally void of any stitches." "Able to survive up to thirty minutes out of water." These are just a few of the ways that fans and reviewers are saying about the XKCD Phone 6—the single greatest phone to never be invented. Check out this product poster straight from the XKCD Art Department: ... Read More
If you know me, I'm notoriously harsh on Apple, mostly because I have had poor experiences and high expectations from them, expectations that were placed by Apple themselves. This marketing has led to some bitter fanboys. To take it one step further, a Photoshop comedian made some fun images of features I bet you never knew were there. If you want to see more of them, here is the original creator's imgur account. What other features did Apple forget to share? ... Read More
Task management and to-do list applications are one of the most common applications with a wide variety of different options to suit your taste. We have even written a mega round-up of different task management applications which I'm in the process of updating, but in the meantime, I thought I'd tell you about a recently updated task management application which might be of great interest to you if you are an Apple product user. Things 3 from Cultured Code. ... Read More
