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Habitica: Gamify Your Life [Review]


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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 Ultimate Guide to Mobile Bible Reading Plans


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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

One More Thing: The XKCD Phone 6


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"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

iPhone X Features You Didn’t Know About [Humor]


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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

Things 3: Beautiful Task Management [Review]


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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

What All Goes Into Your Phone? [Video]


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A bit of time back, Apple took some heat for all of the rare and precious metals that it puts into its millions of phones and did not reportedly recycle them (it's come out now that they do in fact have recycling initiatives and are looking to improve that all the time). But why is it that Apple needs 75 different kinds of elements in their phones? Isn't it all just silicon and aluminum? Here's a video to tell you a little more why. ... Read More

Notes After Changing From iPhone 6s To SE


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Recently, I started using an iPhone SE; a change from my iPhone 6s. I've used Apple smartphones for some years now. The other apple product I use, a lot is my MacBook Pro. iPad has also been in the equation. So, using iPhone fits perfectly with my 'ecosystem'. Some would call me an 'Apple fanboy' -- usually people who don't dig Apple and / its (mostly) great products. I'm that guy who doesn't wait to watch the replay of product launches. I watch live. I will admit, I have looked at other phones ... Read More

3 Airdrop Issues We Wish Apple Would Solve


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In concept, Apple's Airdrop is awesome. In reality, the wireless transfer of data between all Apple products, for instance between iPhone and Mac, can really, really suck. Lately, I've become mighty frustrated with some persistent Airdrop issues. A little (OK, I'll admit it: a lot) of googling later, I had to conclude that these are well-known issues Apple still hasn't solved. I get that some things may not be a priority, but some of these issues have persisted for years, so why not fix ... Read More

Should You Use Apple Clips for Church Video?


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Video is becoming an increasingly important medium online. YouTube is a huge behemoth of a social network and is still growing. Facebook and Twitter are trying to get in on the action too with mixed success, and as churches and ministries, we need to consider how we can use video in useful and effective ways. One aspect of that is the effective editing of our videos so when Apple released its new Clips app, I decided to give it a go and see how it could be used. TL;DR Clips is a fairly easy to ... Read More

Streetlights Audio Bible and App [Saturday Morning Review]


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Streetlights Audio Bible's first publication was in 2012. The trio who met in the early 2000s wanted to create an engaging way to interact with Scriptures. Their desire has seen them publish an audio Bible with about twenty works published so far. It has been made available on free from their website, Soundcloud and for purchase via iTunes. They've recently launched an app. Because I haven't done a review on the audio Bible itself it might be worthwhile to do so first. Let's start by a general ... Read More