It’s Australia day and Perth is in the midst of a record breaking heat wave. Thank God for air conditioning!
I have a love hate relationship with my country. As a born and bred citizen I’m allowed to. As someone who has seen a lot of the world I can do so with some perspective. Continue reading
I’m a Mac guy so it matters. Not really, but I am curious. The question was sparked when I read some analysis claiming that if you count iPad sales, Apple is now the biggest PC retailer, just ahead of HP. (Note, this is counting hardware not OS, which Windows still wins without contest.) Take out the iPad and it’s a very different story. Continue reading
If you’re not into social networking, let me introduce you to a new social networking app you may be interested in. If you are into social networking, you’ll love this little gem.
Path has been around for a year or so but was recently relaunched and wants to make your social network smaller.
You read that right. Small and intimate is the game.
Path’s goal is to get you sharing openly and more often. Being over 18, that’s not really a life goal of mine. But being over 18, I also value the family and close friendships I have. So while Facebook is fun and Twitter lets me live at 140 characters a minute, there’s a lot of stuff I just don’t want the world to know. And frankly, there’s a lot it doesn’t want to know. Path is for the people in your life who do. That blurry photo of my niece riding a bike for the first time with no trainer wheels? That’s gold. I notice that didn’t go on Facebook. Continue reading
Have you seen one of these around and didn’t know what it is?
It’s a QR code. ‘QR’ stands for quick response. And they’re a really useful little widget for smart phone users. Continue reading
The other evening I flicked the radio on briefly and was surprised to hear an Atheist talk show. I switched on in the middle of a Christian caller arguing that Christianity is good and is about doing good (I presume against the common Atheist polemic that religion is bad). The host responded that, in his opinion, the key verse for Christianity is “do unto others as you’d have them do to you” and that you can do that without all the other “mumbo jumbo”. He rang rings around the caller, and not because he was smarter or had better arguments. Quite simply, she didn’t understand the heart of her faith. Continue reading
New years resolutions? I gave up breaking them a long time ago. Not that I don’t enjoy the sense of new beginnings that the new year brings, but it takes more than the euphoria of the collective cultural psyche to bring about real change. Continue reading
In my humble opinion, instant coffee is not worthy of the name. It is an abomination. It used to be when people offered this alleged ‘coffee’ it was a simple matter of declining and opting for tea instead. I gave it a name – instant caffeinated beverage mixture: ICBM.
Then the marketers got wind of the move to ‘real’ coffee and the home espresso machine took off. And I’m still declining cups of coffee and opting for tea. Continue reading
BooqPad Agenda for iPad 2
I recently changed jobs and have tried to figure out the best way to incorporate the iPad 2 into my new workflow. As a Funeral Celebrant I interview clients and use those notes to create a service, so I need to take notes easily and unobtrusively. I experimented with some handwriting apps and a stylus, but the capacitive touch screen is just not suited to this purpose. Typing notes can be a little tricky in some settings as well and using the right app is important. I like a combination of iPad and paper and have tried out the Booqpad Agenda for iPad 2. Continue reading
One of the hats I wear is Children’s Pastor, and as a technophile I was intrigued when I came across a suite of apps published by a Spanish company, Barcelona Multimedia: Children’s Bible, Children’s Bible Advent Calendar and Children’s Bible Daily Prayer. In this review I’ll discuss the Children’s Bible, the backbone of the suite.
It’s a cross between a Bible comic strip and animated children’s Bible storybook. While the publishers website says it’s aimed at 7-13 year olds, in my opinion it is better suited to younger readers and family devotions. It works on both iPhone and iPad, but is much more suited to the iPad’s larger screen. Continue reading
