I find myself reading a lot on the iPad. It's become my morning paper. It took me awhile to find apps that made it an enjoyable experience. Here's the 3 that I like best. 1. Flipboard- I love the look and feel of Flipboard. It's one of the nicest UI out there for...
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The hub for all things MacAudio Podcasting 101 (Part 1)
A while back I began an interview-style youth ministry podcast called 10-Minute Training. Now that I have published about a dozen, I feel ready to share the process here. Keep in mind that there are many ways to do this. Mine is focused on making the least amount...
Capture any Video with iShowU HD
iShowU HD is the swiss army knife of video capture applications. Basically, any portion of anything on your screen can be captured and turned into a movie as well as allowing the program to simply follow your mouse from one area to another. Say you are working in...
Apple’s Back to the Mac Event: A YouthWorkers Take
Apple held an event today called "Back to the Mac", I think they wanted to remind us they still make computers too. There are 100 sites of blogs talking about what they announced, so I'll leave that to those that were actually there. But I thought I'd give you my...
Top Three Sept 24: Omnifocus, Magic Trackpad, Zumocast
I thought I'd start a new series on the blog, my top 3 of the week. I'm going to be sharing my top 3 tools of the week. Just little things that I've found helpful or useful. So here we go: 1. Omnifocus - I've been looking for something to get my projects and tasks in...
Media from Computer to Your iDevice Over the Web
Zumocast is focused on helping you play/display the media you have on your computer to your iOS device. After installing the app on your computer and iOS device and registering with Zumocast, you are able to do some incredible things. You can watch any video you have...
Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of September 1 Event
This may make the live bloggers a little miffed, but apple announced they will live stream their event tomorrow. I love that they made this move. From their site: Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming,...
IceClean: System Maintenance for your Mac for free
I often get asked what maintenance should be done for mac computers. People coming from the PC world are used to defrags, virus scans, and other routine maintenance tasks on their computers, but once they move to the Mac they aren't sure what's best. I saw this post...
Upload HD from your iPhone with PixelPipe
It is frustrating to have to allow some app to compress you video or image files before you can upload them to your intended destination. Also frustrating is the cap on "over the air" uploading from your iPhone even when it is connected to WIFI. To top it all off, I...
iPhone 4 Review: To Buy or Not to Buy
This past tuesday I got an email that told me I would be one of the lucky few to receive my iPhone 4 the day before it was released. I was more than a little bit pumped about that fact and waited somewhat patiently for it to arrive. Now that I've had it for a week, I...