Emoji miracle
Sometimes, you just need to use tiny Asian pictures to tell a Bible story.
So sit back, kids, and let uncle Owen tell you about the time…
Jesus turned the water into wine… Read more
Posts from the ‘mobile updates’ Category
Jan 28
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no present tense grace allowed
Why do we praise people who have a checkered past, but judge those with a checkered present?
Let’s be honest. Most of the time, IMs are for impromptu movie references and swapping LOLs.
But, every once in a while, you actually have a deep, useful instant message exchange that gives you an idea or helps you see something in a new way. I had one of those conversations with two friends this week….
Oct 1
Sep 21
How to Email Groups from Your iPhone
Email on the iphone and ipad is a pretty good experience. With one big exception. Groups. Steve Jobs insists you only converse electronically with one person at a time. If you break this rule, you’re punished by having to tap, tap, tap every recipients’ address one by painful one.
The discomfort is even worse when you can see your beautiful, elegant groups sitting in there your contacts. They’re synced up from your desktop address book, but you can’t use them. So close, yet so far away.
Thankfully, there’s an app for that.
MailShot is free. It’s available for iPad and iPhone on the App Store. It imports groups from your contacts and reformats them to work in your iOS email. Once you go through the quick set-up, type the group name into an address field – just like a single contact.
Except now, your email’s on it’s way to the whole crew.
No more typing recipients one at a time. Sweet!
You wanna fight?
WildDog, ready to throw down for a serious play fight after I made him chase a rock.
Later, he would get mud in my shorts.
Tripping out on TripColor
TripColor is a nifty, new iPhone app being featured in the App Store. And, I’m being featured by them. So, in a strange way, Steve Jobs is smiling on me with an approving twinkle in his eye from wherever he’s hiding out right now.
TripColor works as an easy photo journal. It reads the location and time data embedded on your iPhone photos, let’s you add a short caption, then posts it to a tumblr-esque blog.
Today, they’ve put my recent trip to the Mediterranean on the app home screen for some reason. So if you download he app, you can see the donkey that tried to kill me in Santorini and other great moments in travel right from the front page.
It’s a free app that’s worth a look for photo nerds.
Aug 24
When Bad Ideas Win
Steve Jobs on corporate culture:
“If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions, and you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay.”
How many institutions, organizations, and causes lose good people due to frustration about bad ideas and pet projects being favored ahead of good ideas?
