Pinterest Perfect Ministry

I resisted Pinterest in the interest of keeping my MAN CARD for a long time.  In the past 12 months Pinterest has grown up a bit and stretched beyond a girly social site to a marketing social media that has way more potential than Google+ (although, that's still not saying much).

ARTICLE: The Dark Knight Would Love To Dock His iPad In This Amazing Bat-Cycle [Gallery / CES 2012]

I saw this article and had to share it. It's not exactly a solution to 15 passenger van, but somewhere that has to be a church board or group of elders willing to take a chance on this as the church's transportation vehicle.

-J

The Dark Knight Would Love To Dock His iPad In This Amazing Bat-Cycle [Gallery / CES 2012]:

LAS VEGAS, CES 2012 — How did professional auto-modder Mark Abate build this custom iPad-integrated Bat-trike? He started with a stock 2010 Can-Am Spyder trike, then worked a whole lot of Gotham-inspired magic on it, that’s how. Full gallery ahead!

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Edit Office Docs On Your iPad For Free

Check out this new app in the AppStore called CloudOn.  It is a free app and links into your DropBox account, which is also free, and let's you edit any of your Microsoft Office documents.  It also has an autosave feature so you don't have to worry about saving.  One more nice feature is a connection status to verify that you are connected online and your doc is saving correctly.

iPad as Travel Companion

I'm taking a trip to our regional University this week with some of our students, and I've made up my mind.  I'm not taking my macbook with me.  I haven't traveled without carrying a laptop for a LONG time, but I'm making the break for this 3 day trip.

Why am I doing this? Simplicity...maybe.  Not having to deal with security...possibly.  But the main reason is I can do most of what I need using my iPad.

There are very few things that I can't accomplish with it as my primary tool.  If I throw my bluetooth keyboard in the bag, I'm even better off.  I have most of my needed tools available on it.  I can place enough video for the plane ride and my reading material is loaded as well.  If my flight has wifi, Netflix can fill in a lot of gaps.

The great thing is that by leaving my macbook plugged in and running at home, I can access and run the needed operations from it if the need arises (generally only for a few possible web updates for clients) using a free version of TeamViewer, this app is a must-have for the mobile youth pastor.

I'll update you on my experience upon my return...here's to mobile computing at it's finest!