Square

This may seem like a no brainer, but if you're not setup to use Square in your youth ministry, do it now!   Square is a simple way to take credit cards for youth trips, candy from your snack shack, and everything in between.  It's also a great way to send parents a receipt for cash or checks they may give you for their teens.  Think about adding credit card payments to your next car wash!  This concept is huge.

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.

Pick up this app ASAP!

Check out this application on the iOS iPad App Store: Notability - handwriting, note taking, audio recording, annotate PDFs, cloud sync your notes to Dropbox, and more.Ginger LabsCategory: ProductivityUpdated: Nov 08, 2011I was looking through the "top 25“ list and I noticed what appeared to me to be a new program to the paid list (although I'm fairly certain it's been ranked somewhere in the list at some point). It's another note taking app, but at only .99 it's currently a real steal. It's on sale so make sure to pick it up soon. This app has a PDF reader/annotated, word processor, hand writing, audio recorder, and will take images for your notes using photos, your iPad 2 camera, websites, and more. Definitely a new tool in my arsenal for when I go to meetings. So pick it up and let me know your thoughts.