John Saddington is one of my online heroes. He just recently launched a new blog, “tentblogger.com” where he is continually giving advice to those of us who are continuing on the tradition of blogging.
He gave me some good insight into some issues with my blog:
What do YOU think?
Nearly everyday something that my new HTC EVO (Sprint) phone can do makes me feel empowered and excited to have such a piece of technology in my pocket.
Last week I had a trip to Indianapolis that was going to interfere with a package being delivered to my church office. We don’t have anyone else in the church building during the day usually, so I was a bit concerned with making sure that Mr. FedEx would still deliver the package and that I could have someone come and pick it up instead of it being left outside to be trashed by the weather.
Enter, “Parcels“. After a quick search for Android apps that deal with package-tracking, I stumbled upon Parcels and with a simple touch-click was downloading and installing.
Parcels instantly allowed me to enter in my tracking information (that the shipper had previously provided me via e-mail) and “add” this package to my list of packages I wanted to track. The app provides support for tracking our major U.S. delivery services including FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, and even allows us to skip the “who” and enter in information for anything coming from Amazon.com!
Once the information was entered, Parcels immediately began tracking my package and offered to keep me posted via alerts sent directly to my phone and even allowed me to choose how often it would attempt to update the status of my package!
Because of Parcels, I was able to make my trip to Indianapolis, keep instant-track of my package and note within 10-minutes of its delivery and call and ask someone to pick it up at the door for me!
Interested in downloading Parcels for your Android OS Phone? Click here!
One of my “worship arts” heroes is Blaine Hogan. He’s a creative director on staff at Willow Creek, a small church in the Chicagoland-area.
I was a fan of his before I knew he was on staff at Willow, too. Jess and I were fans of his acting performance on one of our favorite shows of all-time, Prison Break.
This video he just released was a creative collaboration between him and a few others that was a part of the Global Leadership Summit at Willow Creek this year. I was eating my lunch today when I saw it. Time slowed as I watched it and soaked it in. Watch “Be Here Now”:
I have always been a fan of creative-uses of media in worship settings and this is one of my new favorites!
I’m enjoying discovering the joys of having an Android-running mobile phone. (The HTC EVO) I installed the application, “Key Ring” yesterday, and felt the need to pass on the resource!
Key Ring seeks to slim your wallet or purse by allowing you to scan in the many types of rewards-cards you have cluttering up your wallet or purse and save them digitally in your phone! On my HTC EVO, I was able to successfully take photographs of the few rewards cards I had in my wallet and the software instantly converts the photo into an actual barcode that I can then scan at the establishment.
I signed up for a Key Ring account so that I can also manage my cards on their website and it gives me the option to update store logos and information. For instance, my rewards card for Kings Family Restaurant was not included in the software’s list of recognized establishments. I was still able to scan my card and then on the website I was able to upload a logo and brief information about the restaurant. From my phone I was even able to automatically send the app-creators an e-mail asking to include the store in their software updates.
Since installing the app, I have taken out one reward card from my wallet and taken two off of my keychain!
Here’s a great review of the app in action:
