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The Bible App for Kids

by Kenny Conley | Nov 26, 2013 | Ideas | 0

Yesterday I was lucky enough to get my hands on the brand new Bible App for Kids from the makers of YouVersion, the Bible App just about everyone has on their phone. What a treat! The App is released into the wild on Thursday, but I thought I’d give everyone a sneak peak into this new app aimed for our kids.

I’ll start with this. I didn’t have any expectations going into this. I learned that this app was coming out a few weeks ago, but let me tell you, I’ve been pretty busy. I’ve not done any research or looked into what this app would be like. So, as I downloaded a copy of the app, I did so with no specific hopes or expectations for what this app would or would not be like. Honestly, I opened this app pretty much like most parents probably will.

Upon opening the app, I was impressed. My initial response was, “there’s no way a church designed this app.”

Barcode App Recomendations

by Kenny Conley | Aug 23, 2013 | Geek, Ideas | 0

Okay, in the next week or so, I’m going to write a little bit about moving to self check-in. For the past 4 years, I have been wanting to upgrade to self check-in at Gateway, but we’ve not had the resources to do it all at once. So, I’ve been working on it all summer and we’re launching self check-in a week.

We went the barcode route and started distributing them last week. Here’s my big question though.

Do any of you recommend a good barcode app for your smartphone? We spent a little extra money to get the nice barcode readers, like the ones they have at Starbucks and airports. It was important to me that we had another option for people who forgot to bring their barcode.

The only app I know is the keyring app. It’s a great app with lots of options, but a little more complicated than I’d like. I want to make it super simple for parents to create a digital copy of their assigned barcode. Keyring makes you walk through 2-3 steps I’d prefer to avoid for simplicity. So, does anyone know of a simple app that stores your barcodes for future scanning?

Your help would be much appreciated!

Two dangerous apps

by Kenny Conley | Mar 27, 2013 | Family, Geek | 1

I’m very involved in the student ministry at my church now and as a result, I’ve...

App of the Week: Soocial

by Kenny Conley | Aug 26, 2012 | Geek, Ideas | 1

Okay, it’s not really an app. It’s a service… but it’s pretty cool.

I don’t know if you are like me, but I have multiple email account synced to my phone. Four to be exact. Now that I live in the smart phone era of the 21st century, I host all my contacts though my gmail account. No more contacts living only on my phone so that when the phone dies or I get a new phone, I have to worry about contacts that are on my phone. However, I have four gmail/google apps account synced to my phone. There have been times when I’m on my phone and I can’t find one of my contacts. I know I have their email address, but its not in my phone contacts? Why, because my contacts with my phone syncs to the contacts of one of my gmail accounts, but the contact I want is in the contacts of another google account. Frustrating!

Google Calendar, Contacts Mail and the iPhone

by Kenny Conley | Apr 9, 2012 | Geek | 5

As I write this, I’m expecting Jonathan Cliff to write a comment saying I’m making this too complicated and that I’m doing this all wrong, but I thought I’d share some of the technology frustrations I encountered today and how I fixed them.

One of the greatest leaps in technology in recent years was the ability to share my work calendar with my wife. No longer did we have to have long conversations of when I might be available, but instead, she’d just make appointments on my calendar for me.While I was on a PC, there were some good syncing apps between outlook (what I used) and google calendars (what she used). When I switched to a Mac, it got hard again. Then when we switched to Google Apps at Gateway, all was well. However, now my wife uses her iPhone 90% of the time rather than her computer.

For the past 18 months (at least), Sara has had an iPhone and she’s had access to my calendar and all has been well. However, for the past 2-3 months, she’s not had access to my calendar. I’m not sure what happened, maybe Apple or Google changed something.

App of the week: Keynote Remote

by Kenny Conley | Mar 25, 2012 | Geek, Ideas | 4

A sure fire, no miss app for me that has saved my hide on many occasions this year has been Keynote Remote. If you use a mac personally or use macs for presentations at church or other speaking opportunities, I’d highly suggest investing in this very useful app for your iPad, iPod or iPhone. I’ve found myself in situations where the remote clicker I needed to use for a presentation could not get a clear line of site with the compter or perhaps I was too far away from the compter to get an appropriate signal to control the slideshow.

Soapbox: My technology pet peeve

by Kenny Conley | Dec 20, 2011 | Geek, Random | 10

There’s probably no way I can write this post without coming across as a little bit of a jerk… so I apologize and the front end. This isn’t directed to any particular person… but just multiple encounters...

App of the Week: Noah’s Memory Match

by Kenny Conley | Dec 4, 2011 | Geek | 0

Last week I got an email requesting me to review a game for my iPhone/iPad. That’s a first for me. I was sent a free sample of the game and I LOVE IT! Let me tell you about it. Noah’s Memory Match: The story of...

Your ministry needs an app!

by Kenny Conley | Nov 29, 2011 | Geek, Ideas | 1

My friend Matt McKee just announced something incredible. It’s called 1000 apps for Christmas. His company, ROAR, is offering 1000 free apps in the next 30 days. That means if you want an app for your ministry,...

App of the week: Square

by Kenny Conley | Jan 23, 2011 | Geek, Ideas | 2

Not everyone is going to need this app, but I must say it is one of the coolest new apps I’ve seen. I was first introduced to it when hearing Bro. Jim and Sam Luce talking about it at an Infuse retreat this summer. It...

App of the week: TripIt

by Kenny Conley | Jan 16, 2011 | Geek | 1

One of the apps I’ve been using prettyÂ consistentlyÂ for about 9 months has been TripIt. It’s a great little app to manage all your travelÂ arrangements. Since having email on my phone, I would normally email myself...

App of the week: Dropbox

by Kenny Conley | Jan 9, 2011 | Geek | 1

Over a year ago, I wrote about dropbox for the first time. I started using it because myÂ preferredÂ file storage/sharing application (Live Sync) wasn’t playing nice with OS X SnowÂ Leopard. One year later and I’m...