Excel Drop Downs on iOS! FINALLY

January 3, 2012 in Apple, iPad, Technology with 0 Comments

20120103-200516.jpg


If you are anything like me, you’ve been searching aimlessly for an app forI your iOS device that allows you to use drop down menus created with Excel. THE SEARCH IS OVER!!!!

CloudOn is a new app (currently only available in the US app store) that brings Microsoft Office (in its entirety) to the iPad. It uses Dropbox and allows you to open sync cloudon to your Dropbox and access files from there. The only thing I’ve checked out so far is excel, because it was my main goal with it, and guess what, it allows you to use drop down menus! I can’t tell you how great this is, not just for me, but for a lot of excel users put there!

20120103-201139.jpg

This is fantastic news!

20120103-200937.jpg

UPDATE: turns out they were only letting a small number of people sign up for testing, so if you didn’t get in, you’ll have to wait.. You can sign up for to be updated on space opening, on their website

Top 11 Posts of 2011

January 3, 2012 in Apple, blogging, Faith, Gear, iPad, iPhone, Jailbreaking, Mac, Ministry, Technology, Worship, Youth with 0 Comments

I’ve been away on vacation for the past 2 weeks, so I didn’t post this on December 31 like everyone else.. but incase you are interested, here are my top 11 posts of 2011.

Use Pandora Radio On Your iPhone in Canada
HotSpot Shield for iPhone DOES Work
Canadian’s Can Access Netflix USA
Get Spotify in Canada
iOS 4+ Compatible Slim Slider Theme
John Mark McMillan Signs with Integrity
My Modded iPod Touch
OnSong iPad App for Worship Leaders
Funny Christian Advertising
Mac ToDo/iPhone.. The Way it Should Be
My Favorite Pod Patches

This past year I’ve really been focusing on the tech posts (as you can see from my Top 11).  This wasn’t my initial purpose with the blog.  Originally I planned on posting a lot of ministry based stuff, and I did some of that, but looking at the stats, that wasn’t the stuff getting the hits this  year.  So my plan (do I dare call it a resolution) for 2012 is first of all to post more, but I’m going to continue to focus on Tech stuff, but I’m planning to specifically post more on Tech in ministry. So the coming months will hopefully provide you with some great tech tools and tips that will help your ministry, whether you are in youth ministry, worship, tech, whatever ministry you may be in.  I will also continue to post random cool hacks I find like Pandora in Canada (it had over 10,000 hits in 2011).

Whatta Sad… but Happy Story

November 29, 2011 in YouTube with 0 Comments

I’ve always been a lover of animals.  I hate the idea of animals being hurt, so this story, while sad, is also very happy in the end.

 

A Time for Everything

November 29, 2011 in Faith, Family, God, Ministry, People, Youth Unlimited with 0 Comments

For the past 3 months Ecclesiastes 3 has been on my mind as Jennifer and I have spent time  in prayer.  We have been praying about our future and where God might be leading us.  Are we suppose to stick around Centre Hastings with YFC or is God calling us elsewhere?

After a lot of prayer we feel that God is calling us to move on.  It has been a really hard decision to come to, but, we said back when we took this job with YFC in 2005, that we always wanted to be doing what we felt God was calling us to do. So as of November 15th, 2011 we handed in our official letter of resignation, with the request to stay on until June 2012, so that  we could finish up the school  year with the current group of students we are working with.

So where are we headed?  We aren’t sure yet!  I know a lot of people would probably say “why would you leave one job not knowing where you are going?” well.. I believe that is a part of working in ministry… God sometimes calls you to do things that don’t always make sense, but we believe that he will provide for us.

In all the praying we have been doing, I feel that God is calling me back to my first love, which is worship ministry.  We don’t know where he is calling us, but feel very strongly that God is calling me to a church somewhere that is seeking a full time worship leader.  Our hope is to get closer to home on the east coast, so we are seeking out churches on the east coast, but we also know that we may not necessarily find something on the east coast, as not a lot of churches have budgets to hire worship leaders.

So ultimately we are continuing to pray for where God is leading us.  In the meantime, the finances with YFC in Centre Hastings have taken a down hill spill, so as a result, the board has decided to cut me back to part time as of January 1, 2012, so we are also in search of something to subsidize the part time salary that YFC will be providing us.

In the meantime, if you happen to hear of a church seeking a worship leader, please, pass the information along to me!

Make Long Distance Phone Calls 100% Free

November 22, 2011 in Culture, Family, iPhone, People, Rogers, Technology with 1 Comment

From time to time I stumble across something on the internet that is just to good and to useful not to share, this is one of those things.

My family all live on the east coast.. New Brunswick and PEI, and during this time of the year, my parents live in the Dominican Republic, so, phone bills are always a pain in the butt. Yes, I know, you’re probably saying “it’s 2011, who uses the phone anymore”.. well sometimes you don’t want to sit in front of a computer and have a chat, sometimes you want to walk around with a phone and get some house work done while you catch up on all the goings on back home.

Last night I was told about freephoneline.ca . This is a site that has a number of services, but one of the services they have is, they give you a 100% free local number, which you can set up to forward to another number. I found this to be really neat, because I can set up a second number and have it forwarded to my cellphone, which then could give me a business line, and a personal line.. share the business number with work people, personal with family and friends, and now you don’t need to carry around 2 cellphones. Now there are a number of other services out there that allow you to have a second number coming to your phone, if you have a smart phone, for example, you could use Line2.. but line 2 costs about $20/month… freephoneline is 100% free.

So how do you make free long distance calls, just because you get a free number.. well, the title may be a little misleading, because its not free calls to anyone at any time.. but, what we have done is pick the few long distance people who we make most of our calls to, and now we can call all of them for free. Heres how…

Set up an account at freephoneline.ca and select a number that is local to you.. then go into the account settings and enable forwarding.. it asks you what number to forward the number to.. you put in the number of the long distance person you want to call… hit save, and NOW when you call the local number you selected, it will automatically forward to the long distance number you set up.

In short, it looks like this ->

My account with a local number for ME -> forwards to my parents number in the Dominican Republic -> I make a local call for me, it rings on their end.. and there are no fees…

They can also set up an account with a number that is local for them, and it forwards to my number.. and when they call their local number, it’ll forward to me!

It’s really quite brilliant.. and I think its another step in the right direction.. I’m a firm believer that phone companies are ripping us off like crazy, and anything I can do (that’s legal) that “sticks it to them” I try to do, because they are charging me an arm and a leg and profitting 100000000% on everything they charge you.

Create Custom Templates in Pages for iPad

October 23, 2011 in Apple, Design, iPad, Mac, Technology with 0 Comments

Apple didn’t create a simple button in Pages for iPad to turn a document into a template, like they did in the desktop version. So how do we create our own custom templates for Pages on our iPad? A lot of us use iPads because of their convince in business, but how convenient is it if you have to add your business header or footer every document? It’s not..

I have however found a way to create custom “templates” for Pages on the iPad.. And you can do it right from your iPad.

Step 1: Open pages and create the document that you want to be a template.

Step 2: save that document as you would normally on your iPad. Give it a name

Step 3: go to the screen that lists all your documents that are on your iPad, your newley create document should be there.

Step 4: tap the edit button this should cause all the documents to wiggle

Step 5: select your document that you want to be the template

Step 6: tap the + button in the top left corner. This will create a duplicate of the document, thus you will continue to have your original template document, and will then edit the duplicate.

Happy templating!

Page 1 of 12312345»102030...Last »