– I got a Macbook Air last Monday and all I can say is wow! – I love how light it is.  – I love how fast it is. – I'm amazed by the battery life. I took it home on Thursday evening and didn't get to plug it in until Sunday night! – I bought the 13 inch Macbook Air and upgraded the RAM and hard drive space. – I also bought an external hard drive to keep all my pictures and music – I was a little nervous about going from a 15 inch Macbook Pro to a … Read More

 One of the questions I've been getting is "How do you like preaching with the iPad?" I've only taught off the iPad for a couple of weeks, but I love it! I actually think it's easier than preaching off paper notes. The reason being, there's no light directly over me when I'm preaching, so occasionally I'll get shadows on my notes which make them a challenge to read.  With iPad, the lit screen gives me all the light I need to read all of my notes.  The other question people have asked is, "What software are you using?" I am … Read More

 In short… I love it!  Instead of writing some long review, I thought I'd post reasons I love the iPad:  1. Pages – It mirrors Pages on the Mac very well. Plus, it opens Words files as well.   2. iPhoto – This is a really nice. The pictures look great. plus, you can set the iPad to roll pictures and have it serve as a digital frame when you're not using it.  3. Typing – I haven't purchased the keyboard, so I've been typing on the screen keyboard and I think it's great. plus, it auto corrects (which most … Read More

If you've sent me an email in the last 24 hours it probably kick it back. our church email is down.   It should be back sometimes today. If you need to email me in the meantime, email me at bob at church-strategies.com

Well, I got my Kindle from Amazon on Friday evening and I just finished reading my second book on it, so I thought I'd share some preliminary thoughts on it.   #1 – The Kindle is great!  I wasn't sure if I'd like it, but I love it. It's very easy to read on.  I was concerned that my ate of reading would  #2 – Not every book is available for it, which is a little frustrating, but I'm guessing that publishers will get with it with their back catalog as they are with new titles.   #3 – The … Read More

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After months of working on it, our new website is done! Mad props to Alex and The Creative Complex for all their hard work. So if you get a chance, head over here and check it out!

I might be the last guy on the planet to open a You Tube account, but I finally did today so we could post some of the videos we’ve created over the last year. I’ll be posting them as they get uploaded over the next week or so…

If anyone out there is or knows someone who is a php programmer, can you email me @ bob [at] calvarywired [dot] com? We are in need of someone who’s got the skills to pay the bills in php.

I took on a project today that needed to be done: I cleaned out my ipod of stuff that I’m never going to listen to again. I had so many messages/ podcasts that I have downloaded and listened to and so I went through the task of going through them to make room. There’s some things you just aren’t going to listen to over and over. Some got trashed. Others got put on my external drive for future use/ listening. Moral of the story: I’ve got 7GB’s of space open on my 30GB ipod. Plenty of room for new stuff. … Read More