The Viper SmartStart allows you to start your car from your iPhone. It’s been added to my Christmas wish list. ✓

November 10, 2009 Slide Deck: the Church and the Internet

I gave a talk at Northwest University today about what we’re doing at the church to embrace the internet and new media technology. Here’s the slide deck:

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It went well! I was surprisingly calm, and was able to get through the entirety of my presentation with time for questions at the end. Of course, it helped that the subject matter was something I am passionate about and could ramble on about for hours.

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Google is giving the gift of Wi-Fi this Holiday season, by providing free access at 47 airports across the country. (Via Daring Fireball.) ✓

I love this post from Joshua Blankenship, “Creating Controversy for its own Sake”, particularly this quote:

It’s easy to “design” when you’re unencumbered by things like metrics, creative direction, business acumen, sales experience, actual functionality, enterprise scale, or any thought about how a site with millions of page views and users has to function.

If I may boldly infer, the summary of the article is that Generation Digital cannot let the quest for openness, transparency and change dictate our behavior — especially with each other. Without rules, governance (or consequences for rule breaking) and self-control, we would have anarchy. ✓

November 4, 2009 Creating a PowerPoint Splash Screen

Today I recorded my screen as I created a PowerPoint splash screen (or title screen) for a message series by our youth pastor. This is the sort of project I do regularly at The City Church — especially for Generation Church.

I thought it would be interesting to both document and share the video:

Some notes:

  • You’ll notice a short pause after I launch Safari — it was inexplicably unresponsive.
  • I use a lot of shortcuts — especially in Photoshop — from muscle-memory. I apologize if it’s hard to follow at times.
  • I use a technique for building the title layer in order to treat it which keeps the “build” still available for editing — hence the hidden folder layer in the final document.
  • I was surprised how quick and easy it was to find a perfect (free) font for the project. I expected to have to cut out a portion of the video while I searched for the right font.
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