How-To: Set Up Push GMail On Your iPhone/Touch

by | Sep 28, 2009 | MiniPost

I have actually grown to love the web-app for Gmail and I don’t prefer my mail to interrupt me any longer.  But it is good to see that Google is going to push all of their services for free. How-To: Set Up Push GMail On Your iPhone/iPod Touch | Cult of...
Apps I Use – Part 3: Web Apps

Apps I Use – Part 3: Web Apps

by | Sep 19, 2009 | Featured Articles, Ordinary Pastor, Pastoral Ministry, Technology

In this post I want to review a few applications every ordinary pastor (or person) can readily make excellent use of – and the best news is that all of them are free. While the web can be a major distraction for productivity, it can also be an amazing tool for getting things done. Here are tools from the web I use every week (some almost every hour): Safari Web Browser: I have been a Firefox fan for a long time. I loved the various plugins available that gave me greater connection to social media like Twitter. However, I’ve found that having constant connection to social media while working on high priority tasks on the web is too distracting, so I really use few plugins on Firefox any longer. The new Safari 4.0 I have found to be faster than Firefox. It certainly loads faster and is speeder in browsing the web. It also has a cleaner interface than Firefox. I have gone back and forth with Firefox and Safari, but tend to find Safari to handle my needs more simply and faster than Firefox. Email. I have all of my e-mail accounts dumping into my Gmail system. Our church uses Gmail with our own domain name. We can have access to one another’s calendars on the web or on our iPhones. Gmail via the web has been my mail client of choice for months. It loads very quickly and I have instant access to all my mail. I can quickly mark all of my mail read and star those I want to follow up on. I have a general rule that I respond to...