Category: techno

iPad won’t play movies from iTunes with VGA adapter

(aka The Movie Studios Still Don’t Get It)

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I’ve been trying to develop a plan at our house for the past few years to simplify our media content and move to an entirely digital media library.

Ultimately, my dream solution would be a one stop storage device on our network that contains all our photos, music and video and is accessible on either TV in our house as well as on our mobile devices (laptops, tablets, phones etc.)

When Laurie and I first married we had over 100 DVDs and easily twice that many CDs.

We’ve since whittled that down to 30 or so DVDs and fewer CDs – selling most of them to a resell shop.

Along the way we’ve also moved away from buying more physical media content and renting any movies we want to see and buying digital music from iTunes and Amazon. It just doesn’t make sense anymore to keep buying movies we only watch a few times when it’s just as easy to rent the movies for a couple bucks a pop.
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Contact Form 7 not loading properly

Heads up! If you’re using WordPress Contact Form 7 plugin and Jetpack – the recent updates to JetPack may have messed up your contact forms.

I noticed this when I started seeing contact form submissions addressed to only me – and not me and the client.

Apparently the latest upgrade to the Jetpack plugin adds a new contact form feature to its already growing list of features. But in doing so, Jetpack is using the same shortcode contact-form as the Contact Form 7 shortcode.

So, needless to say, you may be run into some problems if you’ve haven’t already.

The fix is super easy (but a bit of an annoyance).

The fix

Be sure you have the latest version of Contact Form 7 and then simply go to your Contact Form 7 admin pages and copy the new shortcodes for each of your contact forms and paste them into your pages like before.

The new shortcodes should start with “contact-form-7”

Of course if you’re not that picky – you can just disable the Contact Form 7 plugin and stick with the new Jetpack version… but know that you’ll lose any of your customizations you may have previously made.

One of the nice things about the Jetpack plugin is the ability to create forms directly within your posts and page edit screens. There’s no need to edit the form and then copy and paste the shortcode into the chosen post. Also, the forms will be checked with Akismet’s spam filter so you’ll have an automatic spam filter built in.

Now that you know – will you continue using Contact Form 7 or make the switch to Jetpack’s contact form?

Google+ Profile Hack (with Photoshop Template)

Last year I shared a Facebook profile hack here on my blog.

Today I’ve updated the hack to work with Google+ (especially now that Facebook has shifted to their new timeline format so the Facebook hack doesn’t work anymore) and shared the updated instructions over at BigBible.org.uk.

You can download the zipped Photoshop Template here and get the instructions over at BigBible.org.uk.

Update: Google+ announced a totally new redesign this morning.

Surprisingly this hack still works – but it’s not a necessity as you can now use one long photo instead of multiple thumbnails.

So now that the redesign is live – what do you think about it? Like it? Love it? Hate change?

Help! People can’t find us on the web!

Last week I went searching for a particular business and despite the power of Google and Bing – I couldn’t find a current business location or definitive phone number.

The best I found was a P.O. Box listed on an assocation website.

When I finally tracked someone down, I mentioned the problem and they said, “Yeah – we’re working on it.”

I know technology and the web can be daunting at times, but in this age of fast paced connections, having any presence on the web is vital — and having correct information on the web is even more vital.
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Sharing the Message via Social Media

Several years ago my good friend Josh introduced me to his dad, Lindsay Cofield. Since that time I’ve come to really appreciate his posture towards Church and his drive for getting his message out. We’ve worked together on a number of projects and I’ve been really inspired by the way he’s taken to social media to share his dreams and visions. What Lindsay does really well is to take essentially the same message, add a little twist for each audience he wants to target and then share it via websites and social media. With his insight, I thought it would be worthwhile for ministries, churches and even small businesses to pick his brain a little — so I asked him a few questions about it last week – and this is what he had to say…

What is your primary message you hope to share?

Church can and must be simple, relational, contagious, and life-engaging… as it is Holy Spirit led/empowered/controlled…in order to become viral and reach into every subgroup of every community in every nation (especially the US). Money, events, and conferences cannot accomplish this. Paul’s simple Biblical example is as effective as it gets… in Acts 16 its just him depending on God, prayer, and the working of Holy Spirit to catalyze evangelism/discipleship/church planting in groups he would never have chosen with his own reason. If I’m right about this the Spirit will speak to your heart that it is so. If not I’m willing to be over-ruled by HIM!
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Thoughts on Google+

Google+

I’ve been asked to serve as a #digidisciple over at the Big Bible Project in the UK. There are some really cool things going on over there and so I’m honored to have been asked to share my input.
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