Byrnesys Blabberings

The Round up has returned fom a temporary hiatus, and I have a big back log, far too long for one post, but if you are interested in where I find all this interesting stuff you can subscribe to my Google Reader Shared feeds/Twitter/Del.icio.us or the friendfeed which is a culmination of all of the above (Warning my FF is a busy one and will keep you unread counter busy).

A New Operating System for the iPhone is going to be coming out on Tuesday, as ever I’ll be hoping for some improved battery life, copy and past, and a search function for email.

This seems like a great way to get a PDF (Adobe Acrobat Document) into a DOC (Microsoft Word Document) for free.

I’ve had a couple of people ask what I think about Apple’s Service mobileme, although I haven’t ever had an account myself I have read enough reviews and seen the concepts to know that it can be done better, and it can be done for free. Google’s new Mobile sync is an excellent example of this.

This is a pretty incredible time lapse video of flying overnight from SF to AMS showing the cities through the clouds:

I love flickr and I love my iPhone and so I was hoping someone would bring out an app which made use of both of these great technologies. I’ve been using flickit which I have been pretty impressed by, is anyone using anything different?

In November we got to spend some time with YWAM Kona and particularly the Community Transformations DTS, one of the couples on the course has been blogging some incredible stories from their 3 month outreach phase in South Africa here.

Blogger Tim Challies, who must read 23 hours of the day to read as much as he reviews, recently reviewed Tactics, which supposedly reformats the area of apologetics. Has anyone read it?

MissionConfidential explores the concepts of Pastors vs. Missionary.

Theologians should be able to teach children supposedly, I think this is actually probably quite a good anchor for the inclination to use specialist terminologies in Theology.

"Good listeners pay careful attention to words. They don’t assume that an idea they are hearing is identical to an idea they are already familiar with simply because it has similarities. They respect the complexity of reality and are willing to make fine distinctions and treat each person, each statement, each idea on its own terms." – More tips on how to be a good listener.

I think John Mayer is a great song writer and a brilliant song writer, heres a sneak peek into his upcoming recording

HT: Josiahs Blog