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NYMC Mac Users Gathering

Chris — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:14:12 +0000

They are a little later than i would have liked, but here are the notes from our gathering at the Nation Youth Ministry Conference:

Questions you would like answers to:

What would i need to do some basic video work?
iMovie is an easy great way to easily edit videos, comes with your mac
I would recommend the middle MacBook, with as much ram as you can afford.
refurbished products from apple a good way to save some money
CDW for non-profits,

iPhoto great way to organize you pictures, make albums, slideshows

Mac will integrate into a PC network pretty easily. Also run windows on your mac can be on it,
Wireless networking makes it even easier
For printers, if it doesn’t find it, use the IP address
Shelby alternatives: fellowshipone.com (online app works with the mac), youth tracker, tuggle

Cool and easy software

iWork / office alternatives:
openoffice, neo office, Google apps

Best tools you’ve found for ministry:
Quicksilver (app launcher),
learn keystrokes

Presentation Software:
live worship
Propresenter
iWorship

Video Tools:
handbrake (rip dvd to video file)
visual hub / isquint
Perian (video plugins for quicktime) / flip for mac (windows media)
Quicktime Pro (worth the upgrade)

Productivity:
backpack from 37 signals

MacNews:
macforums.com, macrumors.com, maccentral.com, tuaw.com, maccast.com,

Free training: screencastsonline.com
Paid training: totaltraining.com, lynda.com
search for podcasts on finalcut, photoshop, any app

smcfancontrol.com – control fan of computer to keep it cool

FTP:
cyberduck, transmit

Web: sandvox

In addition to these also check out my resource page with lots of other software links.

Mac Users at NYMC

Chris — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:42:16 +0000

Wow, the NYMC was much busier than I thought it would be, I haven’t had much to time keep up on the blog. I did want to thank everyone who came out to our Mac users forum on Saturday night. It was so much fun spending time with everyone. I know that I own you all the notes from our gathering, and I’m still trying to track down all the links. I’m on my way home now (actually I’m writing this from the terminal in the Chicago airport), so I should be able to post that for everyone tomorrow. In the mean time, you can find a lot of the things we talked about and then some on my resource page.

Thanks again for everyone that stopped in for it.

National Youth Ministry Conference

Chris — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:36:44 +0000

I just got into Cincinnati for Group and Simply Youth Ministry‘s National Youth Ministry Conference. I will be helping out in the store in the Simply section, I will also be leading a forum for Mac user’s in the YouthMinistry.com media center. The media center will also play host to sessions on blogging, photoshop, Snapshot, and other hands on topics. If you are coming stop by and say “Hi.” I would love to meet you.

We are also doing a live Simply Youth Ministry Podcast on Friday night. I think we may try to broadcast it live too on Yahoo Live. Watch for details if you are interested in tuning in.

If you aren’t coming to the conference watch for posts about all that’s going on. There’s also a list of others that are blogging over at MoreThanDodgeball.com if you want to see what others are saying.