Hi, my name is Jeff and I’m an appaholic.  (This is where you say, “Hi Jeff!”)  On my desk sit an 11 inch macbook air, an iPhone 4s and an iPad 2.  Come to think of it, between my family and I we possess 11 apple gadgets not including my bluetooth keyboard and trackpad.  I feel better [...]

The amazing folks over at LifeChurch.tv have done it again!  They’ve just gone public with their online church platform and it looks amazing. LifeChurch has been a pioneer in the whole online church thing and their online service experience is arguably the best out there.  Now, they’re making that technology available to other churches for [...]

Due to the great recession, American churches are being asked to get more done with a lot less resources in hand. While we all hope for a recovery, it's clear than very little is going to change in the next few months so it's time for churches to get good at getting scrappy.

I did a quick twitter survey a couple of days ago and asked the 16,000 twitter followers of PastorGear what apps they use the most on their iPads. Here are the results in no specific order.

According to a Mashable, a new Pew Research Center study shows that church goers are just as tech-savvy as those that don’t attend religious services, if not more.  This study puts to rest the idea that church goers are somehow less involved in the growing usage of technology in our society. Interestingly. more church goers own cell [...]

Tony Fadell, the former chief architect at Apple, who just happens to have presided over the 18 generations of iPods and a couple iterations of the iPhone has released the first product from his year-old company, Nest Labs.  What is it?  Well, it’s only the coolest, sexiest thermostat to ever grace the planet.  Okay, we [...]

In 2008, Pixar announced that they were going to be making a movie called “Newt” about the last two blue-toed newts on the planet and their adventure to save the species.  The film was referenced at a couple of Pixar events since that initial announcement too.  Hard-core Pixar fans were really looking forward to something [...]

Amazon announced it's new Kindle yesterday. It's smaller and lighter than ever before. It's cheaper and faster too! It has a higher contrast screen with quicker refresh times. It now sports wifi. It even has some integration with twitter. And, at $139 it's an absolute steal! The problem is that none of my tech savvy friends are going buy one. Why?...