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On an iPhone 6S or higher running iOS13 or higher you can use the keypad as a trackpad to move the cursor. Press and hold the space bar, or over the text area you want to edit and you can move up down left and right to position the cursor.
Article at: www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-text-editing-gestures-iphone-ipad/ describes this and more…
Works on iPad too…
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ItsforMinistry is now also on FaceBook… and you are invited to join the conversations there: www.facebook.com/groups/itsforministry
General
You’ll have heard of SMART goals – but what of SMARTER ones!
S Specific
M Measurable
A Achievable
R Relevant
T Time Bound
E Evaluated
R Reviewed
General
I have just spent ages trying various solutions, restarts, button pressing, and thinking my iPad had died. Then tried charging with the original Apple Charger and cable. All sorted! Other cables and chargers may work well most of the time but just don’t have the oomph to start up from a completely drained battery. Sometimes the simplest solutions are worth trying first!
Android
If you are using WordPress to host your website, are you using the WORDPRESS app on your iOS or Android device to simplify updates on the go…?
www.apps.wordpress.com for details and downloads.
Covid-19
Music – Audio and Video Files
Various sites from where songs and hymn resources are available – especially during Covid19 restrictions.
Please ensure that appropriate licensing permission is in place when using these resources.
RCL based Suggestions from Trinity College, Glasgow
https://www.trinitycollegeglasgow.co.uk/blog/categories/songs-for-sunday
https://youtube.com/channel/UCjSod1JYIqPRsUakBSsfWQQ
stevenstonhighkirk.com/praise-resources
🟪 – Advent and Christmas Music
Public domain mp3s available for download
Carolyn says, “Some pastors and church music leaders have asked for permission to use my hymns in worship services that they are streaming live, or in other ways they are reaching out to their congregations from a distance. During these challenging times, you have my permission to go ahead and use my copyrighted hymns in these ways for free.”
During the Covid-19 crisis, we give permission for all churches worldwide to stream Resound Worship songs. This includes our videos, our recordings, our lyrics and your own performances.
If you have a streaming licence (eg CCLI, OneLicense), we’d appreciate it if you would report your usage. If you don’t, we would like you to use our material anyway.
Sunday 17 January
Psalm 139 – Lord You Have Searched Me
Sunday 24 January
Psalm 62 – Find Rest O My Soul
Mark 1:14-20 – Jesus, You Have Called Us
Sunday 7 February
Psalm 147 – How Good It Is
Isaiah 40:21-31 – Those Who Hope
Sunday 21 February
Genesis 9:8-17 – Where Are You in the Storm
Sunday 28 February
Mark 8:31-38 – Jesus You Have Called Us / O Faithful Lord
Sunday 7 March
Psalm 19 – Look Up to the Skies / Nature Shines With Beauty
General
Earlier today I sent an email to over 30 colleagues and had omitted to attach the attachments! Then came the flurry of phone calls and emails… “I think you forgot the attachments!” Some email apps do clever things and remind you if you have used the word “attached” but not attached any files. I’m usually quite careful and take a moment to check emails, posts, messages and tweets before zapping them out to others… Thinking about how to be more thorough – I came up with the mnemonic TRACKS to remind me to check:
Always check emails for typos. Autocorrect is very clever but sometimes gets it embarrasingly wrong – and it’s you that will be embarrassed. Take a moment to read over the email, post, tweet before you send it into the ether.
Think about who will read your post. If it’s an email use the To, CC and BCC carefully. If your email is to more than one person a good style is to use ‘To’ for the people from whom you expect action, CC is for information. BCC use carefully! Remember GDPR and dont share email addresses without permission.
Have you included all attachments referred to?Is there a better way to share the info – perhaps a link, or sharing to DROPBOX, TEAMS, SLACK or another collaboration tool?
If you refer to a meeting on Wednesday, have you also mentioned the time and venue… think ‘complete information’ – even if it’s repeated and was in an earlier communication?
Emails should be kind! Also think of the kind of conversation. A letter, phone call or face to face talk might be a better approach for that difficult conversation.
The subject line is so important. How many emails do you delete on the basis of the subject line? Simply being there is a good start as many spam filters will make assumptions about emails without a subject. It should be clear and concise and relate to the actual subject matter rather than an earlier thread! It’s okay to change the Subject line when replying to an email if the subject has changed!
Before sending an email, post, message or tweet, think TRACKS – Typos, Recipients, Attachments, Complete, Kind, Subject – and then click SEND.
Fun
I write this on Doomsday! The 6th day of the 6th month! Sounds ominous! Actually quite fun! Did you know that the 4th day of the 4th month, the 6th day of the 6th month, the 8th day of the 8th month, the 10th day of the 10th month, and the 12th day of the 12th month always fall on the same day of the week?
But what of February and all the odd numbered months?
In January, doomsday is the 3rd, or 4th in a leap year
In February – the last day of the month 28th/29th is always doomsday!
In March – following from Feb’s rule we can say that the 0th day is doomsday (or remember that 7,14,21,28 are always March’s doomsdays)
May & September are easily remembered together – the 9th of the 5th month, and 5th of the 9th always fall on Doomdsay!
July & November are remembered together as the 11th day of the 7th month and the 7th day of 11th month are always doomsday
Armed with this information it makes it easy to work out what day of the week any date falls on.
If you know which day of the week is doomsday for the current year and the next two years, and perhaps the previous year you will be well on your way to impressing others, and simplifying some routine tasks. If you are forward planning Sunday Services – you will know the dates without having to keep referring to the calendar!
You may notice some key dates are always doomsday! American Independence Day 4th July, Halloween 31st October. Perhaps a birthday or anniversary falls on doomsday! Any date not on a doomsday must be with 3 days of one. Christmas Day is always D-1, St Andrew’s Day is D+2.
If you want to know how to develop this to work out any date and tell people what day of the week they were born or which day the battle of Hastings took place you can learn more at: https://www.timeanddate.com/date/doomsday-rule.html
Happy Doomsday!
Change
A wee video from a few years ago with Bryan Kerr and Donald McCorkindale in the context of the Church of Scotland General Assembly – about going paperless and making the most of electronic versions rather than printing off oddles of paper!
Yes you can scribble notes in the margins, stick in a post-it note! Yes, you can flick between several documents. Take time to become familiar with reading and using digital documents.