Launching our new website..

Well one of our background tasks over the past few months has been working on a new Springfield Church website. We wanted to be able to have more flexibility of layout and content than we have had up to now.

My Blackberry is doomed – its the rise of the aye pad

Well, my beloved Blackberry Playbook is obviously doomed! The Daily Mash has said that there is a new tablet on the market – the aye Pad!! Details of this new tablet below. Even funnier are the articles below:

Review – Blackberry Playbook

Most of you know that in my heart that I am a geek. Well, my latest bit of technology has been a Tablet – in fact a Blackberry Playbook (a combined present from my long-suffering family!). I have been using it for about a month now and thought a review was now in order.

Social Media Revolution

Don’t know whether to laugh or be scared. Hat-tip to Becca for this  look at the Social media revolution. It is certainly already making a huge impact in the world and how people find things and interact. What do you think?

Steve Jobs – in his own words – Rest in Peace

The passing of Steve Jobs announced today is the passing of an icon of the modern age. Steve Jobs transformed how many people saw and interacted with technology.

Robots argue about God!

Great clip of two chatbox robots having a conversation together. Loved the fact that when they get onto God they start to argue! These are Artificial Intelligence computer programmes that learn from real people and therefore and displaying types of behaviour that they have “learnt” from human interaction!

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Our Church SALT Magazine is now online

Having only produced paper versions of our Church magazine we have decided to publish parts of it online.

You can find it at http://salt.springfieldchurch.org.uk/

The magazine is published 5 times a year and in its paper version is normally about 36 pages. As we get used to it the online version will obviously have more links etc that we can embed within it. Hope to add a few more stories as we have time this week.

Have a look and let us know what you think.

New technology

There never seems to be a day when new technology or technological changes aren’t happening. For some they pass them by. For others, often called innovators, it excites them and they look forward to trying the new technology. So today I hear that the iPad 2 is being launched and also single CD’s are being [...]

Ethical Shopping

I recently lost a texting battle with my churchwarden Jean. I suggested that I could type faster on my blackberry keypad compared to her touchscreen iPhone. I lost. I also made more spelling mistakes. sigh. Now I find that I am likely to fall further behind. The Guardian has announced a new application for the [...]

working with google

Been trying to work out how google do there sorting. I must admit to being a bit non-plussed. If you search for wallington church(es) then you tend not to find us directly on the first page. Sometimes we’re on their map (when searching with google.co.uk) and sometimes not; even though we have 3 sites and [...]