Tag: iphone
Put Down that Phone
Put down the phone and really listen to someone else. With eye contact. — 56 Ways of Mercy, Aleteia I spent Friday evening with five of my children, while my husband took the other four on a trip to visit relatives for a special occasion. Those who stayed behind did so because of obligations during… Read More ›
The Scriptures on your Windows based smartphone
Fr. Paolo Padrini makes the “breviary” into a multimedia application This news is only a few days old. The ‘iBreviary – Pro Terra Sancta’, the most popular app (short for application) in the Catholic world has “landed” on Windows Phone 7 smartphone and is therefore now available on mobiles with Microsoft operating systems. These can… Read More ›
Vatican hopes iPod can bring silence to Rome’s churches
Rome, Italy, Jun 24, 2011 / 06:10 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican has introduced a new way of keeping silence in their churches while also informing tourists – the iPod. Today is the first full day of a trial which sees pilgrims to the basilica of St. John Lateran given the audio-guide with a… Read More ›
How Many iPhone Developers Wear Wimples?
Among the community of iPhone developers it is a reasonably safe bet that not too many of them wear wimples and sing vespers on a regular basis, which makes Sister Catherine Wybourne (who tweets as @Digitalnun), Benedictine nun, HTML coder and now iPhone developer, something of special case. The web has proved a bonus for… Read More ›
There’s an ‘app’ for that: iPhone applications devised for Catholics
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — In a world that boasts continual technological change, the iPhone by Apple has gained near-iconic status. Even Apple boasts there are more than 140,000 applications — or “apps,” in Apple-speak — that users can obtain for their phones. It only follows that there would be some… Read More ›
Smartphone applications integrate prayer life with daily technology
By Gretchen R. Crowe, Catholic News Service. ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) — Praying is now so 21st century. Instead of a paperback missalette, there’s iMissal. Instead of prayer cards, there’s a touch-screen Saint A Day. Instead of randomly jotting down prayer requests, there’s a digitally organized list in PrayerSteward. These three applications — better known as… Read More ›
Website Revisions: Part 1
The revisions to the web site are moving forward and today starts the beginning. If you are used to visiting the website from your computer you will not notice anything. If you have wanted to visit the site from your handheld iPhone or iPod Touch, Blackberry, or Palm/Treo devices you will see a significant difference…. Read More ›