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Head on over to ChurchDrop.com and check out my post about an interesting evangelism app! (It’ll be worth it, I promise!)

This is sick! The part I like the most is, well there’s two:
1. The charity option
2. Being able to pay people back instantly!

Check it:

I did some digging. Here’s what I found out:

• Once you are invited to the service you sign up.
• This isn’t free processing- not at all. You have to have that in place to process (through a third part). Square is basically on online, paperless transaction record- Square is a gateway, connecting you to your processing service via your mobile device.

There’s more, but it’s a lot. Check out as much or little as you want in Square’s Terms of Service.

Squareup.com

In honor of my first guest post on ChurchCreate I’m giving away a one year subscription to Collide Magazine!
I love Collide for a couple reasons:
1- They get it.
2- They get it.

Collide does more than just be relevant- the articles are authentic, because the people writing them are living it! If you haven’t checked out Collide yet- do it now. Well, maybe not now- but in a bit after you enter to win a one year subscription!

How to enter the hook-up opportunity after the jump!
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Product Manager Peter Deng explains the ins and outs of the redesign, as well as the reasoning behind it. Spoiler alert- it’s for a better UI (user interface) experience.
Here’s the video from Mashable’s Ben Parr:

More features after the jump!
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The release of the new homepage for Facebook has begun recently, and if yours hasn’t shifted yet, don’t worry, it will. Facebook has simplified the homepage to make it more user friendly. The same information is there, just in less space- something needed with the popularity of netbooks, and with the iPad on the horizon.

1. New requests, messages, and notifications are grouped together by the logo (clicking on the logo will take you to the home page as well). If you’re wondering what I’m talking about- they’re the shadowed icons to the right of the logo.

2. News Feed: The News Feed now includes the ability to update your status, as well as Top News (the most popular happenings among your friends, be it comments, becoming a fan, or joining a group) and Most Recent (what’s happening now- the live update). Formerly these were were labeled View News Feed and View Live Feed respectively.

3. Account drop-down. This is where all the buttons that used to be on the top bar went to. Edit Friends, Account Settings, Privacy Settings, Application Settings, Credits Balance, Help Center, and Logout now live here.

4. Bookmarks. If you didn’t even know these existed before, don’t worry too much about it (they used to be on the bottom left, opposite the chat box).

5. Friends Online. This is a new feature. The friends that will show up here are the ones you interact with the most on Facebook- be it messages, chat or wall posts- the rest of your online friends are viewable in chat.

6. Chat. Almost the same as before- the drag and drop feature has been removed, so you’ll just have to add friends to lists by typing.

Like it, love it, hate it?

Church Crunch has an open thread conversation going about this topic, and reading through those comments inspired this post.

Here’s what I wrote:

At first my ADOS (Attention Deficit ooooh shiny…) came out, and I was salivating more than Pavlov’s dog. But the cool effect has worn off.
I really think @TimMcDaniel nails it with his 6th point, “…this is not a device to help creatives create – but this will be perfect for presenters to present.”

The welcome center, the kidcheck stations- all great stuff, albeit very cool as well!

More on my post inspired by this convo….
~NickShoe

Many contributors see the advantage of Apple’s latest and greatest for presentation effect. Be it in a church’s welcome center or utilized as a KidCheck station, the cool factor will definitely be there.
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I found out about FullApologies.com from Vayner Media’s “19 of this Week’s Best Links”.

I wasn’t ready for it. I don’t think you’ll be either.

The site features the basic synopsis of those that have killed people due to being drunk while driving, and their video apology to (apparently) the family of those they are responsible for killing.

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I wasn’t a fan of the name when it was announced yesterday, and this may be why (even if I didn’t know it yet). For some great perspective on the iPad, check this out.
For the funny video you came to see, keep going…WARNING! PG-13 (TV14) CONTENT! If correct anatomical reference offends you, don’t watch this.

Ok- this was from 2006. (Credit to Mashable for exposing me to it.) Wow. And I thought it wouldn’t be until SNL this week that we’d see anything like this. It was suggested all over yesterday, but clearly we are behind.
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Watch live via CrunchGear! http://nick5hoe.com/apple-event-live

You might be saying to yourself, but wait- don’t you already have a site?

Yes.

Then why this new one?

I have my own business now- and I thought it was time to get my own real website- not just a decent blog.

And with that, NickShoe.org begins.

~NickShoe