This is an ongoing blog of web tools and technology related to worship, music and church. The idea is to give you good web points and resources that you can go to. Some of it is just me cruising the net, others are favorites of friends.
Enjoy what you see here. If you find an interesting, useful and technology related site or resource that deals with helping worship or musicians in general, please send us a note and we will check it out. Perhaps we can feature it here.
Thanks!
Enjoy! - Kim Gentes
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:50PM Friends,
When I do a review of anything, I do so under my own convictions and opinions. People don't pay me to 
do reviews. Occasionally, I do get demo products sent to me, but more often than not, I review items I purchase and just tell you about it. Either way, the goal is to give you honest, hopefully knowledgeable, and always fair reviews.
Back in February of this year, I posted a review of an iFrogz cover (original review is here). iFrogz "Luxe Lean iPad Skin" is a hardshell polycarbonate iPad protective cover. I loved the tactile/functional feel of the cover and liked the look of it as well. It also seemed well made. Well, we wanted to update you on the item so that you know how it did during normal lifetime of use.
First, of all, as you can guess if I am writing an update now talking about product lifetime that means the cover's life has come to an end. If the cover only lasted until August, something was seriously wrong. About June, the corner of the cover developed a crack. The way I used my iPad, I only rarely took it out of the cover. I just felt it was safer, since there was always a chance I could accidentally drop it or something. I was surprised a crack developed in the cover, and I can't honestly remember if there was any bump or something that happened to the iPad. There certainly wasn't anything major or I would have noted that as a possible cause.
In any case, the cover developed a small crack. Once that happened, the cover corner with the crack deteriorated quickly. The whole are looked dry and brittle. Within 3 weeks the entire corner fell off when I was trying to put the cover on/off. Once the corner fell off the cracked cover case was now brittle, sharp and dangerous, becoming a hazard itself. I took the cover off completely to avoid slashing myself with the jagged, sharp edge.
I was, obviously, disappointed in the cover, especially after giving it a positive review on my initial purchase. Of course, there was no way to know it was going to deteriorate, but I wanted to make sure to send an update so that you would know what happened, especially if you were considering buying one based on my original review.
by Kim Gentes
broken, corner, cover, cracked, deteriorated, hard shell, ifrogz, ipad, lux, polycarbonate, protection, review in Accessories, Blog, Hardware, Mobile, Review, iPad Friday, January 14, 2011 at 11:39PM 
How to disable Google Chrome’s annoying PDF Viewer:
Folks that are using Google Chrome, you will have noticed in one of their recent updates Chrome is now including a new plugin. This wonderful new addition is “Chrome PDF Viewer”. If only it were truly wonderful. As a tech support representative at WorshipTeam.com, I can tell you that a number of Chrome users over the last few days have contacted us asking why their PDF’s are no longer being displayed correctly in Adobe Reader. Users of Chrome will note that most websites using PDFs have this new plugin causing issues with printing from PDF’s, and PDF documents imbedded inside a webpage. When printing from a PDF, Chrome opens the file and puts a gray border around the document. At first glance it looks like this is not going to be an issue but once you print; you realize that the gray area on the edge is printed on the page with your document. This “gray area” ends up taking up nearly half your paper, leaves you with only half your document and burns through your expensive ink cartridge. What is the villain responsible for this dilemma? The answer is “Chrome PDF Viewer”. The plugin that has been set as the default in the latest version of Google Chrome is designed to prepare Google for their upcoming Chrome OS, where you won’t be able to install any PDF viewers. But instead of making a quiet and helpful update, they bungled all their current users. Nice move Google.
There are a couple options you have in this situation:
1 ) For those of us who want to revert back to Adobe Reader for functionality and features that Chrome PDF Viewer is lacking, I have listed some steps below. Please ensure you have the latest version of Adobe Reader installed before doing this, you can find it at http://get.adobe.com/reader/
2) Use a different browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.). There are many options depending on what OS you are running. For those of us currently running Windows Vista SP2, or Windows 7; Internet Explorer 9 (although still in Beta) is a very attractive option that will only get better once it is in a stable release. IE 9 (Beta) can be found at http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/
Hope this helps!
Jordan Gentes