Kim Gentes

WorshipTeam.com announced an update to its iOS app today with a some nice extensions to its service.

iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch users now have a greatly enhanced app for use with their core WorshipTeam.com service.  The app includes the "Music Perform" function that allows users to launch any service (set) into a music stand usable mode. Your iPad becomes a digital music display for all the songs in your services/sets in WorshipTeam.com. Simply swiping the iPad moves to the next song. Additionally added is support for PDF sheet music display incorporated right into the Music Perform function. If you have any songs included in your service/set that you use sheet music PDFs for (instead of standard chord charts) those now display in crisp clarity inside your WorshipTeam.com app.

The app will display PDF sheet music wherever any song can be displayed, including the single song display area or a list or service collection.

For those who haven't heard about the new "Music Perform" function in the WorshipTeam.com App, the goal of the "Music Perform" button is to allow you to have a simple, clean interface with all your songs (PDFs or chord charts) displayed allowing you to page through them, just like you would for a physical songbook on a music stand. Great for use on a stage, in a small group or at home practicing. Your service/set is ready to go without having to print anything off. Here is is how to try it out --

• STEP 1: Install the WorshipTeam.com App on your iPad. Download and install the app for free right here:http://itunes.apple.com/app/worshipteam-com/id409144474?mt=8

• STEP 2:  Login and select the "Services" option to see your upcoming services.
  
  
  
  

• STEP 3: Go to one of your upcoming services on your schedule and select the "Perform" button.
  
  
  
  

• STEP 4: You will see the first song appear. Controls on the top right allow you to page through the songs. You can also use motion/swipe to move through the songs.
  
  
  
  

• STEP 5: If you have loaded your own PDF sheet music into a song (view/version) it will display instead of the standard chord chart, as below.
  
   

• STEP 6: For regular chord charts, formatting controls are at the bottom of the page if you would like different font and size properties. Note that you can turn chords on or off, depending on your needs (vocalists often only want lyrics displayed for example).
  
  
  
  

The music perform function works great on iPads used as music stands (as can be done easily by mounts like iKlip (http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/iklip1), GigEasy (http://www.thegigeasy.com/) or Griffin iPad music stand mounts (http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/mic-stand-mount).

The music perform function is free and included in the iPad app with WorshipTeam.com and does not cost extra. Any WorshipTeam.com user can use this function.

bless you!

Kim Gentes

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/

1. Open Google Chrome
2. In the Address Bar type “about:plugins” and click enter
3. Chrome will then load a page with a list of your plugins, scroll down to the “Chrome PDF Viewer”, and click “Disable”
4. Once you have disabled “Chrome PDF Viewer” you can now visit a site and Print to Adobe PDF and Adobe Reader will open the file in Chrome.

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

Chord charts or Sheet Music? YOU Choose!

Some people prefer using sheet music over chord charts. Now when adding a song or creating your custom view of a song in Worshipteam.com, you no longer need to go to "Advanced Mode" to upload your PDF. After entering your song title or view title, simply click the “Upload PDF/Sheet Music” tab and drag and drop your file.

Easy Is Nice!

Adding this easy drag and drop of PDF/sheet music is another thing Worshipteam.com has done to just make life easier for worship leaders.

For more information on this new feature, go to the blog at Worshipteam.com here:

http://blog.worshipteam.com/blog5.php/2009/07/29/uploading-pdf-sheet-music-just-got-easie

Kim Gentes