This is what I’m reading this year, how about yourself?

FIRST 6 MONTHS 

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Last year I posted a list of great Android apps since I have been using.

Read the 2010 apps here.
Read the 2011 apps here.

Here’s an updated list of my current apps for 2012 :)

2Do - The best to do app there is. I can’t live without it.
AirDroid - Send messages and control your phone from a web browser
Autodance - Dance and record it with this app and your dancing comes alive
Cartoon Camera - Make your photos into a cartoon.
Chrome Beta - great browser. but a bit buggy still while I’m beta
Domino’s Online Ordering - Online dominos ordering in Australia
Draw Some - Cool game to play with friends
Voice Recorder - Voice recorder.
aCar - Keep a record of all your car expenses and see statistics
Adobe Flash Player 11.1 - Adobe flash player – Needed to view flash websites
Alchemy - challenging game
Angry Birds - Awesome game
Angry Birds - Awesome game
Angry Birds - Awesome game
Backup to Gmail - Backs up all your SMS/mms/calls to your gmail
Beautiful Widgets - Good looking time and weather widget
Bible - Best Bible App resource
Commbank - Check your CBA bank accounts
Docs - Google document on your phone
Doodle Jump - Awesome Game
Dropbox - Can view all your dropbox files on your phone and send people links to them on the go.
eBay - Good if you use eBay a lot.
ES File Explorer - View any files on your phone and move them around.
ESV Bible - Fastest Bible app
Evernote - store your notes in the cloud and sync with your computer.
Facebook - Facebook…
Fighter Verses - Helps you memo rise Scripture
Flashlight - Make your camera light a torch.
Flight Control - Sweet game that got ported from iphone
Fruit Ninja - Awesome game
FTPServer - Turn your phone into a FTP server.
GO Launcher EX - The best android launcher.
GO SMS Pro - The best SMS app.
Here I Am 2 - Let’s your friends or anyone know your GPS location.
IMDb - Look up movies and who the actors are etc
Kingsoft Office - Opens all office documents.
Messenger - Facebook official messenger app.
Pano - Panoramic photos
Paper Toss - Awesome Game
Prayer Journal - Good for keeping a prayer journal
Pure calendar widget - The best calendar widget
Push Ups - Great push up app.
Quota - Good app for seeing how much usage you have used on your ISP or mobile. supports nearly every provider
RunKeeper - Awesome fitness app to see how far you have run
Screen Filter - Makes your phone go dimmer to extreme levels to save battery
ShareMyApps - This app collates all your apps and helps share/email them all to your friends
Shazam - records music and tells you what the song is.
Shoot the Apple - Quite a fun and challenging game
Skype - Great for calling on data or chatting on skype
SMS Scheduler - Schedule and repeat SMS messages to anyone.
SMS2PC - My most used app. if your in front of your computer alot, this makes your phone like a chat client. you can reply to SMS from.a chat screen on your computer.
SMSBomber - Can spam your friends with sms
Space Invaders - Classic Retro game.
SpacePhysics - One of the most challenging games for the nerds.
SpeedView - See how fast your travelling whole in a car, skiing, bike riding etc.
Titanium Backup - Backs up your whole phone
Trapster - See where cop cars and accidents on the roads are.
TripView - Shows all the bus/train timetables
Twitter - Twitter app.
UNO - Play UNO on your phone
Wunderlist - Great to do list
Zedge - Download free ringtones and wallpapers

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If there was ever a word to describe Brad, it would currently be Drawsome! Check out my mate Brad’s drawings, I will update as I get more :)

Brad Johnson Drawsome Drawings

Emma Bones Drawsome Drawings

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I currently have optus and vodafone for the next 30 days which i will be doing some test for internet speed and coverage tests. This page will be updated as I do more.

All tests were done on Identical galaxy S2 Phones.

Notes:
Wednesday 29/2 – 12pm

Today i went for a drive from Gosford to Bensville and compared reception and data speeds the whole way. Reception was nearly exactly the same, 0-4 Bars. both services were a bit patchy going up and down the hill past Greeen Point Christian School, but as soon as i reach Kincumber shops all was fine. I was on a call the whole way and had no drop outs as well. Optus outperformed Vodafone (data speed wise) in 80% of speed tests along the way (probably did about 15 tests along the route), but once at a particular standing still location, Vodafone seemed to have better speeds.

Wednesday 29/2 – 5pm

I went for a drive from Ourimbah along Fagons road, then across the ridgeway towards Tumbi. Usually Optus drops out along 3 points along the Ridgeway, and so did Vodafone. Reception was very similar along this whole road, except for when vodafone did have reception, it did have H reception, Optus only had E or G. Vodafone has a new tower going in at Mount Elliot later this year, hopefully these blackspots will be fixed then.

Wednesday 29/2 – 6.30pm
I went for a drive from Tumbi Umbi, over the ridgeway and through Holgate back to Gosford via Erina. Vodafones reception along Ridgeway through Holdate was actually slightly better than Optus’s, had full bars where Optus had none or only 1 at a few spots. The biggest difference was driving through Springfield, at one point Optus dropped out had no reception, and Vodafone had full bars at H speed all the way through. Vodafone wins in this part of town. Speeds were also 3x faster at 6.30pm.

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So I got a SLR camera for christmas and have bought a few accessories and i can’t stop taking photos! I Love it!

I made even made a site and have done a few blog posts about it.

Check it out here:

Evans Photography

Heres some of my favourite photos I’ve taken so far:

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Context: The Church I attend, EV Church, speaks at lunchtime groups around high schools on the central coast. Recently we have been telling kids why Christians celebrate Christmas.
I gave this talk one afternoon, (has slightly been altered) on the subject of  ”Why celebrate Christmas and Jesus’ Birthday”

G’day guys!

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I see the crowd in Pilate’s hall,
their furious cries I hear;
their shouts of “Crucify!” appall,
their curses fill mine ear.
And of that shouting multitude
I feel that I am one,
and in that din of voices rude
I recognize my own.

I see the scourgers rend the flesh
of God’s belovèd Son;
and as they smite I feel afresh
that I of them am one.
Around the Cross the throng I see
that mock the Sufferer’s groan,
yet still my voice it seems to be,
as if I mocked alone.

‘Twas I that shed that sacred Blood,
I nailed him to the Tree,
I crucified the Christ of God,
I joined the mockery.
Yet not the less that Blood avails
to cleanse me from sin,
and not the less that Cross prevails
to give me peace within.

Horatius Bonar, 1856

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I wonder if he hurt his neck? haha

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There are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class Christian ways and who leave the sub-middle-class sections of the community, Christian and not Christian to get on by themselves. The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spriit is the spirit of those who, making themselves poor - spending, and being spent - to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others - and not just their own friends - in whatever way there seems need. There are not as many who who this spirit as there should be. If God in mercy revives us, one of the things he will do will be to work more of this spirit in our hearts and lives. If we desire spiritual quickening for ourselves individually, one step we should take is to seek to cultivate this spirit 'You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich' 2cor 8:9. 'you attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus' Phill 2:5 ~ J.I. Packer - Knowing God

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