Daily Bible Verse for Your iPod
I got this idea from an iPod “game” I saw a few months back (but whose name and URL I’ve forgotten). I’ve begun to take the ESV Daily Bible Verse and turn it into an iPod G5-optimized image. Here’s the one I put together for today’s verse:
That way, as I’m taking my morning walk I can cycle through the recent VotDs without all the hassle of a separate notebook or something. All I do is save the images to a “Bible Verses” folder within my “Pictures” directory, and when the iPod syncs up they’re updated automatically!
April 18th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
[...] Like I said yesterday, I just drop these into the picture folder my iPod’s synced up with, and I can cycle through them while I walk in the mornings. [...]
April 20th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Get a Daily Verse on Your iPod… As an Image…
Travis at secondmouse has created a verse-of-the-day feed with a twist. Every day Travis takes the ESV daily verse and turns it into an image formatted for an iPod. For example:
Travis creates the images in Photoshop each day. He says that “making …
April 20th, 2007 at 10:13 am
This is really neat. I just read about what you are doing at the ESV Blog, and therefore posted about your endavor at Mobile Ministry Magazine. While this works great with iPods, it can work with nearly any device that can read RSS feeds.
God bless, and great idea on doing something that keeps you plugged into the Word.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:31 am
I appreciate it, Antoine! My primary goal was to provide an alternative to the iPod’s “Notes” feature, but you’re right: they work in other ways, too.
One alternative would be for someone with, say, a WordPress blog to take this category’s Atom feed and plug it into an RSS sidebar module. Set it to display only the most recent item in the feed, and you’re good to go!
April 20th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I don’t have an iPod that could use these, but THANK YOU for your contribution to the church.
I thank God for what you have done.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
I’m not very good with computers or ipods but i got one for christmas and was wondering how to get these onto it.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Mandi, here’s a really good tutorial on adding photos and images to your iPod. Thanks for asking!