Wireless Power from Space

The idea of transmitting electrical energy without wires has always fascinated scientists. All the way from Nikola Tesla to the current endeavor of Japan planning to send its first solar paneled satellite into space this decade. Check it out!

Disaster Relief Outsourced

Check out this free open-source platform that aggregates twitter, texts, internet feeds, etc. on a map to display real-time disaster relief related information. The platform was used most recently for the Haiti quake and has been found useful in multiple applications like voting, public works, roads, etc.

Call For Photos

Visit the Church’s official Flickr group to submit images for use in web and traditional media publication. Member submitted photos were selected for the new.lds.org temple site! Excellent way to involve members in the work. Do you have a way for the Church to harness abounding member talent? Do share!

Gospel Library for iPad

Gospel Library is now available for iPad. This version includes the ability to rotate the screen and also better readability than the iPhone version on the iPad.

Look for new features in both platforms in the future!

Church's Second iPhone App Available

[joel (10:50pm, 4/10): I mention a May beta release of lds.org, but these features actually come in the June release.]

We've just released our second iPhone app: Gospel Lbry. [joel: corrected.]

It's on the iPhone app store now. You can download and access the scriptures, hymns, various manuals, proclomations and so forth. It's got some pretty nifty features that some of the main scripture apps out there don't have. And it's free.

When the May beta.lds.org comes out, you'll be able to sync annotations with your online gospel study experience.

This, like our Mormon Channel app, was developed in cooperation with community developers. Thanks all!!

Download it and try it out. And rate it!! :)

LDS Developers Conference

The first LDS Developers Conference is to be held on April 1-2. You'll meet members of the team, see a sneak preview of the new web sites which will be coming this Summer, and get hands-on training in how to design, write and test code for those web sites and for our new mobile device offereings.

• We need help with our MobileMember and Scriptures apps for Palm Pre, iPhone, Android, WinMobile and iPhone.


• We need a team to re-write our Interactive Music App for the new web platform. We haven't started this project and would really like to Beta test in May and ship in June.


• You can help with many other ongoing projects (local unit directory, local unit calendar, YSA web site, etc.)


• Or you can help us think of new ideas!

If you're interested in helping with our community efforts and you can get here, then get here!

More information on our web site.

Help With String Translation

If you're fluent in a language besides English, we would love your help. We're working on a prototype for a new web site and need help translating some of the strings.

If you're interested, go to this wiki and translate to your heart's content.

We have listed Spanish, Portugese, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Japanese, but if you know other languages, then feel free to add them to the wiki.

Thanks for your help!

UPDATE: You'll need an LDS Account to log in to the WIKI. Get one here.

Blackberry Developers?

Thank you for the repsonses to my last post where I asked for PHP developers to help us this next month. We're off and running!

We have another project where we're working on some apps for the Blackberry. If you have experience in developing Blackberry apps and some time this next month, please contact edwardsj at ldschurch.org.

We'd love your help! Great stuff happening the next couple of months! Stay tuned!