I love it when my love of cars and my love of Apple merge in a small way.
Get your iPhone ring tones of the engine of that beautiful car at this url: http://speciali.ferrari.com/458italia/index_en.html
(Via: Straighline)
This September I will be returning to Canada to participate in a walk on the 12th to raise funds for Parkinson’s research. My family in Canada (pictured above) have been doing it for years now, to support my father, who has had Parkinson’s for over 10 years now.
Click on this link: http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?SID=2308262 to go to the donation page and click on the Sponsor me button at the bottom of the page.
If you live in the US, yes you still can donate funds – they will be in Canadian dollars, and you will get a tax receipt emailed to you.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I was quite excited today to learn that Rob Bell’s Nooma videos are starting to come out as applications for the iPhone/iPod. If you at all believe in God, it’s worth the $4.99 to download and watch his video, and talk about it with some friends.
When I was volunteering with high school youth at our old church in Lake Oswego, we played the DVD version of these videos, and had small group discussions about the particular topic – it’s still some of my fondest memories, being in these small groups and listening to youth explore their religious beliefs.
I hope more of these dvd’s show up as apps! I can’t wait to start showing these to my daughter and discussing them with her.
Steven Frank: They understand there are problems, and they are listening and acting.
Recently an update to my small pregnancy tracking application was unexpectedly delayed for a month and a half. Towards the end of that time I was pretty frustrated, with no communication at all from Apple.
But then I got a very nice call from what I would call the person that gives developers the bad news. He was extremely polite and pleasant to talk to, and informed me that the application description can’t have any mention of giving part of the proceeds to charity. The reason being someone might come back to Apple asking for a charity receipt or proof that the money actually went to the charity in question.
I changed the description while we were talking, and a day and a 1/2 later the update was available on the app store.
What did I glean from my conversation with him?
• There is a ‘first level team’ of app store reviewers that go through a predefined list of things to check.
• If anything is found, it’s marked for follow up or outright rejected, and the first level reviewer moves on to the next app.
• At some point these next level people get around to looking at the marked apps and contact developers.
I do believe that Apple is working hard to be more transparent with the process, and over the upcoming months we’ll see the app store become a better place to sell our software.