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Fall Colours

Fall Colours, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Testing my new Canon S90. I’m going off of the “the best camera is the one you have with you” – so I chose this one, good sensor and pocketable.

Win the hearts of the developers and you win in the end

TechCrunch on what Palm is doing to woo developers.

David Crowder Band signing a TON of vinyl records

Awesome song, awesome video, awesome band.

Saw an odd add on the NYTime web site just now..

It’s for an immigration lawyer firm in Nova Scotia. Still – interesting they might be praying on American’s dislike of laws here.

Ferrari 458 Italia Ringtones for your iPhone

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)

Please consider supporting me in a Parkinson’s Walk in Calgary next month

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.

Nooma Rain as an iPhone/iPod app

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.

This is why Apple is still cool..

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.

How Pixar renders food

I love Pixar, and I love food – a cool read:

How Pixar shades food

Clouds Over Sierra Tonight

Clouds Over Sierra 16, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont.

Sadly I only had my iPhone. But they turned out pretty well, at least colour wise. The iPhone did capture the colors pretty well.