I love the Chronicles of Narnia books, and I can’t wait to see what the film makers do with this book:
I’m hoping they have more on this movie at ComicCon this year.
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I’m not quite sure what I can add to this, but my son thought this looked like a good idea. I think I should be afraid.
Last summer I signed my daughter up for one of the free day-camps they do at the Apple store and she learned all about photography. She had a great time. I was excited to get an email this morning about this summers program. It’s all about making movies this year. I’ve already signed her up because spaces go fast. Did I mention it’s FREE? I thought I’d pass it along to any of you who may have kids between 8-12 who would love a fun activity for a few days this summer. They are even having a film festival for all the films the kids make. Should be fun.
If you’re in San Diego we are doing the early session at Fashion Valley on July 19 – 20. Maybe I’ll see you there.
Today is the last day to enter to win an iPad over at Simply Youth Ministry.
Also it’s the last day to save 40% off on almost 300 resources. It’s only good till 3 PM PST today, so hurry over.
I gave into temptation tonight and downloaded and installed the gold master of the new iPhone operating system tonight. I’ve held off on the earlier betas, but after seeing the Apple keynote this week I wanted to check it out for myself. After the first few hours there are a couple of features that are a huge improvement.
1. Folders for apps. I’ve really been annoyed lately with how many apps I’ve had on my phone and how to organize them. This new feature goes a long way to fix it. I think the process of actually making the folders is a little janky though. You create or add an app to a fold by dropping an app on another. The problem with this is the apps like to jump away from each other during this process. I haven’t tried to do this in iTunes, maybe it’s easier there.
2. Background apps. This is one going that people have been asking for since day one of the iPhone. I always hated this on my old windows phones because it constantly caused crashes and battery drains. It was also always a pain to close running apps. Apple really got the implementation of this right, switching is easy and I can see that this will be a huge click saver.
3. UI. They’ve really put some polish on the look of things. Transitions between screens is nicer. I like the ability to put pictures as backgrounds behind the app icons, but you really need to be careful what you use, the wrong picture can make it almost un-usable. The visual flow between the new folder apps and background apps works really well.
4. Unified Inbox. I don’t know how many of you have multiple email accounts, but i have 4 setup on my phone and sometimes it was tiring going between each one to check new messages. Now you can get all your accounts in one central inbox. But don’t worry, you can still access each one individually also if you like the old way. The only problem I had with this was looking at my email almost became overwhelming, but I think I deal with more email than the average person.
There are a few things I still wish they would deal with (notifications, more info on the lock screen) but overall it’s a solid upgrade. I already miss some of the new features when I switch over to my iPad. Looking forward to that upgrade this fall.
What do you think is still missing?
It’s time for the anual 40 40 40 sale at SimplyYouthMinistry.com. You can get 40% off tons of great resources. There’s also $1 off select books. It only lasts for 40 hours so hurry.
There are a couple of other bonuses:
-40 Free Backgrounds – 40 great summer backgrounds for your ministry.
-Win an Ipad – Who doesn’t want this magical device. Just fill out the form to enter. Good Luck!
I thought these stats on internet pornography were really interesting:
(click the image to view full size.)
I must confess that I’m a sucker for a freebie, especially iPhone apps, but sometimes it’s hard to find good ones. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the quality of the ones that FreeAppADay.com has been giving out. It’s been mostly games, but I’ve snagged a couple of fun ones. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch it’s worth checking out. Remember each app is only Free for one day, so it might be something you want to check daily, or they also allow you to sign up for emails to notify you of the freebies for the categories you are interested in.
Enjoy!
LINK: FreeAppADay.com
If you’re interested in watching Apple reveal it’s latest creation at it’s event this morning, there are lots of places on the web to watch it unfold today at 10 AM PST (1 PM EST).
Bloggers love to Live blog these events and it’s almost live being there. Here are a couple of my favorites:
And if you are really obsessive, one of my favorite podcasters, Leo Leporte and his Twit network, plan on covering the event all day with follow-up after the announcements. You can watch them here:
Will it be the mythical tablet? Also rumored are iLife 2010, and iPhone 4.0 software.
I can’t wait.
We’ve all heard about the devastation in Haiti following the earthquakes there, and it’s exciting to see so many people rushing to help. Here’s a way you can help, but it’s for today (Jan 20, 2010) only. Visit Indie+Relief and buy any of the software from their partners and the proceeds will all go to help those in Haiti.
It’s a great line-up of programs, both Mac and iPhone / iPod Touch titles. Some that I use on the list are Acorn, Things, Instapaper, Rowmote, Tweetie, and there a couple I’m going to pick-up today.
Or if you would just like to donate money click on the Compassion banner in the sidebar.
Check out Indie+Relief.
