Ruminations

Author: Fuad Kamal

  • Egypt HD | Primelapse

    Egypt HD | Primelapse

    Egypt HD is a short film exploring the most amazing and exotic locations in Egypt.

  • Why all Police should be required to undergo martial arts training

    Why all Police should be required to undergo martial arts training

    Martial arts offer a lot of benefits, mental, health, self-defense, etc.  If everyone in society studied martial arts seriously society overall would probably be in a better condition.  In some societies, martial arts is part of the regular school curriculum.  But, incidents like this one, where a young man armed with a knife and surrounded…

  • Musa (Moses), Khidr, and Sabr (patience)

    Musa (Moses), Khidr, and Sabr (patience)

    Allah (SWT) revealed the Quran as a reminder and as a guidance for mankind. So while some things we hear in the recitation might make us think, ‘wow that’s so cool’, there is also always a lesson to be learned. Today as Hammad Hai was reciting Surah Al-Kahf, and Allah narrates the story of Khidr…

  • Migrating to iOS7

    Migrating to iOS7

    This is the best time to jump on the iOS bandwagon since the App store was opened to developers. Ash Furrow: If your app embraces iOS 7′s design and is ready for day one of the new OS, it’s likely that Apple may feature you in your category on the App Store. That could lead…

  • Crumplepop Finisher plug-in for Final Cut X – a real-use review

    Crumplepop Finisher plug-in for Final Cut X – a real-use review

    Crumplepop makes plug-ins for Final Cut X, as well as for Final Cut 7 & 6.  I picked up a bunch of their plugins for Final Cut X a while back.  The effects they apply have a great look, but that’s not really what this review is about. To see what plug-ins they offer and…

  • Gunshot

    Gunshot

    My eyes are filled with the vastness of the pale sky.  It’s cloudy but the clouds are high up so all I see is this bleached out white/blue color of the sky staring back at me.  My lungs are on fire.  Liquid fills my throat and as I gag I try not to panic wondering…

  • learning iOS development from a Flash Platform perspective

    learning iOS development from a Flash Platform perspective

    I held off diving into learning C, Objective C, and native iOS development for a long time. There were a number of things that made the task seem daunting, and some carrots that Adobe had dangled in front of us Flash platform developers that made it seem unnecessary at first. In retrospect, it’s a good…

  • Triggertrap Mobile Review: Part 1

    Triggertrap Mobile Review: Part 1

    I’ve been meaning to write a review up on Triggertrap for quite a while now but a number of things have been getting the way of letting me do it. Part of the reason is the task was quite daunting – Triggertrap is not a simple app or a tool with just one or a…

  • recording multiple activities in the same day with Garmin Edge

    recording multiple activities in the same day with Garmin Edge

    My last couple of rides, I started out taking one of my kids with me for a short distance on the road – basically as far as the respective kid was able to ride.  When I ride with the kid, I take my hybrid Bianchi, and afterward I head out on my own ride.  Afterward,…

  • another chase

    another chase

    So on today’s ride, in exactly the same spot as last time, I came up behind another rider. This time it was an elderly gentleman, maybe 50 or sixty years old. I wasn’t as cocky as last time, but still I thought I would try to pass him. As I came up behind him suddenly…