Toon Boom Storyboard Pro should help you do away with all the paper and pens that people normally associate with storyboarding without a computer. The interface is somewhat dull, and the layout disappoints: tools like the colour palettes are not easily accessible enough. The drawing tools are very basic; Storyboard Pro is meant for rough sketching and basic drawing, and we’d have liked better brushes. Some changes to the brush can be done to inprove on the default set, though. Sounds can added to the shots; voice-overs can be recorded in the software and added. you can also add notes- useful for dilogues.
The Onion skin feature is especially useful: it allows artists to use earlier panels as a reference and make accurte additions to the next shots.
A few templates are provited as well. You can select from ready-made characters and items and add them to a scene by a simple drag-and-drop move.
The colour selector in Storyboard Pro is pretty advenced; itdisplays a wide range of colours using three separate parameters-Hue, Saturation, and value, for the three standrad colours-red, green and blue, However, this three wheel selection mode window is too large to fit into a resolution of 1152 x 864. A minimum resolution of 1280 x 1024 is required.

Storyboard Por has incorporated cameras similar to those in 3D modelling application. The camera can be panned and moved about. Transition effects can be set between shots-this makes Storyboard Pro a viable option as an animation tool (to some extent). Prepared animations can be exported as rendered frames in TGA and JPEG or as QuickTime or Flash animations.
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro demonstrates that by moving the process of storyboarding to a computer, it’s possible to exponetially improve flexibility-mark changes effortless; easily put detail put into perpoduction plans.
$999 for the commercial version may seem high, but remember that professional studious’3D softwere and compositing softwere run into lakhs. Still, you can find similar storyboarding softwere at around half the price. The edcational package for studebts-which adds a watermark-is expensive, at $499.

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Listening to music on mobile phones while traveling has became one of people`s favorite pastimes all across the World. The sudden blossoming of radio stations everywhere has contributed to this trend. The creators of Mundu Radio believe streaming music from Internet radio station could be the Next Big Thing. (Geodesic is the company that makes software for mobil devices with the “Mundu” name; we tested one of their other products- Mundu IM- a while ago.)
We tried out the Symbain OS version on a Nokia N70. The interface is colorful and elegant. Stations are stored by genre. There are some preset stations, and you can add more manually through there site, www.radio.mundu.com. Also, the default playlist which contains all the stations, can be updated from your account on the Mundu Redio site. Recently played stations can be viewed quickly from a list that updates itself when you play a new station. We must say it would be nice to able to add stations directly through the software interface insteade of having to log in to the Mundu Radio site to add stations to your list.
We used a GPRS connection to access the streams on Mundu Radio; you can use Wi-Fi as well- if your phones supports it. The streams we used were 32 Kbps and 24 Kbps, and the performance was quite decent-they sounded good enough for a mobile phone. There was, however, a lot of buffering even with the slightest drop in single strength. The other concern, if at all, is the rates at what you are billed for downloads. For example, using a 32 Kbps radio stream for an hour will result in around 14 MB of data transferred.
There are lots of internet based radio stations, and you have no shortage of music to choose from. Mundu Radio is currently a free beta and upgrades can be downloaded from their site. How good the experience will be will eventually come down to the quality of service of your provider, and also the schemes suitable for long periods of radio listening. Either way, it`s a great concept that can be implemented on the current infrastructure without hassles, and it`s definitely worth trying out. Mundu Radio is currently available for palm, Symbain 7 and 8, and Windows Mobile devices.

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I am using this application for quite sometime and I must say the Its really a great application to check your gmail emails on the move. The application worked perfectly on my Nokia 6680 and Nokia N73 Music Edition. Google has released a new version of its Gmail for mobile application, which works on most phones that are Java ME enabled as well as BlackBerry devices. The new version is faster than before (30% faster overall and 80% faster for some tasks), consumes a lot less data and boasts a fair bit of new features. The latter includes a contacts viewer, an outgoing mail footer, click-to-call phone numbers, emails that are saved for later re-editing and Gmail keyboard shortcuts to perform tasks faster (on phones with full keyboards). The list sure sounds like a lot of useful features have been added without slowing down the program.

Basically it work on most J2ME enabled mobile phones and you will need GPRS/3G connection from your operator. Though the application is free but your operator may charge you for data transfer.

We have checked this updated application on almost every Nokia Series 60 and series 60 3rd edition phone and it worked flawlessly. Even it worked on UIQ and UIQ3 Mobiles.

Just point your mobile browser to http://www.gmail.com/app and the site will automatically determine the make and model of your mobiole phone and will offer the application for you.

Popularity: 6% [?]