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Springboard storyboarding application

springboard storyboardingIf you work in film or video, or just want to put together the next great Star Wars fan film, Springboard is designed to make the storyboarding easier. Or at least computerize the process. It does have some nice tricks, like a good collection of easily editable arrows for camera moves. The vector-based camera blocking tools remind me of Plasq's Comic Life app, and look like a lot of fun to use. What's more, you can draw on your frames, and later animate your storyboards as animatics, complete with transitions. All of this can be spit out to a web page (images) or movie file. Springboard is sort of free. You have to "update" to a new free version every four months, and there's a few printing and "export" limits. Some of that might be a deal-killer for you, because all too often you have to eventually dump to paper and move things around manually. Sometimes there's just not a good solution in software...

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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