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By Jeremiah Hall (doddleNEWS) Tangent Element-Vs is an app transforming tablets into colorist controls. How is it? Let’s find out. One of the more expensive controllers are colorist panels. If you’re not familiar, colorist panels are made up of one or more trackballs with a movable ring … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) I've always had a very soft spot for technology and how to integrate it into my life. I like to keep abreast of what's up-and-coming in the mobile world, whether for filmmaking or otherwise. Pomfort has released a new free color correction app for iOS that will … [Read more...]
By Jeremiah Hall (doddleNEWS) Final Draft has lowered pricing on their products, including full versions and educational versions of their screenwriting software, until September 12, 2014. Final Draft says this is their “biggest and last sale of the year.” A new license of their desktop … [Read more...]
By Jeremiah Hall (doddleNEWS) Adobe has updated Story CC Plus. Story CC Plus 2014 is an application for scriptwriting and scheduling projects. Adobe Story CC Plus 2014 now includes Live Entertainment workflows, which Adobe says gives writers and directors, “. . .custom scripts for programs … [Read more...]
VIENNA (Reuters) Silent Circle, a company known for mobile apps designed to thwart government surveillance, is introducing on Thursday a secrecy-cloaking phone service that lets customers make and receive private phone calls for as little as $12.95 a month. The secure, fixed-rate voice and data … [Read more...]
By Alexei Oreskovic - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) A new smartphone app developed by the Tribune Co will read aloud a personalized "playlist" of news articles along with weather and traffic updates, as the media organization looks for new ways to reach consumers. The free Newsbeat app released on … [Read more...]
By Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) . At least 30 brokerages raised their price targets on Facebook's shares, which touched a high of $62.30 in early trading on Thursday. If the gains hold to close, Facebook would have added about $20 billion to its market capitalization of $136 billion. The … [Read more...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) Apple Inc said on Tuesday that its customers spent $1 billion (609.45 million pounds) on purchases in its applications store in December, leading to a total of $10 billion worth of apps sold in 2013. Apple reported app downloads of almost 3 billion apps in December, making it a … [Read more...]
By Natasha Baker (Reuters) Revelers who can't make it to New York's Times Square to celebrate New Year's Eve can download an app to make sure they see the ball drop. More than a million people from around the world flock to the famous area in midtown Manhattan which hosts one of the world's … [Read more...]
Review By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Slugline is a simple and affordable screenwriting software app for Macs that’s very easy-to-use, isn’t bloated with too many features and essentially gets out of your way so you can write your screenplay, while still focusing on formatting it correctly. … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Teradek’s VidiU is a small device that allows you to do live stream broadcasts, in high definition, with only your camera and an internet connection, either 3G/4G, WiFi or wired. And it works great, all without needing a computer, and it’s easy to use. The … [Read more...]
By Tony Maglio (TheWrap) "Arrested Development" fans got a nice treat this year in the form of the fourth season of the Emmy-winning comedy on Netflix. Now, fans of both the show and wood grain get another one, courtesy of the ingenuity of George Michael Bluth (Michael Cera). The official … [Read more...]
By Alexei Oreskovic - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt predicted on Tuesday that there will be more than a billion smartphones in use featuring its Android software within the next six to nine months. Schmidt also noted that Google had no intention of blocking … [Read more...]
By Jennifer Saba (Reuters) Social magazine app Flipboard launched on Tuesday one of its biggest overhauls to date allowing readers to create and share their own magazines in a bid to keep growing in popularity. The app is letting readers customize their own content around topics, events, and … [Read more...]
By Jeremiah Hall (doddleNEWS) I need to come clean about something upfront - I've been waiting for this for over two years. When I first got my iPad, I immediately thought, "Final Draft needs to be on this." And so I and other writers with iPads waited. We learned from Final Draft that they … [Read more...]
By Brock Cooper (doddleNEWS) We live in a mobile world. With the avid use of tablets like the iPad and Android devices, it was only a matter of time before someone started writing apps that were designed to help screenwriters on the go. Laptops can be a little bulky, so writing your next great … [Read more...]
