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TCPMP Divx player for Winmo

Posted on February 25, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Windows Mobile

TCPMP

TCPMP wasn’t working very well on my HTC HD1 and I was using Divx Winmo player instead but Netdrg repackaged the free Divx/xvid player especially for the HD2 and that release rocks! One click on the screen and you go full screen in the glorious 480×800 HD2 resolution.

http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/tcpmp-finger-friendly-version

and the related XDA forum thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=634951

PocketInformant

Posted on February 21, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under GTD, Life hack, Windows Mobile

Pocket Informant

Last Windows Mobile post of the day.

I have considered buying an Iphone in the past but too many missing Windows default features made me buy a Windows Mobile phone instead. Some of those missing features are the full support and synchronisation of Outlook Notes and Calendar but more than anything is the lack of stable and well thought GTD application, fully integrated with Outlook. Pocket Informant is that one.

David Allen wrote a very good book about GTD and I don’t intend to rival with it in few lines. The only thing I will say is that if you are into GTD, Pocket Informant is a must! The software is huge but you shouldn’t have too much trouble operating it. There is also a free demo so give it a try and start filling up that Inbox and Next Action folder!

My next post will be on the free Flash supporting Windows Mobile browser: Skyfire. Stay tuned

Slide2Unlock

Posted on February 21, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under GTD, Life hack, Windows Mobile

Slide2unlock2

Slide2Unlock is my second, well my first favourite Windows Mobile application.

That one is a Windows mobile lock screen on steroids and believe it or not….. IT IS FREE!!!!

On the surface it looks like an obvious Iphone lock screen rip-off but once you open the configuration panel, you realize that the software is an actual Power App that could be charged several dollars!

Not only it allows you to preview your text messages and email without unlocking the phone, it also allows you to display your appointments on the lock screen….. How cool is that?!?! No need to slide, unlock, launch any application, no need of any Jail breaking, all the necessary information is all there, right in front of you! Your phone has now become a true productivity tool.

Ah I forgot to mention something. There are hundreds of parametres you can play with but the best of all is once again the automatic trigger.  I have set mine to the best Windows mobile GTD application: Pocket informant. but that one needs an other post.

G-Alarm

Posted on February 21, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Life hack, Windows Mobile

G-Alarm

I was supposed to write a long post about my new HTC HD2 but I feel that I need a bit more time to fully realise how wonderful that piece of hardware is.

I still need to talk about some great softwares available for it and one of those is G-Alarm.

G-Alarm is a really cool alarm app that should immediately win your hearth within the 10 days of the free trial.

For the price of two Lattés, you get a very convenient replacement for your probably ageing Alarm Clock Radio and since I have started using G-alarm, I have said good bye to my trusty 15 years old Sony “Dream machine” and so will you.

G-Alarm does a lot of cool things as you probably saw on their website. Mp3, Talking clock. tilt sensor support, Maze and other brain wakening games, but the only function that made it worth those 5 euros to me, was the fact that you can trigger any application and wake the phone up at the specified time, switching from Airplane  to Mobile mode.

Since I am a great fan of Radio4 in the morning and I like to emerge from my sleep while listening to the news, the only thing I had to do was to make G-Alarm start the FMRadio.exe application!

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“How to train your dragon” Nicksclusive

Posted on February 20, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation

Do you want to see something new from “How to train your dragon”? Here is a sneak peek from Nickolodeon

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9sKSwmFaq0[/youtube]

La dama y la muerte (short film)

Posted on February 18, 2010  | 3 Comments
Filed under Animation

La dama y la muerte

There are so many short film coming out all the time and I have so little free time that I tend to miss on a lot of little gems especially when the provided screenshot doesn’t do justice to the work.

“La dama y la muerte” (The lady and the reaper) is one of those short films I would have missed if my friend Dan didn’t tell me about it. I love the design of the characters especially “La muerte”, the wacky layout and storyboard, the cartoony animation, the lighting. This reminded me a lot of the wackiness in “The emperor’s new groove” which is a very good thing.

[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc5h85_the-lady-and-the-reaper-la-dama-y-l_shortfilms[/dailymotion]

actually… even my friend Jamie told me about it since it was animated in 3dsmax and rendered in his favourite rendering engine Mental ray

Website:
http://www.theladyandthereaper.com/

Production blog:
http://www.theladyandthereaper.com/wordpress/

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZa_t-xuqe8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Autorig tutorial prep work1

Posted on February 9, 2010  | 3 Comments
Filed under Animation, Modeling

As some of you might know, I have decided to make a tutorial showing how to use the zooTools and SuperCrumbly’s abAutorig autorig scripts.

To demonstrate this I wanted to model a new character so here it is!

Charles Muntz is definitely my favourite character design from the movie UP.

I have mainly focused on the right hand side and will mirror it next time.

Related posts:
Autorig tutorial prep work 03
Autorig tutorial prep work 02
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“Monstre…” again

Posted on February 8, 2010  | 4 Comments
Filed under Animation


well well well, it looks like “A monstre in Paris” is still going despite all the problems the production went through and that s a good thing since what I saw at Annecy few years ago was really really cool

Matt Jones on “Monstre à Paris

Related posts:
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Un Monstre à Paris

Lenticular hologram

Posted on February 8, 2010  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Friends

My friend Jay posted has a very fancy car but that’s not what this is about today 😉

Jay posted a really cool video showing his “Lenticular 3d models” on Youtube.

I am not too sure how he does it exactly but that’s really cool. I wonder how this would work with animation…..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ozELc2senQ[/youtube]

TC1100 vs Ipad

Posted on February 7, 2010  | 5 Comments
Filed under Animation

Which one of those:

– supports Adobe Flash out of the box
– allows you to listen to music while doing other tasks
– allows you to run hundeds of professional applications
– has up to 1.2ghz processor
– has more than 50 gb hard drive
– allows you to draw with a real pressure sensitive pen (Wacom board)
– doesn’t force you to buy an expensive Apple computer to develop applications
– comes with a free docking bay with keyboard
– costs less than $200 on Ebay
– came out 6 years ago (released in 2003)
– is actually a real computer

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