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1. 53 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 New Tab Cof x Type to search P Or F EZ Customize Links Edit Control Cen C Rank O Yahoo Index New Tab 3 Digg All News ia Other bookmarks Most visited C O amp q e QE Latters Lis XE htig wabserver cnmpeinrm CEO Home Paga Comput Chrame c Yahoo France Furtialias m 1 a Rare tambal Sig mill history a Figure 1 A new tab in Google Chrome pulled off the tab bar The address line doubles as the Web search field There 1sn t much waste in Google Chrome My primary annoyance with Chrome is when I am working fast and furious jumping to and from tabs I occasionally tear one off to a new window It isn t much of a problem because all I have to do 1s put 1t back Jack Dunning ComputorEdge We Want Your Opinions About Hardware Software and Web Sites Over the years ComputorEdge has had great input from our readers In particular people have submitted short reviews of equipment software and Web sites that they really like In some cases readers have offered tips such as avoiding flakes on Craigslist ComputorQuick Reviews is our column dedicated to highlighting those things that you most like and want to recommend to others The problem is that if this column doesn t appear it becomes forgotten and less likely to receive input from you We have decided to include this feature in every issue as a reminder that this is your magazine even if we don t have any new rea
2. 60 The Next Blockbuster Using your computer to write a screenplay with software programs that facilitate writing and formatting scripts If you re running out of power space or HVAC contact Castle Access SAN DIEGO S EXCLUSIVE BANDWIDTH NEUTRAL COLOCATION FACILITY Castle Access Tm a F J F F uS p f i Fnerprise Data Centers CLICK HERE TO SEE INSIDE THE CASTLE Click Banner OVERTIME You May Be Owed ff Call CKS Lawfirm 888 808 8358 Click Banner ComputorEdge how Google s recently announced Chrome OS may affect the competition an update on Snow Leopard and a tip on using the Activity Monitor to pinpoint memory hog programs Little Linux Lessons Tips and Tricks from Users by ComputorEdge Staff Linux users share ideas and ask for help The Google Chrome OS Will the fact that Google has the resources to support a Linux OS make any difference in the acceptance level of Linux by the computer market in general Rob The ComputorTutor Does Microsoft Access by Rob opahitz More Solutions and Troubleshooting Last week we solved the problem of splitting a name into its various parts to insert into our database We will do the same today with our address and explore more on preparing our code to reduce potential crashes Programmer s Corner Runtime Revolution by Wally Wang Part III Coding in Transcript If you have a good idea for a program but know nothing about programming Runtime Revolut
3. Click AddPerson GetPersonName AddAddress GetAddressInfo End Sub This event procedure is attached to the Click event for the button that we added Its job is to get the person information using the function that we created called GetPersonName and use the results to add the parts to the person subform using the AddPerson procedure that we also created Next it is supposed to do the same with the address but we haven t defined that yet so we left it commented out using the apostrophe in front More Error Trapping Strategies The one big thing we missed was the error trapping There are several strategies for including error trapping One strategy is to add it only around the specific line of code that you think could cause problems This might be fine if you re perfect but few people are and programmers who think they are tend to be arrogant and don t accept that they sometimes make mistakes Let s hope you re not one of those and let s hope that 1f you are you never miss any problem lines Another strategy to error trapping is to isolate the several lines of code most likely to cause you problems and isolate those That would be very similar to the above When we get to VB Net the next generation of VB this will be the preferred way For now a good strategy is to apply error trapping to every procedure that you create unless you can just about guarantee that it will never cause problems 35 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 The
4. ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents E T ANE Rob The ComputorTutor Does ne Microsoft Access a ey ox cce More Solutions and Troubleshooting by Rob PELE DUNO spahitz Eor Last week we solved the problem of splitting a name into its various parts to insert into our database We will do the same today with our address and explore more on preparing our code to reduce potential crashes Last week we solved the problem of splitting a name into its various parts to insert into our database We will do the same today with our address and explore more on preparing our code to reduce potential crashes As usual if you d like to see previous versions of the database look for them at www dogopoly com ce As a refresher in the last few weeks we created a data entry form for people in our database and another for addresses pulling data from these two tables that have a relationship between them To improve data entry we combined these two forms as subforms into a Contacts form Then we added a box into the form header to allow people to more easily enter data Rather than one field at a time in the two forms the entry can be put into a single box possibly pasted from an e mail and our job was to break it into its parts and put the parts into the right places To do this we added a button to allow the user to start this process The process that we created in VBA looks something like this Private Sub cmdAddInfo
5. Farm In the 50s everyone was trying to write the Great American Novel Nowadays everyone is trying to write a screenplay There are actually two parts to writing a screenplay First you have to come up with a story that can fit into the screenplay format Second you have to actually write the screenplay following a specific format for displaying character names dialogue and descriptions on a page While you could use an ordinary word processor to write a screenplay a word processor doesn t help you create a story nor does it help you format a script To solve both of these problems many people have released two types of screenwriting programs called story development programs and script formatters A story development program guides you through the process of creating a story At the basic level every story consists of three parts Exposition Rising Action and Climax These three parts of a screenplay fit within the classic three act structure of most screenplays Although a movie like Up or Star Trek may seem to have little in common with a movie like My Bloody Valentine or Schindler s List every story shares the same basic elements In the Exposition Act I portion of the story you 3 Cont Ir must introduce a sympathetic hero define the m hero s problem and show who or what is opposing the hero In the Rising Action Act IL your hero must constantly strive to achieve a goal which the villain constantly thwarts In the Cli
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7. T ug L LL LE P d gt ty 1 4 _ Click Banner ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Editor s Letters Tips and Thoughts from Readers by ComputorEdge Staff a E Mail Computer and Internet tips plus comments on the articles and columns External Data Storage Solutions Toolbar Confusion Attack of the Twitterbots Responding to Wally Ear Buds Click Banner g Programming Dni der v dins and More See the San Diego Computer and Internet Services Directory CP REE ev Click Banner Send mail to ceeditor computoredge com with questions about editorial content Send mail to cewebmaster computoredge com with questions or comments about this Web site Copyright 1997 2009 The Byte Buyer Inc ComputorEdge Magazine P O Box 83086 San Diego CA 92138 858 573 0315 3 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents Digital Dave Digital Dave answers your tech questions by Digital Dave A reader is leery about following Microsoft s instructions to delete old CPU drivers a reader s volume control disappeared from his taskbar a reader needs help applying Windows Updates to various machines Dear Digital Dave have a Compaq Presario V5000 bought in October of 2006 running WinXP Media edition It is currently running very slowly I went to the Microsoft site and had it run a check for updates etc It said need to update my CPU driver It downloaded the driver but said needed to un
8. XP soon displaced Linux as the dominant netbook operating system How is Chrome OS going to change that If Microsoft can shoehorn Windows 7 into running competently on netbooks then what s the advantage of Chrome OS that Linux itself didn t offer Nobody cares how easy Chrome OS is to use if it s just a polished version of Linux that s unfamiliar to most netbook buyers and unable to run Windows programs The big appeal of Chrome OS is its free cost but Linux offered that too Where Chrome OS has a long term chance is by defining a standard Linux distribution Ubuntu has tried that but the average consumer has no idea what Ubuntu Linux 1s Slap together a Linux version called Chrome OS with Google s name plastered all over it and suddenly you have a Linux version with corporate credibility The real key is getting developers for Chrome OS Google claims that Chrome OS will rely on Web apps which is great as long as you have an Internet connection Of course Web apps can run under any operating system so what s the advantage of using Chrome OS Does anyone really plan to dump Windows or Mac OS X for Chrome OS Probably not which makes Chrome OS more of a curiosity than a valid operating system contender Choice is good but with few compelling advantages over Windows or Linux Chrome OS seems destined for a niche market at best Snow Leopard Update After running the Snow Leopard beta for several weeks here are two conclusions I ve r
9. be available for the entire list Notice the RSS logo circled in Figure 1 If you click the RSS logo the listings will open with 6 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 explanations of each A click of the title will bring up a download page sometimes an update installation is dependent upon other updates being installed first However if an important update is missing generally the new update will stop while notifying you to install the prerequisite update When Service Packs are issued they will include all of the essential updates as of the release date Service Packs SP need to be installed in order For example to install Service Pack 2 Service Pack 1 needs to be installed If you are not sure which updates you may need on one of your machines you can set Windows Update to check for updates but not to download or install any of them Digital Dave 7 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents E Ty a x m T Screenplay Software Options Go to Hollywood with a screenplay on your screen by Michael J Ross There are numerous facets to writing a winning screenplay including storyline character development plot twists and the dramatic arch but of equal importance are software programs that facilitate writing and formatting a movie script There s an old saying in the movie industry that goes Everyone comes to Hollywood with a screenplay in their back pocket The same may be said for aspiring s
10. behemoths Meanwhile not involved in the Google versus Microsoft war Apple will continue to build innovative quality designs while creating new markets in which to sell its hardware 57 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents Editor s Letters Tips and Thoughts from Readers Computer and Internet tips plus comments on the articles B and columns by ComputorEdge Staff External Data Storage Solutions Toolbar Confusion Attack of the Twitterbots Responding to Wally Ear Buds External Data Storage Solutions The following letters are in regard to Wally Wang s July 3 article External Data Storage Solutions for Your Computer Excellent and very informative article on external drives Just two additional points It s essentially impossible to recover data from a broken flash drive whereas a crashed drive permits data recovery for a price and while external drives can be a good solution to data transfer and storage there are cheap offsite storage alternatives such as Mozy 4 95 month for unlimited storage that are automatic and store your files offsite so that a fire or theft or loss of or damage to the storage device itself doesn t result in the complete loss of data Not everyone s data 1s critical but with the advent of digital cameras for all family photos we re to the point that everyone should consider an offsite storage solution Thanks for your great articles Been rea
11. bots that scour your tweets and then follow you attempting to sell you something or make you go to some unknown Web site etc I guess it is important to check up on who is following you to make sure that they are real people and block them if they are not Dan Bartels San Diego California I forgot to mention that another way to follow accounts on Twitter is through RSS Feeds Just click the RSS Feed button at the bottom of the right hand menu pane of the Twitter page twitter com computoredge and add the feed to your browser Jack Dunning ComputorEdge Does using Twitter make you a Twit Just wondering TW Miller Responding to Wally This letter is in regard to Wally Wang s July 3 Apple Farm column Why the Macintosh Is the Future Wally Wang indicates that the Macintosh is poised to take over the computer world because it is more of an appliance than any other computer on the market Although this 1s mostly true he failed to acknowledge two things 1 Right now the personal computer world is more like the automobile world than anything else People have too many choices with vehicles and yet continue to buy from many different manufacturers Few buy standard packages most buy enhancements If they want upgrades they get them from the dealer In the computer world Apple is merely one of many manufacturers and will continue to share the market with other manufacturers that offer machines that have too many choices
12. example of a Linux hidden from view I would like to hear your opinions You can either click the link Tell us what you think About This Article at the top or bottom of this article or for longer dissertations e mail us at On Google Using Linux ceeditor computoredge com Jack Dunning ComputorEdge Give Us Your Linux Tips and or Questions If you have an opinion on these or other Linux topics then please let us know Also if you have another Linux tip that works for you and would like to pass it along or have a question please drop us a line at Linux Lessons ceeditor computoredge com This is a column for Linux and Unix like operating system users The goal is to give Linux users an opportunity to share tips tricks and ideas with both fellow users and the ComputorEdge Linux newbies Each week in this column we will highlight the thoughts you submit to us This is your column As long as a submission is dealing with the Linux Unix like world we want to share it The tips and tricks may be short or long and can include graphics If there is a little technique or program that you use on a regular basis then we want to hear about it You may also pose questions for other Linux users to answer E mail your ideas or questions to Linux Lessons ceeditor computoredge com Be sure to put the words Linux Lessons in the subject line so it won t get lost in junk mail We depend upon you to make this column a success 34 of 60
13. flaszing ica pazri g under che bridza seo som J am ouem Jer ore forme O pre Using MMS you can assign different computer voices to your characters and hear your story as they read out the dialogue that you have written assuming that you have computer speakers or a headset of some sort 15 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Fie Edt View Format Goto MaviDoc Took Production Window Help Jp Hm Ieee xxamGsz le d Bu 1 sN ape z 2 3 ss age nata Les A PEEL ONE MEUSE EM E pee E ab Em d Bua EB H 4 4 HH P E RM 8 b BH x3 E EH OS Em od w d 4d P Eb E LI jan phone Hello Yes this is Hes Bailer George enters shot and stands liatening to her ELARI Oh thank you Mra Weleh I0 sire anell be all cimi The doctor 2402 rhar she ought ta Ge out of bee it Tine to have her LhEeli3tmas dinner TS that futu s teacher Edit a Pronunciation Change a Yos Ihis 13 Ln 50 Pos 25 Pq 20 of 67 Scn co of 73 Figure 10 MMS SmartCheck MMS normally costs the same as Final Draft but as of this writing is available for about 210 Movie Magic Screenwriter runs on Windows 2000 XP or Vista and on OS X version 10 3 9 or higher It requires less disk space and system memory than Final Draft Free technical support is available via e mail or telephone To take MMS for a test spin you can download a fully functional copy that will work for five days Third Party Candidates Final Draft and Movie Magic Screenwriter ar
14. have to worry about paying for each new program version as it comes out By using Contour to develop your story and then using a script formatter like Celtx to help you write it you can turn any great idea into the next blockbuster screenplay If none of the studios want a screenplay that relies on 29 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 intelligence and a well crafted story with fully developed characters just write a screenplay that includes lots of special effects and half naked young women and Hollywood will pay you a fortune for your efforts Google s Chrome Operating System Google recently announced that it is releasing its own operating system based on Linux This is in addition to its mobile phone operating system Android also based on Linux Everyone worries that Chrome OS will steal away market share from Windows but nobody wonders if it could also steal market share from Mac OS X as well Maybe but here s what s likely to occur Chrome OS is designed for low powered netbooks so it s really competing against Windows XP and Windows 7 Originally the first netbooks all used Linux to lower costs and run within the limited hardware capacity of a typical netbook Seeing the growing netbook market Microsoft wisely threw Windows XP at netbook manufacturers at a low cost The minimal cost reports say it s as little as 15 a copy combined with the familiarity of Windows plus the ability to run many Windows programs meant that Windows
15. last decent strategy is to apply error trapping only to the highest level of code This is a good way to create a catch all trap in case you didn t apply error trapping at the lower levels of procedures and subroutines However this can also help to float errors up to a place where they can be better managed We ll discuss this more when we address such things in the VB Net series of articles Since we ve previously discussed error trapping code I won t go into details We ll simply add this code to the top of each procedure Ol BEES or Go LO PTOS er And this to the bottom LEroc EFIT Exe eS ui dx BOISE ROO Zon PEOC vil MsgBox Err Description Resume Proc Exit We ll apply these as we move on to building the code for the address More Parsing Let s parse some data 1 e let s split up text into its parts and put them in the right places First let s uncomment the line to add the address information and we end up with this Private Sub cmdAddInfo Click AddPerson GetPersonName AddAddress GetAddressInfo Ena Sup Next let s create the function GetAddressInfo at the end of the code window Private Function GetAddressInfo As String Ed Pune Lon I continue to use the Private keyword to show that this procedure is intended only for this form If I had made it Public it would be available to all other forms and other components outside this database if they were able to find it Also notice that I defined
16. the showTIME unifunction cable for connecting various iPod and iPhone models to home entertainment systems equipped with RCA ports If It Can Happen to Britney According to Rob Rachwald from Impreva the IT compliance and business risk mitigation company The apparent hacking of Britney Spears Twitter picture service account with consequent false reports of her death is a reflection of the increasingly mischievous nature of a small young and probably immature section of the Web user base Mildly alarming as reports of Britney s premature demise were they also came in the wake of incorrect Web reports from New Zealand of the actor Jeff Goldblum also having passed away What the complex online events leading up to the incorrect reports of the celebrity deaths spreading around the Web show us however 1s the sheer power of the Internet in terms of potential reputational damage Since Twitter s picture service currently only has a four digit numeric password system Rachwald continued a brute force attack would be able to hack into the account in a matter of hours As new Web 2 0 services evolve on the Net the effort and focus of the application owners is going to be devoted to the fast availability of new features and commercial models As a result the new services IT security protection is likely to get left behind and will almost certainly not be integrated into the application For this reason as well as being careful when i
17. usually easier to use something called a SWITCH statement which mimics multiple IF THEN statements such as switch field TextBox case Password beep 4 break default put Bo the Cat into message box end switch If you re familiar with C C you ll see that Runtime Revolution s IF THEN and SWITCH statements work the same Creating Loops One common programming structure is a loop A loop forces the computer to repeat one or more commands 43 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 multiple times There are two types of loops those that run a fixed number of times and those that run until a certain condition is met When you loop a fixed number of times you know exactly how many times you want to repeat one or more commands For example your program may only want to give someone exactly three chances to type ina password before shutting down completely The following code simply runs three times by beeping each time repeat with I 1 to 3 beep I end repeat Often you may not know how many times you want a program to repeat the same commands Unlike other programming languages Runtime Revolution uses a REPEAT FOREVER command which simply runs one or more commands until something happens to exit out of the REPEAT loop such as repeat forever beep 1f the mouseclick then exit repeat end repeat This code simply keeps beeping until the user clicks the mouse The key to creating a REPEAT FOREVER loop is to make sure that you always
18. 17 09 On Error GoTo AddAddress_Err Me frmAddressSubform Form Recordset AddNew Me frmAddressSubform Me frmAddressSubform Me frmAddressSubform Me frmAddressSubform Me frmAddressSubform AddAddress Exit Exit Sub AddAddress Err Forme Form CityID Value AddressInfo 2 KT Porm Form MsgBox Err Description Resume AddAddress Exit End Sub Streetl Value AddressInfo 0 Street2 Value AddressInfo l StateCode Value AddressInfo 3 PostalCode Value AddressInfo 4 Next week we ll wrap this up by dealing with the CityID and linking the address back to the person Stay tuned Rob has been in the computer industry for over 25 years and is currently a part time teacher offering classes in Excel Access Visual Basic and a variety of other technical tools He has loved ComputorEdge since 1990 and can be contacted at RSpahitz Dogopoly com Looking for a great boardgame Grab a copy from DOGOPOLY com dogopoly com and have a dog gone great time 41 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents Programmer s Corner Runtime Revolution Part III Coding in Transcript by Wally Wang If you have a good idea for a program but know nothing about programming Runtime Revolution can turn your ideas into a working program far faster and simpler than anything else on the market Programmer s Corner Continued from last week s Part II Creating a User Interface in Runtime Revolutio
19. ComputorEdge 7 17 09 ComputorEdge Online 07 17 09 This issue Screenplay Table of Contents Digital Dave by Digital Dave Digital Dave answers your tech questions A reader is leery about following Microsoft s instructions to delete old CPU drivers a reader s volume control disappeared from his taskbar a reader needs help applying Windows Updates to various machines ocreenplay Software Options by Michael J Ross Go to Hollywood with a screenplay on your screen There are numerous facets to writing a winning screenplay including storyline character development plot twists and the dramatic arch but of equal importance are software programs that facilitate writing and formatting a movie script Celtx Free Screenplay Software by Michael J Ross Create the next Hollywood blockbuster for free There are over half a dozen screenplay applications currently on the market and they all offer various levels of functionality for a price A notable exception to this rule is the free Celtx Windows Vista Tips and Tricks by Jack Dunning Are You a Windows 7 Guinea Pig If Vista is working for you then there may be no need to rush into Windows 7 Also a look at the Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool Wally Wang s Apple Farm by Wally Wang Writing a Screenplay on a Mac In the 50s everyone was trying to write the Great American Novel Nowadays everyone is trying to write a screenplay Also some insight into 1 of
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22. P PRO CO LTP The Manga Guide to Physics mixes all of this information with a story that really keeps your attention which helped me stay with it I really loved the way this book was able to get across concepts that have hitherto eluded me I understand a lot more about physics as a result of reading it and can now keep up better with my two high school aged children Also note there are several other titles in the Manga line The Manga Guide to Calculus The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology and The Manga Guide to Statistics Review contributed by Alice Renge 48 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Samsung Saga 1770 Phone Verizon Wireless Samsung s Saga 1770 Phone www verizonwireless com b2c store controller item phoneFirst amp action viewPhoneDetail amp selectedPhoneld 4326 199 99 with two year service agreement 399 99 list is a dual network world phone that accesses the Verizon Wireless CDMA network in the U S and GSM networks when traveling overseas The Saga attains 3G speeds on EV DO networks and is also able to access Verizon s VZ Navigator for GPS for turn by turn directions additional charge An optional service called BroadbandAccess Connect allows you to tether the phone to your laptop by simply connecting the two with a USB 2 0 cable or via Bluetooth That means you won t need to buy an additional PC Card or USB device to get online but you will have to pay for that extra service pricing info b2b vzw com produ
23. S amp tag the 1 5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp camp 1789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 1593271956 e Strategic Entrepreneurism with Jon Fisher and Gerald Fisher www amazon com gp product 1590791894 ie UTFS8 amp tag thel 5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp camp 1789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 1590791894 Every Saturday morning from 9 00 am 10 00 am in San Diego you can hear Wally with fellow co hosts Dane Henderson and Candace Lee on the radio show CyberSports Today cybersportstoday com which covers the video gaming industry on ESPN Radio 800 AM Wally covers the military history side of the video game industry When not performing stand up comedy or writing computer books he likes to paper trade stocks with the video game Stock Reflex www plimus com jsp download_trial jsp contractlId 1722712 amp referrer wwang using the techniques he learned from a professional Wall Street day trader Wally can be reached at wally computoredge com and at his personal web site www wallacewang com 46 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents Worldwide News amp Product Reviews The latest in tech news and hot product reviews by Charles Carr If It Can Happen to Britney New Web 2 0 based services require additional security The Manga Guide to Physics A review of the unique educational book Samsung Saga 1770 Phone A review of the touchscreen smartphone It s showTIME Folks A look at
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25. Screenwriter www screenplay com p 29 movie magic screenwriter 6 aspx hereinafter MMS for brevity developed by Write Brothers www write bros com Similar to Final Draft MMS is loaded with features It contains more than 100 templates for screenplays stage plays and TV episodes It has a built in dictionary and thesaurus supporting 10 languages If you have already started your screenplay using Microsoft Word or some other word processor you can import it directly into MMS You can export your screenplay in PDF format if you would like to e mail it to someone without their having the ability to make unauthorized changes to it such as replacing your name with theirs on the title page The program has automatic backup revision tracking production reports script tagging online collaboration with other writers and the ability for you to add notes throughout your script MMS perhaps more than any other screenplay application is designed to be as simple to use as possible Not only can you turn off all of the menu bars so the application window looks like a blank page with no distractions but you can perform all operations using just two keys on your keyboard Enter and Tab 12 of 60 ComputorEdge File Edt Wiew Format Goto MaviDoc Tools Producbon Window Help on phone Hello Yes this is Mrs Bailey George enters shot and stands listening to her Oh thank you Mrs meric she ll be all right The doct
26. ach scene and even sort the scenes by various criteria without affecting the actual order of the manuscript That last feature would be quite helpful for trying out a new scene order without making any commitment to it Ale Ect Wee Format Goto Masio Took Production aindow Helo GPRS SHA ra i Errera TOU Per srk pre Rest eer ee reece tier Rovere r A EA cu Es a doen otic deines three is playing with a coy TACIE cleaner We heer che p li S00 of a door open and cleat MNeey CUERS and 2083 George ux HE 7 E enter che hail a alight powderin of amon on his head and shoulders VEDI HOT Cousin Tl is ab her gyitcniboard and erem es sn Eustace standng beside her Carteris shi VET k eee eee E E ee Bins Sears nn Pere talk abour the Dhriscnas cree ond MED SHOT Unde fib and George are retradng the E E Ty E CLOSE SHOT As George comes into the boise ZDT METE Be any MED e MAE CLOSE SHOT A SHABB CEFR phot Heilo darling ROOM WHICH HAS BEEN TURMED ALMOST INSIDE C 1g QUT AND UPSIDE DOWN 2 AN EFFORT TOLOCATE CHILDREN lt L EMT GECAGES LIVING ROOM HIGHT irm 1 CLOSE SHOT Jerie aged eight is seated at the BEE o dnd He TA HAN pieni plsying Hark the Herad Angels Sng which win ee practices dug the remarder oF thue sco iinaionting tees De BT Terni ndice T8 ceng and Fets bak soo the Chrisbzas bee Hou do you like ic c Bernat J PE m HO As George comes ito the house George sniete
27. ads demo final draft php to try it out before purchasing o Welcome to Final Draft amp k X PROFESSIONAL SCRIPTWRITING SOFTWARE VERSION amp Enter the Customer Number From your Final Draft CD sleeve boxed product or Digital Order Email felectronic download product m BGFD xxX xxx Xxxx XxX Cit Demo onmtinue Figure 4 Final Draft welcome screen At the welcome screen if you have not purchased a copy of the program and thus do not have a customer number to enter click the Demo button A dialog box pops up informing you that the demo version is fully 11 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 functional but screenplays are limited to 15 pages in length and contain watermarks Then you arrive at the start window where you can begin using the program vs Final Draft Untithed Screenplay Fle Edt lew Forget Document Took Production Window Helo je eed 4 f B ig Scene reading LES Uetitied Screenplay fab Action Enter Sct Eleran Wo Scene i of Esana iade Is Figure 5 Final Draft start window Final Draft automatically formats and paginates your script according to industry standards and is one of the only two screenwriting packages preferred by the WGAW Writers Guild of America West Registry for online submission www wgawregistry org webrss dataentry asp Making Magic The other program preferred by the WGAW is Movie Magic
28. ash page also shows a project of the week as well as some community news 19 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 i a i her Cy Welco me to Celtx 1 choice for media pre production Project Templates Sample Projects Recent Fim a Wonderful Wizard of Oz Fim Audio Visual Sa A Day at the Races AV Theatre p War af the Worlds audio Audio Play Open from Studia Project of the Week from Project Central Storyboard ry pow issteps First of 14 films from the Filmblazer T3 Community Comic Book Fimmaking Project 00 11 06 Figure 2 Celtx splash page As you are editing your screenplay you will see the screenplay text in the main panel in the center of the application the project library panel and scene navigator on the left side and the sidebars on the right 20 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 ld eB o A e Add Cen Save Frm VonDboa Mey Seti eared Game Ca u Ody beard E Preduttlon Schedule G ET eereenplay sence A XY b uc AA da E 3 ee Ae Wo 100 8 4 Woederlul Wizard of Or m ume es I MIGNE B MERO ELO 00 M eaozuv TIN BAR BCARECRON and TOTO walk through a thick E EXTFORETTDAY Powel Sample Forest in the Land of Oz Dorothy iter ies A basket the Tir lg Screenplay Man Carries Anm aye nat Am oil ean The roid Le paved with D Siarybaxnd yellow brick and im covered with dried branches and doad d Preshaclign Scheduig leaves Toe Emparaid City is seen far in the distance Lif
29. boration with others on the same project a title page editor export in PDF format storyboard playback and numerous other capabilities Just like the commercial screenplay applications Celtx allows you to quickly reorder the scenes in your screenplay using colored virtual index cards which display the scene headers and first few dozen words in the scene You can even add notes to the back of each card One advantage to using a tool that handles other types of projects in addition to screenplays is that you can quickly convert from one to another In other words if Hollywood doesn t care for your screenplay simply choose the menu item Tools Adapt To Stageplay and then you can try it on Broadway To learn more about these features you can view the eight Flash based tutorials on the Celtx feature tour page www celtx com walkthru They cover a range of topics features document editors document adaptation sidebars master catalogs storyboards schedules and Celtx Studio On the Big Screen When you start Celtx you will be presented with a splash page On the left it shows a list of available project templates for film audiovisual theater audio play storyboards and comic books On the right is a list of sample projects You can click on the Recent link in that section to see projects you have recently worked on if any Underneath that section are buttons to browse projects on the Celtx Studios server and on your local computer The spl
30. but it s far simpler to use a Script formatter that automatically takes care of these formatting rules Two popular script formatters include Final Draft www finaldraft com and Movie Magic Screenwriter www screenplay com which both cost money For a free open sourced script formatter grab a copy of Celtx celtx com One particularly nice feature of Celtx is that it can instantly change the formatting of a script from a movie screenplay format to a stage play format or vice versa e Ps n Wonderful Wizard of Oz Film B i P s Ea C Edd Open Save Fring Touba My srado enel amp Ea i Nocyboard im Producton Sehktdule C ir Screenplay C E h O j semeteasen RE ob i ou AA ma BG Se ae X om 10v 88 i Y a Woecderul Wizard of Cz a Dux Soa E Mauer Calo 02 EXT FOREST DAY I G Ch log 4 j I E c Mm Honori TIN MAR SCARECROW and TOTO walk through a thick 1 EXT FOREST DAY _ Newel ample Foreeat in the Land of Oz Dorothy ppries a basket the Tin j n Ej Screenplay Han carzies an axe asd an oil cas The coad is paved with T Ade Non i Storyboard yellow brick and is covered with dried branches ard dead 4 Proaciion Schedule leaves The Eserald City is seen far in the distance E is io Stapegla os Rus rr rm eee SORUTNY lett cis En added anpahere in fal Research Photos It u really seary in these woods henge b Bookmarks They hear a Gogp growl Prom wild animals in the toaa v
31. cated that I would receive a report after I logged in again I m still waiting Apparently it tells you nothing if everything is OK and tells you to talk to the manufacturer if it finds a problem The Memory Diagnostics Tool can be accessed by typing memory or tool in the Start Search field of the Start Menu and selecting it from the list It can also be found under Administrative Tools if displayed in the Start All Programs menu 25 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Again be careful when you click the first option to restart If you re not ready with everything saved all will be lost This is the first time that I ve run the test and I probably won t do again unless I have a problem This tool is also included in Windows 7 Jack is the publisher of ComputorEdge Magazine He s been with the magazine since first issue on May 16 1983 Back then it was called The Byte Buyer His Web site is www computoredge com He can be reached at ceeditor computoredge com 26 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents Wally Wang s Apple Farm Writing a Screenplay on a Mac by Wally Wang In the 50s everyone was trying to write the Great American Novel Nowadays everyone is trying to write a screenplay Also some insight into how Google s recently announced Chrome OS may affect the competition an update on Snow Leopard and a tip on using the T lly W ont 3 Activity Monitor to pinpoint memory hog programs Apple
32. ception of the Xbox and a mouse here or there operating systems and Microsoft s Office suite have been the backbone of its revenues Just as Apple s planning is dominated by hardware sales Microsoft s strategy is primarily directed toward software sales Microsoft views Apple as an opportunity to sell more software whether Office suites or Windows running in a virtual machine on a Mac Microsoft not being a hardware company doesn t really care if an end user buys a PC or a Mac They are both selling opportunities You won t see a Microsoft commercial attacking Macintosh as a computer only the price Microsoft advertises to keep its computer producing customers happy while generating more sales for them and Microsoft software Microsoft is comfortable with Apple because it thinks it knows what Apple will do build hardware Microsoft views Google as a threat because it gives software away From Microsoft s point of view that s insanity You can t trust the insane Unlike Apple who s been around forever Google grew up with the Internet Google as an Internet Company An Internet company has one primary goal generate traffic All other activities are targeted at this ultimate result Internet traffic 1s what generates advertising revenues for Google which runs into billions annually The idea of giving away software makes perfect sense to Google Free software may help generate more traffic When you have so much money generated each yea
33. ck volume and power battery system icons missing with disabled or grayed out check box options that gives more detailed instructions for dealing with these issues The first section on Group Policy does not apply to you because you have the Home version of Windows which does not support the Group Policy features Although it looks safe have not tried the FixTraylcons reg hack at the bottom of the Web page which is designed to clean up the Registry entries It is merely a batch file that when run with regedit exe will disable all the Hide settings for the Notification Area If you re not comfortable working directly with the Registry then this could be a good option Digital Dave Dear Digital Dave Recently have found myself having to keep several computers up to date with the latest Windows XP patches Unfortunately my only Internet link at home is a 56K modem notice that when I run 5 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Windows Update each update is identified by a number Is there an easy way can find and download identified updates to storage media and then apply these updates as needed would use Windows Update custom to identify which updates are needed for each computer download the updates via a friend s high speed Internet connection and then apply only the needed updates The problem is that when search the Microsoft site by the update number cannot find the update file Also does the order of uninstallatio
34. creenwriters throughout America who oftentimes have promising ideas for screenplays but are not sure how to begin putting their stories down on paper or the computer screen Lacking knowledge of some of the terrific computer based tools available the aspiring writer may simply resort to using a word processor or text editor thereby missing out on the benefits of tools specifically designed for screenwriting This problem is exacerbated by screenwriting books and seminars in which the reader student is offered all sorts of advice on storytelling and the screenwriting craft but little or nothing about methods of utilizing software for developing story ideas structure and characters as well as properly formatting the finished script to meet industry standards There are several possible reasons why this valuable information is not covered in the average book or seminar One possible factor is that some seasoned pros who oftentimes are the ones writing the books and giving the seminars still use older technology with no interest in switching over to screenplay software For example Joe Eszterhas who was reportedly paid 3 million upfront for the script to Basic Instinct still uses handwriting and an Olivetti manual typewriter and apparently has a stack of brand new ones in storage in case the manufacturer stops producing them There are numerous facets to writing a winning screenplay including storyline character development plot twist
35. ctsservices wirelessinternet broadbandaccessconnect html SAMSUNG Start cue E BEST Tere Arh man IO IU Lonrnecuan The phone runs Windows Mobile 6 1 Professional which integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Outlook e mail contacts calendar and to do lists You can access and edit e mail attachments using mobile versions of 49 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Microsoft Word Excel OneNote and PowerPoint You can view edit and create Word and Excel files but only view PowerPoint and PDF files You can also view extract and create ZIP files The phone runs both Opera Mobile and Internet Explorer Mobile Web browsers Opera seems a little faster but IE Mobile seemed compatible with more Web sites Hardware wise the Saga combines a full QWERTY backlit keypad with a 2 55 inch touchscreen The keypad is excellent with a near perfect tactile response While you can use the included stylus or touchscreen to get around give the built in optical mouse located just under the screen the old college try This new device replaces the more traditional five way nav button and for me made getting around on the phone a real delight Just move your finger across the surface of the tiny pad and press down to click E SAMSUNG Fey a if ie i igi rioa E dii The two megapixel camera shoots 1mages in four resolutions ranging from 1600 x 1200 down to 160 x 120 pixels and has three quality settings Yo
36. der reviews If you would like to see the type of reviews that we have run in the past then check out ComputorQuick Reviews webserver computoredge com sitemap mvc feature Columns amp columnedcode persrev amp columnz ComputorQuick9620Reviews in the ComputorEdge Site Map You will find that they are quite varied We would like to see more Consider this column a gentle prod saying that we would like to hear from you 54 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 You can send us an e mail at ComputorQuick Reviews Submissions ceeditor computoredge com The purpose of this column is to give our readers an opportunity to express their opinions about products and services that they have found particularly useful If you have had experience with hardware software or a Web site that made you say This is really great I want to tell everyone about it then this is a good place to do it While we do want to post warnings we are not interested in slamming the obscure bad products because there are too many of them We would like to hear about those things that you would recommend to your best friend The only caution is to please use proper capitalization do not use all caps and complete sentences If it takes us too long to edit the piece it may be a long time before it s published on this site Please send your personal reviews to ComputorQuick Reviews Submissions ceeditor computoredge com ComputorEdge always wants to hear from you our readers If
37. dged many writing competitions including San Diego Press Club and Time Warner Communications contests and was sole judge for the national NAPPA Tech Toys awards for five years which his kids really appreciated He was recently a judge for the national Poetry Out Loud competition He has won many writing accolades including Press Club awards for Best Column Writing Consumer Writing and Best Arts and Entertainment and has repeatedly taken top honors in San Diego Songwriter s Guild competitions for his original musical compositions Carr will soon publish his first book What a World a collection of his best writings Learn more at www charlescarr com 52 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents TED ComputorQuick ComputorQuick _ previews a Computer Product R e VI e WSs Opinions from ComputorEdge Readers and Staff by ComputorEdge Staff Google Chrome Browser News and May Be the One for Me Jack is now leaning R e Vi ews fro Ii Mis bien Md Readers and Staff Google Chrome Browser May Be the One for Me I regularly use various Web browsers for different reasons I m not hung up on any one particular flavor but I m now leaning toward Google Chrome as my workhorse browser To be fair I only have Internet Explorer Firefox and Chrome installed I probably should try others such as Opera but I haven t yet had the time Internet Explorer 8 has just about killed any amity I had toward it It cras
38. ding them since the paper days Doug Thanks I learned a lot from the article Jack Douglass San Diego CA The article fails to mention eSATA connections for hard disks These are common in external enclosures and are faster than either USB at least until USB 3 0 comes along or FireWire There are external enclosures with both eSATA and USB so the drive is portable to systems that do not have an eSATA connector USB flash drives are described as ranging up to 16GB in capacity but 32GB has been common for months now and 64GB is now available albeit still pricey Either an old article or not a well researched one Philip Merritt San Diego CA Toolbar Confusion This letter is in regard to the July 3 Digital Dave column where Dave answered a question about changing IE s grey toolbar I am the one who asked the question about the grey toolbar I have XP I know how to go to Desktop Properties and change fonts colors etc But when it comes to the Internet Explorer toolbar I can t find anything that will change the color I had Toolbar Wallpaper but it will not work on IE7 or IES Does anyone out there know how 58 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 to make it pretty Marion Perrine Attack of the Twitterbots The following letters are in regard to Jack Dunning s July 3 Edgeword column where Jack talked about testing Twitter Twitter is nice for microblogging but there is one small annoyance It seems that there are a lot of
39. e LI Streenplay Sareat T Prodection Schedule joj Suagegtag T Besearch Photos O Baakmarks as EXT FOREST DAN Sequences I E EVERY WIDE SHE SS Dorothy Tin Mac Sezmcenc and Ten The Ezralil TD sien far E the EDT kear a lol rear m LE EXT FOREST DAY walk Gevupgh thick forms diame 2 EXT FOREST KEGHT 3 X T APUG BROKE DAY EXT THE GREAT DITCH DAY THPT E Figure 4 Celtx storyboarding Celtx goes far beyond other screenplay programs in its support for production scheduling You can schedule blocks of time on a calendar and assign to each block the scene that you intend to shoot The panel on top allows you to keep track of which scenes have been scheduled and which ones completed 22 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Why rano eel rampe MC Grecyboard i i Preductlan Seele C Screenplay LR WE ming IN Unih vipt Or Laton Scheduled Completed L EXT FOREST DAY LIE C Faclong a ran Pog Weonderlul Wizaed of Ge T T FOREST NHZT Lars F Mivier Catalog 125 3 EXT RIFFLIMZ SROOK DAF 3315 J Character Cocalo 0 a EXT Tiel CREAT DGITCH Chae 7 Kwel f amp amleb Ju Screenplay a a Siaegbaznd F H Ir FrTOedign Sedul Lj Sapta i Research Phoins b O Bookmark a0 February 2009 Calendar Weeks 5 9 Sram o Sheecring Manis Week Day End of Sheeting Monday Tuetday Wextese sd ang Thursday Sarunday Sunday 13 jar Start of Sheeiing S00 AM LEE B DO AM 2 ETF oD AM 3 EXT R Day Gil Ind
40. e after that might be a second address line or it might be the city information How will we know To some degree we ll have to use some intelligent guessing By guessing that the address contains a comma between the city and state we can use that to help us find the line with the city Let s grab the count of the items in the input area iAddressLineCount UBound strAddress We can now use this several times to ensure that the necessary pieces are there Now we can check that and start pulling out the pieces Start with this If iAddressLineCount gt 1 Then StrAddressParts 0 strAddress 1 EDLE If the line count is 1 or more then it looks like we have an address section so strAddress 1 contains the first address lin e so that can simply go into the array that we will eventually send back Next within that same IF block just before the END IF we want to check for the next line If the line exists it should be either a second address line or the city state zip combination To check that we ll use the InStr function to search for a comma 1f it exists position where the comma was found is greater than zero then we re assuming it s a city line otherwise it s an address line and we ll assume the following line is the city line If there s no second line in the input text we ll just skip the processing To help with the city line we ll create a new variable that I ll call strCityStateZip Add a Dim statement with that name usin
41. e certainly not the only screenplay applications on the market Others include Celtx celtx com Dramatica Pro www dramatica com DreamaScript www dreamascript com Hollywood Screenplay www hollywoodscreenplay com Movie Outline www movieoutline com Page 2 Stage www page2stage com ScriptBuddy www scriptbuddy com and Scriptware www scriptware com Earlier we examined two programs in detail but if neither one of them works out for you then be sure to try some of the alternatives Every program has a different user interface and you may find that one interface is far more intuitive than the others or that a particular program has all of the features that you need without the complexity that you don t need There s another saying in the movie industry that Hollywood is the world s largest open air asylum Fortunately with the screenwriting tools now available you don t have to go crazy writing your first screenplay Michael J Ross is a Web developer www ross ws writer and freelance editor He creates Web sites that help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into profitable online businesses 16 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents Celtx Free Screenplay Software Create the next Hollywood blockbuster for free by Michael J Ross There are over half a dozen screenplay applications currently on the market and they all offer various levels of functionality for a price A notable exception
42. e ever increasing size of installed memory and hard drives these resource requirements are for most people of no consequence Even though Celtx is a desktop application that allows you to work even when not connected to the Internet unlike one of its rivals ScriptBuddy it does leverage the power of the Internet through Celtx Studios studio celtx com which is an online repository for your writing projects It provides secure offsite backup of your screenplay every version online meetings and other collaboration on the project and sharing of production files As of this writing the cost is only 5 per month As you explore Celtx you will find that it supports each pre production stage of just about any sort of creative media project For developing your story you can utilize the built in forms that handle 36 production categories including characters locations props and scenes You can even include images videos and audio files The program has editors for six major categories of media screenplays stageplays audio visual scripts such as multimedia ads documentaries and music videos audio plays such as podcasts and radio plays comic books and plain text presentations In addition Celtx offers valuable features found in better known commercial programs automatic script formatting to industry standards pagination spell checking automatic completion of known names two column dialogue scene management embedded notes colla
43. e for dealing with stacks of DVDs and or CDs showTIME is an Apple approved product carrying the Works with iPhone and Made for iPod logos This is a noteworthy feature because it means that showTIME is plug and play without tripping over any authentication 51 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 mechanism potentially lurking within an 1Phone or 1Pod In my testing showTIME worked simply and flawlessly All connectors plugged into their respective ports with little fuss or muss although a child might encounter some difficulty with the AV connectors The cables have an adequately thick protective covering to withstand typical usage Audio and video quality is at least satisfactory in my tests it is dependent upon characteristics of the user s media files and portable player rather than the showTIME per se For example movies encoded at 640 x 480 or better display acceptably while low resolution clips downloaded from Web 2 0 sites predictably look pixelated Unlike some competing products e g Apple s 49 Composite AV Cable store apple com us product MBI29LL B fnode MTYINDAOOQ amp mco MjEONTAzOA showTIME lacks a USB cable for connecting the iPhone or iPod to a battery charger while outputting videos Thus the user will need to recharge the player separately My only quibble with showTIME 1s that the cable between its AV plugs and the juncture where the three cables merge into one 1s only six inches long This is too short to plug the vid
44. eached Snow Leopard consumes less power giving your laptop longer battery life Second Snow Leopard is designed for touch gestures One problem with touchscreens and touch aware operating systems in the past was that they forced you to use your fingertip to mimic mouse gestures such as dragging Dragging with the mouse is easy but dragging your fingertip across the screen is tiresome Snow Leopard eliminates those problems by making it possible to perform different actions by simply pointing Pointing at a screen and dropping your arm is far easier than holding your arm up for extended periods of time 30 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 With Snow Leopard you ll be able to do almost everything by pointing gestures That seems to signal an eventual touchscreen tablet which will be Apple s version of a netbook Look at the similarity between early mobile phones and netbooks Both relied on the flip top design where the top half displayed a miniscule screen while the bottom half provided a puny and hard to use keyboard The iPhone eliminated this problem by providing a larger screen that also doubled as a virtual keyboard This same candy bar design of the 1Phone which displaced the traditional flip top design of early mobile phones is likely to displace the similar flip top design of netbooks Apple s netbook will likely resemble a larger iPhone In fact Apple s latest patents also include a way to provide tactile feedback on a touchscr
45. ebteZAlpy y c US Then strAddressParts 4 Split strStateZip 1 Eee apo End If With all that in place you may want to test it First add the following to all of it to start up Private Sub AddAddress AddressInfo As String End Sub Then I suggest adding a breakpoint at the first IF statement then enter a name and address like this in the text box when you run the code Rob spenrirtz 100 Computor Edge Road San Diego CA 92000 When you click on the button you should end up in the code area If something s not right like you forgot to Dim a variable you ll probably get an error before you get to the breakpoint Fix the problem and press the F5 key to resume Hopefully you can figure out the problems then get the yellow highlight onto the IF statement Now you can use your mouse to hover over various variables to check that the values are right Then start stepping through F8 to ensure that it goes the right way With the above iAddressLineCount will be 2 3 lines numbered starting at 0 there will be no line 2 so it processes strAddressParts 1 and strCityStateZip strAddress 2 strAddressParts 2 3 and 4 will contain the city state and zip code as you continue to step through And to wrap this function up add this just before the Exit Function line GetAddressInfo strAddressParts Your function should now look like this Private Function GetAddressInfo As String On Error Goro GetAddressln
46. een which suggests a virtual keyboard that actually feels like a physical keyboard When Apple releases its version of a netbook you can be certain it won t look anything like today s netbooks with tiny screens and cramped keyboards With an Apple netbook providing a larger surface and running a modified version of Mac OS X Apple has little to fear from Chrome OS In fact Apple s netbook 1s likely to make every netbook design obsolete as quickly as the iPhone has made early smartphone designs obsolete Apple s version of a netbook is coming eventually and when it does it will likely make you rethink the whole design and purpose of what a netbook should do and look like X K X If your Macintosh starts acting flaky or if you just get curious about how much memory each of your running programs currently uses then you need to use the Activity Monitor This Activity Monitor program simply shows you all the currently running programs how much real and virtual memory it uses and the type of program it is Intel or PowerPC 31 of 60 ComputorEdge enuoo e Q9 9 Quit Process Inspect Sample Process Process Ir 6078 1580 L681 179 TES 375 150 474 1337 185 182 BB Activity Manitar iA Adobe illustrator C54 A dobeCrashOwemoan AirPort Base Station A AppieMabileDevic Applespell service ATSSerwer Celtx Drashboardtlient Dock y Finder im user bothecak bothecat bothecat bothecat bothecak bothecat b
47. efore the age of computers professional screenwriters used typewriters but this meant that reordering the scenes in a story required extensive cutting of the typewritten pages into strips and using plenty of tape to set the new sequence A simple but effective answer to this dilemma was to write down a summary of each scene on a 3x5 index card and oftentimes pin these cards to a huge corkboard That made it possible to quickly insert and reorder scenes without any cutting and taping Final Draft has a virtual index card system so you can do this easily 10 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 INT APARTMENT OFFICE DAY INT APARTMENT LIVING ROOM DAY p 1 Mommy and Daddy daddy writes Meet tne giris they re reading the falry book fight about something how affectionate MOMMY Time to take the girls to the park DADDY Tim writing EXT PARK SLOPE BROWNSTONE DAY p 1 EXT PROSPECT PARK THE LAKE DAY p i ummary Lara gets a time out move her away from the blanket CAER You and your sister are rare and special too Love her well Cara and the necklace and you Will shine Figure 3 Final Draft Index Cards The program is priced at 249 and runs on Windows XP or Vista and on Mac OS X version 10 4 11 or later Free technical support for the product is available via e mail telephone and live online chat during normal business hours You can download a demo version www finaldraft com downlo
48. eo into a TV and the audio into a surround sound system at least how my system is configured instead all three cables must be plugged into a TV Consequently a video file s sound track is delivered through the TV s speakers rather than through the entertainment system s higher quality ones POPE reviewed by Barry Fass Holmes In addition to being an editor and columnist for ComputorEdge and ComputerScene Magazines where he has written hundreds of feature articles and cover stories over the past decade Charles Carr has also penned well over 1 000 non tech newspaper and magazine articles and columns for various publications including two widely read columns each week for San Diego s North County Times newspaper Carr has covered such diverse topics as pesticide use in area schools invasive background checks for county volunteers asthma awareness the debate over standards based grading potential vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines and Southern California s devastating 2003 and 2007 wildfires He has also written many humorous pieces Carr has also edited dozens of stories and articles written by others which have appeared in major publications and web sites across the country He has been a contributor and technical advisor to L A and San Diego Parent magazines and receives dozens of requests a year to appear on Southern California television and radio stations to talk about important events in the tech world Carr has ju
49. es scene descriptions character names dialogue and other elements of a script On the other hand all of the screenplay programs differ from one another in extra features and in their user interfaces But most of them share a common characteristic a price tag A notable exception to this rule is Celtx pronounced kel tix which is completely free of charge In this article we will take a closer look at what the program has to offer Fade In The best way to learn whether or not any given computer program will fit your needs is to take it for a test drive Because Celtx does not cost a dime and does not contain any spyware there 1s no excuse not to download it and check it out Start by visiting the Celtx home page www celtx com 17 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 CELTS BLOG CONTACT US E u Search LI i 1 choice for media pre production Celtx Overview Download Studios Integrated Media Pre Production Film Theatre Audio AV Comics i in dt B e T E 4 hii Ll otiosi su Figure 1 Celtx home page One thing you may notice immediately is that on the home page there is absolutely no mention of screenplays or screenwriting rather Celtx is billed as the 1 choice for media pre production That s because the program encompasses more than screenwriting First it is intended to be useful for every step in the pre production process writing the scr
50. et and the iPhone market It 1s not directly competing with Microsoft Microsoft does not build computers Apple competes with the multitude of computer companies that install Windows on their computers Dell HP etc It 1s just easier to pretend that Microsoft is the competition since Windows is installed on all those computers This is why it s so difficult for Apple to make significant headway in the overall computer market in spite of the numerous missteps by Microsoft Those computer hardware companies are not going to sit by and let Apple take their business It s not as if Apple will let any of those other computer companies build Apple computers Apple is using what is probably the best strategy for a hardware company It produces an exclusive product that commands a premium price The company innovates and creates new hardware markets that it can dominate at least for its models There are other hardware competitors but only Apple can build a Mac or iPhone It is a leader in innovation but as a hardware company it is not likely to ever dominate the computer market 56 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 It will be interesting to see what happens in the cell phone market The other cell phone hardware manufacturers are not sitting back while the 1Phone walks away with it all although they need to do a lot of catching up Microsoft as a Software Company From the beginning Microsoft has made its money through software sales With the ex
51. features in an attractive lightweight package It s ShowTIME Folks Although the term one trick pony typically carries a somewhat negative connotation doing one thing really well can be a big positive That s definitely the case with Scosche s showTIME www scosche com products productID 1622 39 99 MSRP Scosche s showTIME cable transmits iPod based videos to a home entertainment system s big screen showTIME is a unifunction cable for connecting various iPod and iPhone models to home entertainment systems equipped with RCA ports It consists of a six foot audio video AV cable that has three metallic plugs one video and two stereo on one end and a dock connector on the other iPhone iPhone 3G iPod touch 1G and 2G iPod nano 3G and 4G iPod classic and iPod with video 5G are compatible with showTIME This product offers several noteworthy benefits First why watch videos on a mobile device s small screen and listen to tunes through earphones when they can be conveniently enjoyed on a big screen and mega watt speakers Second showTIME makes it easy for a group to share in watching videos or listening to tunes that are stored on a portable device And third showTIME solves the dilemma of what to do with a portable player that s been replaced by a newer model instead of sending the previous generation player to the landfill which would be extremely harmful for the environment it can be re purposed as a handy substitut
52. g data type string then this code to pull the pieces together If iAddressLineCount gt 2 Then If InStr strAddress 2 0 Then StrAddressParts 1 strAddress 2 strCityStateZip strAddress 23 Else strAddressParts l e strCityStateZip strAddress 2 End If END GT Now you can use the city variable to pull apart the pieces One way to do that is to split it at the commas then erab the first part and save it as the city If for some reason there is no comma then we ll just assume it s the city name and there s no state or ZIP code We could expand our logic to look for spaces rather than a comma but then you run into problems of cities or states that have spaces and you have to add a lot more logic We ll just 38 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 do the best we can and let the user make minor adjustments after we put the pieces into the places where we think they belong So the final part is to grab the state after the comma and the ZIP code from the end Here s some code you can add before the last END IF above to help with that Notice the addition of another string variable that needs a Dim statement to be added near the top We ll also Trim off any extra spaces that may be there StrAddressParts 2 Split st recrevyoeaveszip 7 473 060 Ee Iinotr strcityostdgteAzrpg T2009 X hen StrobtagbeZzrp Te rcmitsplrt strOontysStatezip T Cl SserAddressParts 3 Splrt strStateZzrip 10 Lf imstri strobt
53. hes even more than IE7 This is particularly bad for me because I use many Web based programs for the ComputorEdge site The programs our own design make it very easy to maintain and update the site but they are dependent upon a browser If the browser crashes at the wrong time data can be lost It s not usually a serious problem but it is annoying Microsoft would have been served better to make a more stable platform rather than hanging so much junk on IE8 Firefox has excellent stability I don t recall many crashes if any However its implementation of JavaScript has left me wondering It may be more technically correct based upon the standard but none of my AJAX will work in Firefox 3 0 I still use 2 0 on one of my computers Even in Firefox 2 0 I get funky JavaScript behavior in some of my programs It s probably a problem in my coding but the routines work fine in both IE and Chrome It s hard to get motivated to debug code that works in the early version of Firefox and it runs fine in so many other environments For speed and stability I ve found Google Chrome to be excellent plus the JavaScript and AJAX programming work great There isn t much in the way of toolbar support but I was mostly using the spelling checker and Chrome has one built in When opening a new tab it offers the thumbnails of my most used pages many of which are my regular programs see Figure 1 You can drag a tab off the tab bar and create a new window
54. i CKS Windows 7 Also a look at the Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool and some Windows 7 Windows 7 Discounts Over The big pre order discounts for Windows 7 ended on July 11 Retailers are reporting that brisk sales continue For the life of me I can t understand why There is no real advantage to pre ordering Windows 7 at full price It won t be out until October The opportunity to pay full retail will still be available at that time I wouldn t be surprised if many of these full price orders aren t canceled well before October My guess is that there will be more deals to come There is already a rumored Family Three Pack of the Home Premium version of Windows 7 to retail for 149 99 a savings of more than 200 on three individual packages I wouldn t be surprised if there weren t more discounts to come Why Windows 7 Sometimes there is a mania for anything that s new I m sure that many of these pre release sales will end up sitting on a shelf somewhere Not because Windows 7 is a bad product t is actually quite good but because people will find that they either don t need it or for some reason they weren t able to use it I received the following question from Larry in Aurora Colorado Jack I have been trying Windows 7 after reading about it in ComputorEdge but I cannot get it to recognize and thus use my old cable modem Any thoughts Although I don t have any specifics on cable modem compatibility if you are us
55. il it happens You don t have to be the guinea pig There are plenty of people who are more than happy to take the plunge before you Memory Diagnostics Tool If Windows Vista detects a memory problem then it s supposed to automatically run the Memory Diagnostics Tool If it does then you should see a screen similar to Figure 1 This program can also be run manually if either you want to check the memory in your computer or you want to kill some time a Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool m Check your computer for memory problems Memory problems can cause your computer to lose information or stop working How does Windows diagnose memory problems Restart now and check for problems recommended Save your work and close any open programs before restarting Check tor problems the next time I start my computer Cancel Figure 1 Windows Vista Memory Diagnostics Tool There are a couple of cautions when you run this program First if you click Restart now and check for problems it will immediately close down your computer without further warning not even an Are you sure you want to do this Y N The second caution is that depending upon how much memory you have installed it will take some time for the standard program to run It took more than 30 minutes for my 4GB of RAM While it was running after shutdown but before reloading Windows the display showed a blue screen with test status information It indi
56. include some way for the loop to stop repeating Failure to do so results in an endless loop where your program appears to freeze or hang and do nothing Anyone already familiar with programming will notice that Runtime Revolution s REPEAT FOREVER loop is unique but 1s similar to other programming languages that offer a DO UNTIL or DO WHILE loop structure If none of this makes sense to you then just remember that Runtime Revolution s language is similar to traditional languages in some ways but radically different in other ways Running and Testing Programs Perhaps the one area where Runtime Revolution differs wildly from traditional language compilers is the way it lets you run and edit your programs In a traditional language compiler like Visual Basic or Xcode you typically write your code design your user interface and then run it to see it work The drawback with this method is that each time you run your program to test it out it starts from the very beginning If your program consists of 200 different windows and you want to test how the 200th window looks and behaves you ll have to run your program and manually jump through 199 windows until you get to that 200th window With Runtime Revolution you can run your program at any time while designing the user interface That means if your program consists of 200 windows and you normally have to open 199 windows to get to the 200th one you can just open the 200th window and tell Runti
57. ing Windows 7 on an older computer you may run into problems when looking for drivers especially if the drivers are for older expansion cards I ran into this when I installed Windows 7 RC on an older Windows XP laptop Even though Windows 7 may install and run on older XP powered computers far better than Vista ever would that doesn t mean that you will be satisfied with the performance Some older devices will never have Windows 7 drivers That may not be Larry s problem I am wondering whether his issue is with a cable modem or a regular modem I found that Windows 7 was much better than Vista when it came to any type of network operations so I can only guess that there is some type of firewall problem if it S a cable modem If it were an internal modem then I could see driver problems Any external arrangement such a cable modem for Internet access shouldn t be a problem 24 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 These are reasons for not rushing into Windows 7 If you re going to use Windows let the upgrade happen naturally Get Windows 7 when you buy a new computer I would do that rather than upgrading an older XP that may either have driver problems or be on its last legs As I said last week if Vista is working for you then there is no need to rush into Windows 7 The longer a new release 1s on the market the better it will be Many more bugs and issues will be resolved We won t know how many people will find upgrading to be a disaster unt
58. install my current CPU driver This sort of bothers me as think the CPU driver starts the whole machine and if uninstall the old one my machine then will have nothing to tell it how to start up Please help John Murphy New Town ND Dear John When Microsoft refers to CPU drivers they are not talking about the code that actually gets your computer started That code is called the Basic Input Output System BIOS and is embedded in firmware on the motherboard Windows is loaded after the BIOS is read The Microsoft Windows CPU drivers are Windows dependent software that controls access to the special features of a particular CPU If you have been given a procedure or utility by Microsoft to uninstall the drivers then most likely it will be safe to do so My guess is that the installation of the new drivers will be automatic after uninstalling the old ones Digital Dave Dear Digital Dave I listen to a lot of MP3s on my computer and now my volume control just disappeared from my taskbar I tried to reset it in Taskbar and Menu Properties under the Notification Area but I m unable to put a check mark in the Volume box searched Volume but nothing comes up I m running Windows Vista Home Can you help me Hon Wachenheim Golden CO 4 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Dear Ron This is one of those Windows things that happens occasionally although have not experienced it myself It can be caused by some software ins
59. ion can turn your ideas into a working program far faster and simpler than anything else on the market Worldwide News amp Product Reviews by Charles Carr The latest in tech news and hot product reviews If It Can Happen to Britney New Web 2 0 based services require additional security The Manga Guide to Physics A review of the unique educational book Samsung Saga i770 Phone A review of the touchscreen smartphone It s showT IME Folks A look at the showTIME unifunction cable for connecting various iPod and iPhone models to home entertainment systems equipped with RCA ports ComputorQuick Reviews by ComputorEdge Staff Computer Product Opinions from ComputorEdge Readers and Staff Google Chrome Browser May Be the One for Me Jack is now leaning toward Google Chrome as his workhorse browser DEPARTMENTS EdgeWord Apple Microsoft and Google by Jack Dunning Who will end up coming out ahead Apple is a hardware company and thinks like one Microsoft is a software company and thinks like one Google is an Internet company and thinks like one 2 of 60 7 17 09 AMDO Athlon 63 2 6Chz AMZ 1GB DDR 2 MEMORY a _DVDR RW amd 160GB sara Hard Drive SPECIAL Wee PACKAGE Click Banner JOBS Search for any Job Available Anywhere Click Banner Extreme data recovery capabilities for any media any OS anytime FREE EVALUATOR NO DATA NO CHARGE GSL DEL Data Recoveny 1 800 551 3811
60. ipt developing the characters storyboarding the scenes and scene sequences scheduling the production and more Second as noted on the Web site it is designed for use with all types of media film video documentary theater machinima comics advertising video games music video radio podcasts videocasts and however else you choose to tell your story Next go to the Download tab and look for the link that corresponds to your language and operating system There are currently 31 languages supported and three operating systems Windows Mac OS X version 10 4 or higher and Linux In addition there is a version of the program for the Eee PC although only for English In this article we will be using the Windows version for English As of this writing the latest release is version 2 0 1 Although Celtx is a fully functional tool that in many respects rivals its commercial competitors such as Final Draft and Movie Magic Screenwriter it requires less disk space and system memory The installation file for Celtx is less than 16MB and thus less than half the size of Final Draft and less than one third the size of Movie 18 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Magic Screenwriter Once installed on your hard drive it consumes less than 36MB of space compared to 44MB and 60MB respectively all figures are rounded System memory usage at 21 MB is more than Final Draft 17MB and much less than Movie Magic Screenwriter 31 MB But given th
61. is the need to be able to view all of the scenes in the screenplay from a high level and thus be able to easily see and possibly modify the overall story structure Final Draft facilitates this with its Scene View feature which allows you to move or insert scenes color code them and hide or display information such as a scene s title summary etc You can also display the Scene View beside your script contents thereby using it as a roadmap for moving quickly from one part of your script to another 1 EXT PARK SLOPE BROWNSTONE DAY It s spring and the trees are full of blossoms Establishing shot establish get beauty shots of neighborhood after principal photog 2 INT APARTMENT LIVING ROOM DAY p 1 CARA 8 and her sister ALLIE 4 sit on the sofa Cara s reading to Allie from a book about First fight should shoot first 3 INT APARTMENT OFFICE DAY poz DADDY late 30s is playing Solitaire on his computer MOMMY late 30s pops her head in He Take the girls to park need practical monitor pref widescreen lcd 4 EXT PROSPECT PARK DAY p 2 Daddy Cara and Allie turn corner and walk to the park entrance Cara pirouettes and leaps Walking to the park need dolly tracks 5 EXT PROSPECT PARK THE LAKE DAY Daddy s laying on picnic blanket and pecking away at a laptop CAER CAER SCENE Kirsten working on VFX design Add Scene Heading p 6 Hide Action Add Scene Title Hide Scene Title Hide Sum
62. ith the video game Stock Reflex www plimus com jsp download_trial jsp contractlId 1722712 amp referrer wwang using the techniques he learned from a professional Wall Street day trader Wally can be reached at wally computoredge com and at his personal web site www wallacewang com 33 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents Little Linux LITT LE LINUX Lessons Tips and L Tricks from Users E D 5 O N 5 Linux users share ideas and ask for help by ComputorEdge Staff AN INVESTMENT SEE The Google Chrome OS Will IN LINUX KNOWLEDGE the fact that Google has the PAYS THE BEST resources to support a Linux OS make any difference in the INTEREST acceptance level of Linux by the computer market in general Will the Google Chrome Operating System Help Linux Google s new operating system Chrome OS being introduced this fall has Linux at its core My question is will Chrome OS help the Linux community to grow I m wondering if the OS will run Linux programs without modification Will the fact that Google has the resources to support a Linux OS make any difference in the acceptance level of Linux by the computer market in general Apple based its OS for the Mac on FreeBSD Linux like but as far as I can tell it did little for FreeBSD Most people don t even know that Apple started with a well tested free system supported by the University of California Berkeley Will the Google offering be another
63. mary 6 INT APARTMENT l New S p 6 Cara Allie and Daddy en ert New scene the bookshelf finds the fairy book and flips Cara checks books Tony doing artwork if nat ready Thurs can pick up after principal photog Figure 1 Final Draft Scene View 9 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 A second major feature touted by the developers of Final Draft is the Scene Navigator which makes it possible for you to track up to nine categories of information including each scene s title length and location In addition you can assign a color to each scene This sounds remarkably similar to the Screen View functionality and it 1s not clear what the real differences are between the two Order Title g 18 17 16 15 10 Bunk beds ENDING Dancing Meet Jill Establish LC Blanket fort Playing in le CAER Walking to t Daddy really Take the gir Reading coa Board game Surprise Cara checks First fight Second fight Establishing Location APARTMENT THEIR BE LINCOLN CENTER THE LINCOLN CENTER OPER LINCOLN CENTER OPER LINCOLN CENTER APARTMENT THEIR BE PROSPECT PARK PROSPECT PARK THE PROSPECT PARK APARTMENT OFFICE APARTMENT OFFICE APARTMENT LIVING R OMITTED APARTMENT LIVING R APARTMENT LIVING R APARTMENT LIVING R BROWNSTONE APARTMENT PARK SLOPE BROWNSTONE Figure 2 Final Draft Scene Navigator T B
64. max Act III your hero must confront the villain and battle the villain to the end Dear Sir Madame Thank you for your online submission of 3 your screenplay C7 This e mail represents our automatic rejection of your work We look forward to On my blog The 15 Minute Movie Method www l5minutemoviemethod com I go into more detail about dissecting movies into bite size 15 minute chunks which still fits within the classic three act structure of a screenplay However dissecting movies into 15 minute chunks can help you identify the deeper structure of every movie Sending you more rejection slips in the future Do not replv to this e mail 27 of 60 7 17 09 Sending you more rejection slips in the future sae tee ee ES ir Watch any movie and they all follow this basic Do not reply to this e mail pattern simply because this is the format that has worked for stories since the beginning of time However when you re creating a story it s often easy to lose track of this basic structure That s where a story development program comes to the rescue A story development program guides you through the process of creating the basic structure of your story It s not necessarily a story formula as it is a story format A story formula is like a recipe Follow the recipe and you ll churn out the exact same item every time Follow a story formula and you ll churn out the same type of
65. me Revolution to run the program from that point on For anyone familiar with the traditional edit compile run cycle of developing Runtime Revolution s approach to running and testing a program is refreshingly simple and intuitive After you ve tested your program Runtime Revolution gives you the option of compiling your program to run on Windows Linux or Mac OS X In contrast popular compilers like Visual Basic or Xcode let you create 44 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 programs for only a single operating system If you want to create a Windows and Mac OS X program you ll essentially have to write the same program multiple times and learn the quirks of another development tool for each operating system Standalone Application Settings for Untitled 1 OS X_ B a ww amp General Stacks Copy Files Mac O5 OS X Windows Unix Bug Reports Build for W Mac Os X Universal Mac OS X PowerPC Only Mac OS X Intel Only Application Icon Use None Choose Document Icon Use None Choose E k lcons to display on ask and answer dialogs Application Icon Small Application Icon PLIST D Enter the information and have Revolution write the PLIST file for you Choose a PLIST file to import into the application bundle Name Untitled 1 Document Type Signature 7777 Document Extension Version Information Short Version 1 0 0 0 Long Version Untitled 1 1 0 0 0 Get I
66. n If you learned to program in a traditional language such as C or Java you ll be in for a surprise with Runtime Revolution s Transcript language The biggest difference is that you never need to declare your variables which is similar to scripting languages like Python or Perl In most languages like C C you must declare what type of data your variables can hold such as strings real numbers or integers Declaring variables 1s supposed to be for your benefit as a programmer to check for errors such as making sure a variable that should contain a string doesn t accidentally store a date or a number instead In Transcript you never declare variables since a variable can store a number one moment a string the next and a date a few moments later This ability to store any type of data 1n a variable gives you the freedom to create variables and store any data The drawback 1s that it s possible for your program to store the wrong type of data in a variable such as a name in a variable that s supposed to store your weight Assigning a Value to a Variable In traditional languages you assign a value to a variable using an equal sign such as name Bob Jones In Transcript you can assign a value to a variable using the Put command such as Put Bob Jones into name Unlike languages that allow a variable to hold only one type of data such as integers or strings Transcript lets you store anything you want in the same variable
67. n Wally is responsible for the following books e Microsoft Office 2007 for Dummies www amazon com gp product 04 70009233 ie UTFS8 amp tag thel 5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp campz 1 789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 04700092533 e Beginning Programming for Dummies www amazon com gp product 0470088702 ie UTFS amp tag thel 5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp camp 1789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 0470088702 e Breaking Into Acting for Dummies with Larry Garrison www amazon com gp product 0764554468 ie UTFS amp tag thel 5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp camp 1789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 0764554468 e Beginning Programming All in One Reference for Dummies www amazon com gp product 0470108541 ie UTFS amp tag thel 5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp camp 1789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 0470108541 e Steal This Computer Book 4 0 www amazon com gp product 1593271050 ie UTFS amp tag the 1 5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp camp 1789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 1593271050 e Visual Basic Express 2005 Now Playing www amazon com gp product 1 593270593 ie UTFS8 amp tag thel 5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp camp 1789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 1593270593 e My New Mac www amazon com gp product 1 593271646 7ie UTFS amp tag thel5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp camp 1789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 1593271646 e My New iPhone www amazon com gp product 1593271956 ie UTF
68. n of the needed updates matter Dale Zahorsky San Diego CA Dear Dale There is a relatively unknown site called Microsoft Update Catalog windowsupdate microsoft com catalog specifically for locating and downloading updates One of its best features is that you can search for an update number see Figure 1 You need to use Internet Explorer and there is an Active X control to install all automatic a T ate Catalog Microsoft pd FAQ help wiew basket 1 79 Sbarch results for KB955430 Updates 1 5 of 5 page 1 of 1 cpt Previous Next c er Title Classification Last Updated Version Size MA Update for Windows Vista Windows ELA E y Update for Windows Vista far xO4 based Systems moe Service Packs 4 27 2008 A i RES 5450 J Update for Windows Windewsts T TEE Server 7008 KE255430 Serverzogg SEVICE Packs 4 23 2009 Update for Windows 71 Server 2008 for Itanium d Service Packs 4 27 2000 based Systems KE955430 Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition Sn ae Service Packs KEISS430 ver a E 2008 Microsoft Corporation All Rights Reserved privacy terme af use help Figure 1 Microsoft Update Catalog Once you are at the site you can search for updates in almost any manner You can add a number of updates to a shopping basket for a group download When you are ready click View Basket and the Download option will
69. nfo String Untitled 1 Version 1 0 0 0 Copyright Notice 2009 All rights reserved worldwide Bundle Identifier com untitled1 Figure 1 Runtime Revolution can compile a program for Windows Linux or Mac OS X Summary Overall Runtime Revolution is a strange hybrid programming tool It s easy enough that anyone can pick it up and learn but it S also packed with unique features that traditional programmers may find confusing The people most likely to grasp Runtime Revolution s advantages are complete novices If you have a good idea for a program but know nothing about programming Runtime Revolution can turn your ideas into a working program far faster and simpler than anything else on the market With its cross compilation abilities and English like Transcript programming language Runtime Revolution is 45 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 powerful enough to tackle any programming project you might need and help you get it done far faster and easier than any other programming tool on the market If you re willing to try a non traditional programming tool Runtime Revolution could be your secret weapon to making you a more productive programmer whether you re a novice or a professional In the early days before Wally became an Internationally renowned comedian computer book writer and generally cool guy Wally Wang used to hang around The Byte Buyer dangling participles with Jack Dunning and go to the gym to pump iron with Dan Gooki
70. nu move your ounce in the script che Notes in this sidebar DOUR THY rearch che Scene Ehe cursor j i What was tat His in Scenes BCNRECEDH 5 Hope uliy not a beast who likes to January 26 2000 10022 47 AM zi ent straw 4 Tithe 2 i ch ha ee n EXT IOBEST DAY TOES stands at attention with his ears perked up gyros x 2 EXT FOREST NICHT DOROTHY is is a second one Clicking y EXT APPLING DROGE How much longer before we are out plein teppei 4 EXT THE GREAT CITC ef this forest Tin Man I don t pq pales Disco avr lie fF kare TIH HAH I really can t say I ve rever been co Ehe E amp Barald City My Father told eo thak ft in a Long amd dangerous journey I am not worried because I have my oil can for zy joints ERES January 26 2009 10 23 04 AM E i Serion Trower Scratchpad index Cards mea Pape Reports Tab Action Enter Scene Heading im The act ef Werk Signed Gok Figure 2 Celtx is a free open source script formatting program for Windows Mac OS X and Linux Another nice feature of Celtx is that it works on Windows Mac OS X and Linux while Final Draft and Movie Magic Screenwriter work only on Windows or Mac OS X Another script formatter Montage www marinersoftware com runs only on Mac OS X Having tried all these script formatting programs it s really a personal preference on which one is better I simply rely on Celtx so I don t
71. of iHooting Prodaction heduw Reporti kaler dkp hij Sg Aet of Werkllaw i Figure 5 Celtx scheduling Fade Out Aside from the aforesaid video tutorials support can also be obtained by reading the Celtx documentation wiki celtx com index php title Main_Page organized as a wiki and by visiting the active Celtx forums forums celtx com where you will find general discussions fellow writers willing to review your handiwork writers seeking collaboration script competitions Celtx news feature requests bug reports and more According to the Celtx Web site it has become the screenplay program of choice for more than half a million media creators in 160 countries working in 28 languages It is also used by students and teachers in more than 180 000 film schools and universities If it has worked this well for some many aspiring screenwriters it is certainly worthwhile for you to give it a try and find out if it is the ideal tool to help you create the next Hollywood blockbuster Michael J Ross is a Web developer www ross ws writer and freelance editor He creates Web sites that help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into profitable online businesses 23 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents aa Windows m Windows Vista Tips Vista and Tricks B4 Are You a Windows 7 Guinea Ti 1 Pig by Jack Dunning i DS al a If Vista is working for you then there may be no need to rush into Ur
72. or sBys that she ought to be out of bed in time to have her Christmas dinner GEORGE Is that Zuzu s teacher MARY hand over mouthpiece Insert Ln 30 Pos 38 Po 20 of 67 Scni 2B of 73 Figure 6 MMS selection by typing 7 17 09 O 5 5 v O o Outlining your story is the most efficient way to develop a story structure prior to writing the scene descriptions and dialogue MMS makes it possible to create outlines nested up to 30 levels deep F e Edt View Foma Goto Mewiboc Tool Production Window Help e a RoNNL SUN NDOmI mec du Dpening Sequence Ha have an action sequence uhere a kid ateals E telic Eion an Tris md and id barely Escapes a Ace Hemup and Iniriarion of the Opening Sequencer Ue have en ection INT UHDERGR UND EXCAVATION SITE DAY Aal i EXCAVATION SITE A KID crawls eacound in rhe deck on his s3rona amp ch gith a flash SETUHTESETUTEEDT Light che sole illvainarion His mouth fills with dirt and he apita Sequence zi We meret our Hain dequence 3 The Main Character s Act 2 Quest for the artifact AcE a T Crisis rhe Fag Finale end S rrY tar Three s thr becaks LU 607 Pies zl Pg Loft Son d oF 1 Figure 7 MMS outlining 13 of 60 FPF as un ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Using the NaviDoc Scenes panel you can quickly locate and go to any scene in your screenplay display any number of lines in e
73. othecat bpthecat bothecak bothecat bothecat Activity Monitor CPU 1 6 dal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ch 1 0 0 My Processes amp Threads at 16 98 MB 131 45 MB 1 75 MB 4 65 MB 4 05 MB 4 72 MB 10 19 MB 52 99 MB 195 21 MB 134 76 MB 33 6 MB Real Memory Virtual Memory Kind 599 91 ME 1 15 GB 586 64 ME 891 82 ME 599 05 ME bUl 2 MB 552 15 ME 1 001 55 ME n2 35 ME 357 80 MB 1 005 33 ME Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel intel Intel Intel 7 17 09 B50 20 MB Intel 1 004 16 ME Intel 854 38 MB Intel 585 74 MB Intel 950 52 MB Intel n mum mui m ouam E 4 96 ME 44 08 MB 2 82 MB 344 00 KH B l MB Fm mU LEM 202 Image Capture Extension bothecat 0 0 484 iTunes borhecat 2 8 209 iTunes Helper bothecat a L73 launchd bothecatk T a Iaginwindaw bothecat 0 0 m mi l d z 1 Fs 1 d 4 i 4 el System Memory Disk Activity Disk Usage Network CPU Usage Threads 332 Processes FO X User 36 System w Nice 35 Hle Figure 3 The Activity Monitor can help you identify memory hog programs Real memory is the physical amount of memory used while virtual memory is temporary hard disk space that the program uses instead of gobbling up the real memory To view the Activity Monitor screen just dig inside the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder and then double click the Activity Monitor icon Although this program will likely sh
74. ow you more information that you may not understand you can at least see how many programs are actually running at any given time and how much memory each one uses Now if you find a program gobbling up way too much memory you ll know which program to avoid running if memory starts getting tight on your computer If a program seems to be acting erratically click on that program and then choose View Quit Process to shut it down In the early days before Wally became an Internationally renowned comedian computer book writer and generally cool guy Wally Wang used to hang around The Byte Buyer dangling participles with Jack Dunning and go to the gym to pump iron with Dan Gookin Wally is responsible for the following books e Microsoft Office 2007 for Dummies www amazon com gp product 04 7000923 3 ie UTFS8 amp tag thel 5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp camp 1789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 0470009233 32 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 e Beginning Programming for Dummies www amazon com gp product 0470088702 ie UTFS amp tag thel 5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp camp 1789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 0470088702 e Breaking Into Acting for Dummies with Larry Garrison www amazon com gp product 0764554468 ie UTFS amp tag thel 5minmovme 20 amp linkCode as2 amp camp 1789 amp creative 9325 amp creativeASIN 0764554468 e Beginning Programming All in One Reference for Dummies www amazon com gp product 0470108541 ie UT
75. r you must spend it on something and maybe whatever you invest in will generate more traffic Google knows that Apple is a hardware company and Microsoft is a software company Neither is viewed as a direct threat to Google Microsoft s skirmishes into Google territory the latest being the Bing search engine don t really worry Google Even the new Google Chrome operating system is probably a backup plan in case Windows 7 bombs I doubt that Microsoft is worried about a Google operating system What s Next The real threat to both Google and Microsoft 1s what comes next What changes in the computer Internet market will determine who dominates for the next 10 years The problem is nobody knows Everybody is guessing It s appropriately called Cloud computing because it is all just a guess Both Microsoft and Google want to lead this new phase of the computer Internet market but no one is sure which way to go However when companies have as much money as both of these mammoths do then they can proceed in almost all possible directions at once This is why we see so many projects many of them lame being thrown at the computer Internet market If enough things are thrown against the wall maybe something will stick In any case Microsoft and Google see each other as their primary foe for the future markets Ironically the ultimate winner will probably be some upstart company currently unnoticed which will surprise both of these
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78. r is Google going to become Microsoft s major competition in operating systems and software There will be a good bit of hand wringing and finger pointing but in the final analysis they are not really in competition They may think that they are direct competitors there will be many forays into each other s territory but since they are essentially different types of companies there will be more commotion than real impact on each other I m not sure that the companies themselves realize this Apple as a Hardware Company From day one Apple has always been a computer company or stated more generally Apple sells hardware When it develops software it is for the purpose of selling machines whether computers 1Pods or 1Phones Because it is a hardware company anytime it does anything it asks How will this help us to sell more machines This doesn t explain why as Wally aptly pointed out in his May 22 column Apple dropped the promising HyperCard programming language which would have helped to sell more Macs I suspect that the absence of Steven Jobs during that period of time may have contributed to the decision Apple s research and development is aimed at designing and building new and innovative devices The company is very good at it When Apple releases new hardware its goal is always to garner maximum price and market share for its products It s safe to say that Apple owns about 100 percent of the Macintosh market the 1Pod mark
79. ro Err 39 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Dim Dim Dim Dim Dim strAddressParts As String strAddress As String 1AddressLineCount As Integer SErCALYVotateZzip AS String StrStatezip As String ReDim strAddressParts 5 strAddress Split Me txtContact Value vbNewLine iAddressLineCount UBound strAddress If 1AddressLineCount gt 1 Then End strAddressParts 0 strAddress 1 If 1AddressLineCount gt 2 Then Br Imotr scrAdgdress 2 4 Mgt eu Then strAddressParts l1 strAddress 2 strCityStateZip strAddress 23 Else strAddressParts 1 SUpCItyotabezip stsAddress t2 En If strAddressParts 2 Split strCityStateZip 0 If InsStristrolityStateAlp T 9 Then Strsbctqtezap TrrmtspbrtsbroltySbtateZzrp T Er strAddressParts 3 Splrt strStatezip T y 0 If x nStr strotateZzip T y 0 Then strAddressParts 4 cSplrt SbtrStateZzripy yub Enda EE End LE Eno IT If GetAddressInfo_Exit GetAddressInfo strAddressParts EXIGE F unctlon GetAddressInfo Err MsgBox Err Description Resume GetAddressInfo Exit Resume Rd pumetcorn To wrap things up we just need to collect the pieces from the array and put them into the proper places in the address subform The only hitches are the dropdown lists that use IDs pulled from other tables Try this code and we ll address that last issue next week Private Sub AddAddress AddressInfo As String 40 of 60 ComputorEdge 7
80. s and the dramatic arch but in this article we will examine some of the leading computer programs that facilitate writing and formatting a movie script From Draft to Finale Of all the screenwriting applications available one of the best known is Final Draft www finaldraft com partly because it has most of the features found in competing programs It offers selective typing of characters 8 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 names locations scene headings and transitions in other words as you type the first few characters enough to uniquely identify what you want the program can automatically fill in the rest The program has built into it all of the standard screenplay elements including action character dialogue scene headings transitions and shots In addition it has revision tracking more than 50 movie and television story templates and even a feature that lets you assign computer generated voices to your characters so you can hear your script being read aloud One difficulty in writing a screenplay is that you want to keep all of your notes for each section at hand while you are writing But those notes cannot be in the script itself Final Draft solves that problem with its Script Notes feature which allows you to put ideas and feedback right where you need them in the script and yet none of them are included in the final output that you would send to a Hollywood studio or agent Another challenge facing a writer
81. still cheaper than the Macs Some people like the prestige of Macs just like some like the prestige of a BMW Most prefer the price and features of the Windows world 2 We are approaching a time when PCs are almost obsolete Even if Mac wins the PC war all PCs will be gone soon They are too bulky and their sole purpose is to exchange information words pictures videos which does not need to be in a large machine We ve already seen the migration from desktop machines to laptop machines to notebooks to cell phones that act like PCs Wally should focus on the fact that Apple s best bet at this stage 1s to focus on the iPhone as its computer appliance of the future In my opinion the PC appliance of the future will be a cheap portable information device that does not have a traditional computer keyboard or monitor or even exchangeable motherboards or memory or hard drives Integrated portability is the answer 59 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Rob Spahitz Yes you ve seen that name before Ear Buds Regarding the July 3 Worldwide News amp Product Reviews column which reviewed Etymotic Research s hf5 earphones Don t do me much good as I wear a hearing aid Buds don t come with individual volume control for each ear Wm Tiep Toledo OH ComputorEdge always wants to hear from you our readers If you have specific comments about one of our articles please click the Tell us what you think about this article link at the top o
82. story every time which is what Hollywood does with decreasing results with every sequel they crank out A story format simply insures that your story contains the basics that every story needs Imagine trying to create a story without a villain If the hero has nothing opposing him there isn t a story Likewise a story without a hero won t make any sense either Every story whether it s a comedy thriller or horror story always follows basic guidelines That s what makes them a story One story development program that I ve used is Contour www marinersoftware com Contour guides you into creating your plot and characters to help you create a compelling story Who is the Luke Skywalker What is he trying to accomplish Rescue the princess Who is trying to stop him a n r a x NOR ROM A The empire and Darth Vader The Princess dies and the empire destroys the rebels Figure 1 Contour helps you create an interesting story through a fill in the blanks approach 28 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Contour simply helps you create the foundation of an interesting story When you re happy that your story grabs a reader s attention you can then start the actual writing process using a script formatting program Screenplays follow specific formats where the character s name must appear capitalized and dialogue displayed within specific margins You can manually define these margins using a word processor
83. such as Put Bob Jones into name 42 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Put name into newname Put 53 28 into name The second line above creates a new variable called newname and stores the value of the name variable into the newname variable In this case the newname variable contains the value Bob Jones Decision Structures The heart of any programming language is the ability to make decisions such as If the user types in a valid name then ask for a password but if the user types in an invalid name then ask the user to retype that name again For anyone already familiar to programming Runtime Revolution uses similar decision structures as other languages The simplest decision structure is known as an IF THEN structure which lets the computer check if something is true then do something In Runtime Revolution you can create an IF THEN statement like this LE field TextBox Password then beep end if This code simply tells the computer that if the word Password appears in a field named TextBox then beep Ir field TextBox Password then beep else put Wrong password into message box end if This code simply tells the computer that if the user types in Password then beep but if the user types anything else then display the message Wrong password in a message box that pops up on the screen If you need to check multiple conditions you could use multiple IF THEN statements However it s
84. t comes to setting secure passwords on these next generation services companies need to implement Web application firewalls alongside the services so as to afford better overall protection The key issue here Rachwald concluded is that companies need to install additional security technology at the same time as when they deploy these new Web 2 0 based services in their organization This 1s because Web application firewalls and other protective Internet security systems are becoming more and more important as they can compensate for internal security control issues The Manga Guide to Physics The Manga Guide to Physics An Illustrated Cartoon Guide to Physics www nostarch com mg_physics htm No Starch Press ISBN 9781593271961 19 95 list features Megumi a young woman who is a star on the tennis court but somewhat of a dunce when it comes to understanding physics Luckily for her Megumi makes friends with Ryota who 1s able to use everyday objects like slingshots roller skates cars and tennis balls to get across classical physics concepts like force mass acceleration momentum impulse kinetic energy and parabolic motion to name a few Using an anime style cartoon format Megumi and the reader learn how to apply Newton s three laws of motion to real life problems and solve complex problems using trigonometry and vector diagramming 47 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 THE MANGA GUIDE TO EL oo HIPEO NITTA KEITA TAKATSU TREN
85. tallations a virus or a random corruption There are a number of possibilities The easiest solution might be restoring to a Restore Point prior to when you first noticed the problem If that is unfeasible then there are some other things to try The settings that control the hiding of the Volume icon and the graying of the Volume check box option on the Notifications Area of the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window are held in the Registry The entries that could be causing your problem are located in HKEY LOCAL MACHINE bckslsh SOFTWARE bckslsh and HKEY CURRENT _USER bckslsh SOFTWARE bckslsh The remainder of the path for both is Microsoft bckslsh Windows bckslsh CurrentVersion bckslsh Policies bckslsh Explorer It is in these two areas of the Registry that the setting for hiding the notification options may be placed The value to hide Volume is HideSCAVolume When running regedit exe if you find this value in either of those locations deleting it should return functionality You can either use the Run command or type regedit in the search field of the Start Menu Warning As always when working with the Registry first create a Restore Point for your system and be careful what you change and or delete in the Registry Doing the wrong thing could affect the operation of your computer If that doesn t do it then you have some other problem found a Web page www myalgitallife info 2009 0 1 0 1 fix network clo
86. that we could include things like apartment number and country as optional pieces Instead we ll just predefine our locations meaning that we could have also used a fixed size array Add this to define our array to hold two address lines city state and ZIP code ReDim strAddressParts 5 We ll also need an array for the parts of the input text so we can figure out what s where Add this under the other Dim Dim strAddress As String Since we ll need to check for which address parts are there it makes sense to check the count of the number of items in the text Create a variable for that Dim iAddressLineCount As Integer Now comes the hard part We have to grab the data and figure out what it means Start by getting the lines in the right place strAddress Split Me txtContact Value vbNewLine Now let s examine the information in this array to try to figure out what s where First notice that strAddress does not include parentheses since the Split function returns an array and if we add parentheses we re referring 37 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 to one item in the array When we look at the input we can make certain assumptions First we ll assume that the first line is the person s name since that s what we assumed when we created the GetPersonName function That means that the address must start after the first item which is item 0 and will continue on multiple lines The next item will be the main address line The lin
87. the returning data type as String with parentheses after it This means that we will be returning an array of strings For this to work properly we can make a dynamic array and enlarge it as needed The purpose of this array is to return the various parts of the address Although we could make it really fancy and create a whole new class type for this situation 1 e a new definition for an object that includes the parts we need with nice names I think that would be overkill for our situation We ll do that in the VB Net tutorial Let s add some error trapping to handle anything that we might miss 36 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 On Error GoTo GetAddressinto Err GetAddressInfo Exit EU Rue lon GetAddressInfo Err MsgbBox Err Descrrptrorn Resume GetAddressInfo Exit So now let s create the definition for that array Dim strAddressParts as String Notice how the variable name strAddressParts has parentheses after it This means that we are creating an array Since there 1s nothing in between the parentheses it s a dynamic array meaning that the size gets created later If we had put a number in there we would have a fixed dimension array with the size being one more than the number For example var 5 1s an array named var that includes six elements numbered from 0 to 5 If we wanted to handle this right we d probably make it multidimensional with one part being the name of the field and the other part being the value With
88. to this rule is the free Celtx Professional movie production like so many other artistic and commercial fields has undergone tremendous changes as a result of technological advances including the use of computers For instance when a filmmaker nowadays wants to show a huge crowd of people such as a marching army he can use computer generated imagery CGI The results may not look entirely realistic but it certainly saves money and time In the past budgetary restraints could require such a scene to be cut from the story Alternatively the director might have elected to hire a large number of extras as was done in the 1960s classic Spartacus and other historical movies Too bad so many of those extras were wearing wristwatches Or perhaps even Roman slaves need to stay on schedule Computers have also revolutionized screenwriting though possibly to a lesser extent than movie production and editing In the early days of movies silent and otherwise stage plays and TV shows most writers in Hollywood and New York used typewriters But now just about every serious entertainment writer utilizes some sort of software whether it be a general purpose word processing program such as Microsoft Word or a program specifically designed for crafting screenplays and other creative writing There are over half a dozen screenplay applications currently on the market and they all offer some basic functionality such as properly formatting the slug lin
89. u also get white balance controls a self timer shutter sounds or none and photo effects using the phone s built in image editor The Saga can shoot video clips ranging from very low up to QVGA resolution and can be as long as available memory can store MMS messages are limited to 30 seconds Supported digital video formats are MPEG4 H 263 H 264 and WMV To me the camera could have better image quality in lower lighting conditions Supported audio formats are MP3 MIDI AAC AAC and WMA Audio can be played through the standard wired mini jack or streamed via Bluetooth to nearby computers or music players You can also use Bluetooth to enable any number of hands free devices notably wireless headsets The phone has internal memory of 256MB ROM 128MB of RAM and can be expanded up to 16GB via optional MicroSD memory cards Included in the box are the phone battery charger stylus USB cable pre installed SIM card international plug 50 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 adapters global support kit user manual and a quick reference guide The Saga measures 4 4 x 2 2 x 0 5 inches and weighs 3 6 ounces I got about five hours of talk time and nearly two weeks of standby time I needed to be sure to charge it every day which is not too big a problem once you get into the habit Samsung s Saga 1770 is an excellent phone especially for fans of Windows Mobile and Microsoft Office software I think you ll find it offers a tremendous number of
90. you have specific comments about one of our articles please click the Tell us what you think about this article link at the top or bottom of the article column Your comments will be attached to the column and may appear at a later time in the Editor s Letters section If you want to submit a short ComputorQuick Review or yell at us please e mail us at ceeditor computoredge com 55 of 60 ComputorEdge 7 17 09 Return to Table of Contents EdgeWord Apple Microsoft and Google Who will end up coming out ahead by Jack Dunning e d S Ww O l R D Apple is a hardware company and thinks like one Microsoft is a software company and thinks like one Google is an Internet company and thinks like one Apple is a hardware company and thinks like one Microsoft is a software company and thinks like one Google is an Internet company and thinks like one Jack Dunning in one of his few lucid moments I posted this comment in a more abbreviated form 140 character limit on Twitter this week I probably stole it from someone else although I can t honestly say who I could have added Intel 1s a chip company and thinks like one but I ran out of space Plus no one really thinks of Intel as a competitor to any of the other three The quote sums up and explains many of the misunderstandings about today s computer market In spite of all the hype Apple is not going to supplant Microsoft or vice versa No

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