The arguably crazy (and inarguably crazy fast) animators at Taiwan’s Next Media Animation are at it again. After blasting out over-the-top animated summaries for everything from the Ceglia Vs. Facebook story to Antennagate, they’ve done what they do best with a tale that’s on just about all of our minds right now: the life and career of Steve Jobs. But don’t worry: while it’s just as absurd as most of their animations tend to be, they keep things mostly respectful. The lowest it goes is when they’re showing the birth of the Mac, and things get a bit… literal. After that, it’s death-defiance [...]

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Yahoo Messenger has just received a new IMVironment which comes with a brand new pack of emoticons and can be used by anyone. This pack has been named as Emoticats, and this IMVironment is actually a Yahoo Messenger animation that lets you choose from several cat portraits and send them to the people you are chatting with. If you really like cats, you can even make one of the cats pictures displayed by the IMVironment as your avatar. That’s easy, just click the “Adopt” included in the chat window, and your avatar will be changed with the cat one. If you would like to spread the word [...]

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Apple has pushed Lion Developer Preview 3 through software update for the systems which are over developer preview 2 update 2. Lion Developer Preview 3 update package weighs about 1.07 GB and some of the known new features of this update are: New boot animation New graphical elements in Finder’s toolbar New desktop wallpapers Reading List is enabled in Safari Grab out the latest Lion Developer Preview, explore its features and share with us through comments.

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The iPhone Dev Team has released Redsn0w 0.9.6 RC12 iOS 4.3.1 untethered jailbreak update for Windows and Mac users. Redsn0w 0.9.6 RC12 fixes the problem found in Redsn0w 0.9.6 RC 11 during the process to enable custom animated boot logo, which was also added to Sn0wbreeze 2.5.1. Download Redsn0w 0.9.6 RC 12 for Windows Download Redsn0w 0.9.6 RC 12 for Mac

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So you have rooted your droid and are now looking for ways to enhance it according to your wishes? What about using a custom boot animation on your phone? A forum member (pastorhudson) of alldroid has figured out how to use a custom boot animation on a rooted droid phone. In case you haven’t yet rooted your device, check out our article on how to How To Root Motorola Droid Phone With Android 2.0/2.0.1? The boot animation is stored on your droid as a zip file in the folder /system/media. It consists of 2 folders part0 and part1 and a description text file (desc.txt). Both part0 and part1 folders [...]

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Do you want to quickly create some eye-catchy animated GIF images without using any professional image editing software like Adobe Photoshop  or Ulead GIF Animator? GIF animations are a nice way to show off your creativity in the form of Avatars or Logos on forums and social networking sites. There are many free online tools to create GIF images by uploading images. Some of them let you create simple animations whereas some let you apply  special effects in quick and easy steps. Here is a list of free and good online GIF making tools. 1. Imator Imator is a free and user-friendly tool which [...]

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January 2, 2011 Pinocchio (1940) *****Various Directors My tweet: Pinocchio (1940)- Walt Disney’s masterpiece. More sophisticated than Snow White. The high point of the entire animated film genre. *****/5 Other thoughts: Pinocchio is quite possibly the best animated film I’ve seen, and it’s quite possibly the best animated film ever made. After the monstrous success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney used its table winnings and bet it all on animation, characterization, vocal performances, a score and a story all more sophisticated than its predecessor. It was a more [...]

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Film buffs are in for a treat this Christmas as choreographer-turned-director Farah Khan’s highly anticipated film “Tees Maar Khan”, starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif, hits the silver screen along with Ajay Devgn’s animation film “Toonpur Ka Superhero” this Friday. Filmmaker Sooraj Barjatya also returns with his new film “Isi Life Mein” with debutants Sandeepa Dhar and Akshay Oberoi. “Tees Maar Khan”, produced by Twinkle Khanna, Shirish Kunder and Ronnie Screwvala with a budget of Rs.50 crore ($11 million), is a story about Tabrez Mirza Khan (Akshay) who steals, cons and [...]

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Earlier this week, Phandroid served up some mouthwatering details about Android 3.0, AKA Gingerbread, along with one very lousy screenshot. Now they’ve got a quick video clip that supposedly shows Gingerbread’s turn-the-screen-off animation, and it is pretty damn cool. Yup, just like you’re turning off one of those old tube TVs. But more exciting than that single animation is what it suggests about the level of visual polish we can expect from Android 3.0. Very tasty indeed.

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The Droid 2 hype engine is running at full speed nowadays. There will be a special edition Star Wars branded Droid 2 available which will ship with themed boot animation and live wallpapers. A forum member has already extracted the good stuff from a leaked ROM dump and put them up for download. These include a few live wallpapers and the cool boot animation showing an interactive R2-D2. Really exciting stuff for geeks. If you have an Android phone, you can get your hands on the goodies too. First up, the R2-D2 Droid 2 Boot Animation This can be downloaded from here thanks to Droid Life. Here’s [...]

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