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Happy Holidays!!!

Hey Everybody,

Just wanted to let everyone know that we are going to be taking a well deserved break over the holiday season. We're going to close the office from December 22 until January 2. While the office is closed, we won't be entirely unreachable. I will certainly be checking the forums and email (as will others) on a regular basis, though you might not get the lightening quick response that you're use to during this time.

So Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanzaa, and a Joyous Festivus (did I miss any?) to everyone, from all the gang here at Celtx headquarters!!!!

Cheers to all of you and all the best in the coming new year! It's going to be an exciting one for all of us!

Steve, Sheila, Michelle, Tony, Greg, Chad, and Mark

DVguru's Best & Worst of 2006 - Celtx Makes the Grade - Again!

DVguru's, Ajit Anthony offers up a thorough and entertaining list of 2006's best and worst, from Hollywood trends, software and web sites, to 'Best moves by Morons' and 'Worst Foot in Mouth'.

But the bestest of the best is that Celtx gets the nod for 'Best Free Software'. Check out the entire list here.

From everyone at Celtx, a sincere Thanks to you, Ajit.
T'is a lovely way to end the year!

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Celtx Project of the Week

Ten weeks ago we started a new initiative on Project Central (PC) that awards members of our community for their writing talents, and for their efforts in using Celtx and PC to their full potential. The lucky winner receives a slik Celtx T... an absolute must-have for every filmmaker's wardrobe.

So don't be shy... Publish NOW, and BE the POW!

ANNOUNCING THIS WEEK'S POW WINNER

The Celtx Team extends an enthusiastic two thumbs up (14 really) to this week's POW winner, Mike Ryan, creator of The Girl from Poland. Congrats Mike! Your T is in the mail!

Past Celtx POW winners:

Too Shane by Kyle Wilson, Ontario, Canada

A Simple Game of Chess by Nick Taylor, Minnesota, USA

The 4700 Files by Ira Michael Markowitz, Pennsylvania, USA

Launch Sequence by Robert Glass, New York State, USA

Frequence by Stephane Icard, Vitrolles, France

Resurgence by Aaron Shively, Columbus, OH

Prosjekt Nebb by Lars Ueland Norås, Stavanger, NORWAY

The Big Collaboration (x 3)
Lee , Dave and Jules

Pushing the Limit by Dave Duckett, Virginia, USA

celtx [jaWiki]

[jaWiki] is the wiki section of johnaugust.com - "a ton of useful information about screenwriting. If you don't know who John August is, well,.... here's a hint.
And here are some nice comments Mr. August included in his wiki about Celtx.

Cheers to you, JA!

Time Magazine's Person of the Year

Two week's ago TIME's Managing Editor, Richard Stengel issued a video request for 2006 nominations for 'Time Magazine's Person of the Year'..... defined as "a person or persons who for better or for worse have most influenced the news."

Well the results are in and guess who won?
YOU DID. (yes You!)

Congratulations!

Celtx Bloggity Bloggers

After the online diary was introduced to the Net about 16 years ago, it's clear now that what has evolved into 'blogging' has become a quick and popular way for the world to communicate. People simply love to blog, keeping an ongoing account of whatever it is that turns them on... or off, and everything in between.

News of Celtx travels fast in the bloggersphere, too. I receive Google Alerts regularly on who's writing what about Celtx. The 'who' appears to be people of all ages from all walks of life, and the 'what' so far, has been extremely positive. And that makes us really happy, so we decided to post that good news here on the new Celtx Blog and share what others are saying from around the globe. Below are a number of mentions to get things started and I'll be adding them as we go.

In the meantime, keep on blogging people... and help spread the Celtx word!

Cheers!
Sheila et al

Portable Apps / Portable Celtx
Over the past year members of the Celtx user community have volunteered their time to make Portable Celtx a reality. Our devs had little if anything to do with it.
Thanks to these volunteer efforts, you can now upload your Celtx program to any USB flash drive, and download to any operating system. And you have your choice of doing that in English, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brasil) or German!

There's a discussion thread related to this over at Portable Apps . It's where we learned that Jacob Koehler took it upon himself to gussy things up with cool graphics and is encouraging further localization of Portable Celtx.

Mr.Campbell's Web Log

Celtx. It's a script writing program that runs in Linux. It looks pretty cool and does everything I need it to do, and more. ... From my initial test of the software today, I can see I'm going to be using Celtx for quite a while.....


$1000 Spielberg-Free Screenwriting Software

By clive

The first is a free screen writing programme called Celtx, for those of ... Celtx does all the things you’d expect from screenplay formatting software, in that it lays your script out professionally (You still need to know the rules! ...
$1000 Spielberg - http://www.1000dollarspielberg.com

randomthoughts - Storyboarding in ID

By the nolans(the nolans)

Heather recently made note of Celtx. I have wondered how a "storyboard" structure might work for instructional design, and this has me thinking about whether it might be useful in that kind of project. Something to look into when I ...

Spinning Grave Productions - Celtx

... text completion, script styles, spell checking, pdf output, etc... It also keeps track of props, characters, etc... all in a database. it also lets you easily share and collaborate with people on the net. Celtx. Pretty spiffy.

The Right Words at the Right Time
One Bite at a Time by Dave

If you'd like to see the script head over to CeltX project central http://pc.celtx.com/project/7I60WH7phhjX If you have free time check out some other people's ... I'm cooking up more tutorials for the CeltX and AMP forums soon....

the thought movement - Headlines from Ghana

By Nii

My writer's group in London are keeping me disciplined because I'm still feeding back on stories online using a great program called Celtx and I've had some pretty good news; it's now confirmed that the first chapter of my ...

Videomaker Magazine
Test Bench: Celtx Scriptwriting Software
by Mark MontgomeryDECEMBER 2006

AppleMatters
Celtx: Screenwriting for the Rest of Us
by: Chris Howard
The spread of the internet has popularized free software. Before the internet, freeware tended to mean inferior. More specifically, before open source software. Nowadays, you can find software that is often a more than adequate substitute for pricey commercial applications. The Gimp and Open Office are the poster-boy applications of the free-generation....

Anti Patterns - The Games Industry behind the curtains..
In this French article, 'Final Draft vs. Celtx' the writer says the discipline of game design is so nascent, it has yet to put its own conventions and dedicated tools in place. He suggests that Celtx might be in a position to provide those solutions for the gaming industry....

The Escapist - Buying into Machinima

Videomaker Mag Reviews Celtx v.097

Videomaker Magazine
Test Bench: Celtx Scriptwriting Software
by Mark Montgomery
DECEMBER 2006

Free download
Celtx
www.celtx.com

Free Love Story

It's not too often we cover products that are free. Mostly, we cover gear that you'll have to plop down some cash for in return for a glossy product with a certain level of customer support. While Celtx doesn't have that pro-look or a 24-hour 1-800 number, it does offer a great set of tools for creative amateurs and professionals who are working with narrative scripts.

Built like a Fox
Celtx is built from the same software framework as Mozilla Firefox, a popular web browser among nerds and Internet junkies (and our own office staff). Since Firefox itself is a free, open-source program, it was only natural to keep that true when a collection of software developers and filmmakers created Celtx. Its lineage is obvious. Celtx (which is available for PC, Mac and Linux in 20 different languages) has its similarities with Firefox. We reviewed Celtx version 0.9.7.2, but at the time of publishing this issue we saw that 0.9.8 was released. The latest release ties directly into their revamped Project Central. More on that later.
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