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From the team that brought you Wizard101 comes Pirate101. As a kid-friendly environment, Pirate101 thrills all ages with exciting, flying ships, a new style of combat, and many worlds to discover and explore. Create your own pirate to adventure throughout the worlds, challenging minds of all ages to brave the skies.
Publisher: KingsIsle Entertainment
Playerbase: High
Graphics: Medium
Type: MMORPG
EXP Rate: Low
PvP: Yes
Filesize: ~5 GB
Pros: +Child-friendly. +Board game style combat. +Easy to play. +Good customization. +Multiple battle systems.
Cons: -Limited chat. –Less appeal for older audience. –Limited free content. –Slow gameplay. –Overpowered cash shop
Pirate101 Overview
Pirate101 is a 3D, pirate-themed MMORPG published by KingsIsle Entertainment that presents a lighthearted take on the adventurous life of a pirate. Similar to KingsIsle's previous title, Wizard101, Pirate101 is a family friendly game that is aimed more towards a younger audience, with bright cartoon-like graphics and an easy learning curve, but provides enough of a challenge to interest older players as well. Although fairly plain and simple, Pirate101 has a character customization process that is both entertaining and detailed. Players are given a customizable backstory that they can use to choose their characters' features, such as their class. There are five classes to choose from.
Buccaneer: Buccaneers are warriors specialized in wearing heavy armor and wielding large two-hand weapons. They have increased toughness and can easily level the playing field with skills such as Blade Storm, which gives them a second attack after downing an enemy.
Musketeer: Musketeers are long range firearms experts, focusing on direct damage and placing a variety of traps. They can take out enemies from a distance or deal massive damage with their Rain of Mortarshells ability, covering an area with explosive traps.
Privateer: Privateers are group leaders. Instead of engaging in head-on combat they support their companions with strength buffs and healing abilities. Strong Privateers can even mass-heal all of their allies on the field with their Reinforce ability.
Swashbuckler: Swashbucklers are quick and deadly, sneaking up on enemies and taking them out in the blink of an eye. They can easily dodge any attacks and, should they get cornered, strike every enemy around them with their Dance of Steel.
Witchdoctor: Witchdoctors are dark magicians who are trained in arcane and hoodoo magic, weakening enemies with hexes, summoning spirits and casting powerful arcane spells. They can turn the tides of battle by summoning life-draining spirits with their Mournsong spell.
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Pirate101 Full Review
By Anthny D'Urbano (SqueezyTime)
After the success of Wizard101, KingsIsle Entertainment follows up with their second online title, Pirate101. While having the familiar colorful and lighthearted feel of its predecessor, Pirate101 freshens things up with a unique setting, a new story and a combination of land and sky combat. Pirate101 utilizes KingsIsle's "Pay as you go" business model, allowing players to buy small chunks of content as they progress, while providing only a small fraction of free content.
A Pirate's Tale
The story of Pirate101 is one of adventure, war and flying ships. During a long time of peace and prosperity, in the world of Spiral, a sky pirate by the name of Marco Pollo had discovered secret links, dubbed the Skyways, which lead to distant realms. This discovery allowed nations to form cross-realm colonies and trade routes, greatly increasing commerce and wealth. A nation known as Polaris had eventually become so greedy and power hungry as to start a war against fellow nations for control of the Skyways. Colonies began to fall into anarchy, allowing gangs of pirates to take control of the Skyways.
Players come into the story after the Skyways have been ravaged by the various rival factions, such as the Cutthroats, the Wharf Rats and the Royal Navy. The young Pirates begin as prisoners on a Royal Navy vessel, who then escape to the colony of Skull Island, where they are tasked with defeating the vicious pirate gangs and fulfilling the dream of a peaceful Pirate republic. With the Pirate lords ravaging the Skyways and the Royal Navy seeking to destroy all piracy for good, players are in for quite the adventure.
Custom Tailored
Creating a character involves all of the familiar features which can be found in any fantasy MMORPG: Gender, physical features, name, class, etc. but Pirate101 expands on the customization process a little bit more. Players are given the ability to decide on the style and color of the character's outfit. This feature is completely overthrown the second a new piece of gear is dropped, as the previous design is replaced with the design of whichever piece of equipment is acquired. Although the customized outfit is only equipped for a short while, the ability to personalize the style of their gear still encourages the connection that players have with their characters. During character creation Pirate101 also allows players to create their own flag. For those times when a rival ship needs to know just who they are messing with, players are given a collection of patterns, icons and colors to design their flag with. Whether players want a flag displaying a bright white moon with a starry background or a Triceratops over a checkered pattern, there are many possibilities to choose from.
What sets Pirate101's character creation apart from other MMORPGs is the customizable story. Players are given the backstory that they are orphans and are given several choices to decide the rest of the story. A man named Boochbeard asks a series of questions and provides a selection of answers which will determine main plot points, such as how they lost their parents. One player might decide that it was a mutiny, while another decides that it was a storm. A player's natural traits are determined by the faction who took in the orphaned child. Being raised by the Bear Clan of Grizzleheim provides natural toughness, while being fostered by the Ninja Pigs of MooShu bestows the young Pirate with fighting prowess. The final decision, the crime that led to the player's imprisonment, decides the player's class, such as the Musketeer, who is accused of smuggling goods. The story customization is a unique feature that really helps to set each player's character apart from anothers'.
Follow the Arrow
For years MMORPGs have been using the same generic formula when it comes to quests. Players are frequently requested to deliver a letter from Incapable Shopkeeper A to Incapable Shopkeeper B, kill x amount of vicious wolves wandering aimlessly in a field, or collect x amount of spider fangs just for fun. Pirate101 not only conforms to this formula, but manages to simplify the process even further. The quests are generally put into one of four categories: Defeat, Gather, Talk To, and Help. Defeat quests are the basic "kill x of y" quests, but in most cases, players are sent to a certain area to defeat a specified target, rather than a pre-determined amount of generic mobs. Gather quests are more-or-less identical to defeat quests, with the exception that the real goal of the quest is to collect an item from the target. Talk To quests are as plain and simple as they sound. The goal is to walk up to an NPC… and talk to it. Help quests are just a combination of quests. The goal is to simply complete quests given by other NPCs.
Reaching quest objectives in Pirate101 is primarily directed by a little yellow arrow at the bottom of the screen. The arrow's sole purpose is to point in the direction of the current quest objective and display a number indicating the player's distance from it. This has become a common feature in many MMORPGs, but this feature is quickly turned into a headache. Pirate101 does not give players any kind of instruction, indicator or visual representation of quest objectives, so players are inadvertently forced to watch the arrow as their only means of direction.
Arm Yourself
Combat in Pirate101 is divided between turn-based, game board style combat on land and realtime combat during skyship battles. On land there are monsters wandering around just like many other MMORPGs but, similar to Atlantica Online, approaching one of them initiates a turn based battle with contenders placed on a movement grid. Each character or monster, based on class, has a specific movement range and attack range per turn, so maneuvering the board and outsmarting the enemy takes a little bit of strategy. One particularly interesting characteristic of the board is the placement. If a battle is initiated next to a tree or around a rock they actually take up spaces and create obstacles on the board, reducing maneuverability and increasing difficulty. Even at a disadvantage, however, players can easily turn the tides of the battle using powerful skills. Skills are gained every 5 levels and can be used once per battle. Players can create the perfect team by grouping together and utilizing the skills of each class.
While a player is in battle, any players walking by can see the battle as it is happening and join in by simply walking right into the enemies. This not only improves the social aspect of the game by connecting players, but also provides support to players who might not be doing so hot in a fight. This feature is a double edged sword, however. Whenever a passerby joins into a battle, extra monsters are also added to the board. This feature works for both teams. If a monster happens to be meandering by, it can join a player's battle by simply wandering into it. Unfortunately, with every player and monster joining the battle the time between each turn is longer, making the gameplay feel boring.
For the little amount of time that is spent on the ship, players get to experience a completely different style of combat. While soaring through the skies, players will run into enemy ships from time to time, which will trigger the ship to start firing off its cannons. While the cannons fire automatically, players can also utilize different skills to improve their chances in battle.
Not Really Free?
Though Pirate101 is technically free to download and play, most of the game has a cost to unlock. Players are free to play through the introduction chapter of the game but following chapters must be unlocked with "Crowns", KingsIsle's premium currency. 2500 Crowns can be purchased for $5, and each chapter (30 total) can be purchased with Crowns, ranging from 749 to 2999 Crowns. Alternatively, players can get every chapter, as well as a few minor perks, by paying a monthly subscription fee of $10/month. Although the majority of the Pirate101 is pay to play, the introduction chapter provides enough gameplay for players to decide whether or not they enjoy the game enough to pay for the content.
For those who are willing to spend the cash, Pirate101 also includes the Crown Shop, where players can spend their Crowns on anything such as clothing, mounts, pets, companions, gear, ship parts and potions. Although PvP has not yet been implemented into the game, the Crown Shop provides paying players with an extreme boost over those who don't use the Crown Shop.
Final Verdict: Fair
The gameplay in Pirate101 is more or less uninspiring, with monotonous quests and slow, drawn out combat, but the fun atmosphere and in depth customization do a lot to make up for it. Though only a single chapter of Pirate101 is free to play, those who enjoyed Wizard101 or are simply looking for something new should try it out.
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CPU: 1GHz Intel
VIDEO: Geforce 2 Equivalent (or better)
DISK: 5 GB Free
For Mac Users
Internet: Internet Connection Required
Intel-based Macintosh system running Mac OS X
Operating System:: Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) or newer
Disk Space: 5 GB of free disk space
RAM Space: 512 MB of RAM
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Van Galen, J. and Dempsey, V. (Eds) (2009). Trajectories: The Educational and Social Mobility of Education Scholars from Poor and Working Class Backgrounds. Sense Publishers
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Van Galen, J. and Sillins, V. (2001). Juxtaposing Research, Theory and Practice: A Course for Inservice Teachers. Teacher Education Quarterly.
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Van Galen, J. (2011) Reframing Retention: Mentoring and Leadership Development in the UWB Dream Project. American Education Research Association, New Orleans.
Van Galen, J. (2011). Working Class Students and the Participation Divide: Learning in Participatory Culture. Working Class Studies Association, Chicago.
Van Galen, J. (2011). An Excellent Teacher in Every Classroom: Digital Divides in Participatory Culture. American Educational Studies Association, St. Louis.
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In part three of STORMING HEAVEN, "Siege" writer Brian Michael Bendis joins CBR for page by page commentary on all the action, excitement, and carnage readers saw in issue #2 of the event mini-series.
Tim stops time to look closely at the Daredevil work of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, this week through the lens of the four panel sequence that comprises the epic run's opening page. Comic book realism, exposed.
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Marvel's week-long series of Avengers reveals wraps with today's image featuring Thor declaring his status as a member of Earth's Mightiest superteam, under the creative auspices of Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita Jr.
Marvel's premier archer returns to the team he once led, as Hawkeye is revealed to be part of May's "Avengers" relaunch, by Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita Jr.
The Armored Avenger flies with Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita, Jr.'s new team, foretelling the return of the "Big Three" in Marvel's May-shipping "Avengers" #1 and their entire Heroic Age promotion.
With the second teaser for their upcoming "Avengers" ongoing, Marvel Comics confirms that Spider-Woman will take part in Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita, Jr.'s Heroic Age relaunch this May.
This week Tim begins a three-part look at Brian Michael Bendis' greatest comic book work to date in his run on "Daredevil" while providing a bit of backstory on his personal interest in the superstar writer's rise to prominence.
Marvel has announced the creative team for their new Avengers title as Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita Jr., along with the release of a JRJr illustration of Bucky in his Captain America uniform.
Actor Zac Efron is set to lead an adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis's early graphic novel, "Fire." The project, set up at Universal, will see the actor trading in teen stardom for the world of espionage.
The publisher's post-Siege plans kick off with a reignited series for their biggest franchise featuring Captain America, Iron Man and Thor at the helm and Brian Michael Bendis in the writer's seat delivering stories filled with optimism.
"Ultimate Comics Enemy" is in stores this week, kicking off a trilogy that will introduce a powerful new villain to the Ultimate Universe. CBR spoke with Brian Michael Bendis about the project. Updated with exclusive art!
With "Spider-Woman" #5 hitting stores tomorrow, CBR News spoke with writer Brian Michael Bendis about both the current storyline and future of both the printed and motion comic "Spider-Woman" series.
In "Siege" #1, Norman Osborn and Loki cried havoc and let slip the dogs of war upon the city of Asgard and it's residents, the Norse Gods. Writer Brian Michael Bendis joined us for a page by page commentary on the issue.
In the first installment of STORMING HEAVEN, CBR enlists writer Brian Michael Bendis to provide a commentary track for and insight into "Siege: The Cabal," the one-shot prologue which sets up 2010's Avengers event.
CBR spoke with Brian Michael Bendis about "Ultimate Comics Spider-Man" and "Ultimate Comics Enemy," a mini-series that will introduce a powerful new villain into the Ultimate Universe. Plus, an exclusive look at art from both titles.
Marvel has released a new teaser for the Avengers event, "Siege," launching in December 2009, featuring a burning Asgard plummeting to Earth. No information was given other than the issue's solicitation info.
Courtesy of Marvel Comics, CBR presents this exclusive look at the final colored art for Alan Davis' "Dr. Doom vs. Iron Patriot" themed variant cover to "Siege: The Cabal," in stores December 2.
Marvel has released a new Simone Bianchi illustrated teaser image from their upcoming Avengers event, "Siege," launching in December 2009. No information was given other than the issue's solicitation information.
Marvel has released the official trailer for "Siege," the next Avengers event, pitting Norman Osborn against the might of Asgard. "Siege," by the team of Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel, launches this December.
Marvel Comics has released solicitation information for Ultimate Comics shipping in January 2010, including "Ultimate Comics Enemy" #1, a new series by Brian Michael Bendis and Rafa Sandoval with cover by Ed McGuinness.
The co-creators of "Powers," Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, celebrated the 10th anniversary of their acclaimed comic book during the 10th anniversary of Baltimore Comic-Con.
Brian Michael Bendis stops by the CBR studio in Los Angeles to talk about the upcoming Marvel event, "Siege." Find out more about what's in store for the Marvel U in this exclusive video interview.
For years, The Avengers have been divided by personal and ideological conflicts. In January, they reunite in "Siege," an epic storyline for the Avengers family of titles. We spoke with writer Brian Michael Bendis about the project.
Brian Michael Bendis and Matt Fraction headlined the Marvel: Your Universe panel to answer questions about a wide range of topics, from Marvel's movies, to Tony Stark's diminishing intelligence, to the Infinity Gems, and more.
A whole host of Marvel writers including Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction and Jason Aaron took the stage at Baltimore Comic-Con to discuss their future plans at the House of Ideas. Oh, and Thor had a question.
Courtesy of Marvel Comics, CBR presents an exclusive first look at some of Mike Mayhew's artwork for the upcoming "New Avengers Annual" #3, featuring none other than Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers!
Brian Michael Bendis has big plans for Marvel's most mentally unstable super team, the "Dark Avengers." CBR News spoke with him about some surprising revelations, a battle with an immensely powerful foe, and a special Annual.
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you a preview of the third episode of "Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D." by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev and Motherland Animation, on sale this week on iTunes.
âDark Reign: The List-Avengersâ hits stores this week and CBR News spoke with artist Marko Djurdjevic about his experiences working on the special issue, which kicks off a series of interconnected "Dark Reign" themed one-shots.
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you a clip from the next episode of "Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D." by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, on sale now.
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Easter time is festival time with the Carlow Easter Féile
Over the past two years, Easter time has brought the Pan Celtic International Festival to Carlow. Although Pan Celtic has now moved on to Derry all is not lost as the town gets ready to host its very own Carlow Easter Féile.
The 4 day festival will run from Thursday, 24 April until Sunday, 27 April and a very exciting programme of events is planned to include the County Fleadh Cheoil, four magnificent concerts, a session trail featuring some of Ireland's finest traditional musicians, storytelling, sean-nós and ceilí workshops, music and dancing, a busking competition, family fun and more.
Back by popular demand following their great performance at Pan Celtic will be the Garda Band to open the Carlow Easter Feale with a free outdoor concert in Plás na Saoirse car park on Thursday, 24 April at 2pm. Later that night Frances Black will top the bill at the aptly named "Follow Me Up to Carlow Concert" in the Seven Oaks Hotel. The concert will feature such well known names as Jimmy Crowley, Jimmy Smyth, Des Willoughby and Nicky Kealy as well as a host of top local talent.
A very special concert entitled "Remembering Brian Boru" featuring national and international musicians to mark the millennium of the death of Brian Boru at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 will take place in St. Mary's Church, Haymarket at 7pm on Friday, 25 April. Carlow's own Robert Tobin will team up the Tale of the Gael group as they tune up their harps, fiddles, flute, bass, bouzouki and pipes and celebrate this great Gaelic Tale in story and music.
A magnificent traditional concert in Reddys function room will officially launch Fleadh Cheoil Cheatharlach at 8.30pm on Friday night with the fleadh running its programme of competitions, sessions and impromptu performances over the weekend. The Easter Féile Session Trail will feature the cream of traditional musicians from all over the country playing at designated times in Teach Dolmain, Reddys, Tullys, Carpenters and Racey Byrnes. Meanwhile singer/songwriter Jimmy Crowley will lead the singing sessions in The Irishman's. There will be storytelling for young and old while "Carlow Folk Tales" complied by father and daughter team Jack Sheehan and Aideen McBride will be officially launched.
Throw into the mix several workshops in Sean-nós and Céilí dancing, street busking and a Céilí Mór as well as an Éire Óg 7 a side senior club league, a bilingual walking tour of Carlow and a Lucinda Sly Talk and Walk.
With many of the events free or for a small charge the inaugural Carlow Easter Féile has all the ingredients to make it a great festival.
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FGC is sponsoring a group discount for the White Privilege Conference for a fifth year.
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If you register through WPC's website, you will NOT be eligible for the FGC discount.
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As I eagerly await a chance to play golf after this particularly long winter, I'm reminded of the anticipation many of us feel about the burgeoning shale industry. That anticipation is particularly high in the U.S. chemical industry, which is seeing significant investment growth and a revolutionary change in the way a key chemical is being produced.
Our region has heard the optimistic shale industry employment forecasts.
(PwC), for example, released bold numbers in 2011 claiming that by 2025 shale gas could add more than one million workers to the U.S. manufacturing industry while lowering the costs of raw materials and energy by $11.6 billion annually.
Even if this forecast falls short, the potential shale holds for the manufacturing sector, Ohio and our national economy is extremely significant. Several industries up and down the shale supply chain are gearing up to take advantage of that opportunity. One major beneficiary is the chemical industry, which is feeling the effects of the potential prevalence of natural gas and "wet gas" natural gas liquids in the Ohio Utica-Point Pleasant shale play.
The change occurring in the chemical industry is not simply evolutionary, it's revolutionary. The American Chemical Council (ACC) contends in a December 2012 Financial Times article that "the international chemical industry is undergoing its most profound upheaval in 75 years." Just a few years ago there was hardly any indication of investment in the U.S. chemical industry. Today, more than $55 billion are planned for the development and growth of the U.S. chemical industry.
An impetus for the chemical industry revolution is the reduced price of natural gas, which is abundant in shale. The cost decrease has promoted a production increase in ethylene, a first step in the chemical industry value chain. Ethylene can be produced from ethane, which is abundant in the "wet gas" areas of the Ohio Utica-Point Pleasant shale formation.
Just a few years ago, ethylene in the U.S. was predominately produced from naphtha, which comes from crude oil. As the price of crude oil increased, the production of ethylene became more expensive. Alternatively, the decrease in cost to produce ethylene from ethane, given our growing supply of domestic natural gas and natural gas liquids, results in a three-to-one cost advantage over many other parts of the world that still depend on naphtha (crude oil) for ethylene.
Ethylene is a building block for the chemical industry. Take a look through your cupboards at home or your office supply room. Polyethylene is used in film applications for packaging, carrier bags and trash liners. Ethylene oxide is a key raw material in surfactants and detergents used in products from shampoo and perfume to plastics and adhesives.
A presentation at a Carnegie Melon University event titled "
Shale Gas: Implications for America's Regional Manufacturing Economies
," recently highlighted that shift in the chemical industry. In 2009, Dow Chemical was planning the decommission and demolition of an ethylene facility. Fast forward three years and there are plans to increase U.S. ethylene capacity by 40 percent. These plans include a
$3 billion ethylene plant slated for construction in Pennsylvania
, about 20 miles from the Ohio border. Ohio's manufacturing and chemical industries will clearly benefit.
Ohio is already part of the strong chemical and polymers.
The Ohio Chemistry Technology Council
contends that chemistry companies in Ohio directly employ 45,865 people and that for every chemistry industry job in Ohio an additional 3.4 jobs are created within the state. Chemical industry jobs earn an average wage of $64,600, which is 24 percent higher than the average manufacturing job.
Several polymer companies with headquarters in Northeast Ohio are on Fortune's 1,000 largest companies list. Akron is, after all, known as the "Rubber Capital of the World":
• The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron is one of the world's leading tire companies and registered $21 billion in sales in 2012.
• PolyOne Corporation, headquartered in Avon Lake, reported 2012 revenues of $3 billion. The company is a global provider of specialty polymer materials, services and solutions, with several facilities located throughout Northeast Ohio.
• A. Schulman, headquartered in Akron, is a leading international supplier of high-performance plastic compounds and resins, which are used as raw material in a variety of markets. The Company has over 30 manufacturing and support facilities in North and South America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
• Parker Hannifin is a $13 billion diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems headquartered in Mayfield Heights. Its Engineered Polymer Systems Division delivers medical grade thermoplastic polyurethane and thermoplastic elastomer tubing for medical devices that demand precision and consistency.
• Owens Corning of Toledo and Cooper Tire of Findlay are other examples of successful Ohio companies that are heavily involved in the chemicals and polymer industry.
The current strength and promising outlook for the region's chemical and polymer industry is bolstered by the abundance of natural gas found in shale and the lower ethylene production prices this affords. Ethylene goes into thousands of products that are polymer related and its production from ethane is the first step in the chemical industry value chain. Significantly reduced manufacturing production costs are a major benefit to the region, which can lead to a boost in the economy and good paying jobs for Northeast Ohio.
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The Luxury One-Touch gift-box includes all the goodness of our regular One-Touch tea-maker set and packages it perfectly for elegant storage or for making the perfect gift. The essential tea-maker unit slides comfortably into the heat-tempered glass pot and neatly matches the stylishness of the included 8 cups. All together the set contains the full range of components to simplify the tea making process and serve it all extremely elegantly. Simply place the tea leaves in the tea-maker and pour on the water. Wait until the tea is steeped to your liking and press the button to instantly release all the tea liquid into the bottom tea pot and halt the infusion process. This can let you make the perfect infusion each and every time, with no mess!
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Please note that as of October 24, 2014, the Nokia Developer Wiki will no longer be accepting user contributions, including new entries, edits and comments, as we begin transitioning to our new home, in the Windows Phone Development Wiki. We plan to move over the majority of the existing entries. Thanks for all your past and future contributions.
Webinar Series 40 UI Design
This article is companion for the Series 40 UI design webinars. It contains solutions and proposals for the webinar exercises and discusses open issues which could not be solved during the webinar Q/A session and covers both parts:
- part 1, 28.06.2012 and 04.07.2012, webinar recording, slide deck
- part 2, 10.07.2012 and 13.07.2012, webinar recording, slide deck
Next UX related webinar:
- User-centric Design of Series 40 Apps: why do I need it? (About concept design and the benefits of a good UI.)
- 22.08.2012, 10:00 Helsinki time,
- 23.08.2012, 18:00 Helsinki time
Series 40
Webinar Series 40 Full Touch UI Style Guide, part 1, 28.06.2012 and 04.07.2012
How would this screen look in Series 40 Full Touch?
Create a sign-in view
It should contain:
- Username
- Password
- Setting for auto-fill password
- Forgot password & help
Proposal 1:
Proposal 2
The environment is again a Form screen with 2 TextFields and 1 pop-up choice group. In addition, there is a StringItem formatted as a Button and a StringItem formatted as a hyperlink. There is no action in Action Button #1.
The second proposal has everything available in the view, but it is not likely that it will work flawlessly with Touch & Type devices. However, since the additional elements in the view (Login button and Help hyperlink) are more prominent, it is expected to reduce interaction bumpers if the design is optimized for Full Touch.
Which component would you use to pick one of the following?
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
How would you replace a single choice item (aka switch)?
You may find the following layout from a native application. Unfortunately, the single choice item is not available in the LCDUI.
- Alerts can have 0 – 3 buttons. Position and layout are predefined.
- StringItem in a Form screen can be dressed as a button or as a labeled button. It is only possible to show one button per row.
- The CustomItem in Form screen can host a button or a button group.
- The full screen canvas can contain buttons. The 4th image shows custom surround-shaped push-buttons with icons and with additional text below the push button. If the button is based on icons it is many times beneficial to add text explaining the action being mapped to the button.
- A canvas with a custom toolbar, as shown in the 5th image. Do not place more than 5 items in a toolbar.
Open issues from Q/A
What happens with the keypad if BT keyboard is detected?
Regarding connecting a Bluetooth enabled device to a full touch series 40 and getting input from the BT device into a custom 3rd party Java application, the following rules apply:
- Direct connection of a BT device to a Java application is only possible if the BT device supports the Bluetooth Profiles that are coming with the JSR-82 (the Bluetooth API):
- SDAP - Service Discovery Application Profile
- RFCOMM - Serial Cable Emulation Protocol
- L2CAP - Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol
- OBEX - Generic Object Exchange Profile (GOEP) profile on top of RFCOMM and TCP
- The Virtual Keyboard API does not provide any editor functionality. It merely launches and controls the virtual keyboard provided by the platform on low level Canvas and GameCanvas Components and returns into the application the key that was pressed with the help of the keyPressed(int key) method. So theoretically, one can call remotely the keyPressed(int key) method directly with a value that matches the integer value of the key that is supposed to be pressed.
Can text be formatted, e.g. rich text formatting?
Regarding StringItem one can change the font. Fonts have three attributes: Style (bold/italic), size (large or small) and face (monospace, proportional and system). One cannot change the color of a StringItem.
It is not possible to format the text in TextBox screen.
Canvas allows free formatting.
If formatting is needed for certain components, please have look into LWUIT if this is suitable for you.
How is the image in an ImageItem being cropped in landscape orientation?
Here is the example image:
When the Layout is set to LAYOUT_LEFT or LAYOUT_CENTER, this is the result in portrait mode:
When the Layout is set to LAYOUT_LEFT or LAYOUT_CENTER, this is the result in landscape mode:
The cropping matches the requested layout.
How can you do custom gestures yourself?
1. It is possible to use the existing gestures and build your custom gesture on top of it; here 2 examples:
- if you want to make your application to sense a figure of "8" on your screen, use a "drag" gesture and use the x/y values for your pattern recognition
- if you want to use triple touch, e.g. to mark the entire text, use 3 single taps for your gesture recognition
Tap drag and release can also be implemented outside the Gesture API, with the standard LCDUI low level Canvas components.
2. It is possible to use the sensor API to e.g. get direct x/y/z information of the phone. this way, you can e.g. sense the position changes of the phone to detect if the user is writing a figure of "8" into the air (with the phone in her hand). The phone can detect accelerations between -2g and +2g. Sensor API link will be added.
Is it possible to store a small amount of data?
Yes it is. The persistent storage is done via RMS (Record Management System):
Is there a support to use the text editor API with full key event handling?
Please check in the JDL:
Is it possible to create a choice group (ChoiceGroup) without a title and how would it look like?
Yes it is possible. All you need is to give an empty title (i.e. "") in the constructor as follows:
mainForm = new Form("Simple ChoiceGroup");
cg = new ChoiceGroup("", ChoiceGroup.EXCLUSIVE);
cg.append("option 1", null);
cg.append("option 2", null);
cg.append("option 3", null);
You will get the following result:
Webinar Series 40 Full Touch UI Style Guide, part 2, 10.07.2012 and 13.07.2012
How could these screens look in full touch?
If Action Button 1 should be used for confirmation, how would you build a multi selction view?
Sketch an upload dialog which shows the remaining amount of data.
Sketch a view
- 2 categories
- 3 primary actions related to the view, not a single item out of the view (sorted by priority)
- call
- add
- edit
- 3 secondary actions related to the view, not a single item out of the view (sorted by priority)
- Share FB
- Share TW
- Share Reddit
- Options menu
- Use chrome
- maximize the content area
How many touch elements fit the content area?
How many touch elements fit the entire canvas?
With values taken from the previous problem:
- 4 elements in a row, no truncation possible, no horizontal scrolling
- 8 elements in a column, truncation possible, vertical scrolling is foreseen
- 32 items
Open issues from Q/A
No, native Series 40 Phonebook in full touch as such can only use images from gallery. these are without any dynamic update. If your application wants to use e.g. FB, it requires login. At least to our experience the token you receive from FB for permanent login times out after a certain time so people have to log in again (even it says permanent). However, if you create your own service, it is possible to do dynamic image update by yourself.
Is it possible to run data saving in the background; in device or with a server connection?
As long as your application is in foreground you can run a thread to e.g. download a file in the background. This data can go into buffer and saved from there. Examples are found from here:
Please check also the Q/A about storing a small amount of data more upwards. Use the RMS (Record Management System).
Is Flowella continued?
This is not decided yet. Currently there hasn't been any service for Flowella, so it is outdated for the current devices.
Update, 17.07.2012: It's not being actively updated and there are no current plans for update.
Where do I find Carbide to create Series 40 themes?
Is it possible to have more than 1 ticker?
No, not with the standard LCDUI components. You can have only one ticker per displayable (Form, Canvas or List).
If you attempt to setTicker more than once on a displayable, you replace the old ticker with the new, but you don't add tickers. You cannot modify the ticker's position, this is determined by the implementation. On full touch devices, I can see that the ticker is placed under the header. On full screen mode Canvas, the ticker is not displayed (i.e. ticker is only displayable in normal mode for Canvas instances).
Where do I find porting information Android --> Series 40
There are several projects available. Please check from here:
How does it look like if I have 2 SIM cards inserted
|App view
|Notification bar
|SIM card select
| Alert after selecting "my choices"
but without any SIM choices being made.
Add on
Due to current changes, the second session of the 2nd part of the webinar contained additional material:
Note about the use of DatePicker UI component (tumbler in Series 40 full touch UI)
Please note that the current tumbler implementation (13.07.2012) is with out any kinetic scrolling and therefore remains a with a usability problem which also might affect your application. As a workaround you might want to try a TextField with a certain format. Make sure you indicate the desired format to people using your application.
Try your new knowledge and check the Asha Touch Competition 2012Q3
The competition page is here: Asha Touch Competition 2012Q3.


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Obviously this was not FSF's intention and there's the affero GPL licence which deals with this shortcoming.
If both companies were legally bound to release all their modifications then FreeBSD would move forward faster and Juniper and Cisco would have to compete on other strengths than 'the secret sauce'.
You have to ask yourself why if -'BSD is so much better for companies' as BSD advocates state, Linux is enjoying so much more company support in the form of developers and code?
Those who are totally delirious try to blame a lawsuit 20 years ago where all mindshare went to Linux. That's nonsense, if the BSD were so much better equipped to handle the needs of companies then it would have gained on Linux during these 20 years, not slowly faded into near oblivion.
As it has turned out companies (particularly proprietary) LOVE picking up BSD/MIT licenced code, but they are (quelle suprise!) nowhere as willing to submit code under BSD/MIT.
Meanwhile companies are much more willing to submit code under GPL conditions, which has lead to Linux incredible rise as the largest open source collaboration in the world.
If they keep their enhancements internal then again it's out of the scope of the GPL, but it also severely limits their use of said code.
Ofc, if you use closed bricks stone house with patented design of unknown origin, you house is gonna fall underground, unless your provider maintains and fixes it for you at certain high (due to proprietary design and resulting incompatibility) rates.
But because the ground construction is very open too, some gardens (like Red Hood etc) offer private locations, where the ground is fixed for periods of up to 10 years. Ofc at acceptable maintaining rate... but at least regular soil inspections are included in price.
Or... there are some free stable grounds of kingdom Debian and in Africa district LTS, many build their houses there, but the local folks ask for nothing and exactly that much they promise,... but it works!
As for the question of a unified BSD, these sort of suggestions always sound perfectly reasonable at first glance, until you actually look at the reasons why they aren't one project to begin with.
It has to do with endgoals, technological choices, and even ideology at times.
Also when people point at Linux and saying it's not fragmented it's mainly true, but FreeBSD is no more fragmented, nor are OpenBSD or NetBSD or DragonflyBSD.
These are all _different_ projects. they may share some code and even part of their names but again they are _different_ projects with all that this entails.
KDE,GNOME,XFCE,*Box,*WM - GTK,QT etc etc... heck you can take it as far as WINDOWS/OSX/LINUX/BSD/HAIKU/REACTOS etc
All projects which are in the same problem domain and again at a cursory glance would seem ripe for 'consolidation', but as soon as you look at the projects in any kind of detail you will see how there are reasons for why they are separate and why their respective developers have no interest in the other projects.
XorEaxEax, I want to know. Do you write code or do you just freeload on what others have done?
In general GPL does it quite inconvenient or hard for most business models to exist without releasing source. This includes embedded, general purpose OSes (servers, desktops, etc) and so on. And Linux has seriously outperformed BSD-based competitors on these markets.
You see, BSDs are 10 years older. So they had all chances to win. However, corporations behind them preferred not to disclose their improvements. Single company wins. Everyone else loses. Upstream project as whole getting stuck without resources and improvements. Then competitor appears and outruns it, using collaboration of members to improve it's development speed. So Linux does not faces lack of resources. If someone improves something and distributes it, they have to publish source as well. There are ways to workaround but risky, costly and dubious. And it would certainly make you unwelcome for kernel developers to say the least (do you remember "f...k you, Nvidia"?). So you will be on your own, not a part of process. This implies seriously increased development cost and so on.
In short, GPL makes it very inconvenient to be parasite and far more convenient to be part of process. BSD license does not cares so at the end of day BSD systems are getting eaten by parasites who takes the code and never returns anything.
Now we can open our eyes and figure out that:
1) Most modern SOHO routers/access points are using Linux.
2) Modern TVs and TV boxes are using Linux.
3) Android bases on Linux either.
4) Small NASes, etc are running linux as well.
Because people do not have to do the whole kernel adaptation and work is split over dozen and half of entities. Who could be competitors otherwise. But they all need good working kernel for their OS to be able to just start their competition. This serves as point for collaboration on topic. And it works.
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Eugene and Nancy Gaspar of Dearborn came forward to claim the prize. The winning ticket was sold at CVS Pharmacy located on Ford Road in Dearborn.
The Michigan Lottery said the Gaspars have had a good life together.
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Late last week, a Freeport woman came forward to claim the other $1 million prize won in Michigan, reported Mlive.com
Both Mich. winners matched five numbers but, missed the red Powerball number.
The $587.5 million jackpot was the largest ever in the history of the game.
The winning numbers for the drawing were 05-16-22-23-29 and power ball was number 06.
The two winning tickets to match all six numbers were purchased in Missouri and Arizona.
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The Michigan Lottery collected $20.1 million in Powerball sales during the drawing which was a record for the state, according to Mlive.
In August a 44-year-old former railroad engineer from Lapeer, Mich. claimed a $337 million Powerball jackpot.
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