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Quillr® Interactive Stories has announced the release of their first interactive children’s musical book for the iPad, Saving Grape-Jelly Cheeks. The delightful story of a little budgie rescued from a chilly Canadian fall using only string, a box and a stick is true. And in a unique twist, Saving Grape-Jelly Cheeks is told through catchy a cappella songs and original music that will have children and parents laughing and interactively joining in to rescue the little green bird. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal’s D-MagiK has announced the release of its much anticipated sheet music reader SheetRack to the iTunes App Store for $2.99 USD. Successor to SheetRack Lite, the lite version that had several tens of thousands of downloads, SheetRack is one of the fastest sheet music readers available. With original and useful features such as blowing to turn pages, music page previews, metronome, high speed page turning, and an ever growing library of sheets available for free, SheetRack is ramping up to become the iPad Musician’s favorite companion. Read the rest of this entry »

NS BASIC Corporation has announced the release of NS Basic/App Studio 2.0. The release features full support for jQuery Mobile, with an IDE that allows developers to drag and drop controls on the design screen.
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TELUS’ Optik TV Galaxie music is getting more interactive and user-friendly. The service, standard with all Optik TV subscriptions, already offers 45 channels of music across dozens of genres. Now, customers can browse the music channels by launching the application from their main menu – they can check out what’s playing, look at playlists, and view album art from within the application. Read the rest of this entry »

Big Storm Studios, a leading Portuguese family entertainment group, and Canadian content aggregator Kidobi have announced a new digital distribution agreement for the pre-school targeted streaming video platform digital and VoD rights for the newly launched preschool series Gombby’s Green Island (52 x 13 mins). With the addition of Gombby’s Green Island to its extensive content library, Kidobi will be offering the North American premiere of this unique property to their subscriber base. Read the rest of this entry »

LearningMate Solutions, Inc., an international company with offices in Vancouver, has announced GoClass, a cloud based teaching and learning platform designed for mobile devices. GoClass is a revolutionary new teaching application for educators in todays connected world. The application is designed for connected tablet devices such as the Apple iPad and light weight mobile computing platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Version 1.5 of Mental Health Scales is now available in the iTunes App Store for $4.99 USD. This app, developed by Dr. Carol Peyser, M.D. and  Lethbridge developer Mobile Apps & More Software Design, Inc., provides the health care professional with a comprehensive set of mental health rating scales on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The new “universal” version includes an iPad-native interface, adds swipe gestures for navigation, and an additional rating scale, the PTSD Screen. Read the rest of this entry »

EMI Music and Stingray Digital, operators of VOD and Cable Properties Concert TV, The KARAOKE Channel, and Galaxie, have signed a content agreement that will give Stingray Digital access to EMI Music’s library of music and concert videos. This content will appear across the range of Stingray’s products on a worldwide basis, on Digital Cable, IPTV, mobile, web and TV-Everywhere platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s SmarttNet has announced the beta release of Themeswell, a theme design platform for WordPress aimed at web designers and developers who want to spend more time designing and less time coding, so they can deploy websites faster. The beta period will last for the next four weeks, and Smartt has invited users to trial the product and share comments online. Read the rest of this entry »

Sprightly Software has released an update to Trip Journal for Business for mobile iOS. The iPad and iPhone app, available on iTunes for $14.99 USD, tracks business vehicle use and makes it easy to record almost every aspect of business vehicle use. The app keeps track of all the details of vehicle use for accounting, client billing, incoming tax purposes, and more. Trip Journal for Business is also available for Mac in the Mac Store for $29.99 USD. Read the rest of this entry »