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Author Nancy Morency and illustrator Peter Lacalamita have announced Adam’s Amazing Dream 1.11, an update to their unique book for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The update offers improved sound quality, increased font size for easier reading and they’ve added some fun holiday season surprises. Read the rest of this entry »

Retro-style game developer GlitchSoft, known for titles such as the award-winning Destructopus™ and the classic Bar Star™ is at it again with Star Marine: Infinite Ammo. Designed for the iOS devices, the retro run ‘n’ gunner is currently in the final stages of its development. Official launch details for Star Marine: Infinite Ammo will be announced in early January, but here’s a sneak peak. Read the rest of this entry »

Give yourself the gift of dining room dominance this New Year’s Eve with iPhone app Tip This 2.2 by Maitre d’ Malone. Weaponize yourself by launching powerful culinary buzzwords with aplomb. Tip This by Maitre d’ Malone pioneers the interactive gamification of dining out and is available for $2.99 USD in the Lifestyle category on the iTunes App store. Read the rest of this entry »

After a very full first year curating the best of the iPad app market for children’s picture books, Seattle-based Digital-Storytime will celebrate the site’s first birthday with a full month to focus on the very best book apps published in 2011 – featuring 31 titles that have received a perfect five stars – and 4 Canadian developers are on that list. Read the rest of this entry »

Zevrix Solutions, a solutions developer for graphics, print and file delivery, announces today it has extended its holiday season sale until January 5. The company offers 50% discount on everything in Zevrix online store including product bundles. Zevrix makes several popular automation plug-ins for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, as well as solutions for graphic files checkup, PDF workflows and automated file delivery. Read the rest of this entry »

You will not find it under a Christmas tree or at a Boxing Week sale. It is not a Hanukkah present. But a new online password is definitely the best free gift you can give yourself according to experts at Trend Micro Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

According to the email notice I received from NVIDIA®, the company is giving away an MSI GT783 limited edition Battlefield 3 game-ready notebook to one lucky winner. Being held in conjunction with an MSI Battlefield 3 promotion, the Grand Prize notebook features an NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 580M graphics card, as well as a brushed aluminum texture, an anti-reflective full-HD screen, and an illuminated SteelSeries keyboard. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto-based Bizmey has announced that the company has changed its name to Tapgage Inc. The new name change comes with the new focus of helping mobile application developers with monetization and user acquisition. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa developer JwalSoft Inc. has announced the availability of Jelly Fusion for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Jelly Fusion is fun and challenging puzzle game with jelly squishy physics. The Jellies are stranded, separated and feel lonely, they love to get together again as one big happy jelly. Are you the hero they seek? Are you up to the task of saving them? Read the rest of this entry »

Software training company InfiniteSkills Inc has just released a new Apple Compressor 4 Training Course on DVD-ROM and as a direct download from its website. The course features 2.5 hours of narrated instruction on the program’s many options, filters and effects as they apply to professional video and audio production workflows, and demonstrates industry standard techniques onscreen. The newest video series follows InfiniteSkills’ release of two tutorial video courses for Apple Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5 earlier this year. Read the rest of this entry »