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The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) and emAPPetizer Inc. have jointly announced the deployment of the first mobile application dedicated to supporting the field needs of primary and secondary school principals and vice-principals. Hall Monitor allows these users to quickly identify and look up student and classroom information while on monitoring duty, during meetings or in emergency situations. Having this information at their fingertips will allow these professionals to assist students outside of class, provide timely information to parents and ultimately create a safer environment at school. Student information at your fingertips. Read the rest of this entry »

ICEsoft Technologies Inc., a Calgary-based supplier of open-source technologies for enterprise, has announced that ICEpdf is shipping. ICEpdf is an open source Java PDF engine for viewing, printing, manipulating, and annotating PDF documents. The ICEpdf API is 100 percent Java-based, lightweight, fast, efficient and easy to use. Read the rest of this entry »

In anticipation of the July 31 release of Columbia Pictures’ and Sony Pictures Animation’s 3D hybrid live-action/animated family comedy The Smurfs™ 2, Ubisoft® has announced that the company will develop and publish a video game based on the film. Developed by Ubisoft and WayForward, the game will be released as an action-adventure platformer game for the Xbox 360®, PlayStation®3, Wii™ and Wii U™, as well as an interactive storytelling book and collection of mini-games on Nintendo DS™. It will release on all consoles in July, 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

Instacom blends the world of Instant Messaging with online file management and file sharing into a single, secure ecosystem that is delivered from the end users “Private Cloud” system hosted in their office or with their trusted service provider. All communications are secured using industry standard SSL as well as private key-based AES256 end to end encryption. Instacom’s enhanced security encryption, role based security polices, and end users ownership of the server endpoint creates a secure communication platform that is completely private. Read the rest of this entry »

Camcloud™, an innovative provider of cloud video monitoring services for homes and small businesses, today announced that it has released its Android™ app and is available for immediate download on Google Play™. The Camcloud for Android app allows users to connect securely to their Camcloud video monitoring account, manage their camera settings, view live video, and access any recorded video that is stored in the cloud. With support for Android 4.x smartphones and tablets, users can now watch their property, pets and loved ones from their favorite Android device. Read the rest of this entry »

Award-winning Vancouver 3D animator TJ Galda adds to the series of books on Character Rigging with a beginner book outlining how to rig characters using computer graphics software such as Autodesk’s Maya. The book is designed to make the techniques as accessible as possible, so that beginners can create and animate lifelike characters. Beginner Character Rigging is available through digital publishing site Lulu.com and major outlets such as Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Read the rest of this entry »

Digital Rapids, an Ontario-based provider of innovative media transformation and workflow solutions for bringing video to wider audiences – is unveiling powerful new models in the company’s award-winning StreamZ Live™ family of live encoders. Building on the superior multi-format flexibility, quality and reliability of the StreamZ Live series, the new additions include the StreamZ Live 4000EX for premium multiscreen applications; the StreamZ Live 6000EX for dedicated broadcast applications; and the StreamZ Live 8000EX for converged broadcast and multiscreen deployments. Read the rest of this entry »

Anytune, the ultimate music practice iOS app for musicians of all kinds, just got even better. Anytune 3.7 is the first music practice app to offer the ability to stream live audio directly to other Audiobus-compatible apps such as Apple’s GarageBand. Anytune joins the Audiobus app community by live streaming tempo, pitch and equalizer adjusted audio to other Audiobus-compatible apps. Audiobus allows users to easily connect the output of one Audiobus-compatible iOS app into the input of another, playing a synthesizer live into a looper or multi-track recorder, or using one app to manipulate the live output of another. Read the rest of this entry »

The App Door, Edmonton-based developers of several successful outdoor apps, recently launched the latest in their iFish Series of apps. The iFish New York app has a sleek and simple interface that allows anyone to easily search for lakes by name or by proximity. Once a lake is selected, a wide range of information is readily available including fish species, directions, weather conditions – even a calendar for the best times to fish. Where available, it also includes detailed lake maps, local visitor information and nearby photos. Read the rest of this entry »

Puzzle lovers have a smorgasbord of game apps from which to choose with 14 new puzzle apps released by Mokool Inc. The firm’s CEO, Mukul Verma, announced that each app collection is dedicated to a specific topic and provides players with the means to win real world prizes. Read the rest of this entry »