1/28/2016

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Wed Jan 27, 2016 2:45 am (PST) . Posted by:

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Jumping Alien Astronaut Hops into your Heart in Hoppy Naut Game - Published on 01/27/16

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Shark Apps, LLC today introduces Happy Naut 1.0, its entertaining new side-scrolling jumping game for iOS and Android devices. Players take on the role of a hopping alien astronaut in order to traverse diverse landscapes, avoid exotic obstacles, and collect coins. The terrain changes for every turn, offering hours of repeated gameplay. Players can focus their attention on beating old scores and winning coins to unlock additional playable Naut characters and up to six different game worlds.

Henderson, Nevada - Shark Apps, LLC today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Happy Naut 1.0, its entertaining new side-scrolling jumping game developed for iOS and Android devices. Players take on the role of a hopping alien astronaut - or Hoppy Naut - in order to traverse diverse landscapes, avoid exotic obstacles, and collect coins. In an exciting twist, the terrain changes for every turn, offering hours of repeated gameplay.

"With Hoppy Naut, you just never know what kind of world you're going to encounter," says Tony Godfrey, the game's creator. "It's absolutely addictive. As the landscape changes, even for a world you've mastered, you get to learn all over again where to jump over a chasm, avoid a barrier, or earn that stash of coins."

The endless variety of this casual side-scroller means that each landscape in Hoppy Naut is playable multiple times. Players can focus their attention on beating old scores and winning coins to unlock additional playable Naut characters and up to six different game worlds. Coins can be found by landing on creepy-crawlies or searching for them throughout the terrain, including large caches of riches stored in strange alien towns. Hoppy Naut also allows players to earn Achievements by reaching fun goals, as well as to compete on Leaderboards for the highest score.

Under development since June 2015, Hoppy Naut's game mechanics were created originally as a proof-of-concept in only a few weeks, and it only took 7 months of development to release the app in 10 major languages. Hoppy Naut is free to play, and any in-app purchase also removes ads. All advertising is on an opt-in basis - players can receive a gift of coins by watching a sponsored video, or skip the video entirely and continue playing.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
* Requires iOS 6.0 or later
* 34.3 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Happy Naut 1.0 is Free and available worldwide through the App Store in the Games category. There is also an Android version available on Google Play. It will be released soon on Amazon Kindle.

Shark Apps: http://www.sharkappsllc.com
Happy Naut 1.0: http://hoppynaut.com
Download from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hoppy-naut/id1016663459
Download from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sharkappsllc.HoppyNaut
YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKQ3jVOyqUA
Screenshot: http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple69/v4/91/ea/15/91ea1583-e237-3dc5-af69-00a3c3ecc052/screen480x480.jpeg

Tony Godfrey created Shark Apps, LLC in 2013, after decades of working in large software companies. Based in Henderson, Nevada, Shark Apps, LLC began as an open-ended studio to research and develop software for a variety of mobile platforms. Hoppy Naut, Shark Apps' second project, follows Sea Animal City, released to wide acclaim in 2014. All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2016 Shark Apps, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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Tony Godfrey
CEO
United States
tonygod@sharkappsllc.com

Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/HoppyNaut/
Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/sharkappsllc

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Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:00 am (PST) . Posted by:

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DVDFab Meta Info Upload Competition Kicked Off - Published on 01/27/16

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Fengtao Software rolls out a competition calling its users to upload and share the Meta information of their Blu-ray discs with the entire DVDFab community. And in return, the participants can get corresponding Forum titles, Amazon Gift Cards, or even cash. Meta Info is a brand new feature introduced in Blu-ray Copy and Blu-ray Ripper. The primary goal of this feature is to gather the Meta information of Blu-ray discs. The competition starts today, and ends on February 20, 2016.

Beijing, China - Fengtao Software, the industry leader specializing in DVD, Blu-ray and video backup solutions, rolls out a competition calling its users to upload and share the Meta information of their Blu-ray discs with the entire DVDFab community, and in return, the participants can get corresponding Forum titles, Amazon Gift Cards, or even cash. The competition starts today, and ends on February 20, 2016. Move on for the detailed story.

What's Meta Info and Why the Competition:
Meta Info, or Metadata of a Blu-ray disc refers to all the basic information about that disc and the contents on it: title, synopsis, release date, runtime, audio/video formats, genre, director, actors and so on. All these information are very useful, but not deep enough for most DVDFab users and that is what the Meta Info feature is all about. Meta Info is a brand new feature introduced in two of the DVDFab Blu-ray related products, Blu-ray Copy and Blu-ray Ripper, to be more specific. The primary goal of this feature is to gather the above mentioned Meta information of Blu-ray discs, which can be achieved by DVDFab customers manually editing and uploading via the DVDFab client. As to the reason for running a competition on this, the one learnt from inside the DVDFab is that although there are already more than 5,000 uploads, the number is still a tiny drop in the ocean, considering there are perhaps more than 100,000 Blu-ray discs out there. So, a competition is thrown out to
drive people into the campaign.

Improve the Analysis Accuracy of Blu-ray Products:
The Meta information of the Blu-ray discs uploaded by customers is stored on DVDFab Server and everyone, paid or nonpaid user, can access. By doing this, next time when users open a Blu-ray disc, what DVDFab presents them will not be just a long list of different titles without any clues on what exactly those titles are, unless they preview them one by one, which by the way is time consuming and frustrating. On the contrary, with the help of the Meta Info, each title's name, what that title is all about, the running time etc, all these information is crystal clearly displayed in front of users' eyes. This could be incredibly helpful especially when they are dealing with a TV Show disc which may have more than 20 episodes on it. Therefore, the analysis accuracy gets improved and the user experience is brought to a higher level.

Smarten up Your Home Media Streaming Server:
Another benefit of the Meta Info feature could excite those home streaming server owners quite a lot. Normally, to manage a ton of movies, TV Shows and other videos in a multimedia streaming server could require a lot of time and energy, because users have to manually rename each file so that the media server can sort and filter all the files into correct groups. However, with the help of Meta Info, this trouble is no longer a headache. After ripping or converting, DVDFab will rename the output Blu-ray movie or TV Show episodes with correct titles, together with the correct season and episode numbers. In this manner, a home streaming server, say Plex, Serviio, or Vidon, can easily manage those media contents and list them clearly for effortless browsing and playback. All the users need to do is to select the movie, or name a specific episode from a TV Show, and then press the Play button to start enjoying the leisure times.

DVDFab: http://www.dvdfab.cn/
DVDFab Meta Info Upload Competition: http://www.dvdfab.cn/promotion.htm
Meta Information: http://www.dvdfab.cn/metainfo.htm
DVD Ripper for Mac: http://www.dvdfab.cn/dvd_ripper-for-mac.htm

Fengtao Software Inc., a professional multimedia software provider, has been dedicated to working on DVD cloner, DVD copy, Blu-ray copy, DVD ripper, DVD/Blu-ray conversion, video converter, DVD creator, Blu-ray creator, Blu-ray media player, etc. for more than 11 years with its well known DVDFab software. It has more than 50 million global users. All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2016 Fengtao Software Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad, iPod and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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Frank Chang
Marketing Manager
+86-10-84913343
China
marketing@dvdfab.cn

Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/dvdfabsoftware
Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/julialovemovie

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Graphic Inspector at 50% off on MacZOT until January 28 - Published on 01/27/16

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Toronto based Zevrix Solutions today announces that Graphic Inspector, its quality control solution for images and vector graphic files, is available at 50% off on the discount website MacZOT until January 28 only. Graphic Inspector provides graphic professionals of any trade, whether its print, web, photography or electronic publishing, with exhaustive info on images and vector graphics, saving the time and hassle of checking them manually.

Toronto (ON) Canada - Zevrix Solutions today is pleased to announce that Graphic Inspector, its quality control solution for images and vector files, is available at 50% off on the discount website MacZOT until January 28 only. Graphic Inspector can check entire folders of files for specific attributes and errors according to user defined workflow requirements. This special offer allows buyers to save $20 on each copy of the software.

"Graphic Inspector is a surprisingly powerful Mac graphic utility that gives you magic powers," writes Natalia Nowak on Mac360.com. "It can dig through a whole folder of bitmap images and vector files to pull out the information you need on each file. The app is very powerful, yet instantly understood."

Graphic Inspector is designed to help photographers, graphic designers, publishers, printers or just anyone who needs to work with a large library of graphics and need to quickly search for a specific attribute or error. Instead of doing this file by file, which could be really tedious, users can employ Graphic Inspector to preflight batches of files with a simple drag and drop. For example, users can quickly detect files whose color mode is CMYK, format - JPEG, resolution is below 300 dpi, ICC profile contains "US Web Coated" and so on.

Graphic Inspector offers the following key features:
* Check batches of images and vector graphic files
* Powerful checkup presets for different workflows
* Common checks such as resolution, color mode, ICC profile and file size
* Professional prepress checks: spot colors, fonts in vector graphics, image compression
* Complete EXIF, IPTC and GPS metadata
* Save preflight data as text file

Pricing and Availability:
Graphic Inspector can be ordered form MacZOT for $20 (USD) on January 27-28 only. Trial is also available for download. Graphic Inspector requires Mac OS X 10.5 - 10.11 (some features require OS X 10.7 or later).

Zevrix Solutions: http://zevrix.com
Graphic Inspector: http://maczot.com
Download Graphic Inspector: http://zevrix.com/GraphicInspector.dmg
Screenshot: http://zevrix.com/screenshots/gi2/gi2-main.jpg

Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides automation and productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Cloud and Creative Suite software, PDF workflows, graphic file diagnostics and Microsoft Office output on Mac OS. Zevrix is dedicated to help professionals increase their profits through automating everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit their website. Copyright (C) 2016 Zevrix Solutions. All Rights Reserved. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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Leo Revzin
Owner
858-206-0607
Canada
leo.revzin@zevrix.com

Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zevrix-Solutions/44343149780
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/company/zevrix-solutions
Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/Zevrix

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Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:30 am (PST) . Posted by:

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PERALTA Unveils Abby iPhone Case That Doubles as Mini Purse - Published on 01/27/16

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California based PERALTA | San Francisco introduces the new Abby iPhone Case, a beautiful micro-purse with a scratch-free pocket to keep the iPhone safe and easily accessible. The case accommodates an iPhone 6s Plus along with minimalist basic necessities. In a choice of two elegant, water-resistant LUNA fabrics or in naturally-pebbled black or mahogany leather, the beautiful Abby iPhone Case supports bold, smart, and creative women with a bag that's small enough to stay out of the way.

San Francisco, California - PERALTA | San Francisco, a local maker of sophisticated bags and cases for tech-savvy women, presents the new Abby iPhone Case - a beautiful micro-purse with a scratch-free pocket to keep the iPhone safe and easily accessible. The Case accommodates an iPhone 6s Plus (or smaller phone) along with minimalist basic necessities - glasses, keys, wallet, mints and lipstick. In a choice of two elegant, water-resistant LUNA(R) fabrics or in naturally-pebbled black or mahogany leather, the beautiful Abby iPhone Case supports bold, smart, and creative women with a bag that's small enough to stay out of the way, yet big enough to keep key essentials quickly accessible.

"There are a lot of phone cases out there and even some that carry credit cards and cash, but in order for women juggling multiple roles to stay organized throughout their busy days, they need their critical essentials within easy reach," explains Amyel Oliveros, Creative Director. "The Abby Case is our answer to that; I designed it to hold an iPhone and other key necessities. It's a great-looking and trust-worthy sidekick to keep women prepared for whatever comes their way."

The PERALTA Abby iPhone Case combines gorgeous fabric from women-owned manufacturer, LUNA(R) Textiles or naturally-tanned, pebbled leather with a thoughtfully designed interior that includes: an UltraSuede(R)-lined phone pocket to keep screens clean and protected; a side pocket to keep a few small items organized; and a main compartment for slightly bulkier items like glasses or wallets. Premium-quality chrome hardware attaches a removable leather strap to two side hooks, so the Abby can be worn as a micro-purse or stowed strap-free in another bag, keeping essentials together. The case closes with YKK locking zippers, ensuring that women's necessities stay safely stowed inside, and gold lining lights up the interior making it easy to identify contents.

Women can choose from PERALTA's supple, naturally-tanned and naturally-pebbled, full grain leather in black or mahogany, or choose LUNA(R) textiles' regal, gold on blue "Plaza" or red on red "Gala" fabric. Luna's Nanotex(R) technology adds durability and water-resistance to these elegant fabrics. The Abby iPhone Case can be attached to the PERALTA Balani Backpack with PERALTA's quick access leather tether, further enhancing organization.

The Abby iPhone Case joins PERALTA's line of bags and cases to support women in their busy daily lives, including the Balani women's laptop backpack, the Scarlett iPad Pro Sleeve, the Etta Accessories pouch and the PERALTA leather key tether. All PERALTA products are designed and handcrafted in San Francisco. The Peralta line is designed to support the diverse array of successful women in all that they do.

Pricing and Availability:
The Abby Case
Price: $79 - textiles. $89 - leather.
Colors and Materials: Black or mahogany naturally-tanned, naturally-pebbled, full-grain leather or blue on gold "Plaza" or red on red "Gala" Luna(R) fabric with Nano-Tex water-resisting coating.
Dimensions: 8.5 to 7.75 x 6 by 1 inches Weight: 6.4 oz.

Available for pre-order at PERALTA online. Shipping begins by February 5, 2016.

PERALTA | San Francisco: http://www.peraltabags.com/
The Abby iPhone Case: http://www.peraltabags.com/products/abby-iphone-case

PERALTA designs bags to support bold, smart, and creative women in the many roles they play throughout the day. The bags are thoughtfully designed to keep women comfortable, confident and organized. PERALTA is a subsidiary of WaterField Designs, a San Francisco maker of bags and cases for tech-savvy consumers since 1998. For more information, see "Our Story" at the PERALTA website. PERALTA | San Francisco, WaterField Designs, Abby Phone Case, Balani Backpack, Etta Pouch are trademarks of WaterField Designs and PERALTA | San Francisco. Copyright (C) 2016 WaterField Designs. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, iPhone, iPad and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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Heidi Marzke
Director of PR and Social Media
415-552-8572
United States
heidi@sfbags.com

Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/PeraltaBags/
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/waterfield-designs-sfbags-com/10/329/401
Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/PeraltaBags

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