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ShieldApps Adds Android Protection to Its Privacy Suite
ShieldApps expands and deepens it mobile and cross-device strategy, deploying its flagship product to the Android market via the Google Play Store. - August 21, 2017 - ShieldApps
ZooCraft Celebrates Pawesome Worldwide Release
Creative Mobile, Estonia’s leading game developer, announces the official launch of casual, cute animal simulation game ZooCraft to Google Play. ZooCraft players are handed the keys to a run-down zoo, they must build their own unique zoo, breed and discover new animal species by making... - July 22, 2017 - Creative Mobile
Nitro Nation Online goes Overdrive
Creative Mobile teams up with Universum Film (UFA) to bring the Overdrive movie into Nitro Nation Online. - July 22, 2017 - Creative Mobile
TAG in Orange County Appoints New Controller
Justin Atneyel brings eight years of experience in the accounting field to strengthen resources for corporate outsourced accounting division and TAG Family CFO. - July 19, 2017 - TAG
Winners of World Emoji Awards to be Announced on World Emoji Day Monday July 17, 2017
July 17 is World Emoji Day. World Emoji Day events include lighting the Empire State Building "Emoji Yellow" and winners of World Emoji Awards to be announced. - July 17, 2017 - Emojipedia
WanXin & E-Link Partner for PC Games
Top Chinese publishing company, WanXin Media Group, to scout for PC games with E-Link. E-Link searching for new games to partner with. - July 14, 2017 - E-Link Entertainment
Nitro Nation Online 5.4 Live Racing Leagues Update
This summer heats up with Live Racing Leagues and a new class of fun thematic vehicles. Independent game developer Creative Mobile announces a summer update for the free-to-play racing game Nitro Nation Online. - July 14, 2017 - Creative Mobile
QA Mentor Selects GenRocket to Redefine the Price/Performance Ratio of Test Data Management Services
QA Mentor, the software quality assurance expert and global provider of software testing services and GenRocket, the technology leader in test data generation software solutions today announced a global reseller partnership to offer GenRocket software as an in-house solution for customers and a... - June 29, 2017 - GenRocket, Inc.
Hunger Cops Celebrates National Doughnut Day
Creative Mobile and JoyCraft Games announce the official release of Hunger Cops for the App Store and Google Play in celebration of National Doughnut Day on June 2nd. Hunger Cops is a voxel style, endless casual driving game for mobile. Players patrol through city and highway traffic in a variety... - June 04, 2017 - Creative Mobile
Interactive Storybook "Guardian Guardian" by Polished Play Now Available on the Apple App Store
Available today from Polished Play, LLC, the app "Garden Guardian" is the third installment of the Puppet Pals Storybook series. The series is notable for its use of photographs of your kids faces as protagonists in the stories. Each book allows users to add up to 10 facial expressions which are then used to animate the action of the book. - May 26, 2017 - Polished Play, LLC
Access Embedded SWF File Data in Presentation & Improved Presentation Rendering Using Aspose.Slides for Java 17.4.0
It allows accessing the embedded SWF file data inside presentation and can even extract that. Developers can also verify if any given presentation has been crated or modified. It has improved presentation rendering support in this API and has rectified issues related to text, image, charts, table cells, borders & other shapes rendering inside exported SVG, PDF and slide thumbnails. It has also resolved the issues related to slides cloning & fonts styles getting changed in cloned presentations. - May 24, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Apply Checksum Validation on Codabar Barocde & Enhanced GS1DataMatrix Generation Using Aspose.BarCode for Java 17.03.0
This new release provides the capability to add checksum validation on Codabar coded barcode. An enhancement has also been made in this version to control fake/additional recognition of DutchKIX while MaxBarCodes mode is applied. New changes have been incorporated into the detection algorithm to read GS1DataMatrix barcode. GS1DataMatrix barcode generation algorithm has been updated and now generates much clearer GS1DataMatrix barcode image. - May 21, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
AutoCAD DWF Files Rendering Support, Enhanced DWG Layers Conversion to PDF & PNG Using Aspose.CAD for .NET 17.2.0
It support working with DWF files and render them to images and PDF files as per requirement. This release also includes improved rendering support for DWG file format as well in terms of exporting to PDF and images. The support for new entity MLeader has also been included for DWG drawings. It also enhanced some important features, such as support for DXF and DWG file formats in FileFormat enumeration, Converting DWG layers to PDF and converting DWG layers to PNG image are greatly improved. - May 20, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Set Horizontal & Vertical Resolution While Saving Word Documents to Images Using Aspose.Words for Cloud 17.4.0
It contains 1 new feature & a couple of bug fixes. Users can now set the Horizontal & Vertical Resolution while converting word document to an Image format. It also fixes issues with Words Cloud under high concurrency environment. This release enhanced automatic tracking changes and now when users replace text in a word document, the author’s name will be tracked. Its platform independent document manipulation API that can be used with any language: .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby, Rails, Python & more. - May 19, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Identify If Image is Transparent or Not & Improved Memory Usage for DNG File Format using Aspose.Imaging for .NET 17.4.0
It has included support for identifying whether image transparency is available or not. There are some important enhancements part of this release, such as Improving memory usage for DNG file format, support for converting SVG to PDF, Converting SVG to raster image (PNG in this case) file, Improve quality of resized image, TIFF images with JPEG compression should support all possible bits per sample combinations and Implementation of rate control algorithm for Aspose.Imaging Jpeg-2000 codec. - May 18, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Shoot ‘Em Up Trigger Time Releases on Steam
Creative Mobile and Shephf Games announce the release of top-down shoot ‘em up Trigger Time on Steam. - May 18, 2017 - Creative Mobile
XFA to Standard Acro Form Conversion & Enhanced PDF Rendering to Image, PDF/A & DOCX Using Aspose.Pdf for Java 17.3.0
It specifically focused on PDF file conversion to various supported output formats. The PDF file to PDF/A format conversion and validation capabilities are among the salient features of this API. Developers can transform PDF file to DOC, DOCX, XLS and PPTX format. It also enhanced PDF files to DOCX format & XFA forms conversion to standard Acro Forms. It also enhanced PDF to Image conversion, Text extraction, Text replacement, Tex file to PDF conversion & PDF form filling, PDF file merge. - May 17, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Permanently Remove Messages from PST File & Enhanced Working with MAPI Properties Using Aspose.Email for Java 17.3.0
It enhances the functionality of deleting messages from PST file such that deleted messages won’t be recoverable from the file anymore. Aspose.Email supports reading and setting wide range of MAPI properties for Outlook MSG file. This months’ release further enhances the capability of working with MAPI properties by providing support for a new property i.e. PT_FLOAT. It also improved EML to MHTML conversion, Saving EML to MSG, email to TIFF, Saving MSGs/Calendar Items from PST & many more. - May 14, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
PDF to PDF/A Conversion, Enhanced Text Search & Text Extraction in PDF Files Using Aspose.Pdf for .NET 17.4.0
It has made improvements in PDF to PDF/A conversion to cater more customers’ scenarios & to handle documents with different structure & complexity. This API is also amazing in Text manipulation, whether it’s Text Addition, Text extraction, Text Search or Text replacement. However in this release, specifically improved Text extraction feature and many of the customers reported issues related to this feature have been fixed. PDF file conversion to other supported file formats is also improved. - May 13, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Use Enhanced GS1 Barcode Generation & Recognition in SQL Server Reporting Services Using Aspose.BarCode for SSRS APIs 17.4
It Aspose.BarCode for SSRS APIs 17.4.0 enhanced functionality of GS1 coded barcode. It allows developers to generate GS1 coded barcode according to AI specifications. New validators have been incorporated that can validate text code having only digits & complex AIs. API will throw an exception in case it fails to validate. Functionality of ExportToXml method has been improved. ExportToXml method now export dimension properties along with other properties of newly define barcode into XML file. - May 12, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Import Bitmap Image as New Visio Shape in Visio Drawing & Improved Routing Mechanism Using Aspose.Diagram for Java 17.4.0
It has improved the feature of importing a Bitmap image as a shape in Visio drawing. Developers can now import a Bitmap image even in their complex drawings. Developers can also find improvements in routing and building the structure of connectors with a high accuracy rate. This release also made improvements in routing mechanism to address the connections of Visio shapes as well as auto routing of connectors. It is a standalone Visio Java library and does not depend on Microsoft Office Visio. - May 10, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Rate Control Algorithm Implementation for JPEG2000 & Enhanced SVG to PDF Conversion Using Aspose.Imaging for Java 17.4.0
It supports implementation of rate control algorithm for JPEG2000 and improved quality when image get resized. Some important enhancements are also introduced in this release, such as Support for converting SVG to PDF, Converting SVG to raster image file is showing blank resultant PNG file, Improve quality of resized image, saving of large PNG images leads to black resulting images, TIFF images with JPEG compression should support all possible bits per sample combinations & more. - May 07, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Build Any Type of 32-Bit & 64-Bit C++ Applications Using Aspose.Cells for C++ APIs
It adds support for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows for desktop (e.g. XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10) and server operating systems (e.g. 2003, 2008, 2012), etc. Previously, it only supported 32-bit OS. Developers may use this C++ APIs to build any type of 32-bit and 64-bit C++ application. Aspose.Cells is a native C++ library that enables developers to create, read, edit & convert Excel spreadsheets programmatically without relying on Office automation or Microsoft Excel application. - May 05, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Hexaware and GenRocket Partner to Offer Accelerated Software Development Solutions Based on Test Data Generation Technology
Hexaware Technologies Limited, a leading global provider of application, infrastructure, BPS and digital services and GenRocket, a technology leader in automated software test tools, today announced a global reseller partnership to provide advanced software testing products and services to... - May 02, 2017 - GenRocket, Inc.
Set Horizontal/Vertical Resolution for Output Image & Advanced Documents Comparison Options Using Aspose.Words for Java & .NET 17.4.0
It contains over 80 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes, such as it allows customers to specify comparison settings, Custom Xml Data Properties is now supported for RTF format, Implemented support for baseline alignment in Asian text, Improved table split for vertically merged cells in combination with at-least height, Improved table grid calculation for horizontally merged cells, The horizontal and vertical resolution of output images can now be specified separately and more. - April 30, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Delete Messages from PST File Permanently & Enhanced EML to MSG Conversion Using Aspose.Email for .NET 17.4.0
It enhances the functionality of deleting messages from a PST file permanently. This means these are no more recoverable from the PST file with recovery tools. This month’s release also provides support for a new Mapi property i.e. PT_FLOAT. The addition of this new one further enhances the list of such properties. It also enhanced EML to MHTML conversion, Saving EML to MSG, reading from VCF file, converting EMLs to tiff, Saving MSGs/Calendar Items from PST, email to TIFF conversion & more. - April 29, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Gear VR Gets Its First Retro Console Game
Solomons Lair Studios in partnership with Frag-Games and Intellivision Lives announce the release of their first Virtual Reality title “Minotaur” based on the original Intellivision console game “Treasures of Tarmin” published in 1981. - April 28, 2017 - Solomons Lair
Insert Page Breaks, Auto-Fit Single or Multiple Rows, Columns in Excel Worksheet Using Aspose.Cells for Cloud 17.3.0
It enables developers to implement their various new scenarios to manipulate the Excel files. They may import an Excel file, auto-fit rows and columns of any worksheet, and then save to any supported file format. Developers can also retrieve, add or remove the vertical and horizontal page breaks inside the worksheets. They may also use any available language-specific SDK to convert, edit, or manipulate Microsoft Excel Workbooks. It also works with both desktops and mobile devices. - April 28, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Formula Value Calculations, Enhanced Recalculation for MPP & XML File Formats Using Aspose.Tasks for .NET 17.3.0
It affects a number of functionality areas of the API in terms of improvement. It has fixed issues related to reading and writing MPP files that resulted in exceptions while saving the file. It also fixed issues related to the formula value calculations while working with date time formula fields of a project. The recalculation issues have been fixed for these fields including DateAdd, DateDiff and DatePart. It has also improved recalculation implementations for both MPP & XML file formats. - April 27, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Skew Correction Improvement with Better Eigen-Points Selection & Grouping Using Aspose.OCR for Java 17.3.0
This new release includes improved image skew correction mechanism with better EigenPoints selection and grouping. This release also enhanced Working of metered licensing mechanism. Bugs reported by Aspose customers have been fixed due to which overall performance of the API is also improved. Aspose.OCR for Java is a character and optical mark recognition API that allows developers to add OCR and OMR functionality in their Java based applications. - April 23, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Apply Checksum Validation on Codabar & Enhanced Reading Code39Standard Barcode Using Aspose.BarCode for .NET 17.3.0
It allows developers to apply checksum validation on Codabar Barcode. The API now exposes the CodabarChecksumMode enumeration to specify the checksum mode. It also allows developers to get barcode text along with checksum value. This release also includes several enhancements, such as Process of reading GS1DataMatrix barcode, Process of reading Code39Standard barcode, Recognition of DutchKIX barcode in MaxBarCodes mode & processing of GS1DataMatrix barcode generation has been greatly improved. - April 22, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Get Chart External Workbook Path & Enhanced HTML Export Support Using Aspose.Slides for .NET 17.3.0
It includes the long awaited support for getting absolute position values for chart Plot Area. If chart inside presentation has external workbook as chart data source, users can now get path of chart external workbook data source. It also improved the external fonts loading support & now developers can load the external fonts inside a byte array in their application. It has also improved the verification of loaded file format & included support for identification of PowerPoint 95 files format. - April 20, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Outlook VCard Contacts Conversion to MHTML & Email Threading Support Using Aspose.Email for Java 17.3.0
This new release enhanced the functionality of replying messages using the API which results in generating email threads for the original and replied email. This leads to the display of email as conversation threads. It also supports conversion of Outlook VCard contact to MHTML. It also includes several bug fixes that were reported by Aspose users with the previous release. It also enhanced MSG to HTML conversion, Image attachment in eml, Loading MSG file, EML to HTML & many more. - April 19, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Word 2013 Documents & Variables Support in LINQ Reporting Engine Using Aspose.Words for Java.Android 17.3.0
It contains some useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes, such as improved reading of GIFs, Support of Linear Gradient, Inserts online video in document, Full support for Word 2013 document, Variables support, features are introduced in LINQ Reporting Engine, Stroke weight is now taken into account while rendering auto-sized Textboxes, Implemented next round of improvements in table grid algorithm, Improved table breaking logic in compatibility mode for tables with header rows & more. - April 16, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Printing OneNote Document & Linking Document Images to Hyperlinks Using Aspose.Note for .NET 17.3.0
It introduces a new feature of printing OneNote documents. The Document.Print method allows sending the loaded document to default printer. It has also enhanced the API with capability of linking document images to hyperlinks. It also optimizes the output file size and time required to save OneNote documents that have many page revisions. This further improves performance of API while working with such documents. It also fixes a number of bugs that further improved the API functionality. - April 15, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Automatic Tracking of Changes in Word Documents & Getting/Setting Locale of Field Using Aspose.Words for Cloud 17.1.0
It contains a couple of new features and three enhancements to Aspose.Words for Cloud. Aspose.Words core library has also been updated to version 17.3.0. It has provided functionality similar to Document.StartTrackRevisions and Document.StopTrackRevisions Methods. Revision of date & time and render page resource has also been added. It also supports embedding fonts resources to HTML in Base64 encoding and has added a property that allows getting or setting field’s locale. - April 14, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Render MS Outlook VCard Contact Information to MHTML & Email Threading Support Using Aspose.Email for .NET 17.3.0
It provides the capability to render Microsoft Outlook VCard contact information to MHTML. Aspose.Email API already supported creating reply and forwarding messages using the MailMessage class. This month’s release provides the capability to create threading among the original emails and the replies sent out using Aspose.Email API. It also enhanced MSG to HTML conversion, Image attachment in EML, ICS extraction from EML, Loading MSG file, EML to MSG conversion & more. - April 13, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Validate an Entire Worksheet of GridWeb & Customizing Excel Pivot Table Using Aspose.Cells for Java 17.3.0
It adds new feature to enhance the API control over the pivot tables. Developers can retrieve and set globalization settings of a pivot table. Developers can customize the Pivot Total, Sub Total, Grand Total, All Items, Multiple Items, Column Labels, Row Labels, Blank Values text as per the requirements. Developers can also call client-side script on the page change event of GridWeb control. Developers can now validate the entire worksheet on client side before the GridWeb requests to server. - April 12, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
VBA Macros Preservation & Accurate Alignment of Shapes on Visio Drawing Conversion Using Aspose.Diagram for Java 17.3.0
This new release allows Developers to preserve their exiting VBA macros during the export of Visio drawings. It also brings an accuracy to align multiple shapes during the transformation of Visio drawing to any other supported format. Aspose team recommends clients to use the powerful Aspose for Java APIs directly in their Maven Projects with simple configurations. This release also enhanced Visio page to SVG, VSD to SVG and VSD to PDF export. - April 09, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Calculate PDF Table Width & Embed Media Files inside PDF Document Using Aspose.Pdf for .NET 17.3.0
It has implemented a new annotation RichMediaAnnotation. It is used to embed media files within PDF document. It has introduced a new method GetWidth() to calculate Table width. It supports insertion of HTML string in PDF document. If HTML specified fonts are available on host system then it uses same fonts, otherwise it uses system default fonts. It has also added support to set footnote Text color. It also enhanced PCL to PDF conversion, PDF to PDFA1b, PDF to HTML, PDF to DOC/ DOCX & more. - April 08, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Aspose.Words for Xamarin.Android is Released: Create, Edit & Convert Word Docs in Android Apps
Aspose.Words for Xamarin.Android is an advanced Word document processing API to perform a wide range of document processing tasks directly within your native android applications. It enables developers to Create, edit and convert Word documents within Android apps developed. Integrate API through Xamarin framework for Android applications. The API supports DOC, OOXML, RTF, HTML, OpenDocument, PDF, XPS, EPUB and other formats. Moreover, Developers can generate modify convert & render documents. - April 07, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Convert Google Draco Encoded DRC File to 3D Supported Formats Using Aspose.3D for .NET 17.03.0
It adds support for importing Google Draco encoded DRC files. Developers can import DRC files into Aspose.3D API, and then export them in any supported 3D format. The Google Draco, an open source compression library, can improve the storage & transmission of 3D graphics. Draco can be used to compress meshes and point-cloud data. It also supports compressing points, connectivity information, texture coordinates, color information, normals & any other generic attributes associated with geometry. - April 06, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Creative Mobile Celebrates Nitro Nation 3rd Birthday
Nitro Nation Online racing game celebrates the 3 years that have raced by since its official launch. - April 06, 2017 - Creative Mobile
RDL Reports Conversion to EPUB & PDF File Formats in SQL Reporting Services Using Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services 17.1.0
This new release supports Converting .RDL files to EPUB compliant format. EPUB (short for electronic publication) is a free and open e-book standard from the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Aspose team has been receiving lots of requests from the customers regarding the support for this format. So now apart from current features of rendering .RDL file to PDF and XPS format, developers can use the same component to generate the output in EPUB format. - April 05, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
PDF File to EPUB Conversion & Setting RGB Color as Text Foreground Color Using Aspose.Pdf for Android 16.12.0
This release adds the capability of converting PDF files to EPUB format, the functionality of adding bullet text inside PDF document and the leverage of setting foreground color for text inside PDF document have also been provided in this release. Aspose team has also worked significantly on performance improvement, handling different documents to avoid unexpected behaviors, have greatly improved the PDF to raster images conversion and text extraction capabilities. - April 02, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Read Code39standard Barcode from PNG Image & Enhanced QR Code Recognition Using Aspose.BarCode for .NET 17.2.0
It improves barcode recognition process. It includes enhancements, such as Processing of QR Coded barcode, Restoring code128 uses a bitmap splitting in the histogram algorithm and reading code39standard barcode from PNG image. Aspose.BarCode for .NET is written in managed C# thus allowing developers to quickly and easily add generation and recognition functionality to their Microsoft .NET applications including but not limited to WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF, .NET Compact Framework and Silverlight - March 30, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Identify Merged Cells in Slide Table & Compare Two Slides for Equality Using Aspose.Slides for Java 17.2.0
It supports finding merged cells inside slide table. Developers can also compare two slides for equality. The true will be returned if the two slides are equal. It has also improved presentation rendering support & has resolved issues related to missing or improper text rendering, improperly rendered images & other missing entities in generated PDF, SVG & slide thumbnails outputs. It also rectified issues related Ole frame which failed to get opened in edit mode when viewed in PowerPoint. - March 29, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Memory Management Process & JPEG, GIF PSD PNG Images Processing in Multi-Threaded Environment Using Aspose.Imaging for Java 17.3.0
It improved memory management process. This improvement will help preventing memory leakage issues while loading images from memory stream. Synchronized access to mutually exclusive images in multi-threaded environment is the key development in this release. Mechanism to process JPEG, GIF, BMP, PSD, PNG and JPEG2000 images in multi-threaded environment has also been incorporated. It further enhanced Djvu to PDF Conversion, JPEG to BMP format Conversion, processing of TIFF images & more. - March 26, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Create PivotTable & Convert Excel Table to a Normal Range of Cells Using Aspose.Cells for Cloud 17.2.0
It enables developers to create a pivot table to summarize the list objects data. It also allows users to filter the data in Microsoft Office Excel. Developers can apply a new filter to a pivot table, retrieve all filters of a pivot table or delete a filter of any pivot table. Moreover, it also supports Pivot Table operation in Task processing, add recalculate parameter for hiding pivot field items, Move PivotTable field, convert ListObjects or Table to a Normal Range of Cells and many more. - March 24, 2017 - Aspose Pty Ltd
Lean Construction Arrives on Your Apple and Android; Planning and Construction Got More Productive
Lean Station releases mobile apps for their flagship product Lean PlanDo, a Lean Construction tool for planning and collaborative management. - March 23, 2017 - Lean Station Pte Ltd