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April 2008

CPS has teamed with Omneon Video Networks to aid in quality assurance efforts leading to the release of their latest firmware release for the Omneon Spectrum modular media server system. This release provides support for many new features in the Spectrum hardware environment. CPS also concurrently provided QA services to test the latest version of Omneon System Manager, the primary user interface used by the Spectrum and MediaDeck media server systems.

April 2008

CPS has completed another new product for Riverdeep: PrintMaster® Nick Jr. Edition. This latest addition to the PrintMaster® consumer print product line incorporates content from some of the most popular kids’ shows on the Nick Jr. network. PrintMaster® Nick Jr. Edition is one of the first products to be built using the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) within the .NET Framework, and has achieved Microsoft “Works With Windows Vista” certification status.

February 2008

CPS has completed a port of Adobe’s Shockwave Player to the Intel Macintosh platform. With the release of this new version, applications built in Adobe Director can now be used on Intel Macs at full native speed. Additionally, Shockwave content can now be used in the browser on any Intel Mac.

November 2007

CPS announces the release of a blog printing widget for Blogger, developed for a large print-centric information technology corporation. This version of the popular blog rendering and printing web service provides support for Google’s Blogger blogging platform.

October 2007

HP and CPS collaborated to develop an application that allows users to experience how their photos stand up over time, by simulating onscreen photo fading for any digital JPEG image, allowing the comparison of a photo printed with Original HP supplies to a photo printed with non-HP supplies.

Experience the Light Fade Simulator for yourself: http://www.hp.com/go/printpermanence.

October 2007

CPS has teamed with Microsoft and a large print-centric information technology corporation to integrate a blog printing solution into the blogging component of the Windows Live Spaces social networking platform. This release has been localized into over 30 different languages, and is available to thousands of blog authors and readers in over 50 international markets.

For more information, visit http://get.live.com/spaces.

September 2007

CPS announces the release of a blog printing plug-in for Wordpress 2.3, developed for a large print-centric information technology corporation. This version of the popular blog rendering and printing web service provides support for this latest version of the Wordpress blogging platform.

September 2007

CPS worked with Riverdeep to update their PrintMaster® consumer print product to version 18, and brought PrintMaster® to the Microsoft “Works With Windows Vista” certification status.

August 2007

CPS announces the release of a blog printing plug-in for MovableType 4.0, developed for a large print-centric information technology corporation. This version of the popular blog rendering and printing web service provides support for MovableType 4.0, the newest version of the well-known blogging platform.

July 2007

CPS announces the release of a blog printing plug-in for Wordpress 2.2, developed for a large print-centric information technology corporation. This version of the popular blog rendering and printing web service provides support for the Wordpress blogging platform.

July 2007

CPS continues its long-term partnership with Riverdeep Inc., LLC with the release of two new products: Broderbund® Print Update for Windows Vista and The Print Shop® Zoom™ Essentials.

The Broderbund Print Update for Windows Vista brings existing installations of the Riverdeep consumer print products (The Print Shop® 22, PrintMaster® 17, and Creative Keepsakes Scrapbook Designer® 3) to the Microsoft “Works With Windows Vista” certification status. The Print Shop® Zoom™ Essentials is the latest version of the popular The Print Shop® brand of graphics and publishing software, and is Certified for Windows Vista.

June 2007

CPS worked with Intel to validate the stability of the VIIV Media Center platform. This collaboration involved numerous technologies in standard and high definition video playback and delivery.

May 2007

CPS announces the first release of a blog printing solution, developed for a large print-centric information technology corporation. The solution is a hosted web service that enables blog software to produce printable layouts of HTML-based blog entries in PDF format. CPS and the aforementioned corporation have teamed with the leading weblog software and services company, SixApart, Ltd, to launch the initial release on BoingBoing.net, Dooce.com, 43folders.com, and Techcrunch.com.

April 2007

CPS designed, implemented, and tested an application to demonstrate the viability of UltraWide-Band (UWB) Radio as a transport medium for HD quality video. The greatest value added was a custom video/audio transport protocol to allow real-time playback of HD video over UWB with less than 1 second startup buffering. The program is intended to be used by Focus’ sales force to demonstrate real time HD video transfer (from both the receiver and transmitter side) and to allow potential customers to “test-drive” the custom UWB card. The platform hosting the UWB card was a custom computer using the Fedora Linux OS, the program was written in C.

February 2007

CPS announces the release of The Print Shop® Zoom™ for Riverdeep Inc., LLC. This software is the first vertical of the popular The Print Shop® brand of graphics and publishing software to be built off of an entirely new .NET 3.0 code base, designed and developed in-house at CPS, and is Certified for Windows Vista.

February 2007

In it’s continued collaboration with Linden Lab, CPS is pleased to announce 3D Voice in Second Life.

November 2006

Professional MXF Components for Final Cut Pro. Now Macintosh users can benefit from an all-digital, file-based media workflow – ingest MXF content from Sony XDCAM, Ikegami Editcam, Grass Valley Infinity digital acquisition tools and Grass Valley Profile|K2 servers to Apple Final Cut Pro real-time editing software – then export from Final Cut Pro for seamless file transfer to Grass Valley servers – using the new Flip4Mac Professional MXF Components. http://www.flip4mac.com/pro.htm

October 2006

CPS developed the Parent Control Bar™ for Mac OS X. The Parental Control Bar allows an Administrator (Parent) to limit the Web Browsing experience of Safari users (Children) by a series of filtering methods including White List / Black List, ICRA tags, and user preferences. The primary goal of the Safari Browser plug-in is to prevent children from accessing adult-oriented web sites. http://www.parentalcontrolbar.com.

October 2006

CPS teams with MacTech Magazine to ship the MacTech CD. http://www.mactech.com/cd.

October 2006

CPS provides SecureKEY enhancement to the GE Security eKEY™ product line. This Windows Mobile suite of applications is written in C# and using .NET Compact Framework 2.0. http://www.geindustrial.com/ge-interlogix/supra/supra_ekey.html#section2.

September 2006

Confidential — PLX Driver
CPS ported a PCI Express driver for the PLX 8311 from Linux to Mac OS X. The resultant Mac OS IOKit Driver is targeted at a new medical imaging device to be announced in early 2007 and supports both PPC and Intel Macs.

September 2006

Confidential — Messenger Application for Mac OS X
Critical Path Software, Inc. collaborated with a major provider of Instant Messaging on a port of their most recent Windows technologies to Mac OS X. Work including supporting all underlying protocols, Windows features and sports a super spiffy new user interface for Mac OS X. New features include avatars, sounds, display images, webcam, file transfer, emoticons, stealth settings, conferencing, and contact lists.

August 2006

CPS announces the release of The Print Shop® 22 family of products for Riverdeep Inc., LLC. This latest version of the popular The Print Shop® brand of graphics and publishing software is our most recent project in a long-term partnership with Riverdeep. Click here for more information on The Print Shop® 22.

July 2006

Confidental — ACPI driver
Developed ACPI - HID mapper driver. Implemented standard driver routines, power and PNP driver requests. Performed Microsoft WHQL driver certification tests.

May 2006

Critical Path has provided Linden Lab with Mac platform expertise for some time now, starting with the initial port of SecondLife to the Mac platform. We continue to assist with platform-specific bug fixes and projects such as the integration of the Gecko engine for an embedded web browser and the transition to a universal binary for optimal performance on Intel-based Mac. http://secondlife.com/community/downloads.php.

March 16, 2006

CPS announces that the universal binary Flash Player 8 preview (version 8.0.27.0) has shipped. CPS collaborated with Macromedia, Inc., now Adobe Systems, Inc., on the Intel port and final qualification of this version of Flash Player.

March, 2006

CPS is pleased to announce the release of PrintMaster® 17, the newest products in this award winning product line. PrintMaster® is the perfect fit for any user’s home publishing needs, allowing users to create everything from greeting cards to banners, CD labels, party favors, and much more. Look for more products from CPS’s partnership with Riverdeep soon! Find out more.

February, 2006

CPS announces the release of ClickArt® 1.2 Million, the next generation of quality image, graphic and font software for home publishing from Riverdeep Inc., LLC. With 1.2 million images, users are sure to find to find the right content for whatever project they are creating. Look for more products from CPS’s partnership with Riverdeep soon! Find out more.

January 13, 2006

CPS ships the Mac secure wireless client for Wibiki. www.wibiki.com.

January 10, 2006

CPS is pleased to announce our partnership with Telestream to produce the shipping Windows Media® Components for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac™. These components allow Mac users to view Windows Media content using QuickTime. You can view the press release here.

In addition to other engineering tasks, CPS performed Altivec optimizations featuring an over 400% performance increase for HD resolution video playback. Download the player here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/flip4mac.mspx.

September 8, 2005

CPS ships the Mac client for GamesGrid Poker. Download the client here.

August 8, 2005

CPS announces the release of the Canon XL2 SDK for Mac OS X.

July 1, 2005

CPS announces new project with Yahoo!. Check back for updates.

 
 

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