Village Gamer

The Hot Wheels® Colour Shifters™ Road Trip currently making its way across the country is taking a detour into Edmonton and Calgary to unveil its life-size colour-shifting Mustang. The cool, state-of-the-art Ford Mustang and the Hot Wheels® Colour Shifters™ Trailer has been zooming across the country visiting festivals, camps and family events in various towns and cities. The Road Trip runs all summer long from July to September, giving Canadians of all ages a chance to experience help changing the colour of the car themselves. Kids who attend the event can help change the colour of the car, play with Hot Wheels® toys and will also receive a special Hot Wheels® collector booklet, T-shirt and more.

Edmonton Stops:
August 10th: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM at the Jamie Platz Family YMCA 7121 – 178 Street
August 11th: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM at the William Lutsky YMCA 1975 111 Street

Calgary Stops:
August 12th: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM at the Mid-Sun Community Centre 50 Midpark Rise SE
August 15th: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM at Toys “R” Us 10450 MacLeod Trail SE
August 18th: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM at the Southland Leisure Centre 2000 Southland Drive SW
August 18th: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM at the Village Square Leisure Centre 2623 56 Street NE

Staying in Alberta for a bit, iStockphoto has launched a redesigned version of the world’s most popular stock multimedia marketplace. The new site offers a clean, contemporary look and feel, and reflects more than a year of customer-focused usability research and design. The new site was built using an innovative back-end architecture laying the framework for several future enhancements including a new search interface being unveiled before the end of the year.

The new site structure has been designed specifically around each type of audience that frequents the site, allowing faster, easier access to content. A revised navigation scheme, with a renewed focus on the customer, divides the site into three distinct segments: shop, participate and help. The work of exclusive contributors will be more prominently featured throughout the site via large “hero images.” iStockphoto has also noted this will be the last version of the site to support Internet Explorer® 6. Read the rest of this entry »