Home Inspections with iPad

Carson, Dunlop, a longtime customer of ours has launched an iPad-compatible web app to allow home inspectors to file home inspections online to a central repository.

Scott Hamilton and Grand Unified Theories

Scott Hamilton makes gory bodies. Not just any gory bodies. He makes REALLY gory bodies for special effects for films. And he's proud that he's researched human remains working with the Coroner and morgues to get actually right. He's almost always busy and is at work on several motion pictures as we speak, on special make-up, special effects and unusual rubber molds for skeletons and the like.

Animator Jay Boose

Jayson Boose was born and raised in the tundra of Ontario, Canada where he studied classical animation. In 1995 he got his big break and moved south of the border where he landed his first job as an assistant animator on Fox Animation’s “Anastasia.” Soon, Walt Disney Feature Animation beckoned and his adventure with the mouse began.

He started out as an assistant animator on Disney’s “Mulan”, then later as an animator on “Lilo & Stitch” and Brother Bear.” Since the untimely death of 2-D animation he has been blissfully working as an animator in a happy land called Pixar. The Chemist is his first foray into comics.


Jay and his wife Sarah moved back to Toronto after years working in the animation industry in the US. They said they're just happy to be in a place where people are friendlier. Welcome to the Beach, Sarah and Jay. Home of animators, cartoonists, special effects guys, and a whole lot of other really creative people.

Steve Ellwood and Law Practise Efficiency

Steve Ellwood has run a technology consulting operation for law firms since 1984 focusing on the legal market starting with accounting systems such as PCLaw, Peachtree, Bedford accounting, NuViews and Accpac accounting. The practice moved into word processing for these same law firms and provided training for support staff and lawyers in the transition from IBM Selectrics to WordStar, WordPerfect for DOS, MultiMate, XYWrite and a handful of other competing applications.

Document assembly and process automation then became the next frontier. Early systems for law firms included LexperText and WordPerfect's Notebook which for its time was literally 'magic'. On the same timeline firms started wanting to manage their contacts, calendaring and client data using computers. This quickly moved to into wanting to share information across staff where in the early 90’s ellwood started using and implementing Amicus and not too long afterwards, Time Matters.

Today his firm's three divisions are comprised of 14 professionals drawn from IT specialists to paralegals to forensic examiners. Our client base continues to be concentrated in the core of Toronto where he focuses on bringing major league tools to a wide variety of law firms with diverse practice areas. Their future is bright. With upcoming changes to the rules of civil procedure around the limits to the time spent in discovery, the need for accurate and efficient fact management and presentation will become even more important. His clients are prosperous because by and large they represent the subset of the profession that is aggressively seeking advantage for their clients; they are delivering superior results to their clients.

Hal Swann, InspireInc.

Beacher Hal Swann of Inspireinc.com is one of those nice guys you only expect to find in a Frank Capra film. Sort of a Jimmy Stewart character without the funny accent.

"We do end-to-end film production with flexible indie team size, for independent film makers, documentarians, and educators.

"I participate in other peoples’ teams too, when they need cinematography, camera operation, film stills, post-production coordination, editing, DVD creation, 360º VR, time-lapse and related work.

That, and unconventional photography :)"

As I rely on my csutomers to educate me, when Hal isn't bringing me new customers, he's usually educating me on some part of the Mac hagiography that I missed somewhere along the way.

VocaLinks Inc.

In May 1998, Beacher Peter Butler and Phil Huffman established VocaLinks Inc. We originally specialized in speech recognition software, particularly Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the first product to allow continuous speech dictation. It had recently evolved from the one-word-at-a-time Dragon Dictate product.

Most of their clients in those early days were doctors or computer users who had difficulty working with keyboards and mice. It didn't take very long for them to figure out that unleashing the power of speech had a very broad appeal.

Words are the building blocks of human communication, and computers have proven to be very effective tools for helping us read them and write them, whether we be doctors dictating medical reports, authors writing novels or students reading textbooks, learning the meanings of words or organizing ideas into persuasive essays.

Today, VocaLinks Inc. is a provider of tools and instruction to help people do all these things. When they help you unleash the power of speech, we are helping you to communicate with your intended audience. They are helping you to speak your ideas, to hear written words spoken aloud, to operate your computer by voice and to present your ideas to others.

Whitby Audio Video

Michael Huber of Whitby Audio Video is a friend I call upon to install high-end video and audio components for homes and business. He works with the vendors of the more popular home automation equipment.