Pacific Rim gets Super Ticket theater and digital download combo in Canada

Cineplex Entertainment and Warner Bros. Entertainment join forces to offer Canada’s first Super Ticket offering for the much anticipated Guillermo del Toro summer blockbuster, Pacific Rim, showing on July 12.

This offer includes the movie ticket and pre-order of the UltraViolet digital version of Pacific Rim ($19.99 for standard definition and $24.99 for high definition), which will be available before the DVD and Blu-Ray release. Super Ticket purchasers will also get additional 725 points for Cineplex’s loyalty program and access to exclusive extra content. Super Ticket sales opened on July 5 at Cineplex.com, participating Cineplex theater box offices or automated ticketing kiosks, or through the Cineplex mobile app.

Reinvent how your Instagram photos look with TRYPTpic

Who doesn’t want a unique-looking profile page on Instagram? TRYPTpic 1.0 for iOS is ready to help you in that department. The app lets you crop a photo into multiple related panels and uploads these sequentially to create a larger display area that makes use of the entire grid of your profile.

This split picture framing app offers six different panel choices: 1x3, 2x3, 3x3, 3x4, 1x2, and 2x2. You can upload the first four directly through the Instagram interface of the app, while the last two have to be manually uploaded for they need other photos to fill the blank spaces. TRYPTpic costs $0.99 and is available exclusively through the Apple App Store.

Sony rolls out smartphone recovery service worldwide

We’re all not ready to part with our smartphones but sometimes they get stolen from us. Sony wants to make things easy for you if this unnecessary incident occurs by finally rolling out its smartphone recovery service, My Xperia, worldwide.

If you’re using a 2012 or 2013 Xperia phone you will gain access to the service. It will help you pinpoint the location of your lost handset, lock it down, sound an alert, and wipe the storage.

Watch_Dogs Live now available on Android

Watch_Dogs Live finally makes its way to the Android operating system and is up for free download on the Google Play Store. The Canadian-exclusive app has already reached over 19,000 downloads of the iOS version and has ranked in the top 30 most downloaded free apps on the Canadian App Store. Players stand a chance to win items such as Sony PlayStation 4 consoles, Sennheiser headset, gift cards from EB Games Canada, and limited edition items from Frank & Oak. The grand prize at the end of the campaign includes a 2014 Watch_Dogs SCION tC and and invite to the Watch_Dogs launch party.

Ubisoft also unveiled a teaser for one of the real-life hacks, Crack for Cash. We’re sure this will keep you preoccupied until the November release of this hot new video game franchise.