This week’s MacAdmins Conference at Penn State will introduce a new form of show communication using Twocanoes’ beacons and Conference Platform, allowing organizers to customize the attendee experience through targeted messaging. Having received a welcome email with conference information and downloaded a customized pass onto their iPhone, attendees will automatically be prompted to register by scanning the QR code on their pass when they arrive.

Bamba! today introduces Bamba BBQ 1.0.0, its new kid’s educational title available universally for the iPhone as well as the iPad. Bamba BBQ brings with it all the exciting flavors of the BBQ experience along with wacky ingredients. Featuring an interactive interface, Bamba BBQ emulates the real life barbecue process so kids will have to chop wood, set fire to the pit and cook food. Kids are free to do what they like and serve their dish to the four wacky characters to enjoy their reaction.

Knowledge Poker is a new knowledge game based on “loosely” Poker rules. The player, learns and ascertains what he knows by placing bets on his knowledge on a specific answer that they think is correct. The asked questions are about various fields of knowledge such as History, Arts, Sports, Science, Human rights. The game is oriented so that the player can learn important and useful information. If the player has answered correctly on the first round an optional double or nothing round appears.

Renniksoft today announces Movie Genius 4.0, an update to their popular movie recommendation app for iOS devices. With over 30 film genres to choose from, Movie Genius provides intelligent recommendations based on matching themes, plots, and audience opinion. Users can view trailers, cast and crew lists, biographies and much more. With a database that includes tens of thousands of films, the update now features full iPad support with higher quality images, a new layout, and navigation system.

Independent developer Bassem Youssef introduces Light ’em Up 1.0, his new addictive puzzle game for iOS devices. Light ’em Up challenges players to create a path to power the light bulbs before the timer runs out. Players have a set amount of steps to connect the tubes, activate the light and win the level. Light ’em Up has 45 levels of gameplay, simple tapping controls, and beautiful color graphics. Light ’em Up is also Game Center-enabled and allows players to post to Twitter and Facebook.

California based Insider Software today announces FontAgent Pro 6.2 for Macintosh, an update to its professional font manager, which delivers auto-activation plug-ins for QuarkXPress 10 and Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 applications Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy and Illustrator. The new release also supports Insider’s line of font server products, including TeamServer for workgroups, FontAgent Pro Enterprise Server and FontAgent Pro CloudServer.

California based Sprite Kids today introduces Pizo Animals 1.0, a first in a new series of Pizo apps for iPhone and iPad devices. Featured this week by Apple as one of the Best New Apps for Kids, Pizo Animals is a fun learning environment for kids that helps them develop cognitive and fine motor skills with various age appropriate jigsaw puzzles in 3 difficulty levels. Kids go on a journey through the forest in Pizo Animals, putting together the animal shaped jigsaw puzzles.

If you’re looking for brain games on your iPad, you’ll want to get Brainbean 1.2 from independent developer Tanner Christensen. Fun for all ages, this colorful and elegantly designed app is full of creative mini-games, each 60 seconds, that will challenge your creativity and exercise your brain. Brainbean combines time-tested creativity techniques with the touch-capable power of the iPad. There are hundreds of ways to explore each game, so you’ll never be bored.

ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac is a professional OCR application for efficient document scanning and conversion. The app provides handy tools for scanning documents and converting images of documents. It also allows users to process and recognize only selected areas on a document to quickly copy and quote information. FineReader Pro for Mac can also be effectively used to prepare documents for use by various text-to-speech utilities. The app now supports seven interface languages.

Zevrix Solutions announces Output Factory Server 1.0.17, a compatibility update to its output workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. Output Factory Server automates printing and exporting from InDesign by processing files from hot folders. The software offloads output tasks to a central system leaving operator workstations free from the output process. The new version makes Output Factory Server compatible with the 2014 release of InDesign CC featured as part of Adobe Creative Cloud.