Arctic Surf Designs is a small company based in Ottawa, Ontario. We currently perform two primary functions; a retail side and software design side.

The retail side owns a MotoPhoto store in Ottawa, located in the Carlingwood Mall, having previously operating the Motophoto store in the Bayshore Mall. The stores is transiting from the MotoPhoto name to EasyPrintPhoto.

The retail store is also now selling antennas, regularly having the largest selection of name brand antennas in stock of any store in Ottawa. For more information on this please see the OTA CANADA web site.

The software design side specializes in web server applications and mobile applications. The web server applications are primarily PERL databases, on-line applications and dynamically generated HTML.


All in-house web sites are driven with HTML and PERL with the occasion java and PHP. Mobile applications are strictly for the iPhone/iPad.
Previous designs have included applications for the Apple Newton and shareware applications for network based PCs and Mac use (ie POSwebware)

The businesses computers are primarily Mac wherever possible. At the moment between the design arm and the retail business, we use 14 Macs and 2 PCs. The macs include a macbook, powerbook, 20” Imac, G4 tower, G5 tower and 3 mac minis (our workhorses) and a mac mini os x server 2010.


Not my picture,

not my fingers and

not my white macbook

Software projects for the retail business includes Special Events Management and Photo Kiosk Applications. MotoPhoto Bayshore and now MotoPhoto Carlingwood has printed over 40,000+ Santa photograph packages over the last 5 years. Customers choose any combination of 8 packages at the village. Packages include sheets of 8x10, 5x7, 4x6 and wallets. 99% of all ordered packages are printed on true photographic prints and available for pickup within 10 minutes. This setup, unique in North America is due to our proprietary software. Other special event software include live model shoots, autocropped to 8x10 B&W with color sponsor logos and model names automatically added to print and available immediately after the shoot. Special event software is run on iMacs and Mac mini’s, however are unix/server based.

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Domains managed by ArcticSurfDesigns

• arcticsurf.com
• mpalbum.com
• canadascanner.com
• poswebware.com
• easyprintphoto.com
• easytravelpage.com
• otacanada.com
• otamap.tv
• overtheairmap.com
• ttcfetch.com
• tuire.com
• jeffbayly.com
• finark.com

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