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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012Canada’s Veterans’ Week & Remembrance Day Go Mobile on the iPhone
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
MindSea Development Inc., located in Halifax Nova Scotia, developers of several popular mobile apps including Pocketbooth and Transit to Go have just launched a new iPhone application.
“Halifax is home to a large contingent of active and retired armed forces and reserve veterans, including wartime merchant marines” says President & Founder Bill Wilson. “We are proud to help honour all veterans especially given that our hometown of Halifax has played such a historic and strategic role in past and current world events.”
The App, which has been developed for Veterans Affairs Canada, will support ongoing and increased participation in Veterans’ Week (Nov. 5-11) and Remembrance Day activities by delivering a variety of information to iPhone users. Once installed the app offers up-to-date GPS supported location search for events and ceremonies nationally, social media feeds from Facebook and YouTube resources. Users will also be able to interactively share their own individual contributions to the Veteran’s Affair’s national “How will you remember” campaign.
“The MindSea development team really enjoyed working on this project, which provides an innovative way of linking both younger and older Canadians with veteran history and information on the contributions that veterans have made to society. ” says Wilson. The app is available for download in both Canadian official languages from the Apple App store.
Contact
Bill Wilson
Founder
MindSea Development Inc.
902 452-8492
bill@mindsea.com
2010 iPhone Hackathon for Charity
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
The MindSea team had a fantastic weekend at the 2nd Annual iPhone Hackathon for charity. The iHackathon brings together marketers, graphic designers, and software developers for a weekend of iPhone and iPad app creation. All of the apps we create are sold in the Apple App Store and all the proceeds from sales benefit local and national charities. (more…)
Transit To Go – Halifax bus travel in the palm of your hand
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Halifax bus travel in the palm of your hand with launch of mobile application Transit To Go (itunes link)
T2Go Halifax Routes Around Me Screenshot
Making public transportation simpler for the Haligonian bus traveller, Nova Scotia based IT firm MindSea Development has created and launched its first iPhone application, Transit to Go, which offers its users transit information by both route number and location.
Metro Transit provides reliable service, but this system can be difficult to navigate and decipher, even for experienced riders, especially when traveling at non-peak times and from stops not detailed on the paper- based schedules. Patrons can struggle when determining what route to take at different times throughout the day, the nearest stop location at any given point, and the exact time of the buses’ scheduled arrival. Transit to Go has been developed to respond to this challenge, providing a user-friendly guide to the peninsula’s transit system for the commuting iPhone owner.
The application, the brainchild of software developers Dmitri Dolguikh, Willliam Lachance and Bill Wilson, is simple: when using Transit to Go, a patron can either input a stop number into the “Look up Stop” screen, or use the “Around Me” option and have the device’s GPS technology, or the manual entry of an address, aid in determining the location and schedule of nearby stops.
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Apps 4 Good – Evening news
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Apps 4 Good members Bill Wilson and Tracy Boyer help spread the Apps 4 Good message on the evening news.
In the news…
Sunday, November 29th, 2009This article from The Chronicle Herald
Published: 2009-11-29
Shared business-space gamble an adventure
IN A CITY filled with people working on laptops in coffee shops, a collaborative workspace like the Hub on Barrington Street seems like a sure-fire business venture.
However, potential imitators of this eclectic, membership-driven enterprise might want to have a chat with the partners behind the year-old operation before beginning renovations for a shared business-space venture of their own..
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Mr. Dolguikh was at the Barrington Street site collaborating on a project with information technology professional Bill Wilson of MindSea Development Inc.“We can work just about anywhere in this business, but there are times when a project requires we get together,” Mr. Wilson said of the group gathering at the Hub.
Read the full story at http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1155214.html