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By Matt Watterworth on February 6th, 2012

The popular Air Miles program has released the Canadian version of their application in the App Store and it comes with the features you’d expect such as checking your points balance and browsing rewards available to you. There’s also an interesting feature which borrows from Foursquare allowing you to check in at Air Miles sponsor locations….

By Matt Watterworth on February 2nd, 2012

The Everpix iPhone app has been released in the App Store. This app lets you essentially store all of your pictures automatically into their cloud storage from your Camera Roll, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr and more. The iPhone app is the companion app to the original Mac-only application (Windows version coming soon). Everpix wants to solve…

By Kris Meador on February 2nd, 2012

  I’m starting a new monthly feature called Time Waster of the Month, or TWM for short. Every month I’ll give you a look at an app that I can’t stop playing and that I feel is worth the download. With the Super Bowl set for this Sunday, I figured the perfect way to launch…

By Usman on January 31st, 2012

Winter is upon us and majority of us would prefer to keep our gloves on at all times unless we really need to take them off for something like using a capacitive touchscreen device. Yes, that’s true and frankly speaking, it’s not a pleasant experience especially in a scenario when you are driving in extreme…

By Gary Ng on January 19th, 2012

As part of Apple’s education event today in New York City, Eddy Cue took to the stage to announce a standalone iTunes U app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app will bring easier access to the thousands of lectures and free education content. The app will also allow professors and teachers to…

By Gary Ng on January 17th, 2012

After a quiet launch of their mobile banking site last September, HSBC Canada has finally released a standalone iPhone app for their customers. Other countries have had their own HSBC apps for a while, but as you know sometimes Canada is on the ‘slow bus’. This app will allow existing internet banking customers to view…

By Gary Ng on January 11th, 2012

T-Mobile has launched a free app called Bobsled that was recently updated to allow for free calls from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to landlines in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico over WiFi or 3G. The app requires a Facebook account to login. Once connected, you will have access to all your Facebook…

By Gary Ng on January 5th, 2012

Update 1: Congrats to the following winners of TrapCall trials (check your emails!): – Tim – Derrick Rockwell – Belsim70 TrapCall is from TelTech Systems, and first made headlines in the U.S. with its initial free blocked call unmasking service. The company has now officially expanded its service outside U.S. borders to launch today in…

By Gary Ng on January 4th, 2012

More and more cable companies are offering iPhone apps to allow customers to control their PVRs. The Telus Optik TV remote was released last Fall, and was eventually updated for iOS 5 last October. However, customers still reported issues with the app crashing incessantly even with the iOS 5 update. Just yesterday, Telus released a…

By Gary Ng on January 2nd, 2012

Vancity Credit Union recently launched their iOS banking app last December. Available for the iPhone and iPad, the fee download enables registered online banking customers to everyday banking activities, such as checking balances, transferring funds, paying bills, and send INTERAC e-Transfers. Upon launching the app, the same online banking login is all that is required…