The Royal Canadian Mint sent us an email about their new MintChip Challenge, where it is asking developers (including iOS) to create an innovate digital payment app using MintChip, their R&D phase technology. The plan is to have one lucky developer create a digital payment solution, and if chosen a prize of $50,000 in gold...
Highly popular Sparrow for iOS app has just been updated to incorporate a plethora of new features such as a built-in web browser, send and archive functionality, empty trash and spam options, dock badge preferences by account, show/hide labels and folders and more. While the update still does not bring the missing Push Notifications feature, the Sparrow team has announced on...
Today Google released information about Project Glass, a new augmented reality based set of glasses you wear that reminds us just how insane our future could become: A group of us from Google[x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in...
The 2012 Masters kicks off this Thursday at Augusta National and is one of the most watched and prestigious PGA tournaments of the year. Once again, the TSN Live at the Masters iOS app is ready to stream it live from your iPhone and iPad. It was updated on March 29th for iOS 5.1. TSN's...
Ashton Kutcher, who has been signed up to portray Steve Jobs in an upcoming indie film titled “Jobs,” appears to be growing hair to look more like Steve Jobs. He believes that the role was meant for him and has already started meeting people who were close to Steve, according to a report by The Daily (via MacRumors). Five Star Institute's...
The political party that rode Jack Layton’s ‘Orange Crush’ in last year’s election to become the Official Opposition in the House of Commons, has released an app today, just weeks after Thomas Mulcair was ushered in as the NDP’s new leader. The NDP App will give users up-to-date on all the latest news released by...
BiteSMS is one of the best alternatives to the stock Messages.app in iOS allowing its to users customize almost every aspect of text messaging experience. Just recently, the jailbreak-exclusive app has been updated to version 6.2, bringing tons of great new features and numerous bug fixes. BiteSMS is also offering a 40% discount during the month of...
Stanford and Open University have each exceeded over 50 million downloads via iTunes U, Apple's offering of free university courses that started over seven years ago, as noted by The Loop. In January, a dedicated iTunes U iOS app was released by Apple that has made navigation of and consumption of courses much easier than...
I was tempted to title this article "iPhone in Canada 'After Hours'". :P This new iPhone case from Annex Products, is called The Playa Case. It is a poly carbonate case for your iPhone 4/4S, with a slide out compartment on the back, that is the perfect size to fit two condoms. The sliding compartment...
Mastering depth-of-field can really make your photos stand out. You can blur out the background of your pictures by changing the aperture. However, when using your iPhone's camera, there is no way to set or change the aperture. The Big Lens app helps solve this problem. You can blur out the background in any picture...
In a recent post at Macotakara Blog, it was reported that Foxconn is now hiring production workers for the iPhone 5. The report suggests that Foxconn is hiring 18,000 workers, and that the next iPhone will be sold in June. This contradicts other reports that Apple would continue to follow a fall release schedule for...
Popular iOS photo sharing app Instagram has released some eye-popping stats today: 430K+ on its Android waiting list 30 million+ registered users 1 billion+ photos uploaded 5 million+ photos per day 575 likes per second 81 comments per second These numbers were released as part of its announcement that the Android version of the app...
