Archive for January, 2010

iPod Touch app sales huge in December

 Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

In December 2009 alone more than 280 million apps were downloaded generating over $250 million in revenue. There are now over 58 million App Store users, each spending over $4 per month, as this Gigaom article reveals (excellent article with a really neat graphic full of stats, check it out).

Interestingly, this huge growth in December can be partly explained by, you guessed it,  the Christmas Day download figures, which caused a spike in downloads on iPod Touch devices (looks like a bunch of lucky people got iPods for Christmas!).

Because of this, downloads in December increased by 50% over November. It will be interesting to see if January holds up to this growth, levels out, or drops due to everyone getting the initial apps they wanted out of the way.

(Graph source Flurry Analytics)

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Transit To Go – Halifax bus travel in the palm of your hand

 Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Halifax 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, 2010

Apps 4 Good members Bill Wilson and Tracy Boyer help spread the Apps 4 Good message on the evening news.

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Wish You Were Here!

 Friday, January 8th, 2010


An app for sending fun digital postcards with your own photo. Easy to use, this app guides you through the steps of creating a postcard:

  • Choose a post card
  • Choose a photo or snap a new one, crop and reposition
  • Write your message (in a variety of fun fonts)
  • Email it to your friends or family.

Wish You Were Here was created for Apps4Good, an organization that develops mobile apps to donate proceeds to local charities. All of the proceeds from WYWH will go to Feed Nova Scotia, the provincial food collection and distribution centre for approximately 150 food banks and meal programs across Nova Scotia.

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