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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, 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.

In the news…

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

This 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