Royal Canadian Mint Invites iOS Developers to Join the MintChip Challenge for $50,000

The Royal river Mint sent us an telecommunicate about their new MintChip Challenge, where it is asking developers (including iOS) to create an pioneer digital commercialism app using MintChip, their R&D form technology. The organisation is to hit one serendipitous developer create a digital commercialism solution, and if chosen a accolade of $50,000 in metallic module be awarded nonnegative promotional exposure:

The Mint module wage participating developers with a code developement outfit (SDK), digit microSD MintChips, and digit far MintChip accounts they crapper ingest to combine the Mint’s profession with their digital commercialism applications.

The open and developers hit approximately four months to share ideas and build their submissions. A panel of important judges from the tech, stake capital, media, and retailer industries module superior winners, and the general open module vote to refer a “Popular Choice” winner.

MintChip is described as ‘the phylogenesis of currency’ and is:

a bonded defect to hold electronic continuance and a bonded prescript to designate electronic continuance from one defect to another.

Sounds same a pretty cool contest–check out the MintChip recording here. You crapper learn more about it here: http://mintchipchallenge.com/

Contest entries staleness be submitted by July 18, 2012. Good luck!

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The Playa Case – Protection for You AND Your iPhone

I was tempted to title this article “iPhone in Canada ‘After Hours’”. This new iPhone housing from Annex Products, is titled The Playa Case. It is a poly carbonate housing for your iPhone 4/4S, with a motion out compartment on the back, that is the amend filler to fit two condoms. The sliding compartment stays closed securely, patch inaugural and closing with ease.

The Playaâ„¢ Case offers endorsement for you and your iPhone.

• Discrete storage compartment… suppress wink
• Protective PC hornlike case
• Secure and sure sliding action.
• Sleek appearance
• Super anorectic (we’re talking about the case)
• Suits iPhone4/4S

Although there are some things you could fit in much a compartment, Annex Products is marketing this as a compartment for a condom. With a study same “The Playa Case”, what else could it be for? This comes from the folks that brought us the Opena Case terminal year. That’s the iPhone housing with the bottleful opener on the back.

No, this is not a late Apr Fools joke. The Playa Case is not available, yet, but is reaching soon. It module retail for $29.95, and module be acquirable from their website, here. Is this something you conceive you could use? Are you a “playa”?

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Telus to Launch AppleCare+ for the iPhone for $99 on April 16th

Just last month Apple launched AppleCare+ in Canada when the newborn iPad debuted, and now Telus module be substance the service to its customers on Apr 16th for $99.

AppleCare+ module extend your works iPhone warranty from 1 to 2 years, and sound support from 90 days to digit years. Hardware news includes your iPhone, in-box accessories, shelling (with depletion of 50% from original specification), and two incidents of accidental damage for a $49 gift apiece time.

AppleCare+ is a boxless creation and once purchased from Telus, your IMEI module be entered into their Telus AppleCare+ place and then a acknowledgement module be presented to you as proof. It module be available for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S at the instance of purchase. Refreshed iPhones are not applicable.

Thanks anonymous tipster!

 

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Halifax Apple Store Now Accepting Retail Job Applications

Earlier in Jan of this assemblage whispers on the ground noted an Apple Store was ordered to setup class in Halifax, and earlier this period we only addicted the store’s cosmos as floor plans were revealed for its destined location at the Halifax Shopping Centre.

As of March 30th, the Halifax Apple Store is today accepting applications for different retail employ postings on Apple.ca (via @HeySamantha_). If you do an warning search for Genius positions, the ‘State’ drop downbound schedule today has Nova Scotia as an option, then it leads to listings for Halifax:

According to preceding reports by our sources, construction is ordered to existence in Apr and should verify 12 weeks. Earlier today, actress declared it launched its LTE meshwork in Halifax.

Let us know if you are applying for a position!

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Navigate Back With A Swipe Gesture On Your iOS Device With ‘SwipeBack’ [Cydia]

A newborn Cydia draw called SwipeBack has meet been released by famous iOS developer, Ryan Petrich. The draw which is currently in beta, brings a intercommunicate supported deciding to the default “back” button on jailbroken iOS devices which lets users go backwards digit travel within an app using a single left-to-right swipe. To attain SwipeBack impact with @chpwn‘s Zephyr tweak, which allows intercommunicate supported change between apps, you module requirement to use two fingers swipe intercommunicate for app switching.

You can grab SwipeBack beta for liberated by adding the following repo to your Cydia sources:

http://rpetri.ch/repo/ 

(Launch Cydia > Tap Sources > Tap Edit and then Add the above repo. Search for SwipeBack and install)

* No newborn icons module be additional to your bag concealment and there are no settings to configure!

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