NYC Subway Trip Planner gets updated, makes finding your way around beneath NYC a breeze

 

Whether visiting NYC for the first time or a full time resident, trying to navigate the subway system is no easy task. Luckily for those who need to travel around and make connections between various trains the folks at RailBandit have made the experience substancially more enjoyable with their latest update to NYC Subway Trip Planner.

Their latest update now makes use of the official subway map, and helps users determine their fastest route between any two given locations. After you select the start and end location the application will show you what trains you need to catch, departure and arrival times, along with your wait time between transfers. What more could you really ask for while traveling, besides for the application to do the walking for you, and find an open seat for you to sit in? If you travel to NYC frequently, or are planning an upcoming trip, be sure to hop into AppWorld and grab yourself a copy today. The application allows for a free five day trial and then after the trial if you wish to purchase it you can own your own full copy for only $4.99.

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NYC BBM Hackathon Wrap-up – Developer Collaboration

 

With all the craziness surrounding the BlackBerry 7 device launches and the reviews for today we missed posting a wrap up for the BBM Hackathon last week. Day one was awesome and day two followed through with many of the devs showing off their work as a sort of skeleton app. What I was more or less seeing was the type of app a developer could expect to create over a weekend with the basic functionality for a app concept.

To give you an idea of some of the app ideas here are some of the ones that were presented:

All in all I am pretty excited to see what devs do with these apps in the next few weeks. Practically all of them were committed to bringing their app to market and RIM plans on helping the devs get their apps into the 2011 BlackBerry Developer Challenge. They also heard developers loud and clear that RIM needs to help improve communications between developers so they can help each other out. The level of collaboration we saw at the Hackathon was amazing and I think RIM needs to do whatever they can to help foster that. It was great to see the RIM employees communicating directly with BlackBerry developers to foster the development of better BlackBerry apps and showing RIM how they can improve the development process.

I was also glad to see how well all of the BlackBerry developers got along. I know many of the devs made great contacts while at the event that will help them succeed as BlackBerry developers. Now we just need that collaboration to work on a larger scale.

So who plans on competing in the next BlackBerry Hackathon?

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BBM Hackathon Team BerryReview Pics & Update – PickleBack Shots

 

The fun continued all day yesterday with the BBM Hackathon here in NYC. The morning started off well as you saw in our articles and throughout the day RIM was available teaching and helping developers to create their BBM powered apps. There was some hardcore coding going on throughout the day enhanced with TJ’s introduction of “The Goose & Redbull” with each developer working on their own BBM powered project. Happy hour was a blast especially when Team BerryReview discovered the house shot of the Ace Hotel where the Hackathon event is taking place. It is called the PickleBack which involves a shot of Jameson followed by a shot of straight up pickle juice. I kid you not.

RIM also had some dolls that each team was supposed to draw up. RIM had split up the developers into groups named after the boroughs of New York City and we ended up watching Team Staten Island (odd right?) coding the night away. Today is the last day of the Hackathon so we should have more info for you all soon!

 

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