TickleSpace - iPhone App & Drupal Developers

iPad apps coming soon.

MacRumors asks What is the Ultimate Role of the Apple Tablet? There is a nice warm debate questioning what need the Apple Tablet will fill.

I think the Apple Tablet brings the iPhone experience to a computer/device with a bigger screen.

Marshall McLuhan said “The Medium is the Message” in a similar vein of thought might I suggest that The App is the Device?

On the iPhone/Touch the App is king. This is thanks to the complete lack of ‘Computer Adminstrative Debris’ as Edward Tufte put it, allowing the device to be one with what the user is thinking and wanting to do. A bigger screen allows more information and interaction.

Another equally important thing that make the iPhone experience special is that all the apps are sandboxed. ‘Sandboxing is a good thing?’ you ask, Yes it is. It is like having a web app experience without the lousy browser. The sandbox acts as a way to protect YOUR device from bad apps much like the browsers (IE being the exception) protect you from poor or malicious websites. The website has some access to your computer but only as much as you want or the browser allows.

I have developed and continue to develop web apps and native Mac/iPhone apps. Web apps are YEARS behind desktop apps and continue to fall farther behind because desktop OSes, especially Mac OS X, are not standing still. Web apps still suck and the failed promise of Develop Once and Release to All Platforms is nowhere in sight. You need only visit browsershots and see how many flavors of browsers you have to support to see my point....but I digress.

So will the Apple Tablet fill a need or have an ultimate role? Yes and I think the timing is right. Apple has the AppStore, the OS, the developers, and the technology/design to make the Tablet as beautiful and as useful as my iPhone.

Way way back in 2006 I posted I had a dream about the iPod AV. While this time I haven’t had any dreams about the tablet, I've had an urge to write my predictions of what the tablet will probably be like based on the many rumors and posts I’ve read.

• A 2x or 1.5x screen resolution of the iPhone 960x640 or 720x480 with hopefully the same density ppi.
• Will work with the app store and only the AppStore.
  • New section for tablet specific apps may be added to the App Store (I hope this is so).
• It will be a locked system OSX system just like the touch and iPhone.
• Apps will be sand-boxed just like the iPhone/Touch. (This is the future of computing....you are free but not things that run on your system)
• It will be very thin.
• it will be light and nice to hold and touch.
• Will have very good battery life.
• Will have a camera or two.
• It will have tethering to an iPhone or possible have cellular capability (i doubt this).

These next items I suspect will be what we will complain about:

• It will not be cheap.
• It will of course not have enough space. There is really no way to please people on this point. I predict 64GB or 128GB if we are lucky. Ideally I’d like it to be 256-500GB.
• It will not run mac apps.
• No SDCard slot.

Frankly I’ll just be happy to see the thing get launched.

My only lingering concern is what the rumors community will have left to speculate about. The tablet has fueled and fed us all for so long....

UPDATE: Just read that Jobs "Extremely Happy" with Upcoming Apple Tablet I translate that to mean he has managed to take away all the remaining buttons..so it will be buttonless tablet. Just a big gorgeous screen to touch. ;-)

We have started developing a new module to allow a Drupal based website to send push notifications to the iPhone.

I've posted a note on groups.drupal.org to get some discussion going.

This is of course half of the puzzle. You will need to build an iPhone app that will interact with your site.

Champagne Glass - Developed for TickleSpace Inc.

iPhone can now fart and make lots of silly noises.

Let's put some 'class' back into the iPhone by turning it into a fancy Champagne Glass!
It is loads of fun for any special occasion.

Features:
- Tap the virtual glass to hear High quality crystal clink!
- Toast with your iphone (tap iphone against a glass to hear crystal clink).


Enjoy.


Download Champagne Glass now

Finding people to test your newly launched iPhone app is hard. But last week, Apple announced a new iTunes AppStore feature which provided developers 50 promo codes for each version.

A lightbulb went off in our heads and at that moment we decided to build a site that focused on sharing promo codes with an enthusiastic group that would provide valuable feedback to the developers in return for free apps.

Visit PromoAppCodes.com

TUAW's wrote this about us

We built PromoAppCodes.com using the latest version of Drupal, a bunch of contributed modules and a few custom modules to provide some special functionality.

TarotTap - Developed for TickleSpace Inc.

TarotTap provides both the beginners and experts to play with tarot cards, for personal insights and fun.
TarotTap's Free Layout takes full advantage of your iPhone/iTouch's multi-touch features letting you play with the cards like you would in real life. Cards can be dragged, rotated and positioned to create your own layouts. Double tapping a card provides you its meaning.

OTHER FEATURES:
- 2 Basic layouts for quick readings: Past Present Future, and Celtic Cross
- 78 card Rider-Waite-Smith deck with meanings
- provides upright and reversed meanings for each card
- Fully saves state to allow you to continue your readings.

Tarot is for entertainment only.

Download TarotTap now

Deep Stuff - Facts and Quotes Pro - Developed for TickleSpace Inc.

Get your a daily dose of interesting facts, quotes, famous birthdays and historical events.

FEATURES:
- Share via Email, Facebook and Twitter
- Favorite any information you like by tapping the star.
- Famous birthdays
- On-This-Day-In-History
- Cool Facts
- Inspirational and interesting quotes
- Organized favorites browser

UPCOMING FEATURES:
- More Facts, birthdays, events and quotes
- Daily Pictures (awaiting Flickr api keys)


Download Deep Stuff - Brain Food now...while it's free

TarotTap - Developed for TickleSpace Inc.

TarotTap provides both the beginners and experts to play with tarot cards, for personal insights and fun.
TarotTap's Free Layout takes full advantage of your iPhone/iTouch's multi-touch features letting you play with the cards like you would in real life. Cards can be dragged, rotated and positioned to create your own layouts. Double tapping a card provides you its meaning.

OTHER FEATURES:
- 2 Basic layouts for quick readings: Past Present Future, and Celtic Cross
- 78 card Rider-Waite-Smith deck with meanings
- provides upright and reversed meanings for each card
- Fully saves state to allow you to continue your readings.

Tarot is for entertainment only.

Download TarotTap now

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Champagne Glass - Developed for TickleSpace Inc.

iPhone can now fart and make lots of silly noises.

Let's put some 'class' back into the iPhone by turning it into a fancy Champagne Glass!
It is loads of fun for any special occasion.

Features:
- Tap the virtual glass to hear High quality crystal clink!
- Toast with your iphone (tap iphone against a glass to hear crystal clink).


Enjoy.


Download Champagne Glass now

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More coming soon...