A new venture for Polkapps

Today marks the beginning of a new venture for Polkapps: iPhone application development. During the past few weeks, I have been heads-down learning how to program for this small computer that you can hold in your pocket and the fruit of my labor is already available on the iTunes App Store!

The application I built is called DutchTab. It lets you easily split bills between friends and co-workers, and is most useful when a bunch of people order lunch and there is only one bill for the whole order. It lets those who have cash with them cover the bill, then get paid back their due later.

If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, I invite you to check it out and tell me what you think! And if you have a device that runs Windows Mobile, you too can enjoy DutchTab: my good friend Martin from slimCODE is putting the finishing touches on DutchTab for Windows Mobile, and it should be available soon.

I took the release of DutchTab as an opportunity to finally build my new website, which had been in the “coming soon” state for way too long. I’m not quite done with the migration of the TuneSleeve content from its current location, so the new Polkapps site still links to the old TuneSleeve site for now. But the move to the new website should be complete within a few weeks.

Speaking of TuneSleeve: those of you who have been patiently waiting for an update to TuneSleeve should rest assured that I still plan on doing the upgrade I talked about months ago. In fact, I should be getting back to TuneSleeve pretty soon now that my first iPhone project is behind me.

Also, this iPhone development experience means good news for everybody who have been waiting for TuneSleeve on the Mac: Since programming for the iPhone is very similar to programming for the Mac, I now have the skills required to make a Mac version of TuneSleeve so it could become a reality sooner than expected.

Have a great summer!