Toopia

Apple heeft in de Nederlandse iTunes Store een aparte pagina gemaakt waar je wintersport-applicaties kunt downloaden. Het bevat bijvoorbeeld skigidsen, instructies om het skiën onder de knie te krijgen en gidsen die zich op een bepaald gebied richten, bijvoorbeeld SkiScotland, Val d’Isere Ski Guide of Dolomiti Superski Guide. Twee Nederlandse applicaties staan er ook tussen: Sneeuwhoogte (€0,79) van Danny van Deutekom en Thermometer (€0,79) van Toopia. Die laatste is in feite geen wintersport-applicatie, maar toont alleen de temperatuur op je huidige locatie. De pagina voor Valentijnsdag bevat een handvol applicaties met rode hartjes: muziek, dating, games, boeken en wenskaarten die allemaal te maken hebben met Valentijnsdag. De meeste kosten €0,79 of €1,59. Love Detector, LoveQuotes, Love Songs en Date ‘Em or Dump ‘Em zijn een paar voorbeelden van applicaties. Liefde Link (€0,79) lijkt op het eerste gezicht een Nederlandse applicatie, maar blijkt gewoon een applicatie die door de automatische vertaalmachine is gehaald. Read More

Como de costumbre os dejo un listado de juegos que he encontrado en la App Store a un precio de 0€. Hay varios que valen la pena, así que aprovechad antes de que vuelvan a ser de pago. Read More

Tell us a little about you, and your current company. I am Dad of a gorgeous little girl, and our second child is due soon! I started Toopia five years ago, offering webdesign and application development services for a number of companies and agencies. Toopia is a one-man company, yet I work closely together with many other professionals to be able to offer a complete package to our customers. My specialty is the technical realization in Ruby on Rails and XHTML/CSS. Together with marketing partner Hugo Lingeman I developed a super simple Content Management System, which is meant for users that have little or none computer experience, or ‘fear of computers’ altogether. We love the response that we get to that: “Well yes, if it is that simple, I can do it, too.” About your background: What did you do before taking up iPhone development?  The iPhone application development is a logical extension to my other work in design and build of websites and applications.  What apps have you developed so far? Tell us about your apps/games in brief.  Thermometer, telling you the temperature at your location. It is different than other weather applications, in that it gives you the temperature based on your current GPS location, rather than weather forecast on locations you select yourself. In just a couple of months the application reached 10,000 downloads. 2udoku – Multiplayer Sudoku: this application is another example where I have taken an existing application and took is a few steps further: by turning Sudoku into a competitive game when you play it together with someone else. Each of the players plays the same Sudoku and the challenge is to be the first one to complete it. A chat feature allows the competitors to communicate while playing. Naturally scores and rankings can be saved. There is a large number of high quality grids in different levels. Météo des Plages: an application to check the weather conditions at French beaches. How do you go from idea to app? What’s the process?  The ideas come from many different angles: partly ‘just as an idea pops up’ but also surfing the iTunes Store and the web to see what opportunities I see. Then a rough sketch with paper and pencil to see what it could look like and whether I can turn the idea into a compelling application. If that all looks promising I start designing with Interface Read More