Facebook Chat with your Friends all on one screen!
With multi-user login support, filter by friend list or group and instant message notification, Tap to Chat is the must have Chat app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad!
I developed Tap to Chat in collaboration with fellow iOS Develeper Chris Ross.
ESPN commissioned me to develop a universal iOS App to keep users up-to-date with ESPN Press Releases, Twitter account updates and photos on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
Features Include:
- Read ESPN’s most up-to-date Press Releases
- Email press releases directly from the ESPN MediaZone app.
Browse, share and upload Facebook photos. Update you status, add comments and check out your friend’s walls.
Facebook Chat with your friends all on one screen!
With multi-user login support, filter by friend list or group and instant message notification, Buddies Chat is the must have Facebook Chat experience!
Featured by Apple in over 50 AppStores Worldwide, Buddies is a hugely popular native Facebook browser for iPad receiving some great reviews:
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TheNextWeb.com: ★★★★ “Buddies is pretty much what an official Facebook app would look like.”
MacStories.net: “An excellent companion to the regular website which offers neat photo uploading capabilities (something you can’t do on Mobile Safari) and multi-account support”
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About a year ago a friend of mine proposed an idea for a fun entertainment iPhone / iPod Touch App.
Jesus Decides was a collaboration between 3 of us – Neil project managed, I programmed the app and Scott Suttey designed the fantastic graphics.
Jesus Decides is an app that helps users to make decisions with your friends and family – who will make the tea, get the beers in, do the washing up etc… We leave it in the hands of Jesus to pick a chosen disciple for the chore in hand.
After around 3 weeks in development and 2 weeks in Apple’s submission queue we were all hugely disappointed to receive the following rejection email from Apple:
Thank you for submitting Jesus Decides to the App Store. We’ve reviewed Jesus Decides and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it contains objectionable content and is in violation of Section 3.3.14 from the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement which states:
“Applications may be rejected if they contain content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, sounds, etc.) that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.”
If you believe that you can make the necessary changes so that Jesus Decides does not violate the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, we encourage you to do so and resubmit it for review.
So, at the time we decided there wasn’t much we could do to make the app less *offensive* without losing the whole joke.
Over the last year, the only times people have seen Jesus Decides in action are when I’m:
- demoing my apps in the pub
- demoing my apps in a presentation
- demoing my apps to clients
I get such a good response to this app in demos – more so than my much more complex coding achievements! So… I decided to try again…
There are just 2 changes we made to the new version of Jesus Decides which I’m happy to say got approved by Apple this morning – Haaaaaallelujah!
- Name change: introducing Jayzus Decides!
- On the decision making screen instead of saying ‘Our Father who art in Heaven… who shall get the beers in?’ you now get ‘Our Father who art in Devon… who shall get the beers in?’
I’ve no idea how this version got approved while the other one didn’t – maybe Apple have relaxed the rules or just lightened up a little – either way… I’ll get the beers in 
Even small decisions can lead to big arguments, and we can’t bother the real JC with all our trivial questions but he does represent a great ambassador for peace, so in the interests of promoting more peace on Earth we thought, “Who better?!” This app is intended to bring a little light-hearted fun in to your daily decision making process, so you can all stop worrying about the little things, and get on with enjoying the gift of life
- Add your own groups of people (e.g. ‘pub’, ‘work’, ‘home’)
- Add your own custom tasks (e.g. ‘make dinner’, ‘wash the dog’)
- The first item in a group/task list automatically becomes your ‘favourite’
- Decisions can be made with a single click!
- Include/Exclude people from a round without removing their name.