So, here’s a little list of some great iPhone apps – both web-based applications and native (locally installed apps) – and some handy places to go to look for and discover new apps.

This is not a comprehensive list by any means.  Just a quick rundown of some very useful and exciting programs, sites, and resources we’ve found for the iPhone.  Hope that will help some of you to get a head-start on getting the absolute max out of your iPhone …

iPhone Web Portals, Start Pages, & Web Application Lists

• appSafari – probably the best listing of web-based apps for the iPhone – as it is very frequently updated and is very easy to navigate and use.
• iPhone Plaza – very handy iPhone start page / portal – with bold, easy graphics and buttons to jump amidst its main sections , covering iPhone apps, games, ebooks, music, info about your iPhone, and even a cocktails recipe guide!
• Apple’s Web Apps Directory – Apple’s very own listing of web apps for their creation.  Updated pretty often, not optimized for the iPhone very well, ironically.
• Mippin.com – another great mobile start page site – easily customizable, access to a broad range of popular sites in a range of categories, and all optimized nicely for the iPhone.
• Applists – large directory of web-based apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch – you can create an history and customize your own favorite apps listing, that it will remember next day you sign in, and share favorites with friends.
• Appleopolis – another directory of web apps – with Top 20, Featured, and New Apps lists – a decent directory, but not updated as often as some of the others listed here

iPhone Web Apps

• vTap – an awesome way to search for and view all sorts of videos on the web – supports more formats than the built-in YouTube program, and uses a super-fast and super-intelligent search-as-you type mechanism to help you find vids faster than via  any other method!
• Earthcomber – a great way to find places of interest wherever you are – restaurants, nightlife, businesses etc., and see photos and reviews for most of them – and a slick mobile interface to work with.
• iPhone Typing Test – that one is a lot of fun for measuring how quickly your iPhone typing skills improve – you do a quick one-sentence typing tryout and it’ll tell you your words per minute – mine climbed dramatically by my first month of use.
• Webot – lets you stream music and photos to your iPhone from your home PC, or PCs.
• MovieTickets.com – quickly find movie times, info on new releases, and find theaters near you.
• Sports Tap – great site for coverage of latest US major sports scores plus some stats and standings knowledge.
• The Wall Street Journal – the most elegant and slickly designed iPhone news site.
• The Weather Channel – very nice iPhone optimized weather info site, with a greater range of knowledge and views than the iPhone’s built-in Weather program.
• PogoNotes – a handy little online note-taking app, with an iPhone optimized site – so your notes stay in sync within iPhone and desktop browser.
• Google’s Mobile Apps Page – not a individual app, but Google’s recently redesigned and great looking mobile start page for all its mobile apps – Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs, Google Reader, Picasa, and more.
• MyNumo Games – home to several good iPhone games, including 501 Darts, Golf Driving Range, ion Bowling, and a Blackjack game.
• iPodia – a Wikipedia viewer for the iPhone and iPod Touch – view articles in an optimized layout.
• ESPN Pod Center – listen to all the latest hit ESPN shows’ podcasts – PTI, Best of Mike & Mike, Around The Horn, and more.

• Toodledo – very mighty on-line to-do list application, with an excellent iPhone optimized site.

• Meebo – web-based instant messaging app – supports IM on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Meebo itself, GTalk, ICQ, and Jabber
• Remember The Milk – another very feature-rich online to-do applic ation, with a superb iPhone interface. My current favorite for managing tasks on the iPhone.
• BBC Podcasts – browse and listen to all the BBC’s podcasts by radio station, genre, or in alphabetical list.
• Stitcher – an audio news aggregator – with ‘channels’ that represent groupings of news podcasts under a specific topic heading – very nice notion, not that broad a range of channels just yet – right now, there are channels for business news, Silicon Valley news, celebs and entertainment, and a couple others.
• infospace Find It! – quick locator for businesses, services, and folks, very nicely formatted for iPhone with big, colorful buttons to go to each section, and sections covering things like: dining out, shops, folks, travel, health, and more.
• iFootie – good scores and standings site for European football (soccer) leagues.
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• Native iPhone
  Applications

  These are apps that run locally on your iPhone (if you have jailbroken it) – nearly all of these applications are available to install easily whether you have used one of the popular jailbreak methods, and have the Installer.app program on your iPhone:

• MobileFinder - allows you to browse and work with files stored on your iPhone.
• Summerboard – the hugely popular app that lets you apply and manage custom themes for your iPhone.
• Customize – suite of customization tools for the iPhone – to do things like replace the carrier logo with a custom image, set custom sounds, and lots more.
• iPhoneHome – brilliant little app for customizing what happens when you double-tap the Home button – set it to launch any app installed on your iPhone, open a new newsletter, or dial a frequently used ph one number.
• VNotes – record and save voice notes, play them back and e mail them.
• Sketches – fun drawing program – you can draw on a blank page, or draw on top of photos from your photo albums, export your drawings to a photo album, and newsletter them as well.
• SysInfo – possibly the best ‘utility’ app released so far for the iPhone – provides system data, and a listing of all processes running on the iPhone, and an ability to terminate a process when needed.
• Chess – the first native chess game for iPhone – you can choose from several different styles of board and levels of difficulty.
• MobileRSS – the only native RSS reader for the iPhone, allowing you to keep up with your feeds even when you don’t have fast (or any) web connectivity.
• Photoboard – wild and fun app that lets you rotate and scale photos a la the ‘Minority Report’ movie.
• Websearch - very handy app for speeding up your web searches on the iPhone.
• Screenshot – capture your iPhone screen, view you screencpas, and e mail them
• iBlackjack – gorgeous looking and smooth playing Blackjack game for the iPhone.
• TapTap Revolution – the fast-tapping iPhone music game.
• NES – massively popular NES emulator for the iPhone.
• psx4iPhone – Playstation emulator for the iPhone
• Services – another great utility app – allows you to toggle On / Off some of your iPhone’s key network services – like Bluetooth, WiFi, and SSH.
• Search – very useful program that lets you search and signal contacts, and search

I’m certain we’ve left out lots of great apps here – so feel free to let us know some of your favorites in the comments …

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