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Post links to iPhone web applications here. Good resource for all.

Here's one:

OneTrip is an iPhone-optimized web application (a simple shopping list). It's a single-page, no-reload JavaScript app. Your shopping list will be saved in a cookie, so it'll be available next time you visit the page.

OneTrip (http://onetrip.org)

On the 29th www.widgity.com is going online, its a resource for all iPhone apps, which is neat. Check it out now its kinda cool looking.

Here's a site that is supposed to provide IM for the iPhone ... haven't checked it out yet.

iChat for iPhone (http://www.publictivity.com/im)

I've read that something like that would be really easy for people to steal passwords from... so I'd hold off until there's a definite legit version, or you can get the code and host your own version.

Aren't there plenty of existing web-AIM services?

Here's two webapps I found recently, can't speak to their utility:

http://www.webologistdesign.com/phonedango/ - PhoneDango - look up movie listings

http://bravetrail.com/iphone/users/welcome - Bravetrail - mobile blogging community

Here's a resource designed to be viewed on the iphone itself.  There are currently 12 apps.

http://www.iphoneurls.com/

Anyone have any apps they'd really like to see? I'm considering developing a few and am looking for some good ideas.

Skype agents like these:
http://www.shapeservices.com/en/products/details.php?product=skype
http://www.fring.com
http://xseries.three.com/features_skype_overview.shtml
http://www.iskoot.com/

..and there are more :)

See the bottom of that site :)

"iPhoneURLs.com is not affiliated with Apple, Inc. or AT&T.
Please don't sue me - I'm a poor college student."

 :D

What would he/she get sued for anyway? :)

"/www.iphone.." there is a (are) certain car brand(s) going after every single URL owner they find that uses "their" name as first part of the URL!

Guess we better watch our backs then, eh? ;)

It doesn't seem like Apple is one to approach things that way..

www.macrumors.com
www.appleinsider.com/

But still:
http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/appletmlist.html
http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/guidelinesfor3rdparties.html

"Unauthorized Use of Apple Trademarks

1. Company, Product, or Service Name: You may not use or register, in whole or in part, Apple, iPod, iTunes, Macintosh, iMac, or any other Apple trademark, including Apple-owned graphic symbols, logos, icons, or an alteration thereof, as or as part of a company name, trade name, product name, or service name except as specifically noted in these guidelines.

3. Variations, Takeoffs or Abbreviations: You may not use an image of a real apple or other variation of the Apple logo for any purpose. Third parties cannot use a variation, phonetic equivalent, foreign language equivalent, takeoff, or abbreviation of an Apple trademark for any purpose. For example:

Not acceptable:   Appletree      Jackintosh      Apple Cart      PodMart


9. Domain Names: You may not use an identical or virtually identical Apple trademark as a second level domain name.

Not acceptable:    “imac.com”     “imacapple.com”     “imac-apple.com”     “podmart.com” "

Yeah.. it's an odd, but wholly not uncommon, posture.

After all, most of these sites including MacRumors, AppleInsider, and iPhoneFAQ provide continuous publicity for Apple and their products. Discouraging such is detrimental to Apple.

I'm assuming it's just something they have no interest in enforcing unless the site is negatively affecting or representing them.

Well it can change at any point obviously :)

AppleInsider and Macrumors have been around so long... clearly they're not interested.

History has proven otherwise in similair cases with sites that have been around for 10 yrs and such..

Stop scaring cjs, esck. :)

Not trying at all to scare anyone, just to keep a realistic view of it all :)
I did post those URLs with mac/apple in them :)

Anyone getting quality use out of a 3rd party application yet?

http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/

This is pretty cool.

Doesn't fit the screen properly, but still looks good.. offers a bit more expansive weather info (including radar) than the normal iPhone widget.

http://apple.accuweather.com/widget/iphone1/iphone.html

Not really an iPhone application, persay.. but definitely worth mentioning meebo.com

http://meebo.com

provides IM on the iphone .. only one network at a time, but hey - beggars can't be choosers

Is meebo safe from a security perspective?

I mean, you're basically giving your IM account password (which often can be the same as mail accounts) to those people.

As (un)safe as anything online where you give your password really :)

Its just your AIM password

not like a SSN or anything

Well everything you ever talk about in there could then be "watched" :)

ooh, like anyone in the real world cares about high school gossip and plans to go to each others houses

Is this always the case though. For instance, for Google messenger - isn't your pwd the same as your gmail account?

If you have a hotmail account and use MSN messenger - they both use the same login/pwd.

Yes this is all true BUT with a VERY different twist, if you *ARE* say AIM well you are responsible for it, but these are THIRD PARTY sites you are refering to, its like giving your car keys to a vallet driver (which is what you do when you logon to any of these sites) OR you give your keys to some kid to give TO the vallet driver, and you really have no idea who this "kid" is :)

Does that make the vallet driver or parkinglot unsafe? No, but if you are how should I put it trusting enough (naive? ;)) to give out this info to anyone on a site (yes it's not "anyone" but it MIGHT BE!) its like giving your keys to anyone.

Another note is how many people use the same usernames/passwords for other things?

Who/what is Meebo?
http://www.aboutus.org/Meebo.com

Yeah. I for one have serious concerns about the security of those sites.

More 3rd party sw :)

http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/

Looks very cool.

Though, I'll have to admit, for a minute I got excited thinking that it was some way to use your iPhone as a remote control for your TV, etc.

Then I remembered there's no IR. :)

If you have old enough TV perhaps :) back from the ultrasound remotes :)

Hey guys

http://barcamp.org/iPhoneDevCamp

TONS of cool apps, and other links to more websites with more apps...it was some sort of development camp, where a lot of people went and released whatever they had developed for the iPhone

Check it out ;)

http://seeqpod.com

Possibly the end all be all of 3rd party music apps. :)

Our writeup is here:
http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97182

JiveTalk released an IM client. Looks very, very nice.

http://www.beejive.com/products.php#jtiphone

Used JiveTalk yesterday and was working fine... seemed to be down this morning though. Hopefully they're  not taking it down for more development - it worked great for me.

I didn't like most of the others.

Yea I liked it a lot too. Didnt have any problems, just wish EDGE wasn't so god damn slow :)

http://www.timbergeron.com/current/

Tells you what is playing on the radio at the current time. Pretty cool.

Not bad. They need to add more cities, though.

http://trafficgauge.com/tgforcell/iPhone.asp

Traffic app for the iphone.

Not sure why this was made as google maps already offers this. Anyone having reliability issues w/ the traffic info in gmaps?

I've never found a single one of the map+traffic services online useful. They all have lousy information in my experience.

I haven't much tested the iPhone Google maps version yet, though.

What kind of info do you usually try to find?

Basic traffic info... where there is congestion, how severe, and why..

I've found all of the services to be fairly lacking in detail... especially the Google maps version.. it doesn't do me any good to know a section of highway is congested if I don't know why... accident, construction, gaper delay, volume, where is the source of the delay, etc?

Either that, or they are just flat wrong.

Are you talking about vacation trips or regular commute? If it's a commute you'd know if it is a construction, now the other reasons for delays why would it be important to know the actual reasons?

No, I'm talking about commute... why would I know what the cause was just because it was a commute? If I'm leaving my house, and I see two delays in the route I'd normally take... I want to know why.. as that's vital to knowing how soon the traffic is likely to clear.

Using traffic.com on your PC before leaving can be helpful, in my experience. Otherwise, I also have not found any of them to be worth a damn.

Have you guys seen this?

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/07/25/iphone-hacked-for-untethered-edge-data-on-laptop/

Construction isn't usually a ONE DAY (or half a day) thing, whereby you'd most likely recall where (if) there is construction on your route.

Now still I'm not sure what difference it will make to know specifically WHAT TEMPORARY reason (outside construction) would be the reason for delay?! Can you explain that?

Would this do it for you?
http://www.smartraveler.com/scripts/phlmap.asp?city=phl&cityname=Philadelphia

Click on the road you want info about :)

would be nice if gmaps had details when you clicked on a road, it could pop up an info box about what's going on on the road.. the way it does with the push pins and places

I still fail to understand why it would matter why the traffic isn't moving..?!

Because it gives you an idea of how LONG it won't be moving. :)

It does? How?
Anything aside from construction would be temporary, but long enough not worth waiting, and unless a 747 came down it should be cleared by the evening, no? ;)

 ::) OUCH, not really a 747 that came down today but surely enough a bridge :(

Well, a good example of how it's important then...

Albeit an extreme one :)

Well in this case it would be hard to miss it..

Common, this is self explanatory... if you're commuting and a road is backed up because of typical rush hour volume.. you might know it's going to be clear in 20-30 mins.

If there's been an accident, you know it's going to be HOURS and don't even think about it.

Exactly my point, *IF* you comute a route EVERY DAY you will KNOW where the "typical rush hour volume" backups are, I mean common let's not turn off our brains just because we have devices to help us! :)

Too many have done that already with using GPS devices and trusted the info more than their head, the web is so full of pics and videos of that!

Just one out of MANY examples:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/27/faith-in-gps-sends-mercedes-downstream/

http://www.widgetinfo.net/iphone/

iActu - nice eye candy RSS news feed app