A question for iPhone owners (there seem to be a few now)...

... what third party web 2.0 and native iPhone apps are you using / do you think are good to use?

By installing SSH/Fugu in my quest to get YouTube working (it finally is thank God), I discovered this wonderful new world of native iPhone apps and am liking it a lot.

I've managed to get Installer, Launcher, Terminal and NES loaded onto my iPhone, and use the web app for Bejeweled every so often. But there seems to be a lot of development going on, and to be honest I can't even begin to find all the goodies around, so it'd be great to share what info we all have about them.

I found most of the apps I installed through iPhone Atlas.

[EDIT] There's a nice list of native apps here.

Thanks for the pointer to the impressive list. This is not area that I follow, so could you please tell me if there's yet much "chatter" about the likely success in similarly cracking into the iPod iTouch?

I would imagine that the Jailbreaking and SSH installation procedure would likely be similar, so
these would definitely have a place on the iPod Touch.

Once these start getting out to people, I'm sure we'll start seeing implementations of the process for the Touch.

I've got to admit, once I got past the squeemishness of repeated jailbreaks and restores, I'm actually loving the process - makes the iPhone truly feel like a mobile OS X platform rather than a pretty, but closed, iPod.

installing apptap (aka installer) certianly makes things easier.

I'm a little stumped by AppTapper undertow - it seems the range of apps available through it is quite limited. Half of the stuff I had to install myself through SSH.

Do you know how to use it to install apps not available through the Installer interface, or find additional apps not on the main screen?

Sup all this macjason0607 havens talked to you guys in a while anyways um typing this message on my iPhone so bare with me....... Has anyone played with apptapp ? As soon as I get the Internet back tomorrow I'm going to install it



Macjason0607

Interesting little article.

I'm unsure of the legitimacy of this article, but from what it says, it appears that Apple will not condone 3rd party development on the iPhone (and iPod Touch?).

So does this mean that if we jailbreak our iPhone's, our AppleCare warranty will still be valid?

Given that you can always restore the firmware of the iPhone through recovery mode, I can't see how jailbreaking would be a problem for AppleCare - unless you damage the hardware in the process somehow, and tey could trace it back (unlikely I would think).

But what happens when my iPhone just doesnt want to turn on one day? Or i smash the screen to pieces. Will i be able to revert the machine back to its unaltered state with those variables?

He, if you smash your screen, the "mods" wont be the biggest issue claiming on you warranty.

This has nothing to do with warranty status.

It's simply a statement that Apple doesn't care. That being said, hardware modification will void your warranty, software will not.

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Remotely logging into my Mac Pro from an iPhone.

Dave

There is a selection in Installer marked 'Community Source' or some such, which revealed a range of extra apps.

I've had a look at the Facebook app in Safari (http://iphone.facebook.com) - I'm very very impressed.

That's one I'll definitely be using a lot with my new iPod. It's very nicely designed.