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Third-Party iPhone Apps Abundant
Apple's not the only company making out big with the iPhone. So are all the savvy developers who keep coming up with new ways to make the iPhone useful to the people that have one. The following are just a sampling of some of the most recent third-party applications released for making the iPhone an even more indispensable part of its users' lives.
iPhone LoJack: An entirely new and different kind of Finder, this application, developed by findme in cooperation with social-networking site Twitter provides a perfect solution to the widespread problem of misplacing one's cell phone. With findme installed, your iPhone will call your home phone (or other designated secondary telephone line) on a regular and recurring basis to notify you should your iPhone be lost or stolen. By locating the nearest iPhone tower and then identifying your iPhone's coordinates on Google Maps, findme acts as a convenient homing device for your handheld device.
iPhone Photo Dial: This picture-perfect application allows users to dial their contacts automatically by selecting their photos. Add pictures to each of your contacts and then scroll through them instead of their names to find the person you wish to call. This may sound like a pointless extravagance to some, but many people's minds are better suited to images than words (the same reason why icons have become such as staple of interface menus everywhere).
TalkShoe for iPhone: TalkShoe is a social networking site that takes the concept of the forum to a whole new level. Differing from other community-oriented sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster, TalkShoe hosts community calls, actual conference calls on every subject imaginable - sports, technology, politics, entertainment, etc. - rather like a real-time voice equivalent of Yahoo! Groups. Thus TalkShoe for iPhone enables iPhone users to join and participate in community calls via their iPhones. Similar programs have also been developed for other sites and services like Skype, Digg, and Linkedin.
Mobiscope: Now you can use your iPhone as a remote surveillance device for monitoring activity in your home or office while you're away. Simply hook up a webcam in the spot you want monitored and view the goings-on there in real-time from anywhere in the world through your iPhone. With safety and security at a premium, this is sure to become a popular app likely to spawn a bevy of copycats.
Mobiola Video Studio: Plainly put, this dexterous application makes it a breeze to convert YouTube videos, Google Video, DVD movies, and AVI and WMV video files to formats viewable on the iPhone.
PocketGuitar and iAno: The iPhone is already music to your ears, but now it can be music to your fingers as well, because now you and your iPhone can make beautiful music together with this pair of tuneful application that transforms your iPhone into, respectively, a touchscreen guitar and a touchscreen piano.
But this is all just the tip of the iceberg. From installers to launchers to games to utilities to and more, the iPhone is poised to become the all-in-one device, containing everything including the kitchen sink.
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