So when someone came up to you and asked, so what’s so great about the iPhone. You’ll probably show them how cool the iPod cover flow is, or maybe how you can multi-touch zoom in and out of the photos; flipped them, etc. I’ve got to be honest, those are part of the attractions why I got myself an iPhone even when its not officially launch here in my country but however I’ve found cooler stuff in iPhone – the ability to support tones of cool applications and most importantly, rich 3rd party application developers.
At least 2 new applications are added to Installer.app for iPhone each day. Installer.app not only opens up the gate to rich 3rd party application but also keeping the install/uninstall steps easy. Here are some iPhone applications you should install, or at least try using them.
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Community Resources
Developed by Nullriver, Inc this is your gateway to more 3rd party applications upon installed.
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iApp-a-Day
iApp-a-Day is a project initiated for November 2007, aiming at contributing one application a day to the community. Worth checking out.
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OpenSSH + BSD Subsystem
Installation of these two application allows you to access your iPhone via sFTP. This means you can access structure and files of your iPhone. Transfer your files as easy as dragging them in/out with FTP client.
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SummerBoard
SummerBoard allows iPhone users to install more themes and wallpapers, making your iPhone more interesting.
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Cuztomize
Cuztomize gives you more control over your iPhone. It allows you to cuztomize default iPhone assets like dock background, carrier iamges, Wifi images, bar images, edge icons, airplane icon, alarm icon, bluetooth icon, lock icon, loading image, badge graphics, phone keypad image, battery images, sound images, hud image, chat balloons images, main slider, power slider, call slider, highlight mask, system sound, calculator background, weather icons, weather background, notepad background, etc.
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Vnotes
Voice recording is not build-in in a default iPhone but with Vnotes, you can record voice notes and playback anytime you wish.
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iSplit
This is a very handy tool for those who like to go dutch on meals with friends but having problem calculating how much each individual have to pay. Option of tax, tipping calculation included.
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NES
This is a NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) emulator. Upload your ROMs to given folder and enjoy NES games on your iPhone. Save games are also supported.
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weDict
As the name speaks, mobile dictionary with tones of dictionary files available in Community Resources.
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Apollo
Apollo is the first and perhaps the only application based IM for iPhone for current time being. It supports AIM, ICQ, MSN and .Mac accounts.
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Finder
Finder behaves like Mac’s finder. Search through your iPhone file structure with functions like Create, Modify, Send files.
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Lockbox
Lockbox allows you to keep important information like account username/password, credit card infomation, etc all behind a password protected screen.
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Navizon
Navizon GPS application that make use of Wifi to track your current position and sent it to Google map. Very useful for route navigation.
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PDFViewer
Transfer your PDF files to your iPhone and view them with this application.
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RSS
Keep all your feed reading under one roof, read them all from your iPhone.
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Sketches
Sketches allows you to do more than just snapping photos. It gives you an option to sketch and send photo instantly to friends via email.
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ToDoList
Keep your Todo list organized, with functions like priority settings, categorizing, etc.
Many would initially think that Javascript has something to do with Sun Microsystem’s Java but as the matter of fact, it doesn’t. Javascript was created by Netscape, they previous name was LiveWire, then LiveScript.
Javascript is a programming language that is normally used on the client side. It is easy to learn and pick up. Most Javascripts on websites serve the purpose of encouraging user experience, increase interactivity, functionality as well as web speed. DHTML (Dynamic HyperText Markup Language) is formed with the use of Javascript and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). On the other hand AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is Javascript based web development technique that uses data formatted in XML.
Here are some good Javascript sites that worth a visit.
Javascript Framework
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Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
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The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.
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Javascript framework designed for building rich Internet applications.
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qooxdoo is one of the most comprehensive and innovative Open Source multipurpose AJAX frameworks, dual-licensed under LGPL/EPL. It includes support for professional JavaScript development, a state-of-the-art GUI toolkit and high-level client-server communication.
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Ext is a client-side, JavaScript framework for building web applications. In early 2006, Jack Slocum began working on a set of extension utilities for the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library. These extensions were quickly organized into an independent library of code and distributed under the name “yui-ext.” In the fall of 2006, Jack released version .33 of yui-ext, which turned out to be the final version of the code under that name (and under the open source BSD license). By the end of the year, the library had gained so much in popularity that the name was changed simply to Ext, a reflection of its maturity and independence as a framework. A company was formed in early 2007, and Ext is now dual-licensed under the LGPL and a commercial license. The library officially hit version 1.0 on April 1, 2007.
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MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.
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Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. It builds on several contributed code bases (nWidgets, Burstlib, f(m)), which is why we refer to it sometimes as a “unified” toolkit. Dojo aims to solve some long-standing historical problems with DHTML which prevented mass adoption of dynamic web application development.
Scripts and Tutorials
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Ajaxlines is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of most of Ajax related articles, resources, tutorials and services from around the world.
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Dynamic Drive offers free DHTML, Javascripts and updates their archives frequently.
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free-javascripts is a database listeings of free basic javascripts that help your website gets more interactivity.
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Tones of free Javascripts, tutorials, references, DOM references, applets, DHTML.
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The Javascript division of Internet.com
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Query is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.
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Collection of Javascripts source, examples and concept from Mattkruse
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Cool collection of AJAX scripts you can port to your website in no time.
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Making Javascripts suck a bit less.
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moo.fx is a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library, to be used with prototype.js or the mootools framework.
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script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.
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I discover a very interesting application few days ago, so interesting that I decided jump queue and have it to come live on Monday (we all know readership drops a little over weekend). On daily basis, I explain a lot of stuff, explaining how stuff works, give guides and exchange ideas with friends and readers. It’s easier when they are next to you because you can grab their head over to your notebook and say, “nah, like thisâ€, but over internet, we do tedious printscreens and typed a lot.
JingProject of TechSmith really helps a lot. In a nutshell, this is a free tool to do freestyle print screen. Yes, there is a lot of free tool out there with same functionality but Jing does it a lot easier. Jing also do video guides. Here’s how Jing works.
Image Printscreens with Jing
- Launch it – After installation Jing tree-branch 3 little button. Click on the first one to start screen capturing.
- Define area – Drag the scale to define the area you want to include in the printscreen.
- Choose Image – We want to send an screen shot over, so we choose image here.
- Add Explanation Conveniently add some text explanation if your screen shot doesn’t tell the thousand words.
- Here comes the interesting part, upon satisfied and ready, here is 2 options to share the image.
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Save and send manually
Quite self-explanatory, save as image (.PNG format) and send later via emails, IM, etc.
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Share via Screencast
With you clicked on share, image will be uploaded to Screencast server (you’ll need a user account, registration is free) and you will be returned an url of the image. Don’t bother doing the copy url thing, its automatically saved to your clipboard. All you need to do is Ctrl + V to paste the URL to the receiver.
Video Recording with Jing
Doing video guide is exactly the same, draw your margin and click record. Perform your actions and click stop. Share by either uploading to Screencast or save is as a flash video and send it later. Audio supported.
Here’s a sample video done with Jing – http://www.screencast.com/t/RPeAwYmRK3
Download JingProject
Over the past year and a half, I have published four collections of inspirational websites with a minimalist approachs to the design. Since more great website of this style keep appearing, and since readers continue to show an interest in this style.
Netlings
Distrop
This is Aaron’s Life
Tictoc
Maxvoltar
Vudumedia
Chanel Wood
Wurkit
Websi
Rich Morris
Unieq
Wilson Miner
Opitek Lammerant
29small
Nonesuch
DAYTUM
HolgerKoenemann
Tam Cao
Anthos
Edgewood
Rene Hornig
Lee Simpson
Jon Phillips
Monty Lounge Industries
Finely Sliced
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