25 Newest iPhone Webapps for 2009
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkWednesday, February 4, 2009
You can never get enough from iPhone apps. Its so popular and the sheer volumes of apps being produced every day is so large that you can grow old in one month if out of touch. So, as this new year unfolds thousands of applications, we are here to gift you with 25 webapps you must at least give a look to. So cutting this short, let us go for it.
1. Uclick GoComics
An absolutely delightful app. There is hardly anyone who doesn’t love comics and superheroes.
- 150+ Comic Strips including Calvin & Hobbes, Doonesbury, Garfield, Close to Home; new hits Cul de Sac, The Argyle Sweater and more.
- 60+ Editorial Cartoons from the Right, Left, and Middle - including Pat Oliphant, Ted Rall, and Glenn McCoy
2. Coloured Circle
Tap on the left or right half of a coloured circle to turn it to the left or right. The goal is to bring together all the pieces of each color. A very nice puzzle game to keep you glued to your iphone.
3. GeoID.me
An online location bookmarking application with mapping, location sharing, driving direction and local search features all combined in a single app, no more jumping around opening and closing applications. Bookmarked locations can be sent to a friend with a short note attached and viewed from any browser. In addition bookmarks can also be organized into custom maps. Typically GeoID.me can be used for:
- Bookmarking and sharing user current location
- Adding friend’s address as a location bookmark
- Setting up a meeting place with a friend with a short note via email
- Searching for local businesses or hot spots near current user location
4. Free Calendar Wallpaper
Make better use of your iPhone’s lock screen with our free 2009 Calendar Wallpaper. Each month’s calendar will fit snugly between the date/time bar and the unlock bar. More colors and themes coming soon!
What’s New in this Version
- 3 New Calendar designs added for your viewing pleasure
- Bridge - Take a long, peaceful walk.
- Trains - Or take a slow, sunset ride.
- Statue of Liberty - Or show your love for NYC.
5. The Microsoft Fan Insider
If you are a Windows user, get the latest headline news delivered right to your iPhone or iPod touch. We scour the Internet for the best stories and format them in a readable format for your mobile device. Bookmark and check daily for the best Windows news! (not affiliated with Microsoft)
6. Great Top Quotes from Quotiki
Quotable quotes are really inspirational. Never miss gems like Life is too short to waste on sleep and Worry is like a rocking chair - It gives you something to do but it gets you nowhere.
7. Celebrity Gossip
This site archives over 10,000 celebrity gossip stories. Also features a search, and a view story with image feature. Who doesn’t love to hear what the glam boys and celeb gals have to say?
8. Clock Blocker
The object is to stop the counter as close to 500 as possible. The lower your score, the better. Can you get a score of 0?
9. Educational News
Its really important for all the students and teachers out there. If you are an educator, then this is the website for you! Featuring daily news from all the best educational sites, formatted perfectly to fit your iPhone or iPod Touch screen and 100% free. This is the site you need to bookmark so you don’t miss any of the news in your profession!
10. Site Report
A simple utility that allows you to enter a page url and have a quick analysis of that page emailed to you. You get a visual report and a csv file of each area of the report.
You get a report on:
- Page Load Time
- Link Popularity
- Validate HTML
- Page Keywords
- Broken Links
- Spell Check
- Missing Meta Tags
- Search Engine Inclusion
11. Wi-Fi Connectivity Tester
Accurately measure your wireless internet connection, using an advanced mathematical model with the WiFiSpeed webapp. WiFiSpeed allows you to take repeated measurements and it will continuously average your result with the previous ones, for a more accurate reading.
As soon as the standard deviation is within 10%, you will be advised that you are now very close to the real value. The data-chunk used to measure your speed, is randomly generated at every measurement in way which prevents it from being cached or compressed, to prevent any result distortion.
A standard statistical method is being used in order to make sure that you result is as close as possible to the real value, given the fact that any internet connection doesn’t have a constant speed.
12. Colour Mail
This web application will help you to create a colour styled email template and then you can use it directly in your iPhone Mail app to send a colourful email to your friends.
You can change background colour, text colour, fonts, and text sizes. You can also change the corner of the text body.
When styling is done, just click the go to Mail button to switch to the iPhone default Mail app to edit your email and send it out.
No more App installation needed and you can create your colourful email in an easy way.
13. Snake Touch
The most popular mobile game of all time is here. I couldn’t possibly have left out this. Use the direction buttons to direct the snake to eat the apples. But do not hit the walls or the snake. If you do, the snake dies.
14. Bulk SMS
As the name suggests, it does just that and some more thigs. Now you can send and receive messages from your iPod Touch or iPhone via BulkSMS. All you need to do is sign up for an account.
Top features:
- Send SMS.
- Receive SMS.
- Credit Balance.
- Add a contact.
- Remove a contact.
- A fully descriptive help guide.
- No advertisements.
15. Most Viewed Picture
This is pretty interesting. Each day, people from all around the globe spend time browsing and looking at images. This application will show you what the top images be viewed are so you can take a look yourself. Trust me, those pics are just amazing.
16. City Search
Mashup of Citysearch.com and Google Maps will help you find the best restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping and services in major US cities as voted on Citysearch.com. Get direction to the location or link off to Citysearch.com to read user reviews. Very useful for new comers.
17. Google Analytics
Are you a busy webmaster or addictive blogger? Then I am sure google analytic is what you need on your iphone to keep track of. Check your Google Analytics accounts from your iPhone. Supports multiple analytics profiles. Remote access at it’s best. Please Note – Tap the blue arrow icon after the word “Account” to see other accounts.
18. X| Grapher
A free web-based financial market visualisation tool for charting and analysis of different stock, currency and commodity markets, A must have for share brokers.
19. Laughs HQ
This site will make you laugh! Features lots of categories for all types of jokes. I mean, after a strenous day of work, there is nothing better than a good hearty laugh.
20. Internet Radio Tuner
Interact with other listeners through a community portal- StarLife and listen to the best programmed internet radio on the planet as claimed.
21. Google Trends + Twitter
This application shows you the top 100 Google searches and allows you to easily see what people are saying about these topics with Twitter. It blends the raw data of Google searches with the human aspect of Twitter.
22. Live Score
Football (Soccer) LiveScore : the 1st live score service on the Internet, powered by LiveScore.com since 1998. Live football (soccer) scores and game detailed info directly from the source, the no. 1 ranked football (soccer) website globally.
Live coverage from every corner of the world with over 200 leagues, cup competitions and championships covered. More than 1000 live football (soccer) games followed every week during the season.
23. Chess
Do you like to charge your brain with food for thoughts? Play online chess against chess players from across the globe for free with an extremely real-time chess experience. You won’t ever need a chessmaster CD after this.
24. Free Phone Number Tracer
Find the owner(s) of any listed US residential landline phone number with this free easy to use search tool.
Simply enter the landline phone number you want traced in the search box, then click submit all results are displayed on your iPhone or MAC immediately.
Free Results Include:
- Name
- Name History
- City
- State
- Relatives (in some cases)
25. Amazing Maths
I know Maths haven’t been that popular with most of you. But this can be an exception. With this application, you can enjoy a lot of mathematical tricks, weekly updated. This iPhone / iPod touch web application is offered in English and Spanish. You can also note down the tricks you like and show them to your friends.
And now, you can rate any trick, so it’s easy to know which tricks are the most popular. Besides, some solutions are not available until some days after new tricks have been published.
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June 12, 2010: 4:13 am
If ya’ll think Tiger Text is the best fake texts app, you are WRONG!!! This app actually tricks my girlfriend and parents into thinking they see my real texts. It’s at faketexts.com… sumthin like that…called FakeTexts though. Fuh real!!! |
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May 16, 2010: 4:40 pm
Thanks a lot for this review. You`ve presented here a very nice selection of web iphone apps. Most of them are really useful, for example I like such apps as Internet Radio Tuner or Wi-Fi Connectivity Tester, as most helpful. Also I like Chess and Laughs HQ for some pleasure. |
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November 24, 2009: 3:25 am
I bought a few web apps for my iPhone yesterday. The cool thing was iBeer, people were so creative it amazes me. |
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