IPHONE TOOLBOX: 75+ iPhone Resources

iPhone Apps

Apple hasn't yet released an iPhone SDK (software development kit) to developers, instead, they've opted to promote the use of the device's full-featured Safari browser, and have encouraged web developers to develop web apps specifically for the iPhone.

iPhoneChat- iChat-like AIM chat application.

OneTrip- Simple shopping-list application.

FlickIM- Multi-featured AIM chat application.

Digg (iPhone edition)-Digg.com formatted for the iPhone.

Gcalc- Calculates the cost of tech according to power consumption.

Hahlo- iPhone-styled interface for Twitter.

iPhlickr- iPhone-styled Flickr interface.

iDelicious- Styled interface for del.icio.us.

iPicli- A nicely designed gallery of creative content, managed by users.

PocketTweets- Another twitter app, with a minimal interface.

eBuddy- Feature-packed iPhone chat client with support for AIM, Yahoo!, and MSN (Site works only if visited on your iPhone).

Cool Gorilla Talking Phrasebook- Foreign language phrase-book with audio.

Texterity- Innovative way to view magazines (specifically formatted for the iPhone).

Bejeweled- Version of the popular mobile-phone game, "Bejeweled" optimized for the iPhone.

Newsgator Mobile for iPhone- Full-featured, mobile version of Newsgator's online offering. Great for users of the MacRSS client, NetNewsWire, which automatically syncs to the service.

Twitter for iPhone Yet another twitter app.

Dailymotion for iPhone- Youtube's already built-in, what about the other video-sites? Another video-sharing site, Dailymotion, is offering an iPhone formatted version of their site.

iRovr- A social-network exclusive to the iPhone.

iPhoneiGTD- App for access of projects being tracked via the Mac client iGTD. The only catch is that your iGTD data needs to be synced with .Mac in the first place.

TeleMoose- A front-end for Amazon.com optimized for the iPhone.

Google Reader- An interface for popular web-based RSS reader, Google Reader, nicely optimized for the iPhone.

iZoho- An iPhone front-end for the web-based office suite Zoho. The iPhone version lets you do everything you might do on your computer, including viewing and editing docs, spreadsheets, and presentations.

Gas.app- Enter your zip code and this app will find you the cheapest gas in town (USA only).

MyMetar- A "weather bookmarking service" which allows you to bookmark your local METARs, TAFs, and radar images.

iPhoneTravel- Searches directory travel.ian.com just in case you need to book flights, hotels, and cruises from your iPhone.

iBookmark- Lets you manage and sync del.ico.us bookmarks with your iPhone.

Youtube- An iPhone-optimized Youtube browser, just in case the "desktop" version isn't working for you.

GoMovies- An easy and quick way to search for movie showtimes and other movie-related info right from your iPhone.

iChess- Bored? Cure your chess craving with iChess, a simple, chess app for your iPhone.

Leaflets- A suite of iPhone apps: Search, Feeds, Newsvine, App-List, Upcoming, Flickr, del.icio.us, and Le Tour de France, organized in a desktop-like fashion. Safari 3 users can preview Leaflets by viewing the web-based demo.

Listingly- A list making application with a great UI. Integrated word recognition and the ability to print lists make this an indispensable resource, especially for making shopping lists on the go.

iPling- A "social expansion engine" allows you to findothers with similar interests. The app even provides a way for users to meet up in real-life after the anonymous exchange of text-messages.

NYTimes River- Cuts out the clutter on the NYTimes website, just delivering the news in an easily readable format.

CheapMF- Out shopping? Not sure about prices? CheapMF can help. It's a utility that searches Amazon.com for prices on specified products in order to help you make educated shopping decisions.

iTouch- A simple, addictive game which tests your reflexes, just touch some dots on the screen.

Avalanche- An addictive puzzle game in which the goal is to clear the screen of blocks by picking three or more inter-connected blocks of the same color.

Expense View- Allows you to import your spending data into your iPhone on-the-go.You can then access your data at home and see exactly how you've been spending your money. It's even equipped with graphs and categories for the organized spender.

iPhone recipes- Cooking resource 101 Cookbooks has assembled an iPhone interface for searching through recipes.

iActu- Newsstand like interface for reading news headlines from various Newspapers.

iTweet- The third twitter app on this list, with an intuitive, streamlined interface.

Ta-da List 37signals, simple, intuitive to-do list app.

Movies Another app for looking up movie showtimes and other related info on your iPhone.

iTipr- Excellent application for calculating appropriate tip amounts.

Seeqpod- Search for playable music on the internet and then play it back on your iPhone.
Beejive- Another chat application, Beejive, is a solid contender in the iPhone chat app market. The app supports several chat protocols including, AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Gtalk, ICQ, and Jabber. While everything seems to be in working order for me, please note the app's still in it's early alpha development stage.

TestiPhone- Web-based simulator for quickly testing your iPhone applications.

JiWire- A utility to find free Wi-Fi hotspots by location, worldwide.

FastApp- An iPhone "dashboard" that displays the latest additions to iPhoneApplicationList.com

WordBreaker- A word-game in which you you attempt to guess your computer's secret word before it guesses yours, in a hangman-like logic format.

Airport Delay Tracker- Track live air traffic information.

iBloglines- Another iPhone-optimized RSS reader, this one, with the Bloglines service.

Belfry SciCalc- A nicely implemented scientific calculator for the iPhone.

Your Vids- Another iPhone optimized video service with several features.

TV Forecast- A personalized TV-guide optimized for the iPhone.

iPhone Resources

Collections (App Lists, Wallpapers, Forums etc)

iPhone Application List- An ever-updating list of iPhone apps.

iPhone Widget List- Like iPhone Application List, but with even more apps.

sciphone.net- A constantly updated collection of the best iPhone wallpapers, including weekly themepack releases.

ThemeMyPhone- A community-centric resource for iPhone wallpapers.

ModMyiPhone.com- iPhone forum and community.

iPhone Application Gallery ~ AppSafari ~- An iPhone application gallery with ratings, reviews, and comments.

Blogs

iPhone Central- The guys from Macworld have put together a blog solely dedicated to the iPhone, with all the authority that goes with the Macworld name. They even have an iPhone version.

The iPhone Blog- A nicely put together iPhone blog.

ZDNet- iPhone- ZDNet's iPhone coverage.

The Cult of Mac- The Cult of Mac blog covers the iPhone plenty.

CNet- iPhone- CNet's coverage of the iPhone.

iPhone- Gizmodo Gizmodo's iPhone coverage.

TUAW- iPhone TUAW's iPhone coverage.

Ars Technica- Apple Ars Technica's Apple coverage, plenty of iPhone coverage to be found.

Podcasts

iCali- Cali Lewis' (from GeekBrief.tv) in her iPhone-centric podcast.

ApplePhone Show- A weekly audio podcast covering the iPhone, hosted by industry leaders Scott Bourne, Chris Breen and Andy Ihnatko.

MacBreak Weekly- The popular weekly Mac podcast with hosts Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Scott Bourne and Alex Lindsay is bound to cover the iPhone more than enough.

TWiT Another one of Leo Laporte's successful tech podcasts, again, bound to even further inform you of the latest iPhone developments.

Hacks

Hack the iPhone- A comprehensive site containing all the info you need to hack your iPhone.

iPhone Hacks- An assembly of the latest iPhone hacks in blog form.

Applehound- Consistently updated listing of iPhone bugs, ready for hacking.

40+ Free Hacking Tutorials

  Here are some great hacking tutorials and resources that you can explore in your journey to learn hacking:

1. Hacking Tutorials for Beginners By BreakTheSecurity.com

Unless you know how to hack, you cannot defend yourself from hackers. Break The Security(BTS) provides Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking tutorials. It guides users to get into the PenTesting and Ethical Hacking World.

2. How to learn Ethical hacking By Astalavista.com

You can learn all there is to know about Ethical hacking over here.

3. Penetration Testing Tutorial By Guru99.com

Here you learn Penetration Testing by practice. The goal of this testing is to find all security vulnerabilities that are present in the system being tested. This tutorial takes boredom out of learning and makes education a fun experience.

4. Backtrack Penetration Testing Tutorial

This Backtrack Penetration Testing Tutorial is a penetration testing tutorial using Backtrack Linux. Backtrack is the best penetration testing distribution. Offers some penetration testing programs and these programs will used in this Backtrack Penetration Testing Tutorial.

5. Introduction to Penetration Testing

The difference between penetration testing and hacking is whether you have the system owner’s permission. This tutorial helps you understand this better.

6. Information Gathering with Nmap

This tutorial consists of a series that will give a basic walkthrough of a penetration test. However, many tools on the backtrack distro will not be covered in these and could be asked from the author separately.

7. Simple How To Articles By Open Web Application Security

Series of articles describing how to perform a specific activity that contributes to application security.

8. The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

Introduces you to the six dumbest ideas in computer security: the anti-good ideas that come from misguided attempts to do the impossible.

9. Secure Design Principles

While there are many specific security practices, they flow from a small set of well-accepted principles. Understanding the fundamental principles puts you in the best position to implement specific practices where needed in your own projects. This tutorial guides you through the same.

10. 10 steps to secure software

The author and security analyst recommends that programmers follow some principles for developing secure software that is today's weakest link.

11. Introduction to Public Key Cryptography

Public-key cryptography and related standards and techniques underlie security features of many Red Hat products, including signed and encrypted email, form signing, object signing, single sign-on, and the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. This document introduces the basic concepts of public-key cryptography.

12. Crypto Tutorial

The page contains many crypto tutorials, totalling 973 slides in 12 parts, of which the first 10 (+ part 0) are the tutorial itself and the 12th is extra material which covers crypto politics.

13. Introduction to Cryptography

Deals with the very basics of cryptography.

14. An Overview of Cryptography

There are many aspects to security and many applications, ranging from secure commerce and payments to private communications and protecting passwords. One essential aspect for secure communications is that of cryptography, which is the focus of this chapter.

15. Cryptography Tutorials Herong's Tutorial Examples

Collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning cryptography technologies himself. Topics include blowfish, certificate, cipher, decryption, DES, digest, encryption, keytool, MD5, OpenSSL, PEM, PKCS#8, PKCS#12, private key, public key, RSA, secret key, SHA1, SSL, X.509.

16. The Crypto Tutorial Herong's Tutorial Examples

Easy-to-use, interactive cryptography tutorial. You have the opportunity to learn the secrets of cryptography in 30 lessons without having any background knowledge.

17. Handbook of Applied Cryptography 

This ebook contains some free chapter from one of the popular cryptography books.

18. Network Penetration testing Guide

Risk assessment is a critical first-step in the information security lifecycle. Network penetration testing offers an invaluable way to establish a baseline assessment of security as it appears from outside the organisation's network boundaries.

19. How to hack anything in Java

Many applications in the enterprise world feature thick Java clients. Testing the security of such applications is considered practically more difficult than a similar browser-based client because inspecting, intercepting and altering application data is easy in the browser.

20. Mcafee on iPhone and iPad Security

Mobile application penetration testing is an up and coming security testing need that has recently obtained more attention, with the introduction of the Android, iPhone, and iPad platforms among others.

21. A Good Collection of White papers on security and vulnerabilities

Collection of white papers from different sources and some of these white papers are really worth referring.

22. Engineering Principles for Information Technology Security

The purpose of the Engineering Principles for Information Technology (IT) Security (EP-ITS) is to present a list of system-level security principles to be considered in the design, development, and operation of an information system.

23. Basic Principles Of Information Protection

As computers become better understood and more economical, every day brings new applications. Many of these new applications involve both storing information and simultaneous use by several individuals. The key concern in this paper is multiple use. For those applications in which all users should not have identical authority, some scheme is needed to ensure that the computer system implements the desired authority structure.

24. Open Web Application Security Project

Application security principles are collections of desirable application properties, behaviors, designs and implementation practices that attempt to reduce the likelihood of threat realisation and impact should that threat be realised.

25. Cryptography Course

Learn about the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and how to apply this knowledge in real-world applications!

Websites

26. http://www.astalavista.com/

27. http://packetstormsecurity.com/

28. http://www.blackhat.com/

29. http://www.metasploit.com/

30. http://sectools.org/

31. http://www.2600.com/

32. DEF CON - Hacking conference

33. http://www.breakthesecurity.com/

34. http://www.hacking-tutorial.com/

35. http://www.evilzone.org/

36. http://hackaday.com/

37. http://www.hitb.org/

38. http://www.hackthissite.org/

39. http://pentestmag.com

40. http://www.securitytube.net/