Developers offer free iPhone application packaging

Alright, so i am loving this app. in short, however I was wondering if anyone is writing a Latin Flash Card program to run in conjunction with the iFlashCards..?

ID LIKE TO SE MORE FREE SOFTWARE FOR IPHONE

I must say, I've been having a lot of fun with all of this. I have reached an impasse though (which will likely be addressed in the next few days/hours with the way things are being developed), and wanted to see what the community thinks.

I have been using installer.app. I found some complaints about it's closed nature, and then found the PXL approach. ibrickr even has a mobile safari plugin that allows it to work via the iphone browser with these sites:
http://iphone.exploit.org/pxl/
http://pxl.ibrickr.com/
(I really like that, the iphone shouldn't need to be tethered after jailbreak and SSH installation IMHO)

My impasse is installer.app and PXL (via ibrickr) do not seem to 'share' with each other what is installed. Also, I didn't see an easy way to check for updates to PXL's via the MobileSafari of my phone. (yes, I know ibrickr will handle PXL's, but I run *nix and nothing seems to handle the iPhone there so I want it all onboard-ish)

Is there a 'plan' in the works to accommodate that such as:
- Make them 'know' about each other?
- Open installer so (us) open source people do not treat it like a red headed step child?
- Make a _new_ way that everyone can agree upon?

Perhaps PXL's guys and installer.app guys should do lunch? I'd help pay for it :)

For those hunting around, I did find this page on adding sources to installer.app (sorry open sourcers for fueling that fire); look down the page for his sig where he includes a modified PackageSources.plist:
http://www.modmyiphone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=20475

This adds two more sources (pronounced THEMES!). (It would be nice if his themes were incorporated into iswitch, though, so you could do it on the fly and all.)

I guess what I'm getting at is this is almost starting to seem like the distro wars in *nix. I don't want 'one ring to rule them all' *cough, microsoft*, but it would be nice if we had something to centralize:
- 'sources' (whatever those are/become)
- 'themes' (ditto)
- and methods to put them in place.

Oh, and if Santa's reading this, I want:
- Full VPN not just PPTP/L2TP.
- Linux/Unix methods of connecting to the phone to jailbreak as well as a linux PXL client. I'd rather not have to borrow friend/families windows or Mac systems to manipulate the phone.
- 'Map' of what itunes does so I can use SSH and mysqllite (?) to put my own music/videos in place.
- Ability to save files/attachments (ROMs, eBooks, MP3s, vids, so I can get add these things without SSH on a private wireless or with port forwarding)
- copy-n-paste (please...for the love of I'm tired of remembering URLs that have not been mod_rewritten)

Basically, I want the iPhone to be a laptop replacement now that laptops are desktop replacements; it'd increase the user base, which would increase demand, and then of course increase available content/toys/etc.

Please don't take this as complaints. Every bit of this is incredible, and makes me VERY happy with my decision to buy one.

Oh, and for those who want to manually convert their own videos (*nix users) ffmpeg will do it with this (and you can then access via HTTP from you local webserver, or start a website and share vids for iPhone users):
ffmpeg -vcodec mpeg4 -b 2560 -qmin 3 -qmax 5 -i SourceVideo.avi SourceVideo.mp4

It worked for a few things, but might not work for all and does require the 'non-free' codecs to be installed. Also, that is using what seemed to be the highest specs from Apples site, so you might want to decrease the bitrate for non-local network purposes.

I tried to install AppTapp, but it timed out when it was trying to download the Firmware. What gives?

Okay I installed this and it did not seem to do anything? I did the ring tones and the iphone doom, but where do I find them....please email reba@fallawake.com

a few apps I want to see...

1. a downloadable app like onetrip (the shopping list manager)
2. VNC
3. MMS
4. a dictionary/thesaurus
5. a unit converter
6. some sort of clipboard type thing
7. yellow pages
8. flight info

Good to see open doors for iphone developer platform.


Josh
http://www.egold-directory.com

Hey Ste: Who do I gotta pay to write a two-player backgammon app?!? Seriously, I'm surprised we haven't seen more games yet. Also, I'm loving the GRE study aid!

I'm not an iPhone owner yet, but when I am it will be because of guys and gals like these making the iPhone what it should have been. This community is amazing!

Ste, keep it coming man! I'll def be clicking on you guys' "donations" link! It is well worth it.
As dcartguy said, it has become part of my daily, if not every time I look at the icon! ;-)