iPhone apps we crave

I know it's been posted before, but....

- A Tivo app (not a remote :| )where I can schedule recordings or download/stream shows already on my Tivo on the fly to my iphone - I would pay $25 for a feature like this, possibly more. That is one big advantage the Instinct and Vu have over the iphone - easy access to TV

Bluetooth support for the Apple wireless keyboard. Please!! This would let me type on the train, and would be the perfect device for someone who just wants to write on the go. Otherwise I may buy some other gizmo, and that's such a waste.

WIFI gateway to 3G network. The phone could effectively be used as a router/gateway to the 3G network over WIFI. And while they are at it, why not automatically sync over WIFI when your laptop and phone detect one another on the same network. Screw bluetooth completely.

Its probably too late to jump on the bandwagon and this post probably wont get read. However, with that said, I would like to see an application that will receive a TXT message and wipe the contents of the phone. The Palm had such a thing and it was great in the event that the phone is lost.

Not Adium, but Agile Messenger. Currently in the Installer. It is SUPER!!!

Anyone know if touchpad pro has a planned release for 2.0? That was an incredibly good VNC app for 1.1.4.

My iPhone app wish? A styled-text viewer/reader (like the free Tofu for Macs [which can also *speak* the text]) to fairly faithfully display fonts, relative point-sizes and styles of text files, such as I've made available for demonstration on sassafras4u.com.

This would *instantly* turn the iPhone and Touch into the ideal reader for news articles (or even whole books) thus formatted: the text should automatically wrap to the screen width (or length, depending on preferred orientation), you could adjust text size by pinching (spreading).

The iPhone's screen (dimensions plus its sharpness) is ideal for reading text on the go. This would blow the Kindle away, if you think about it...plus, you already always have the iPhone/Touch in your pocket!

The corresponding web articles (which I'm primarily interested in at the moment, although the iPhone would be an ideal book reader as well, if longer publications were made available in this styled-text format) would also be available (toggled?) on Safari so you could immediately grasp the intent of the author from a glance at the overall layout and also view any relevant graphics.

(It seems to me that if the iPhone provided a platform for convenient reading of styled-text files, longer publications [e.g., books] would quickly become available as styled-text, as the market perceives this great new opportunity for distribution [iBooks?].)

But the main point is that actually *reading* the article would be much faster and hugely more enjoyable because this would eliminate horizontal scrolling trying to read long lines of text from the original webpage, and often not in a font family that facilitates speed reading in the first place.

Page-down, -up, beginning and end "buttons" would be about all I'd need to navigate (maybe go to page... would be nice too). (Bottom and top of the screen, upper-left and bottom-right corners, respectively, would seem like logical locations, if it were up to me.) And, if reading a lengthy novel, being able to bookmark where I left off last time (and perhaps several other locations) would obviously be convenient (and quickly annoying if this feature were missing).

Try out my general idea on your home computer using Tofu and the styled text files on sassafras4u and see if you don't agree that speed reading is much more possible, even natural, from the text files (especially in Tofu, where the narrow column widths have been designed specifically [and which you can further customize to your liking] to minimize horizontal eye travel) than from the original web page.

On your computer's larger screen, I recommend having both the text viewer (Tofu) and browser open at the same time so you can instantly switch back and forth between the original web article (to view its layout and graphics) and its text file (to actually read it).

This method has enabled me to go from being able to read a frustratingly small number of maybe 5-10 sci/tech web articles per day to 125-350 per day! And, it's enabled me to virtually "bookmark" 1/4-million web articles--by using my desktop search tools.

My dream solution would be if the iPhone were also capable of directly downloading and expanding compressed text-file archives on-the-fly without having to synch to the home computer.

Slingbox
Office
iWork
Skype
Adium
Guitar Rig!
Sirius & XM
Logic Remote
Back To My Mac screen sharing
Google Earth
iWeb Blogging
Delicious Library
Bluetooth or WiFi Printing
Remote access to iTune music, tv shows, and movies.
Quicken
Quickbooks
eTrade
Apple remote app that can show shared library.

Did I say SLINGBOX! Coming soon.

I think thats it. For now.

Posts like this are useful but they get shoved down and forgotten in time. Could someone create a site to collect and keep updated a wish list for iPhone and iPod Touch applications that would permit actual and future developer to realise possible trends.

Here is my wish list
- Cut/Copy/Paste
- Global find in all apps (except password protected)
- Global shortcuts and macros such as textpander
- Multiple alarms clock with snooze
- Spreadsheet
- 2D CAD (elementary)
- Device memory usage mapper

I hope that Opera Mobile or Mini will be released for iPhone ... Especially for that users can't use 3g connections !!!