iPhone: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

Web-Application Launchers

Now that the App Store is open for business (Chapter 11), what the world really needs is a way to organize all your add-on programs—something less clunky than setting up nine Home screens.

If you're sticking to online Web apps, however, you're in luck; all-in-one sites to manage or launch your Web-based applications are a great way to corral a bunch of them at once. Once you set up an account or customize an application manager site, you can bookmark it and easily bop around to your favorite programs from its main screen. For example:

• MockDock. You sign up with just an email address. Then, from a big collection of different online programs, start filling your new home screen by tapping the icons you want to add. Among the offerings: Games (sudoku, chess), social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook), and plenty of great utility programs like a mileage tracker, the 101 Cookbooks recipe database, and news readers. (mockdock.com)

• Mojits. Big bright icons point the way to several popular iPhone apps, including a detailed AccuWeather map; sites for getting local movie times; and quick trips to Twitter, Digg, and Flickr. (www.mojits.com/home)

  

• iPhoneAppsManager. This site had 66 apps in place only a week after the iPhone arrived. It skips the little widget-like icons in favor of an elegant text-based interface that groups applications into categories like Games & Fun, ...