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Jul. 24, 2007 at 9:10am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google & Other Search Apps For The iPhone

It has been almost two weeks since I got my iPhone and I have been playing with it for a while now.

I wanted to share with you the various cool search applications I use on my iPhone, including Google's AJAX iPhone search.

Google iPhone Search:
Google's iPhone search is available over here. Here are screen captures of me using it for a search on [barry schwartz]:

Home Page:

Entering in a Search:

Web Search Results:

News Results:

Blog Results:

Image Results:

Digg on iPhone:
Digg has a neat iPhone user interface as well. You can access it at digg.com/iphone. Here are some screen captures:

Digg Home:

Digg Topic:

A Dugg Digg:

Bloglines on iPhone:
Bloglines, owned by Ask.com, is a very popular web-based RSS feed reader. They recently launched Bloglines for the iPhone at i.bloglines.com. Here are some screen captures:

Bloglines Home:

Feed Summary View:

Feed Detail View:

NewsGator also has an iPhone specific feed reader at m.newsgator.com/iphone.aspx. I do not have a NewsGator login, so no screen shots for you on that.

Twitter on iPhone:
There are several Twitter applications for your iPhone, including m.twitter.com, but I prefer PocketTweets. Here are some screen images of PocketTweets in action:

Twitter Updates:

Twitting:

Twit Updating:

Flickr on iPhone:
Yahoo's Flickr is a great search tool also. You can easily search Flickr photos using iPhlickr on your iPhone. Here are some screen images of this in action:

iPhlickr Home Page:

Searching iPhlickr:

iPhlickr Search Results:

Danny on iPhlickr:

Finding Movies on iPhone:
Movies App is an iPhone application you can use to find local movie listings and theaters. It contains links to reviews, trailers, maps and to buy the tickets online. Here are screen caps:

Search for Local Theaters and listings:

Select a Theater:

Select a Movie:

View Movie Listing:

Direct Link to Google Maps on iPhone:

Sport Scores on iPhone:
I use iPhone Sports to find quick sport scores on my iPhone. I am sure there are other resources out there, but this is the one I know of. Here is a single screen capture:

Top News Stories on iPhone:
PressDisplay.com was shown to me by Gary Price. This site is a news portal designed to work well on the iPhone. Here are screen captures:

Home Page:

News Article:

Magic on iPhone:
One last thing, did you know I can make popcorn in my iPhone?

I am sure there are many other applications you can use on your iPhone for finding information. If I missed any that you are aware of, please comment. I would love to learn of other applications that you love to use on your iPhone.

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