Campfire has long been one of the most useful Web-based applications. Described as a “business chat” tool, Campfire lets you set up password protected chatrooms where users can share files, see live image previews, look at old transcripts and, of course, chat.

The Web app is now iPhone-optimized, carrying much of the same functionality as its […]

Google has once again revised its Web-based tools — including Picasa, general search, Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and iGoogle — for the iPhone. Navigating to google.com on an iPhone will lead you to google.com/m, a portal for access to all the tools. Among the enhancements, per Google’s official announcement:

Improved UI: “The applications look and feel slicker, […]

One of the biggest things many users with jailbroken phones have to explain to other folks is which third party applications are useful. Yeah Pirate is cool, and Navizon makes the lack of GPS slightly more bearable, but what really takes the iPhone beyond what Apple has provided in a useful way? To me, a […]

It’s a bold statement to be sure, but we think we’ve found the coolest Web app yet for the iPhone. Dubbed “vtap,” the service lets you search for videos from around the Internet, then — get this — encodes them on the fly and puts them in a format that can be played on […]

Though the iPhone has had the ability to use Gmail accounts in its native email client since the device’s inception, the Web-based interface for GMail remained awakward. Making heavy use of JavaScript (with which the iPhone is still a poor performer), the GMail interface was slow to render, difficult to navigate, and sometimes crashed the […]