Apple Web Apps

Today Apple launched their new Web Apps page for the iPhone and iPod touch. You can access popular social networking sites such as Facebook, keep up with news sites like Digg and get the current weather for your area, aswell as games and productivity tools. I for one will be keeping a close eye on this page and look forward to it’s development when more apps are available.

One of the Social Networking apps which is featured on Apple Web apps is Hahlo which is a Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod touch. I discovered this yesterday as I searched for an alternative to PocketTweets which was taking quite a while to load for me over the past few days. Hahlo has now become my number one choice for the iPod touch. Gorgeous UI but more importantly it loads much quicker than the others I’ve played around with recently…

I’m also looking forward to seeing some Instant Messaging apps making their way to Apple Web Apps. I have been playing with JiveTalk for iPhone today, by beejive. This is a really cool little app that makes staying in contact with your AIM/.Mac, Yahoo, Windows Live, Google Talk, MySpace, ICQ and Jabber buddies on the move an absolute breeze. I tried this out today with my .Mac account and found it to be really slick and I particularly love the iChat interface. Typing on the iPod touch on-screen keyboard is a little more fiddly than it would be if you’re at your Mac, but it’s so nice to have an app like this for those moments when you want to catch up quickly with someone, especially as the iPod touch doesn’t come with a Mail client.