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Grazr: exploring a reading list without committing to every feed
The early feed-browser idea remains useful for building a small, understandable collection of sources.
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Telekinesis: remote access through the original iPhone’s browser
A historical look at the mini web apps that exposed Mac functions to an early iPhone.
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The 2007 iPhone Developer Guide: designing for Safari
Place Apple’s early iPhone web-content guide in the context of the first iPhone’s development model.
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Diamenty: a gem-puzzle experiment for the first iPhone
Revisit Diamenty’s original browser-game identity without confusing it with Bejeweled or a later App Store title.
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TipCalc: a restaurant calculator from the iPhone’s web-app era
Danny Goodman’s TipCalc handled tips and split bills in Safari. Revisit the small web app and the calculation choices that made it…
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Tic-tac-toe on iPhone: learning to see the next move
A practical guide to the classic three-by-three game, with a focus on readable boards and thoughtful play.
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iPhone Sudoku: Steve McLaughlin’s early browser puzzle
Steve McLaughlin’s browser Sudoku helped define early iPhone gaming. Revisit its number-first controls and historical identity.
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AccuWeather’s 2007 iPhone widget: forecasts in Safari
This historical link covered AccuWeather’s Safari weather widget, not its later App Store app. Revisit the forecast and map features described at…
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MSN Messenger on the first iPhone: the original web widget
Identify the third-party MSN widget behind this 2007 bookmark and understand why a messenger’s interface and network are different things.
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New York On Tap: finding the next stop with an early iPhone
Revisit the mobile New York On Tap bar directory and its practical approach to small-screen local search.
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RonPaul iPhone Headquarters: a campaign website for the first iPhone
A look at the 2007 mobile campaign site built by Terra Eclipse for Ron Paul’s 2008 campaign.
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iPhone sho’fr: automotive reviews in the mobile browser
Identify sho’fr’s early iPhone community and how local automotive reviews differ from a service specification.
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Apple’s early iPhone RSS reader: a web-shaped beginning for mobile news
The reader.mac.com experiment belongs to the first iPhone’s browser-based era and still offers a useful lesson about choosing a manageable news feed.
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iPhone recipes: organize the dishes you actually cook
A practical recipe-library workflow for saving sources, recording changes, and planning a useful grocery list.
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CheapMF: an early mobile product-search tool
Revisit the product search and customer-review workflow behind this 2007 iPhone web listing.
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iTweetr: a Twitter-shaped preview of the first iPhone web
Dean Robinson’s pre-launch concept shows why a timeline, navigation and a clear sense of place mattered on the first touch-screen phone.
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YouTube on the first iPhone: the mobile website and built-in app
Understand the two early routes to YouTube on iPhone and why the date of an archived page matters.
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OneTrip: a shopping list from before the App Store
Neven Mrgan’s early Safari demo showed how a simple everyday task could become an iPhone-shaped web app.
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iPhoneDigg: what an early mobile interface chose to leave out
David Cann’s 2007 Digg experiment illustrates the shift from fitting a desktop site onto a phone to organizing a task around touch.
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