The top iPhone apps for techies
Apple's iPhone 2.0 launch sparked an explosion of native apps and games, along with a burst of business application support from Google, Oracle, NetSuite, Salesforce.com, and a host of others who have tuned their Web GUIs for the iPhone's Safari browser. It has taken longer for useful IT tools to come to the iPhone, but many are now here.
However, you won't find all of these tools in Apple's App Store. To get the best of them, you'll need to "jailbreak" your iPhone (or iPod Touch) and install Cydia, a package manager for jailbreak apps. Cydia opens the iPhone to a brave new world beyond iTunes, where goodies such as terminal emulators and SSH software are free for the downloading.
Among InfoWorld's top picks are MobileTerminal, the OS X terminal emulator for the iPhone, and OpenSSH, an SSH client and server. But we're not all work and no play: NES, a Nintendo emulator, also tops our list, because Super Mario Brothers is its own justification. See the full list, "Top 10 iPhone apps for techies."
