The big iPhone news this week (month? year?) will be whatever Apple has to say about iPhone Software 3.0 tomorrow, Tuesday March 17, 2009 at 12 Noon Central / 1:00 p.m. Eastern. So rather than a product review or other major post today, I’m just posting a few small items including links to interesting iPhone tidbits I’ve recently come across.
Load Up On Apps. You can (currently) only have 148 apps on your iPhone at one time. But you can have as many as you want on your computer and swap them in and out to your iPhone. MG Siegler at VentureBeat computes that you can download all of the approximately 25,000 apps currently available for the low low price of $71,442.69. He also notes some interesting statistics on iPhone apps. (Example: The largest number of apps are in the “Games” and “Entertainment” categories, but did you know that the #3 category is actually “Books”? Look out, Kindle!) His article is a good read.
The Gray Lady Goes 2.0. The New York Times has long had an excellent iPhone app (not to mention great iPhone-formatted web pages when you use Safari), but it recently updated its app to version 2.0. I was going to write a post about all of the improvements, but Alan at Art of the iPhone has already done such a great job that I’ll just provide this link to Alan’s review. The app is free, and it is a must-have if you are a news junkie.
Panoramic Photos with the iPhone. I’ve used the camera on my iPhone to make panoramic photos before — I’ve just taken a few photos and then used Photoshop Elements on my Mac to turn them into a panorama. But Macworld reviews a $2.99 app called Pano that walks you through the process of creating a panorama on your iPhone and then lets you save the finished product to your iPhone’s photo album. I haven’t tried the app yet myself, but the review intrigues me because I like panoramic pictures. For example, here are two that I quickly created (excuse the stitching errors) from pictures that I took on May 19, 2006 during the grand opening of the flagship Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York. Note that I said 2006 — these were not taken with an iPhone
Boxee Remote. If you don’t know what Boxee is, ignore this. But if you use Boxee on your computer or other device, the new Boxee remote app allows you to use your iPhone to control Boxee, much like Apple’s Remote app allows you to control an AppleTV. I have used the hack to run Boxee on my AppleTV, and this free app has no trouble controlling Boxee on the AppleTV. Here is a link to a YouTube video from TapCritic showing the app in action.
Click here to get NYTimes (free): 
Click here to get Pano (2.99):
Click here to get Boxee Remote (free):