• Swipe to “Go Home” — Swiping L-R on the top navigation brings you back to the main screen (I hope this gesture is adopted to the Mail app so it would work a little better with multiple email accounts).
• OS X Dock-style Alerts —A very elegant way to show that there are new @mentions and dms — just a tiny glow under the navbar.
• Full Persistence — It now caches previous tweets and reopening the app takes you back to exactly where you were before, in case you get a call or have to go to another app.
• User Profile UI — It now follows the same UI used for user profiles on Tweetie for Mac which I think works very well when exploring Twitter. You can easily see a user’s previous tweets, @mentions, following and followers list, etc.
• Edit Profile — It’s now possible to edit your profile from within the app itself.
• Landscape Support — And it’s configurable.
• Live-Filter — Now you can search within your stream so it’s easier to find a tweet you’ve already read and want to go back to.
• j.mp (bit.ly) Integration — You now get to own the short urls you create via the app by entering your bit.ly details.
• Threaded Conversations — Reply chains are now displayed on one screen like in the Mac version.
• Drafts — Which you can also send to Birdhouse.

Now, I can’t wait for 2.0 of Tweetie for Mac.

Choosy does a wonderful job of opening links the way I want them opened. The default behavior is that it lets you choose which browser to open any link your’re trying to launch. But the real beauty is the wide variety of customizations you can do. Behavior can be modified based on several conditions like the following:

• web address (eg. all links that start with http://www.grabup.com opens in WebKit)
• the application where the link is being opened from (eg. all links from Tweetie open in WebKit)
• number of running browsers (eg. if 2 browsers are open then open link in Firefox)
• the modifier key you’re pressing (eg. Command-Shift-Click can automatically open links in Firefox)

Plus, a whole lot of other combinations. Still exploring the other customizations but this will definitely improve my workflow.

Now I can start using harder to break passwords and not have to remember every one of them. All I need to remember now for the most part is 2 long passwords (or one if I use the same for the Mac and iPhone) and a 4 digit code. Another thing I especially like is being able to store credit card info protected by a password. No need to pull out my credit card from my wallet if I’m doing online transactions (well for those that don’t support Paypal, like online food delivery).

Daily

• Adium – for instant messaging
• BackBlaze – for continuous daily backups
• Caffeine – for preventing the Mac from sleeping
• Firefox 3.5 + Firebug 1.5 – for web development and checking how sites were built(still haven’t gotten used to WebKit’s inspector)
• Gmail (via Fluid) – for well, email
• iTunes – for playing music and syncing podcasts to the iPhone
• Quicksilver – for launching programs via the keyboard
• Terminal – for doing some command line magic
• TextMate – for typing, viewing, editing text/code
• Tweetie – for tweeting (one of my favorite desktop twitter clients)
• WebKit Nightly – for regular browsing

Every few days

• Acorn – for ocassional image editing
• BetterZip – for zipping files, specially for sending to non-Mac users.
• CSSEdit – for projects where i need to develop a *lot* of CSS, otherwise I’d do everything in TextMate
• Dropbox – for sending/sharing and syncing files
• Grabup – for quick sending of screenshots
• iCal/Address Book – for scheduling and keeping tabs on contacts (now trying out syncing with Google Calendar and Google Contacts via SpanningSync)
• MAMP – for web development since I had one project that needed GD
• NetNewsWire – for reading feeds
• Time Machine – for regular backups
• Transmit – for file transfers (FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3)
• VLC – for playing media files
• VMWare Fusion – for running stuff on Windows
• Yojimbo – for keeping passwords mostly, sometimes a few notes

Next post would be what I use on the iPhone since I’ve been using it for exactly a month already.

I’ve downloaded photo apps like Postage (which has a lot of beautiful postcard designs), Camera Kit (which adds a lot more character to your regular mobile photo) and Polarize (for making Polaroid out of your photos).

With an always on connection, Instapaper, NetNewsWire and Tumblr are slowly easing their way into my daily routine.

I also got Birdfeed and BeejiveIM for communication purposes. BeejiveIM (pronounced beehive) is becoming one of my favorites. It just makes communicating with friends and family easier and a little beat cheaper. The push notification feature just works so well.

It’s only been a week and I think I’ve only touched the tip of the iceberg in terms of iPhone apps. There’s just a whole plethora of apps for almost everything you want to do on the iPhone and I’m glad I jumped on the bandwagon.