After reflashing my iphone a few times recently I've settled on a list of applications that I've deemed useful. I created this list for a coworker a week or so ago but thought it might be useful for someone out in the Internetland.

Tools:
Boss tool – INSTALL THIS FIRST – use it to move your applications, etc. to your main memory and off the systems partition.
Intelliscreen - The tool that allowed me to start using the iPhone again, it adds significant customization to your lock screen, including news, weather, SMS, email, Calendar, etc. and will also periodically remind you of events - such as if you receive a new SMS you can set it to vibrate the phone every five minutes. It is shareware, but well worth it IMO.
Books – E-book reader.
Convert – Unit Converter
Lockbox – password manager
Sendpics – email uncompressed pictures
TimeCapsule – backup utility
Sendsong – Sends songs over email, or moves them to ringtones (must be in a specific format)
Services –turn services on and off
SwirlyMMS – MMS software, I have yet to get it working with Dobson, apparently for AT&T you have to call and ask them to enable MMS on your iPhone account.
VNSea – VNC client
HP-15c / 12c / 16c – calculator emulator.
Yes/No – Makes a decision for you.
Syncstep – Syncronizes the speed of music to your walking pace. I haven't been able to test it yet but it looks promising.
SMBPrefs – Summerboard, Theme customizer for the iPhone
weDict – Stardict reader for the iPhone – I’ve added over 80MB of dictionaries/fact books/encyclopedias to my phone. Tons of info.. even knows what a OC48 and a Tapir is :^)
Respring – resets the springboard (your main interface)
Shutdown – shuts down the phone.
Twinkle - Just added this yesterday, it's a Twitter client that also support pictures. MobileTwitter is also available, but doesn't seem quite as refined.
NemusSync - Syncs your iPhone Calendar OTA with a Google Calendar. By using this in conjunction with Plaxo I have a updated work and home Calendar on my iPhone. It should still be considered Beta but I haven't found any major quirks yet.

Games I have installed - * indicates games that seem to be well suited for the iPhone and work correctly.
*Mahjong - Shanghai, good, but could use a bit of refinement.
Openttd – Transport Tycoon for Tycoon game fans
*Tris – Tetris Clone
Caissa – Chess Program
iCrossword
Domino
*Mines
Dictionary – Scrabble Dictionary
Parking Lot
*HTTouch – Texas Hold'em Poker
Icave - Clone of the original Palm game.
*Five Dice – Yahtzee Clone (Tanya's favorite iphone game)
*Chess – Based on Gnu chess
*Othello
*Puzzlemaniac – lots of little puzzles
*Lexitron – Text Twirl/Twist Clone - quickly becoming Tanya's favorite game
*Gemlogic – Bejeweled/Diamond Mine Clone
*Tap Tap Revolution – Tap to your music.
*iSolitaire - Good iPhone Klondike.
*Poddle – still in beta, but amusing.
Frotz – Z-Game emulator (Zork)
*Sudoku - Good Sudoku Game
*iPhysics – Physics engine that people have used to create games, very nice. Lots of plug-ins available from other sources
iDope – Dope Wars
*iGo – Go for the iPhone
Yeti3d – Doom-style game. Mainly a toy right now.


A side note:
If you owned a iPhone and attempted to hack it many months ago to no avail, or had fear of bricking it - those concerns seem to be largely dead today. Even though the standard disclaimer regarding dead phones comes with any re-flashing of a device the tools today have become pretty damn good as I mentioned in a previous entry. Plus, the software available on hacked iPhones has advanced enough so that I abandoned my previous work phone and am now back to using the iPhone full-time. I you hadn't read my rants about the iPhone before, I have carried it for many months now but had to carry a secondary phone that acted as my calendar since the iPhone wouldn't remind me of appointments, which is one of the things I count on my phone to do.

Sad day today, George Carlin has died. Too bad the seven dirty words lived on past him.

Several months ago while researching new Mac Office features I had seen a Proxy feature mentioned where you could tunnel your Outlook client through a OWA server without having to VPN into your corporate network.

Tonight I tried this out on Outlook 2007 on my PC and it's working great. No VPN required. All I had to do was go into my exchange settings and tell it to proxy through our Outlook Web Access server. Awesome stuff!

If you use Exchange at work and have Outlook 2007 it's definitely worth looking at, I love having my email/calendar/etc. without any VPN connectivity. Plus, this means I'll be able to get to my corporate email using Outlook even when I'm in a location that doesn't allow any VPN connections.

Someone told me a few months back that ZiPhone was an amazing utility. I tried it on my iPhone and can tell you: It is an amazing utility.

Previously I was using Independence, which was quite easy compared to the previous utilities. ZiPhone puts independence to shame, it's serious when it tells you that it is a single-click resource for iPhone hacking.

If you've ever been tempted to hack your iPhone but haven't due to the potentially complex process this is the utility for you. Amazing how simple it is to use.

My bike is already considered a bit fugly by many people. Now there has been someone that decided to create a canopy accessory that would put it a few notches further over on the ugly scale. Wow.