iPhone Software at Pure Mac

Five Ways to Install Software on Your iPhone:

1. Jailbreak your iPhone and install Cydia (the jailbreaking program, PwnageTool, does this for you).
Cydia comes with the major iPhone Software Repositories with updated listings of the available software. You may also add other repositories to Cydia.

2. Jailbreak your iPhone and install Installer.app. (the jailbreaking program, PwnageTool, does this for you).
Installer.app comes with the major iPhone Software Repositories with updated listings of the available software. You may also add other repositories to Installer.app.

3. Jailbreak your iPhone, download iPhone apps to your desktop computer and install on your iPhone through SSH.

4. Install directly from the App Store in iPhone.

5. Install directly from the App Store with iTunes on your desktop computer and sync your iPhone.

A Note on iPhone Software Categories:

- The "iPhone Apps" are programs which you can install and run on your iPhone natively.
There are two main types of iPhone apps.
A. Unofficial apps which require you to "Jailbreak" your iPhone.
B. Official apps from Apple's App Store.

- The "Desktop Programs" are applications which run on your Desktop Computer (i.e. Mac or PC). They are standard programs which can be used for iPhone development, converting video to iPhone readable formats, server programs to connect to your Mac from your iPhone etc. etc.

- The "Web Apps" section has links to web sites which are specifically made for the iPhone. They may contain games, chat interfaces, actual programs that do something useful or just a pretty interface to a well established site.

Updates: January 4th, 2009