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Cool tip we found this evening: If you do the following steps, you can have a default webclip icon for your website when anyone saves it to their iPhone:

• Create a 57x57 PNG.
• Name the png "apple-touch-icon.png"
• Put it in the root folder of your website

We found the information on Apple's iPhone Dev Center. Read more under Create a WebClip Bookmark Icon.

Yes you read that right! Apple will allow NATIVE third party apps to live on the iPhone!

Apple Inc. (AAPL) CEO, Steve Jobs wrote today in the Apple.com Hot News Section:

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.

Steve went on to say that they are taking their time creating the SDK because they want to do it the right way:

It will take until February to release an SDK because we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once—provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. This is no easy task. Some claim that viruses and malware are not a problem on mobile phones—this is simply not true. There have been serious viruses on other mobile phones already, including some that silently spread from phone to phone over the cell network. As our phones become more powerful, these malicious programs will become more dangerous. And since the iPhone is the most advanced phone ever, it will be a highly visible target.

This is going just as we predicted. Patience is what will pay off. Again, I think many of you out there should play it safe and wait for the official SDK that will verify applications and allow true authentication of applications via Apple's mechanism rather than jailbreak your precious iPhone.

And just in case you thought the iPod Touch was going to be left out, Steve added:

P.S.: The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for iPod touch.

Not sure how we missed this but we did!

Apple has a whole section of information on web dev for the iPhone in their Developer Connection Site. You'll need ADC membership to download anything though (free).

Inside you'll find Web Development Guidelines, Sample Code and some videos as well!

Joe Hewitt was nice enough to create iUI for those of you developing iPhone Applications (iPhone apps) otherwise known as web apps.

Included in this quickly done site is a short tutorial, examples of a music browser, mini Digg, and a search form. These should help get your project off the ground and get it looking like a real iPhone application. Joe included some cool AJAX and javascript to hide the toolbar in Mobile Safari.

Check out the whole she-bang here.