iPhone meme

For music lovers, this has to be the iPhone’s first killer app. You give Pandora Radio an artist you like, and it dishes up a personal radio station, based on a particularly sophisticated analysis of the music.

I tried to throw it a curveball by entering Dengue Fever, my favorite Cambodian Psychadelic Surf-Pop band, thinking, OK Pandora, what are you going to do with that? Pandora came through, not only identifying Dengue Fever, but serving up The Concretes, The Dials, and others - a bunch of bands I hadn’t heard before, but liked quite a bit.

Music you like, but haven’t heard before? It doesn’t get much better than that.

You knew it already, your iPhone is amazing: a phone, a video iPod, a web browser. You’ve read the news on the bus, replied to email in line for a movie, taken pictures, made phone calls, and recently, even sent text messages to many friends at once.

But wait, there’s more! Now, thanks to Pettitte Mallette’s iPhone ruler, our Safari web app of the week, you can measure things with it too! (as long as the things you want to measure are somewhat small).

I haven’t actually used the ruler yet, but I like the idea enough that I’m keeping it on my home screen. Well, for now, on page 2 of my home screen.

If you haven’t guessed already, the iPhone ruler does only one thing - it puts a 2 1/2 inch (or 6 1/2 centimeter) ruler on your screen. The developers promise this is just the beginning:

In spring 2008 we will replace this ruler with a new one that will transform your iPhone or iPod Touch into an amazing device.

Can’t wait!