Students from Stanford’s Fall 1008 iPhone class CS193P created a nice crop of apps that are now available or will be soon for the iPhone (see our Stanford Facebook apps posts here and here).
A list of them is here, and some of them I’m going to keep on my phone. My favorite is iDiscover, which gives you random content you think will be interesting (text, videos, apps). You rate them and it teaches the app to refine what it sends you in the future. It’s a sort of StumbleUpon for the iPhone, and its addicting. iDiscover is free. Air Guitar, a $1.99 app, looks like it might be another winner but I’m having issues downloading it.
Among the yet-to-be-approved apps, Site Saver looks like a useful way to store web content locally. I tend to take a screen shot of whatever I’m looking at, but this looks like a better solution if it saves the whole web page rather than just what’s on the screen. And Heydar, a location-based dating application, is being released at the perfect time.
The complete list is below.
Qingwen – Karan Misra
Qingwen is an extremely focused and streamlined Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionary designed with the Chinese reader in mind. Lookup is meant to be fast and easy. There is just one search field which accepts anything you throw at it- Chinese characters, Pinyin, and English – and figures out the most relevant results. Since Qingwen is meant for students of Chinese, you can also easily add words to word lists for future reference and discover relationship between characters by seeing which other words they occur in and which other characters have similar sounds.
Qingwen uses a modified version of CC-CEDICT as its dictionary. Free.
Air Guitar – James Anthony and Edward Marks
Air Guitar provides all the fun of rocking out with none of the talent or commitment required to play a real instrument. Unlike other guitar apps, Air Guitar uses the built-in accelerometer to let you really rock: with your iPhone or iPod touch in hand, just start strumming away at your imaginary axe. $1.99
HaveASec – Nafis Jamal and Andrew He
Do you HaveASec? If so, this is the perfect application for you. You can quickly create a short survey or poll to send out to your friends. You can also ask a public poll to see what our users think. Friends don’t have an iPhone? No problem! We have a fully functional web interface for all mobile phones and computers. Free
iDiscover – Paul Wilson and Nafis Jamal
Do you have a second? Want to read an article of interest to you but don’t have the time to find it? How about a new video to kill some time on the train? Or, what about checking out a new application that isn’t on the Top 25 list? iDiscover lets you easily discover new articles, videos, and applications customized to your interests. You and your friends can also easily share these articles, videos, and applications that you enjoy with each other. Free.
Site Saver – Vikram Oberoi
Site Saver allows you to save websites locally on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Save online references to train schedules, recipes, or product reviews to your device for quick access on the go, or keep your daily fix of online articles just a tap away! $2.99, pending App Store approval.
Abodi – Keyan Salari
Abodi allows you to search listings on Craigslist and save your favorite results for viewing access on the go. You can call or email the ad poster, map out the locations of rental/sale properties and even take notes and photos of the properties you visit. Abodi knows where you are located using the iPhone’s GPS technology, so you can find or rank listings by their distance to your current location or other points of interest! Free, to be submitted by 01/26/09
Heydar – Mark Kieling, Shahryar Khan, Matthew Pease, and Matthew Lawyer
Heydar is a fun new way to meet people. Get started by taking your own headshot. Then view headshots of nearby Heydar users. Tap “Hey” if you find someone attractive. Don’t worry… they will only find out you tapped them if they also tap you. What you decide to do next is up to you… Free, pending App Store approval.
Stress Bust – Greg Wientjes
Stress Buster provides a video of soothing ocean waves. A guiding voice assists the user in relaxing through a progressive muscle squeezing up through the body. $.99, available now.
1,000 years in the making!
Site Saver looks very usefull
Wow. Colleges are sure pumping out some creative people these days.
well done Stanford Students – how do I get in touch with these guys?
Hey LH,
Good question!
I’ve just updated the site with contact information.
Cheers,
Vikram
The link is in the article, but here it is in case you missed it: http://www.stan...neclassapps.com
The apps, their descriptions, and their developers are all listed there.
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Nice, they look good. Is this the complete list of apps ?
Want an iphone {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/mIjJ8tMVjQ_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”Want an iphone ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/9i3G0RyziP”}}}
This is exactly why video comments are a bad idea. I want my 17 seconds of life back after watching this.
lmao
me tooo!
Thanks for the reviewing our apps! We are excited about continue improving both HaveASec and iDiscover.
http://www.HaveASec.com also allows iPhone developers to create mobile surveys so they can know who is using their app, and prioritize their development based on the feedback they collect.
Check out http://www.Have...c.com/developer to learn how you can specifically use HaveASec in your own applications.
First it was the Stanford Facebook class and now the iPhone. I think this is a great way to hire the right folks off of school. I can see a line of recruiters waiting to steal these bright minds.
I don’t know who does your recruiting but the students I hire out of school are the type that never have programmed this stuff before and can get up to speed in a day anyway.
Facebook and iPhone programming classes are something that should be offered at a juco or community college.
CMU, Stanford, Illinois, MIT, top computer science schools _should_ be teaching fundamentals and theory of computer science, not piddling away time on the fad of the moment like Facebook or iPhone. Things like this can be done in spare time, not part of a curriculum.
I’m pretty sure they do teach fundamentals and theory classes. Oh wait, I’m 100% sure they do.
First it was the Stanford Facebook class and now the iPhone. I think this is a great way to hire the right folks off of school. I can see a line of recruiters waiting to steal these bright minds!
Colleges are sure pumping out some creative people these days.
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Regards,
Annie
>Stress Buster provides a video of soothing ocean waves.
Hmm, why this focus on Stanford? Any better high school student can do that… oh wait, they have no funding…
Stanford ugrads (or ugrads ANYWHERE) don’t get funding either. This is for a class, for crying out loud. No need to be snarky.
Actually, some of the apps did get funding. Well, one I can think of.
I really like how these apps all have a nodd to the old school. Even though the 80s is over really the iphone was designed strait from those seamless times. These apps are a testiment to the combination of hard work and sheer genious.
I did not know that Stanford was the oldest University in North America.
MIT has a class like this too going on now during IAP (independent activities period). Interested to see what comes out of there as well.
Props to Stanford always on the edge. I remember all the coverage they got for their fbook app creation class.
How long does the average iPhone app take to develop (not including visioning and specifications)? IAP is only the month of January so a bit different than an entire semester long class.
But even in a semester, amongst other studies, the output from this class is quite impressive. They all are built upon solid concepts for use of the phone.
Mike Arrington, way to be misleading. This actually isn’t a complete list of the iPhone apps created by the class, this looks more like the list of apps that were presented to Apple. Your missing a few I know of, including iStanford. That’s not very nice to exclude the work of some very hard working Stanford students!
Uh, I mean *you’re. Way for my grammar to be poor.
If you’re interested in Abodi, we’ve developed a craigslist app that’s already in the AppStore called “craigsphone”. It’s got great reviews from Gizmodo, ZDNet, and others. Check it out.
Lot of mullahs graduating out of Stanford these days. What next? Shariah law on campus? Maybe they’re overcompensating for the Iraq invasion.
Lot of mullahs graduating out of Stanford these days. What next? Shariah law on campus?
huh! what Mullahs?? Why are you scared of these legitimate students?? Are they Muslims? I don’t think that being a Muslim is a bad thing!
And yea! how does graduating 4m Stanford implies shria Law?
TechCrunch should really hit campuses harder…
Always be huge creativity at that level couple with entrepreneurial innocence.
campus.techcrunch.com? dormroom.techcrunch.com?
something for/from this audience…
sb: who is Mullah?
I’ve been using iDiscover and HaveASec and they are both great apps. I agree, TechCrunch should cover more University efforts.
They’re both available at http://www.haveasec.com
Actually all the students were request to submit there apps but only 9 projects were submitted so thats why TechCrunch only published these
dude
oberoi is an indian last name
i am so proud of u vivek
way to go indians
sorry i meant vikram
neways have a question for you
was it just u or someone helped u with this program
Did you know that New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is offering a CS course in iPhone Application Development in the spring’09 semester? They’ll also be posting some class material on the web at the end of the semester. You can read more at http://www.njit...09/2009-043.php