The iPhone hackathon continues as the enterprising programmers begin putting together the first real third-party applications for the platform. While we last week saw the existence of an application that did nothing more than print “Hello World,” others have now built upon that foundation to produce applications that actually do something.
Justin Schwalbe has created a program called iDecorator that allows you to set the iPhone’s wallpaper. Big whoop, right? You can already do that. Ah, but at the moment you’re either limited to pictures taken with the iPhone’s camera, or those that you’ve synced with your computer. iDecorator lets you select any image from Safari on the iPhone and set that to your wallpaper.
It’s not exactly the smoothest app we’ve ever seen, as it requires running a fair amount of technical knowledge just to get the app on the iPhone, along with a multi-step process to get the wallpaper set correctly. But those are mere details, my friends. If nothing else, Justin has shown, as we predicted, that third-party apps that fill holes in the iPhone’s functionality are indeed possible without Apple’s blessing. The question now is whether Apple will look the other way or will actively try to hinder progress.
[via Wired]
