I’ve found a few sites I like a great deal for use with my iPhone, or in conjunction with other Mac programs and my iPhone. I have to say the switch to using this device was nearly painless. My Palm Pilot took a lot longer to configure, and the search for software didn’t yield as good of a crop as what I’m finding already for the iPhone. I’m hopeful that future products will be even more powerful.

Here are some of the sites and tools I’ve found to be quite powerful, and how I’m using them.

Remember the Milk - this web based application has an iPhone component that you can subscribe to for $25 a year. (There’s a trial period for using the iPhone component, too.) The web service itself is free although donations are encouraged. I found it so useful that I got the “Pro” version right away.

I am a strong proponent of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology for time management. I had a one day seminar on it at Patagonia and have found it unbelievably helpful ever since. The ability to add tags, due dates, get reminders sent to me, send emails to my Remember the Milk inbox for processing later — all good things that fit well with the GTD system.

s4iphone.com - Skype for your iPhone! We use Skype quite a bit at work for text messaging. This will allow me to connect to Skype this way, too. Slick!

iCal Exchange - This is a free service for publishing ones iCal calendars. Since I want to be in sync with my wife’s calendar on my iPhone, and vice versa, we both publish our calendars here and subscribe to each other’s calendar. My events are editable on my iPhone, her events are not. Some improvements to the iPhone’s iCal capabilities would be nice, especially adding color to different calendars. There’s also no reason I can see that one shouldn’t be able to publish changes from the iPhone, not just after syncing with one’s Macintosh.

WebShell - I’m not using this tool, yet, but love the idea of it. Having SSH access on my iPhone? Wow! I could fix issues remotely via a command line tool. Very, very cool.