how do you download third party apps (widgets) onto the iphone?

With the iPhone, you cannot add/download any programs to it for security reasons. Third-party "applications" can only be run in Safari on the phone, unfortunately this doesn't apply to the widgets you are looking to download.

15.4" MacBook Pro 2.16 Intel Duo Core Mac OS X (10.4.6) 8 GB iPhone

What you're looking at are web pages, expressly designed to run on the iPhone Safari browser's miniature screen. "Weblets", if you will.

It is extremely unfortunate that people started calling them by the cute, but misleading name of "widget", since that really refers to something different.

Anyway, you're expected to either bookmark your favorite weblets, or at least bookmark one of the pages that act as home pages for your favorites.

(The latter are trying to look like the real Home page, which is where everyone wants these. And to tell the truth, it would make perfect GUI sense to let you place such a bookmark on your Home page, just as you can on a desktop. After all, the idea is to hide from the user what/where/how something works. But the iPhone is obviously still very much a work in progress.)


Touchscreen laptop Other OS

We've updated IWL to have a big "See it Now" button on the listing. Just tap it to go to the web site where the widget is.

powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.10)