Apple’s App Store managed to pull off, despite its few shortcomings, a successful launch, bringing users many useful, new and relaxing applications. Out of the whole bunch, there are several apps which might turn out to be of interest for the general public.

AOL offers a free app called AIM, which is used for instant messaging with multiple ongoing chats. It also allows users to take photos using their iPhone, in order to have a personalized buddy icon. The downsides are its lack of location-based features and also the impossibility of sending documents and photos to friends, both rather useful for the users of the new iPhone.

Kyte Producer is a photo uploading app which allows live interaction with others. Users can create live channels with their photos for others to see and also the app allows real-time chats with all Kyte members logged on to the same channel. The main inconvenient, which will probably be resolved by future updates, involves the lack of support for live video.

Facebook offers a free app which enable direct photo uploads to the popular Web site and it also allows text chats with other network members with its Facebook Chat. iPhone users can search for their friends who have registered their phone numbers. Facebook announced an update which will fix several issues, allowing most of its features to translate over.

MySpace rolls out with its MySpace Mobile, allowing comments, status and many other options. While comparing it with rival Facebook, we find the same feature of using the phone’s camera for photos but there is no support for instant messaging. It also demands an Adobe Flash or a similar plug-in install in order to allow profile music.

The ShoZu application provides one of the best photo sharing options, being able to send photos from Apple’s devices directly to any chosen Web site, from photo sharing Web pages like Flickr and Photobucket to social networks such as Facebook and MySpace and it even allows access to blog systems such as Wordpress and news organizations like Reuters. It enables tags and comments on images but at this point, there is no option for video.

TypePad is another free application, offering its users full-scale blogging access, with complete posting liberties and also allowing multiple photo attachments.

The Remote app enables its users to remotely control an iTunes library with an iPod Touch or an iPhone, by using a WiFi connection. Users can view the album pictures of the artist they’re listening to, they can scroll through the lists of artists and albums and also browse playlists.

Another app developed or social networking, called Loopt, uses Location Services in order to keep its users in close connection with their friends, by updating their activities and location changes and even offering information on the interesting places from their surroundings.

There are indeed many more apps that people will find amusing and useful and the price list announced by Apple will ensure a wide spread of many of the apps, as aside from the free ones, most of the rest vary from $4.99 to $9.99.