Facebook has updated their iPhone app to support ‘Places’, a new feature which lets users check-in when they reach a new location.

Go to Places on the iPhone application or touch.facebook.com site and then tap the “Check In” button. You’ll see a list of places near you. Choose the place that matches where you are. If it’s not on the list, search for it or add it. After checking in, your check-in will create a story in your friends’ News Feeds and show up in the Recent Activity section on the page for that place. Read more…

Philip Shoemaker the man in charge of rejecting, removing, and approving apps to be in the appstore reportedly sells those very same apps that should be rejected. iWiz which 9to5mac reports is a one of his most popluar apps which simulates the long sound of peeing…. No comment.

HBO Go is coming to an ipad near you. Six months from now, if you have an HBO subscription with Comcast or Verizon FiOS you will be able to watch HBO tv shows and movies in HD on your ipad for free (not free since you pay for subscription). HBO CEO Reed Hasting says that this will be coming to your ipad and many other devices within 6 months.

Yahoo has introduced an all-new and improved HTML5-optimized version of Yahoo Mail for the iPad, delivering a faster and easier to organise solution when it did.

“If you’ve used our recently launched HTML5 mobile Web mail for iPhone you’ll feel right at home,” writes Lee Parry, product manager for Yahoo Mail. “We’ve kept all the things users love about our new mobile Web mail experience, while also optimizing for the gorgeous large screen of the iPad.” Read more…

Apple has started airing a new commercial, iPad is delicious. The commercial pretty much portrays how useful the ipad can be in many many different instances.

You all remember the get a mac ad campaign star Justing Long. Well he is 20x cooler now because the other day on a tv show he pulled out his iphone with cydia in plain site. This was more than likely done to install tvout from cydia.

I’m still wondering how the get a mac campaign star jailbroke his iphone and what firmware he’s on. Enjoy the video below which is quite amusing:

I love the camera on the iPhone 4, but I’ve always disliked digital zoom and do whatever I can to avoid using it. Photojojo has responded to my inner camera snob with two glass lenses that can be attached to the phone via a magnetic ring.

You can always rig an existing camera lens to your phone, and the progress on the iPhone DSLR project is amazing, but this looks to be a more portable solution. A fisheye lens is available for $25 and a wide angle/macro lens is $20. You can get both together for $40. Read more…

Yet another move to end dependence on Flash, giant online video website, Vimeo, today introduces a new universal video player designed to work on the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch (iOS) and Android devices.

The new player uses HTML5. The player will detect the appropriate codec, file size and bit rate for each device it sends content to. All videos will be viewable in the best-supported format through the universal player. Read more…

With all these clones of the iphone being made and and horribly might I add, Apple has been granted a very important patent in the smartphone world. The slide to unlock feature you see everyday is now officially Apple’s . I love this feature, it wouldn’t be an i-device if it didn’t have this and what this means to you is absolutely nothing other than you will forever see this feature on future Apple smartphones to come. Read more…

Sony has been taunting Apple and Apple gamers for quite sometime now.  As you can see above they clearly show an i-device look alike with a game running called lame castle. The commercial continues saying that PSP games are for big boys unlike other devices.

To check out more sony commercials check out youtube HERE and you can see how it all started on the right sidebar video. I hope Apple fires back just to see some action going. I miss my get a mac commercials.