Facebook’s recently begun displaying user stats for its mobile apps for several platforms, and the numbers are downright overwhelming. The iPhone takes the largest slice of the cake with (at the time of writing) over 104 million active monthly users, with BlackBerry users at nearly 60 million, and just over 12 million using the Android client. So what can we take away from these numbers? Well, at last count, Facebook has over 500 million users, so a pretty sizable chunk of them are using mobile apps. Interestingly, the last reported number of iOS users was 100 million; that’s the number announced at WWDC, just back in July — but Facebook lists more than that amount of active monthly users, so we’re not sure how these Read the full story

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Justin Long shows off a series of funny SMS messages during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel using a jailbroken iPhone.

It’s unclear whether Long, the actor who appeared as ‘Mac’ in the Get a Mac commercials, is a jailbreaker himself or whether the show’s producer jailbroke his phone so it could be displayed to the audience.

At the 7:04 mark you will notice Cydia and the TVOutTuner apps on his Springboard.

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It’s always nice to have a fulfilling hobby to help you while away the time, and collecting things can be a very enjoyable pastime. People like to collect coins, stamps, furniture, and so on, or, if you’re a Predator, you’ll find that you really get a buzz from collecting human heads. It’s a wonderful leisure-time activity for all ages and species, so its super nice to see Mr Robert Rodriguez devoting his new sci-fi motion picture, Predators, to the activity, and even better to see that Substance001’s iPhone game of the same name has been released to the iTunes App Store today, courtesy of those charming Chillingo people, so that we can all enjoy the uplifting feeling of tracking down humans, mauling them to a bloody pulp with our giant Read the full story

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HDcam is an iPad app that lets you use an iPhone as a wireless camera. It’s similar to the Camera A/Camera B apps we’ve covered before, but has received a nice update for iOS 4.

The app is now faster, produces better quality pictures, and will connect your iPhone to your iPad automatically. It is available in the iTunes store now, but heads up: It’ll cost you $2 and is only compatible with an iPhone 3GS or an iPhone 4.

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3G Unrestrictor, a utility to trick iPhones into thinking they’re on Wi-Fi, has been updated with iPad and iOS 4.0 support.

3G Unrestrictor allows you to go around the iPhone’s limitations and restrictions of not being able to use some applications like Skype or SlingPlayer while on a mobile internet connection like 3G or EDGE as well as many other things. It allows those things by tricking applications into believing they are on WiFi, even though they are on 3G or EDGE.
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The App Store will no longer support iOS 2.x applications, according to the iOS 4 Readiness Checklist for developers.

Existing apps in the Apps Store and those built using iPhone SDK 3.1.3 should already run on iOS 4 without modification. However, you should test your existing apps on a development device running iOS 4 to be certain there aren’t any compatibility issues. All new applications and updates to existing applications must be built with iPhone SDK 4. Please note, the App Store will not longer support applications that target iOS 2.x.

Apple also recommends resubmitting your application with high resolution artwork for those who have not done this already.
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