Facebook’s iPhone app updated with Places
Facebook totally wants to get in the location game with Places. Facebook Places is a Foursquare like feature in which you can check in a place on Facebook if you are physically present at that place. For example, if you are in your neighborhood comic book store, you can check in to it on Facebook so that your friends can know where you are. You can also tag your friends if they are present there.
Send & Receive SMS and MMS from your iPad 3G
SwirlyMMS, a popular jailbroken app for iPhone to send MMS is now available as SwirlyMessage for iPad 3G for $12 on the Cydia store.
In addition to MMS, SwirlyMessage also lets you send SMS from your iPad 3G (if your 3G sim supports sending and receiving SMS and MMS).
Yahoo Mail launches HTML5 version for iPad
Yahoo Mail is still the largest web mail service in the world. Gmail is gaining popularity, however, it is still behind Yahoo in terms on number of users.
Soon after the iPad was released, Gmail launched an iPad version. Yahoo is catching up and has recently launched a HTML5 version of its popular web mail service for iPad users. This version leverages advanced HTML5 abilities like caching and panes with individual scrolling to give the user a rich Inbox view. You can compose and send email messages even if you are offline as it caches your mails and then sends them whenever an internet connection is available.
Play DivX movies on your iPad
If you have an iPad and watch your video collection on it, you probably know the pain involved in converting the videos to a format playable by the device. Wouldn’t it be great if you could play the video files without the need to convert them?
iPhone 4 unlock now available!
The dev team has done it again. They have released the latest version of ultrasn0w which is now capable of unlocking the iPhone 4!
iPad 3G working with BSNL 3G in India
Behold and rejoice people! The 3G model of Apple iPad works perfectly fine over BSNL’s 3G network in India. So all of you who were waiting for some confirmation for this can go ahead and buy it.
Amazing iPad unboxing by Lego minifigs
This is by far the most awesome unboxing we have seen till date:
They fixed the iPad already!
PCWorld has some details about the soon-to-be-launched iPad. With a device like iPad, maybe fixed is a bit too optimistic, but Apple surely has addressed some issues.
- iPad will support MS Exchange server.
- iWork app will support exporting to MS compatible office file formats.
- iPad will have a volume control and a screen orientation lock button.
- iPad will support the Motion JPEG AVI format. So those movies you take from your digital cameras will work right out of the box.
If any of these resolves any of your doubts wait till April 3 or just pre-order!
But mind you, still no flash, still no video conference support. Like you even care 
[via @ankurmehrotra and PCWorld]
Its a laptop, its a netbook, its a phone… no, Its iPad!
Ever since Steve Jobs revealed Apple’s latest marvel to the world, I have been in love with the device. And to be honest, I haven’t been discreet about it.
Except for a very few, most of my friends have been directly or indirectly trying to convince me that I do not need it. People have a strange way of trying to convince others – asking rhetorical questions. Like:
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