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Posted on June 30, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Launch the App Store, Facebook iPhone app has been updated for iOS 4 and it runs in the background

iPhone 4 Facebook users can rejoice. Facebook for the iPhone has been updated for iOS4 and can now run in the background and has higher resolution graphics too.

There are some who thought the Facebook iPhone app wouldn’t be update because of Apple App store nightmare stories and the original Facebook app developer saying no mas. I’m glad the updates are still coming as this is the second Facebook iPhone update we have seen in the last 30 days.

How do you use Facebook on your iPhone?

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Posted on June 24, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Apple iPhone 4 @ Crabtree Valley Mall. Hello, iPhone. Good-bye, day.

Guest post by: @PennyMoxie

I told the guy who would be buying my old phone that I would call him when I was out of the Apple store. ”What time do you think that will be”, he asked. I wanted to be CONSERVATIVE, so I replied, “about 9:00am. I’m getting there at 6:45, so i can’t imagine it will take that long.” I’m a first-class fool.

6:30am I put my 5-year-old in the car and told her she was going with me to “pick-up my new iPhone” at the mall. I figured she would get fidgety in the store, but we wouldn’t be there that long. At one point, while driving to Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, NC, my daughter asked, “Mommy, what is wrong?” I told her I was anxious and had a lot to do today. ”I just want to get in, get out, and get you to the pool with your aunt,” I said. A few minutes later, we pulled into the mall parking lot and I looked at all the cars. I think I said out loud, “Elin, these cars must be mall employees and the people who walk the mall when it’s too hot outside. Surely, they can’t all be here for the new iPhone.” Again, first-class fool.

We park and head in. I can’t begin to articulate how I felt the first time I got a look at the crowd. The line. The masses. I’ve been at Crabtree Valley Mall on Black Friday and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many people on one floor. I’ve been to Disney World and I’ve never seen a line that long. I took and deep breath, tried to remain cool, and walked around the people with sleeping bags and lawn chairs. I kept walking. I walked some more, turned 4 corners, went down a hallway and into the food court. I saw the end of the line and like a first-class fool, I decided to stand in it.

But then things really started looking up. I was NOT a fool. I had reserved my iPhone and I was in the correct line. Clearly, there were only 200 people in this line. Whew! My goal of 9:00am was totally do-able. Smile on face, cocky swagger kicking in.

8:40 am After a visit from my husband with Starbucks in one hand and muffin the other, I was feeling pretty refreshed. My daughter was chill and I spotted two other moms who had brought their kids. I wasn’t the worst mom on the planet…just 3rd or 4th. It was going a little slower than I thought, but I knew there were only 150 people in front of me MAX and the line seemed to be moving.

9:30am I turned the corner and saw the store! I was in! Maybe 75 people in front of me. I was golden.

9:31am A lovely mall security officer came over and said, “we are going to move this line. We need to get the food court cleared for lunch.” There were 400 people behind me at this point, so this made sense. We were herded like techy-nerd cattle and put into a line down the hallway. This is when my day was officially over. I realized the line I was in, which had put me close to the entrance of the store, actually wrapped around the perimeter of the mall. There were 700 people IN FRONT of me. Good-bye, day.

10:00am My 5-year-old was a little antsy, so I called Aunt Bonnie to give her some relief. ” PLEASE come and pick her up and take her to the pool!”

10:30am Aunt Bonnie arrives and my daughter informs me she would like to stay. She wants to see what’s behind those glass doors. No way is she missing out. This is actually the most compelling part of the day. The excitement in the mall was energizing. These 2000 people were all pumped. We were surrounded by strangers but we all had something in common. The converstation for the last 3 hours was high def camera, retina screens, mult-tasking and apps. It was a mall full of people, some who had been since 10pm the night before, some who were just hanging with friends. But we were wired from the thrill of the hunt because we were all early-adapters. My daughter had picked up on this energy, and she wasn’t leaving.

11:00am Did I mention energy? I introduced my daughter to suicide drills, which she executed beautifully in front of Bath and Body Works.

11:30am Food! Apple paid for a truck load of subs.

12:30pm My iPhone 3GS is dead. This is the worse possible thing that could have happened. No more tweeting. No more facebook. This day was going downhill fast.

12:30pm – 1:59pm This was not pretty. It was still exciting and the energy was great, but I was starting to smell and my neighbors were realizing I skipped my usual hygiene routine this morning (remember, I was going to be home by 9…I would bathe then). We were all hungry and thirsty. We weren’t talking as much. The guys at the Brookstone store were laughing at us. Actually, everyone not involved in this insanity were laughing. They walked by the nerds behind the rope lines and pointed. ”No way” and “idiots” was overheard many times. I was starting to agree.

2:00pm I’m the next in line to enter the store. I’m feeling good. The lighted apple icon above me was almost a symbol of success. The finish line. At this point, it’s not about the phone, it’s about finishing this marathon.

2:05pm I’m in the store. I can’t believe it. My sister (Aunt Bonnie) is documenting on her iPhone. The employees were calm, the store was comfortable, the police officers out front didn’t arrest my sister for photographing an Apple store. But most importantly, I had my new iPhone. I did not have a shower, and that was the next thing on my list. I know my line mates were thinking the same thing (about me, not them).

2:45pm Home. Synced. My daughter starving. My voicemail going nuts. I don’t care. I stood in line for 7 hours to get a phone I could have ordered and had shipped to my house by mid-July. But I’m a first-class fool. A first-class fool with a sweet iPhone.

Posted on June 19, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

iPhone apps testing Apple’s iAds ..ads

Earlier today I was thinking about going to the movies and I launched the Showtimes iPhone app. While browsing the movie times I noticed a test Apple iAD at the top. Of course I clicked on the test iAd and it took me a …. you guest it, another Apple test ad.

With iOS4 to be made public on Monday and the pre-release sold out iPhone 4 to launch next Thursday it looks like apps are getting ready for Apple’s iAds. If you’re an app developer it’s a smart move being the potential of how much money you could make by having your app ready for all of those new iPhone 4 users.

What are your thoughts on iAd? Do you think you’ll click on an iAd more than you would a text or regular ad?

PS: I never did make it to the movies.

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Posted on June 15, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Let the iPhone 4 pre-orders begin!

Earlier tonight the Apple Store went down for maintenance in prep for the iPhone 4 pre-orders to start on June 15. The Apple Store is now back up, and if you want to guarantee an iPhone 4, you can now pre-order or reserve an iPhone 4 for the June 24 launch which will start at 7am.

It looks like there’s a new MacMini in the Apple Store too.

Did/will you pre-order or reserve an iPhone 4 today?

– Post From My iPad

Posted on May 12, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Top 8 Twitter iPad applications. Vote for the best Twitter app for the iPad

As we wait for Twitter to release the official Twitter for iPad application the battle for iPad supremacy for Twitter clients rages on. Currently there’s over 20 iPad Twitter related apps in Apple’s iTunes App Store. Here’s the top 8 not in any particular order. Take a look and vote for the best Twitter iPad app via the poll below.

1. Twitterrific