Available In: Cydia

Price: $1.99

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It’s a super simple little hack. Once installed, you can use the hack by tapping and holding on any photo in the Facebook application. When you release your hold, you will get a pop-up with the options to Cancel the save or Confirm the save. If you select Confirm it will display a little HUD saying that the photo has been saved. You can then go into your Camera Roll and view the saved image.

The hack does have a few settings (located in the stock Settings application) that allow you to enable/disable the hack and adjust the quality of the saved photo. It would be nice if the slider to adjust the photo quality actually displayed the exact quality… maybe we will see that in an update.

Overall, FBphotoSave worked pretty well for me. There were a few times when I had to save an image a few times before it saved to my Camera Roll and one instance when it saved the previous image I had selected instead of the current image I had selected to save. But, overall, it seemed to work pretty well. I’m just stoked that I can actually save images from Facebook now! I don’t even know how many times I’m have tried to do that and then remembered it didn’t work! You can get FBphotoSave via the modmyi source.

Available In: Cydia

Price: $0.99

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What’s New In This Version:
- Groups: share photos and posts with small groups of friends
- Deals: discover great deals around you
- Places: tag more friends after you check in, add photos
- Various bug fixes

Available In: App Store

Price: Free

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Facebook has put out another update with some fixes to a couple things that have really been annoying me. One is video playback! You can now watch videos posted on Facebook. Another is links to photo albums now work. Before it would just give an error. Also, you can upload .png files. This helps us upload screenshots from our iPhones. Before you would just get a black screen instead of the picture. Here’s the full list of updates:

New features in this version:

- You can now watch Facebook videos.
- You can now view and write on walls of events.
- Uploaded photos are now 720px wide.

This version contains fixes for the following bugs:

- Could not comment on photos accessed from Notifications
- Could not upload photos smaller than a certain size
- No more than 2 notifications were highlighted as unread
- Status updates appeared out of order in News Feed
- Broken photo album links in News Feed
- Birthdays view had months in wrong order
- Last section of friend list was incomplete if you had fewer than 8 friends
- Notes with non-ASCII text were cut off at the end

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Meebo has released it’s official app in the App Store. If you are not familiar with Meebo, it is a web based Instant Messaging client that allows you to connect to just about any IM service.

Sticking to Meebo’s simple and sleek style, the iPhone app is just that… simple and sleek (and not to mention pretty quick!). Once you have signed in, you can quickly navigate through your buddy list. Chatting is easy and totally awesome with push notifications!!

In the Account options, you have the ability to change your status, view your accounts and add additional services (there is an extensive list of services available… see list below). Though, I did find Skype Chat missing from the list of available services.

A few cool features of the app are the ability to search the chat history and the ability to quickly switch between chat conversations by swiping left and right.

Overall if you are looking for something simple and snappy… meebo just might be the app for you! Not to mention it’s free! Check out the App Store Description below for the full list of features for the app.

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App Store Description:

Meebo is integrated, all-in-one instant messaging that connects you with your friends everywhere.

Meebo has been the leading platform for multi-protocol IM on the web since 2005. With that knowledge and experience, we optimized Meebo on the iPhone for speed, simplicity, and performance.

Meebo supports all the major IM networks:
AOL / AIM, Yahoo!, MSN / Windows Live, Gmail / Google Talk, Facebook, MySpace, and 100+ other networks!

Reliability / Connectivity
- Push notifications even when the app is closed
- Stay connected as you move from Edge to 3G to WiFi
- Meebo’s proven multi-network access protocols
- Automatically reconnect if you lose coverage so you don’t miss a message

Access / Integration
- Searchable, synchronized chat history on your iPhone and meebo.com
- Get Meebo on the web, your desktop, or your iPhone
- Tap any links to open the built-in browser
- Advanced chat session management lets you go seamlessly back and forth between Meebo on the iPhone and meebo.com

Chat features
- Swipe to switch between multiple conversations
- Rotate for landscape mode and a wider keyboard.
- Message preview from the Chats List
- Full Meebo emoticon support
- Push notifications
- Searchable Chat History
- Sort chats by most recent or full view
- Support for all the major IM networks, and many more

Account features
- Buddylist search as you type
- View profile info, status messages, and buddy icons
- Add/Remove individual buddies
- Add/Remove network accounts
- Open and close buddy groups in your Buddy List
- Set custom status messages
- Sign on/off individual accounts
- Set presence to Available/Invisible/Away for individual accounts, or all at once

List of Available Services:

- AIM
- Are You Interested
- aujourdhui.com
- BasilMarket
- Batanga
- CafeMom
- Chess.com
- DailyStrength
- DanceTrippin
- Decayenne
- Dhingana
- EliteCastingNetwork
- eBaum’s World
- Fabulously40
- Facebook
- Fanpop
- Flirtbox
- Flixster
- FooPets
- Footytube
- Fupa
- GGL
- GamerNook
- Gamevance
- GirlsAskGuys
- Google Talk
- ICQ
- imageChef
- Indianelement
- ibeatyou
- Jabber
- JacketFlap
- JamLegend
- Justin.tv
- Klikot
- MSN
- MingleVille
- MixPod
- MuchGames
- MySpace
- MyWorkster
- myYearbook
- Operation Sports
- OrangeShark
- Outspark
- Packed
- PlayedOnline
- Playfire
- Playlist
- Quepasa
- SocialSplash
- Sonico
- SparkPeople
- Sparkteens
- Starpulse
- Tehkseven
- Threadsy
- Ultimate Guitar
- Wadja
- Wixi
- Yahoo!
- Yonja
- Zinch
- Zorpia

* List via Mashable

FacebookBirthdays is an application that allows you to view Birthdays for both your iPhone contacts and your Facebook friends. The app will also send you push notifications for upcoming Birthdays.

FacebookBirthdays will automatically pull in all your Contact’s Birthdays (no internet connect required) the first time you open the app. In order for the app to pull in all your Facebook Birthdays, you will need to navigate to the Settings option on the lower menu bar and sign into your Facebook account. Once you have signed in, you can Sync and all your Facebook Friend’s Birthdays are pulled in. The process is quick and painless.

The Today & Upcoming option on the lower menu bar displays any upcoming Birthdays for both Contacts and Facebook friends. The All Birthdays option will display everyones’ Birthdays. All Birthdays is broken up into two categories; Address Book and Facebook.

If you tap on a Contact’s Birthday, you have the ability to call them, text them, email them or view their contact info (with the ability to edit their contact info).

If you tap on a Facebook friend’s Birthday you have the ability to write on their wall or view their profile right from within the application.

You will receive a push notification each morning indicating how many friends have Birthdays that day.

If you are looking for a quick and simple way to receive push notification about upcoming Birthdays, this just might be the app for you!

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App Store Description:

With PUSH Notifications!!

Have you ever missed your friends’ birthday? Then this app is made for you!
An app that help people remember their friends’ birthday. With Apple’s PUSH Notification service you will get reminded every day how many of your iPhone contacts or Facebook friends have their birthday. Now you will never miss a birthday!

NO internet connection is required for address book contacts.

FEATURES:

- Keep in touch with all your friends these you have in your address book and sure those at Facebook (internet connection is required for Facebook friends).

- PUSH Notifications
you will always be the first one sending you friends your greetings

- You can immediately call hem/her , send a sms , write an e-mail and even write on his/her wall at Facebook , all these with a simple click.

- In addition, you will get daily a Budge on the App icon with the number of your friends’ upcoming birthdays.

- Very useful and helpful interface, easy to use.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please email us at info@angistalis.com. We’d like to hear from you.
What’s new

- Fixed contacts syncing
- Fixed Facebook Wall integration

Joe Hewitt, the developer of the iPhone facebook application, has tweeted for the first time in about a month and the tweet is shocking… he has decided to quit developing the app due to Apple’s approval process.

“Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I’m onto a new project.”

TechCrunch was able to get a little more info from Hewitt and this is what he had to say…

My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies. I respect their right to manage their platform however they want, however I am philosophically opposed to the existence of their review process. I am very concerned that they are setting a horrible precedent for other software platforms, and soon gatekeepers will start infesting the lives of every software developer.

The web is still unrestricted and free, and so I am returning to my roots as a web developer. In the long term, I would like to be able to say that I helped to make the web the best mobile platform available, rather than being part of the transition to a world where every developer must go through a middleman to get their software in the hands of users.”

Check out TechCrunch’s full article HERE.

Joe Hewitt, the developer of the facebook App Store application, recently tweeted that the app will soon be receiving two updates. The update to version 3.03 will be bug fixes and it will be followed by version 3.1 which is said to include push notification (along with a few other nice new features).

The thing I find strange is the lack of info about version 3.1. In the past we have seen pictures, video, tweets… etc about updates. Not this time. I guess we will just have until it;s released to see all the cool new features.

Original Tweet:

Many of you are probably familiar with qTweeter, a very unique twitter and facebook client. We have been doing reviews of qTweeter for quite a while now. Well, it seems that the app has now been released in the App Store under the title qStatus… and still contains many of the same features.

I received an email from the developers that saying that jailbroke version of qTweeter will need some updating in order to function with the 3.1 firmware… which may take some time. However, qStatus it is now available in the App Store. Obviously, you can not slide from the statusbar to launch qStatus but, the app does still contain the features listed below (which some of the features are actually pretty cool… I’ve always liked this application).

-TwitPic Support
-TwitVid Support
-Tweet Shrink
-Tweet long
-Tweet your currently playing music
-Dedicate the current song your playing to your friends
-Customizeable background
-Twitter update sound
-Preview of the image you are uploading
-Post to Facebook and/or Twitter

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App Store Description:

qStatus is the fastest, coolest and most efficient way to update your Twitter and Facebook Status. Below are some of the features:

-TwitPic Support
-TwitVid Support
-Tweet Shrink
-Tweet long
-Tweet your currently playing music
-Dedicate the current song your playing to your friends
-Customizeable background
-Twitter update sound

The beauty of qStatus is its Speed, Efficiency and Flexibility. Once you launch, you can immediately start tweeting and status updating. There is no waiting for tweets to load or buttons to press. It is just straight to the point without having to deal with the distractions of reading other peoples tweets. Once done writing, you can instantaneously post it to Facebook and Twitter or either one.

Music Tweeting is a great way to further express yourself on Twitter and Facebook. So when you are feeling a certain song, posting this to your status is just a few touches away. With qStatus, your Twitter followers and Facebook friends will be able to preview the song and purchase it. How cool is that!!

Another great thing about qStatus is that you are not restricted to 140 characters. There are a few times when you cannot fully express yourself in 140 characters. With our Tweet Long feature, you can fully express yourself and get your message across.

Best of all, qStatus supports TwitPic and TwitVid so you can upload pictures and videos. Unlike other Twitter apps, qStatus does picture uploading in a super cool way with a scaled full preview of your picture. To make uploading pictures faster, we have also put a camera button right in the interface so you can immediately take pictures.

All this great functionality is wrapped in an amazingly cool interface which allows you to put your own custom background.