It’s been a long time coming, but Facebook has finally released an official iPad app. Users have been able to run the iPhone app on an iPad, but let’s be honest — it looks awful on a 9.7 inch display. The new iPad app has been designed to take advantage of the extra screen real estate and give you access to most of the important… Read more »

Facebook Messenger is a new mobile communications app for Android and iOS. Facebook launched the app this week as to complement the company’s full-featured social networking apps, offering the ability to send messages to your Facebook friends or SMS messages to anyone in your phone’s contact list. There are a few Facebook Messenger features that you won’t find in the official Facebook apps for iOS… Read more »

Facebook is launching a new app for managing your Facebook messages on iOS or Android. It’s called Facebook Messenger, and honestly, it looks virtually identical to the Messages tabs that are already available in Facebook’s existing iOS and Android apps. There are a few differences though. The new Facebook Messenger app lets you include your location or attach photos to a message. It also lets… Read more »

While you can run Facebook’s mobile app for the iPhone on the iPad, the company has yet to launch an official iPad app designed to take advantage of the extra screen space on the tablet’s larger display. But it looks like Facebook for the iPad is on the way, because the folks at TechCrunch discovered this morning that there’s already an iPad user interface tucked… Read more »

Facebook has rolled out an updated version of its Android app. The good news is you can finally now see pages you’ve liked and pages you administrate. Previously if you wanted to view a page you had to find an item from a Facebook page as it appeared in your Facebook feed. Now you can actually see a list — although it’s hidden away in… Read more »

Facebook has rolled out an updated Android app with a handful of new features including the ability to upload videos. When you tap the speech bubble icon to start a new status update you can now tap the camera button to the left and choose to upload either a photo or a video to your Facebook account. The update also adds support for Pages… but… Read more »

Popular social networking service Seesmic allows users to interact with your Twitter and Facebook accounts across a number of platforms. There’s a web app, desktop apps for Windows or Mac, and a line of mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7. There’s also a BlackBerry app, but Seesmic has announced that it will drop support for that platform soon. While Research in Motion’s… Read more »

Research in Motion has announced that there’s a new beta release of Facebook 2.0 for BlackBerry which adds a few new features including the ability to receive push notifications and other data over WiFi, thus alerting the world to the fact that the previous beta only worked over a cellular connection. Who knew? Sure, the feature probably should have been included right out of the… Read more »

TweetCaster is one of the most full-featured and customizable Twitter apps for Google Android. But up until recently the app was designed for smartphones and didn’t look all that great blown up to a larger Android tablet display. Now Handmark has released a public beta of TweetCaster HD for tablets. The new app has all the same features as the original app including support for… Read more »

The folks behind the popular social networking app TweetDeck had a “Hack Day” recently, where designers took a break from their regular tasks and whipped up some new ways to use TweetDeck’s apps. That includes an option for emailing tweets to yourself so you can read them on your phone when you’re offline, and the Tweet-As-You-Go design you can see above, which lets Android users send messages… Read more »