Those of us addicted to checking in can hum a tune the next time the next time we open up our favorite app. "Badges Like Us" is about getting as many badges and mayorships as you can.

If you are a lighting technician and handle stages and venues frequently, then this app is your dream. Or if you have the most baller house of all time, this will also work.

A Swedish app called Recognizr lets you point your smartphone camera at someone and retrieve their online profiles via face recognition. You don't even have to know the person, unlike with competing apps.

Apple means business this time — apps that sell sex are being tossed out of the App Store en masse.

South Koreans are reportedly using a "snack sausage" as a "meat stylus" for their iPhones. Guys, I think South Korea is making fun of us and our fat American sausage fingers.

Foodies and techies alike can get behind this tasty-looking lunch. The iSandwich 4G may be the nerdiest and best-tasting sandwich out there. But in order to taste it, you're going to have to learn how to make it first.

You'd think this iPhone app would be a juggernaut from booty call heaven. You'd be wrong. One man's cautionary tale from the trenches of tech-savvy casual sex.

Before each shift, a chef in Charleston, SC vacuum seals his iPhone in plastic by running it through a CryoVac. Now the phone is safe from all water damage throughout his shift. The kicker? The phone remains fully functional.

CNBC's special Planet of the Apps (nice pun!) delved into the world of phone apps and how they change the world around us. The most intriguing? An app that consoles you during your impending financial doom with sexxxy naked ladies.

Raytheon made an iPhone app for mapping units a combat zone, and for new types of communication, like "friending" other tanks. It'll presumably sell for, like, $50,000 in Apple's military app store, and still earn less than iFart. (Pic)

Marissa Mayer knows her taste matters; that's why the Google VP walks the office in Armani and Oscar de la Renta. So when she showed off her cell phone in France, it should have been one of Google's. Whoops.

Well, after a week of is-he-or-isn't-he, it looks like that, no, Chris Cuomo will not be taking over for Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Good Morning America". George Stephanopoulous is. And JuJu Chang will takeover for Cuomo, who is leaving. Whew.

The Sun argues newspapers are better than iPhones because you get news, sports, photos, gossip and games in an easy-to-share format without waiting for pages to load, no contract, or losing reception.

It's really too bad Dubai is imploding. Where else in the world does this $3.2 million iPhone—made with "271 grams of 22-karat gold and 136 flawless diamonds"—stand a chance of finding a buyer? Guess there's always Moscow! [NYDN]

Oh check it out guys! A brand new iPhone 3G just laying on the sidewalk in New York City! It must be your lucky day. Watch what happens when want quickly turns to fail.

Two reasons to avoid talking on your cell phone as you walk down the street? For one thing, you're a lot more likely to get mowed down by a car, according to two new studies. (Chatty college students took 25 percent longer to cross the street than their peers who weren't on the phone; people over 65 in the same situation were 15 percent more likely to get run over.) Reason No. 2: As one Vanity Fair staffer's recent experience makes clear, you're also much more likely to get your ass kicked. Consider yourself warned. [Daily Finance, Page Six]

Do you love to feel the gentle wind? But does it play tricks on you? You can now enjoy lifting a skirt on iPhone!

Seems as though it's not just humans playing with the T-Pain Auto-Tune iPhone app anymore.

They apparently imagine themselves as the rebel alliance in Star Wars, and Steve Jobs as Darth Vader, these publishers quoted in Ad Age. And they're determined to escape the iTunes Store tractor beam, a gorgeous Apple tablet notwithstanding.