Those of you who bypassed the wonderful yet paid offerings of Apple Music and continued to use iTunes Radio for free – we have some bad news.
At the end of January iTunes Radio is being discontinued. Sad face.
Beats 1 radio will be the only free listening option available to those who do not subscribe to the Apple Music service. Customers who listen to radio stations sans ads with an iTunes Match subscription are also receiving the emails and will no longer be able to listen to radio stations as an iTunes Match perk.
US listeners, you have free listening until January 28th.
You still have to pay between $1100 and $1500, mind you, but starting this Friday, you can buy the Hermes Apple Watch online from the Apple Store and from Hermes online store!
Since it’s release in October you’ve only been able to get your hands on one at a select group of Apple Stores, Hermès boutiques, or high-end department stores.
The watch comes with three bands; the Single Tour, Double Tour, and Cuff.
Will you be getting a Hermes Apple Watch? Remember – Valentines day is jussssst around the corner!!
Today’s the 20th of January guys!! Do you know what that means? Well, it’s the birth date of both Buzz AldrinandJoey Badass, yes, but also, it’s the last day to use our coupon code for an extra $10 clams on your quote to sell us your iPhone!
Complete a quote before midnight Pacific time today, use coupon code ‘NEWYEARS10’ and you’ll get an extra $10! BAM!
How’s your 2016 panning out so far? I bet getting rid of your stinky old iPhone and getting awesome CASHMONEY plus an extra $10 will help make it great? Right? RIGHT!
In this future world, unless you’re someone who doesn’t use passwords at all (and if you are we’d love to meet you), then chances are you have one if not a few trusted go to words or phrases that you use as passwords.
In this day and age, passwords protect our online identity, our finances, our family, our everything, so they should be strong, memorable and ship shape! But are they?
SplashData, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based company that makes password-management applications just released the top 25 most common passwords from more than 2 million leaked passwords that were posted online by hackers. Most of the data came from people in North America and Western Europe.
From the Sauce, SplashData chief executive Morgan Slain:
“We have seen an effort by many people to be more secure by adding characters to passwords, but if these longer passwords are based on simple patterns they will put you in just as much risk of having your identity stolen by hackers.”
And, ladies and gents, here they are, in all their glory.
This past week, folks who own an iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus have been experiencing problems with the battery display on their iPhones. Apparently the display does not automatically update as the battery drains – so they have no real idea what’s going on with how charged their iPhones are. Not helpful!
Apple is now aware of the complaints, and it looks like it’s got to do with Time zone and/or time settings, and they’re looking at finding a solution. . From the Sauce:
“If you change the time on your iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus manually or change time zones when traveling, you might notice that the battery percentage doesn’t update.”
So – the advice is – if you notice the problem affecting your iPhone, restart it, and make sure the time is being automatically set in Settings.
Our future tech of the week is bought to you by the age old problem of, well, aging. Aesthetic aging in particular. Who wants healthy young looking skin? We do! Duh!
Mapo is the worlds first ‘connected beauty mask’. Designed specifically to fit your face, it analyses your skin and diagnoses any problem areas, sending the information to it’s app on your mobile device. It optimizes your skincare regime by applying heat to boost the efficiency of your applied skin care on strategic places.
You also have the added benefit of a community of users to compare results of different skin regimes with.
It’s all about the Internet Of Things these days, isn’t it? And why shouldn’t your face-mask or skincare regime be a part of that? Technology is there to help, folks!
Did you know that Skype free video calling is 10 years old? But… but how can the future be so old? Weren’t we just dreaming about video phone calls? Weren’t we just watching a Jetsons epsiode about that? Are we that old?
Yes. Yes we are. But there’s good news too! To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of said video calling, Skype has announced that they are bringing group video calling capabilities to mobile devices!! For free! WHAT.
Yump, coming soon to an iPhone near you – all your friends faces!! Who’s up for a group Skype to celebrate? Wherever you are, go to the fanciest place you know and let’s internet party! Long Distance Party Time! (LDPT for short, obviously).
We’ll have to pick a time and date in a little bit, because Skype is rolling out the feature over the next couple of weeks. If you want early access (you do) you can register here with your email address and Skype user name.
According to the rumors doing the tech rounds, the Apple Watch 2 will begin an earlier than expected trial production round by the end of January. Qanta, the Chinese based manufacturers responsible for the original Apple Watch, is said to be the main source (if not only source) of production for the 2nd Gen Apple Watch.
Other manufacturers, however, such as Foxconn, may be sourced to help supply the 2nd generation after Qanta apparently experienced less than stellar profit returns on the original.
So what can we expect?
Expect the 2nd generation Apple Watch to have a thinner case, a FaceTim camera (yay!) and an upgraded Wi-Fi chip, so you can do more without being attached to your iPhone.
Expect health technologies to shine on this device. Although CEO Tim Cook recently said that he didn’t want the Apple Watch itself to go through the whole FDA APPROVAL rigmarole, Apps and other side by side tech would probably be moved in that direction.
Recent additions to Apple seem to cement that idea, with hires like Anne Shelchuk, who has a doctorate in biomedical engineering, system design engineer Nathan Clark, who has a doctorate in biomedical engineering and a patent for a device that separates cells, and Craig Slyfield, a mechanical engineer who’s co-authored several papers related to measuring and visualizing human bones in 3D.
So, we can conclude that the Apple Watch 2 will have a FaceTime camera, x-ray vision capabilities, and a cell separator. Neato.
Do you have an Apple Watch? Are you a little bit in love with the Milanese loop band? We don’t blame you. We don’t have an Apple Watch, and we’re in love with the Milanese Loop band.
Well guess what may or may not be coming? A Space Black Milanese Loop band! Whaaaat.
Some eagle eyed Apple Fan noticed last week that a Space Black Milanese Loop band for the Apple Watch was available on the Czech Republic Apple store… crazy.
The band has not been seen on any other store, and has since been taken off the Czech online store, so either we’ll see a worldwide launch in about a week, or someone somewhere just effed up. We’re hoping for the former, because we love us some Milanese Loop.
The 2015 Holiday season was good for Apple in a few ways, one of them being that it was the biggest ever for the App Store. How big is big, you ask? Well, big happens to be $1.1 billion spent on Apps and in-app purchases over a 2 week period ending January 3rd.
That’s big.
On New Years day alone, customers spent over $144 million dollars.
From the Sauce, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller;
“The App Store had a holiday season for the record books. We are excited that our customers downloaded and enjoyed so many incredible apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV, spending over $20 billion on the App Store last year alone.
We’re grateful to all the developers who have created the most innovative and exciting apps in the world for our customers. We can’t wait for what’s to come in 2016.”
Apple said it has now created over 1.4 million jobs attributable to app development and non-IT jobs supported by the app ecosystem.
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January 22, 2016 4:24 pm | 
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