Facebook launches new app with all our favorite friends

Who are all our favorite friends? Well, these guys are, dummy:

The weird gorilla guy, the other weird gorilla guy, as well as the cactus and the rabbit and all the rest of them that are becoming so popular to use within the Facebook messenger app. Well, now, as you can see above, you can doso much more with these little dudes!

It’s a new App just released by Facebook called Stickered which allows you to add these stickers onto photos from your camera roll, or take photos with them already on the live camera view. You then can save them to your camera roll or send them to all your friends who then think that you’re hilarious and awesome. Until you do it too much, and then they think you’re stupid and annoying. So don’t do that, k?

You can download Stickered for free now on the App Store.

Christmas App Guide!

It’s CHRISTMAS! iPhone Antidote LOVES Christmas.

And we love spreading all the joy and love and good feelings that abound around about now. Following is the best Christmas Apps so you can do just that! Also, the best Apps for Christmas shopping, countdowns, recipe’s and all things Christmas!

Enjoy!

For Christmas shopping :

Get the Gift Suggester – Gift Ideas for Every Occasion

Have no idea what to get anyone? Starting to freak out? Get this app! Free from the App Store.

RetailMeNot Coupons

The RetailmeNot App scours the web for deals and coupons for all kinds of shopping! Check it to see if you can get the perfect gift for a better price!

Free From the App Store.

For on-the-go shopping, check out: Amazon for iOS, Target for iPhone, Disney Store for iPhone, Staples for iPhone, eBay for iOS and Groupon for iOS.

The Christmas List

This is the all -time best Christmas shopping list app! Add pics of all the lucky family and friends you’re planning on buying gifts for, track your budgeting for gifts, keep a record of items you think people might like and which store it’s in, make sure you know all of your secret present hiding places, what’s been wrapped AND it comes with an app-specific passcode so no prying eyes can peek into your personal present guide.$1.99 from the App Store.

To get all of your Christmas shopping deliveries organized,  take a look at the Deliveries App. It tracks all of your deliveries, updating you with the status of your shipments. You can also use this to track Christmas gifts you’re sending to friends and family, making sure they arrive on time.

$4.99 for iPhone & iPad
$4.99 for Mac

Singing is an awesome part of Christmas. If you love singing carols loudly, off or on key ( doesn’t really matter, does it? Unless you’re Mariah Carey or that girl from Love Actually) then this App is for you! Sing Along Christmas Carols Free

Free from the App store

An old favorite, it’s time to get it back out so you can giggle ridiculously over you and your friends dancing as elves. It’s gotta be a christmas tradition by now, right?

Free from the App Store. 

NORAD Tracks Santa

The NORAD Tracks Santa App is the official mobile app of the NORAD Tracks Santa program. Watch the days countdown to Santa’s flight, follow Santa’s progress on December 24, play “Thin Ice” to help Santa’s elves deliver presents, and learn about NORAD and its mission. Free from the App Store.

Foodie Recipes

One of the best Apps for recipes period, Foodie recipes will give you tons of ideas for holiday cooking, including deserts, hors d’oeuvres, and the big feast itself. Do yourself a favor and download it now! Free from the App Store.

Although not starting until after Christmas on the 26th December, Apple’s iTunes 12 Days Of Christmas is another app to look out for, as Apple will be giving away one free App every day until the 6th January! The App isn’t available to download yet, but should be any minute now!

That’s our best Christmas App recommendations! Tra la la la! We hope you find some of them useful, and if you have any of your own app recommendations, please let us know!

We hope you’re enjoying this special time of year. Now, put on some Christmas music, take a big sip of eggnog, throw some tinsel around, hug some people, and keep an eye out for the iPhone Antidote Christmas Gift Guide – coming very soon!

App Of The day !

Our App of the day is another one that’s super useful particularly for this Party Season time of year -It’s called  Steerclear and you guys should totally know about it.

Drink Driving. It’s a bad thing, and no-one should do it. Ever. But the people over at Steerclear understand that sometimes people drink and then they need to physically move their person to another location safely, when there may not be the option for public transport and taxi’s and Uber aren’t quite right for the job. Which is exactly why they created their service.

According to the good people themselves, they’re “in the business of getting people, and their vehicles, to where they need to be, safely and affordably – whether that be home, the office, the airport, the grocery store, the hospital, the farmers’ market, or the beach (and anywhere else you can get to legally on four wheels).”

So, they offer two kinds of the same service and they’ve got it covered. If you drink whilst you’re at a party, they will send 2 people out, one to drive you and your car home and the other to follow your car and pick up the driver when you’re safe home.

You can also schedule a driver by the hour – so if you and your friends are planning on going to the beach to have some drinks, then going to the waterpark, then to the bar, then back to the beach for some bonfire action, your driver will stay with your car and drive you when and where you need to go as long as your start and end points are the same.

After all is said and done the Steerclear driver charges the credit card they have on file so you don’t need to bother with cash, and you can add any gratuity in the App also.

Rates vary depending on your location, but you can calculate the rate in your location by going to their site, or by calling 866.734.1912

Download the app now for free from the App Store!

Party on Garth! Party on Wayne

App Of The Day!

Guess what? It’s the holidays! That means Christmas Parties, cheap booze gift packs, eggnog, aaaand hangovers.

Yeah, sorry bout that, but unless you’re a teetotaler, there’s a good chance you will experience at least one hangover this Holiday Season.  So here’s what we’ve got for you today: BrainWave Hangover Relief

Developed by Banzai Labs, this app aims to relieve symptoms of your hangover (Headache, nausea, general discomfort) by synchronizing your brainwaves to low frequency alpha and theta waves.  Fancy.

Hangover relief is a kind of Holy Grail at this point (the only for sure certain way to avoid them is to stop drinking, d’oh), however the search for a cure is still a worthwhile journey to undertake!

If this app doesn’t work for you, we also suggest eating a banana, taking a shot, and dancing. If you can’t quite handle that, we’ve found that even attempting to dance helps. Also: watching other people dance.

The App has to be used with headphones and it’s $0.99 from the App store.

Cheers & Happy Weekend!

App of the day!

Our App of the day works on so many levels! A party trick, a super cool way to improve your photos, and just some awesome tech.

It’s called Cycloramic, and if you’re a fan of the TV show Shark Tank, you’ll probably have seen it before when one of it’s developers, Bruno Francois from Egos Ventures, secured $500,000 from two of the investors on the show.

It’s an app that is so simple, yet so ingenius.

It’s a way of using your phone to take panoramic photos. It spins your iPhone 360 degrees, using the vibrate function, and takes a photo at the same time. Whhhaaaaa!

It uses the phone’s vibrator function at a specific frequency to make the phone spin around its vertical axis and tracks the rotation angle using the gyroscope, compass and accelerometer. Holy cow.

So just so everyone has this straight- you place the iPhone in front of you, standing up, (on glass works best) press ‘Start’  and sit back, letting your phone spin 360 degrees in front of you, whilst taking a photo. No user intervention, just pure photo taking genius.

People get pretty excited when they see it, so definitely one to bring out at parties.

The App is available for $1.99 from the App Store for iPhone 5, 5S and 6 models.

Check it out here, then check it out in real life. Because it’s waaaaay cool.

Cicret Smart Bracelet

There’s some new (very new) tech that’s  been doing the social media rounds lately, and it looks, um, amazing. It’s a bracelet called The Cicret Smart Bracelet.

Cicret claims it’s developed the bracelet to be able to let you control your mobile device remotely by projecting its display on your skin and sending touch input back to your device.

They’re currently fundraising on their website to finish the prototype (They still need 700,000 euros at the time this article was written) and there isn’t very much information available as to how exactly they are going to make it all work. But if they can, this is what we’ll be looking at:

It sounds too good to be true, but we really hope they can pull it off, because that tech be cool. If these guys can make this happen, and make it work like they say they can, this could be amazing.

Have we told you recently how much we love technology?

Black Friday deals!

Well folks, it’s almost here. Whilst we were putting our Turkey in the oven (we’re into really, really slow cooked Thanksgiving turkey)  we looked over the big chain stores and found you what we think are the best tech Black Friday deals around.

*Target is open 6pm Thursday and has a bunch of deals on game consoles and games such as: PS4 Bundled With The Last of Us (Digital) + Grand Theft Auto V (Physical) for $399,  Xbox One Assassin’s Creed Bundle (AC: Unity + AC: Black Flag) + 1-month Xbox Live Gold Membership for $329.99 WITH $50 Free Target Gift Card, as well as 50% off a bunch of games, $25 off another bunch, and a free $15 gift card when you buy WWE 2K15 (PS4), Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Mario Kart 8, Far Cry 4, Super Smash Bros or Destiny.

Target gift cards will be 10% off, and you can get a 16GB Apple iPad Air 2 PLUS a $140 Target Gift Card for just $499.00, as well as a 40″ Element 1080p LED HDTV for $119.00

*Staples is open from 6pm through 10pm on Thanksgiving day, and from 6am on Friday. Get: A 23.6″ Samsung 1080p LED Monitor for just $99.99 (saving $120), or get a FREE Kindle eReader after easy rebate with the purchase of any laptop regularly priced $399 and above in store. Check out the sneak peek Black Friday ad here. 

In-store, you’ll also have the option to fill a bag, which when filled with products, will get you 20% off everything in it.

*Dell is offering their in-store Black Friday deals from 8am – 10pm EST. However they’re starting their online deals earlier. Get deals such as: A 24″ Dell  1080p LED Monitor for $99.99  which Starts 12am EST Friday 11/28, and PlayStation 4 Console with Grand Theft Auto V and The Last of Us: Remastered for $399.99  which starts at 6pm EST Thursday 11/27 

*Ebay is offering some great gaming deals, offering  the Wii U 32GB Black Deluxe Set w/ Super Mario 3D World & Nintendo for $259.99, the Sony PlayStation 4 Console for $329.99 and the Nintendo Wii U Skylander Console + Super Smash Bros Wii U for $249.99. Deals start Thursday, 11/27 at 9PM PST with new deals every hour.

*Sears is open Thursday 6pm through Friday 1pm, and has a 40″ Class 1080p Smart HDTV for just $329.99, and a 65″ Samsung Class 4K UHD Smart Curved HDTV for $1,999.99. Check out their other Black Friday door-busters here. 

*Walmart has 3 ‘events’, the first starting at 6pm Thursday, the second 8pm Thursday and the third 6am Friday. They’ll be selling the new 16GB Wi-Fi only iPad Air 2 for $489 with a $100 Walmart gift card included, the 16GB iPhone 6 for $179 on a two-year contract, plus you get a $75 Walmart gift card. A similar $75 gift card deal is available for the iPhone 5s, priced at $79 with a two-year contract. iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s purchases made with AT&T Next or Verizon Edge will require $0 down from qualified customers and will include the gift card.

You’ll be able to get the Playstation 4 plus Grand Theft Auto and The Last of Us for $399.00, a 65″ Vizio 120Hz LED Smart HDTV for $648.00, Xbox One Halo: The Master Chief Collection Bundle + $30 Walmart Gift Card for $329.00 and a 16GB Apple iPad Mini + $30 Walmart Gift Card for $199.00from 6pm Thursday, and get a $75 Walmart Gift Card When You Buy an iPhone 6 or iPhone 5S – $75 Gift Card from 6am Friday. Check out their other Black Friday deals here. 

*Best Buy opens 5pm Thursday, doors close 1am Friday. Tickets will be handed out 2 hours before opening. Deals include a Nikon – D7000 DSLR Camera with 18-140mm VR Lens – Black for just $799.99, get a 55″ Samsung UN55HU6830FXZA 2160p 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV for $899.99, get the iPad Air 2  for $100 off, the Google Chromecast HDMI Streaming Media Player with 2-Months Hulu Plus for $23.99, he LEGO Movie (Blu-ray/DVD + UltraViolet) for only $3.99 and get s super cheap 50″ Panasonic 1080p LED HDTV for just $199.99

Check out their other deals here. 

That’s the best chainstore Black Friday deals we could find! We wish you luck in any deal-finding, door-busting missions you begin, but most of all, we want to wish you a happy Thanksgiving. From our soon to be turkey-stuffed heart to yours, thank you to all of our iPhone Antidote customers, blog readers and friends. We’re very grateful to you, and for you.

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Apple changing app labelling

Up until right now, when you purchased an app in the Apple App Stpre that didn’t cost you any money up-front, but did have the option to make in-app purchases, in the App Store, it was labelled as ‘Free’.

Not so anymore!

The folks over the Apple figure that this could come off as a tad misleading, so they’ve changed the labelling in the App store to reflect that. Apps that were previously ‘Free’  but which had in-app purchases available now read ‘Get’ instead.

Earlier this year, the European Commission asked Apple and Google to implement changes to the way they sell apps, to avoid misleading customers about “free” games that are not actually free.

Back in July, Google announced that it would cease calling games with in-app purchases “free,” and although Apple already does a bunch of stuff to try and prevent in-app purchase confusion (such as “offers in-app purchases” disclosures on purchase pages etc) they are now left in a position to follow suit.

So, now everyone should be clear- if there’s an App that doesn’t cost any money, go ahead and  ‘get’ it. It won’t cost you any money unless you explicitly agree to make in-app purchases. If you agree to make in-app purchases, you pay them money. Which is when it stops being free. 

Financials can be hard, yo.

App of the Day!

We’ve all heard about Spotify and Pandora and ReverbNation and Vevos and iTunes Radio and alllll the rest of them and they’re all pretty wonderful and everyone usually has their staunch favorite, (as do we) but we want to introduce a little newbie to the gang. He deserves some love too!

Please, a welcoming round of applause for Rormix.

A music video streaming app that aims to delight your visual and aural senses, yes, but also to introduce you bands that you won’t hear or see on the other guys (yet). See, Rormix is for unsigned bands.

Once downloaded, the app will scan your song library so that it can provide appropriate recommendations. Within a few seconds you get your first selection of videos.

And then you enjoy some new talent. Dance, if you like.

Because the video’s are unsigned, of course, you can’t buy the tracks yet, which is a bummer. What you can do is favorite them, click through to the artists’s social media and post the video onto your own social media. You’re being entertained, and you’re doing PR in return by telling people how great the artist is. Like a rainbow circle of karma!

Starting this month, this idea goes further into the matrix – as users make comments and share the content, they can earn points. With a certain number of these points, you can download tracks for a period of time. Score more points and you can keep the music on your device, for longer.

The App then places high-scorers’ recommendations above those of others, and points can qualify the user for some awesome perky premiums such as free concert tickets from the company.

So, interested in being the ultimate cool kid? Listening to and watching some awesome unsigned talent first? Being the pointsmaster? Being in control of helping new talent emerge?

You know what to do.  It’s available for free from the App Store. 

App of the day!

Our app of the day is bought to you by your potential ability to wear clothes really really well. All sexy like.

Introducing MTailor.

This app will sell you shirts that fit you exactly. Just you. Not that guy Tom you know, not your friend Barney, you.

It uses your iPhone camera to figure out your body measurements and then sell you the precisely fitted shirts. Super cool, right?

It’s a free app, and the shirts start at around $64. The whole process involves spinning around in front of your phone so that the app can make a 3D model of you. It then deletes the video and only stores the measurements for your purchases.  3 weeks go by and then BAM A PERFECTLY FITTED SHIRT ARRIVES IN THE MAIL.

This will be a shirt that is perfectly made for you, kind of like what James Bond would wear. We can’t imagine he wore normal shirts that were just made for anyone like a one size fits all mumu. Because he’s slick and is good at playing cards and women and stuff. Just like you with a perfectly fitted shirt.

The company is hoping to make the turnaround quicker in time and currently you have a large range of fabric and patterns to choose from which would also widen in time, including other items of clothing.

Get the app free from the App store and get your fitted shirt on!