So, a member of iPhone Antidote happened to be out of the country when the Giants won the World Series (sucks to be him). He’s a HUGE giants fan and whilst he was able to work it out to watch the game, with some beers in hand, once the Giants had won he was itching to be back in San Francisco to enjoy the party afterwards.
Now, that wasn’t going to happen, because they don’t make planes that fast (yet) BUT he was able to get the next best thing, watching the party from afar, and that was through a free online social media live streaming video App called Stringwire.
On Stringwire, there was a girl live-streaming video from her phone, following the party throughout San Francisco, interacting with some people, purely watching others, and it was pretty great.
It’s is a new service from NBCUniversal Media which allows you to “Stream in your world real-time with live video from anywhere to audiences everywhere”. You can use it to stream breaking news (slightly controversial) or just what happens in your living room OR you can watch what other people are streaming, be it their sick surf break or the Giants World Series Win after party in downtown San Fransisco.
You can get it free from the app store! Once you have created an account in the App, you can also log in online here.
Go forth and STREAM!
So we just had Halloween, and crazy (festive) people are already putting Christmas decorations up BUT we have Thanksgiving first, and we also have that most commercial and highly controversial shopping holiday that is Black Friday. Shoppers love it, retail workers and their families… not so much.
This year, Walmart and Amazon have started their countdown to Black Friday early with discounts having already begun on November the 1st! They’ve told their customers that they’ll be cutting prices on TWENTY THOUSAND items over the next month leading up to Black Friday including a special cyber event on November 3rd.
Amazon also began their lead up to Black Friday on Saturday with the addition of special ‘Countdown to Black Friday Featured Deals’.
Black Friday falls on November 28th, with a lot of stores opening for 24 hours beginning on Thanksgiving. Some people believe that in the name of giving customers good holiday season bargains, stores are purely looking for maximum profit and taking retail workers away from their families on a very family-centric holiday. Macy’s and Kohls have just announced that they both will be opening at 6pm on Thankgiving, which is two hours earlier than last year.
Whatever you think about Black Friday, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be going away or dying down any time soon, in fact the opposite appears to be happening. Try and get the best deals out of it that you can whilst complying with your morals, and you’ll be doing great!
Remember: it’s never too early to get presents! Because presents rock.
Updated your Device to iOS 8? Wanna play around with some awesome new keyboard apps that are newly available to good people like yourself? Yay! You guys should check out Popkey. It lets you access animated GIF images within your device’s keybard!
WhAT! HELLO REACTION GIFS ALL DAY LONG
Yuppers. AND it’s free. Did we just totally make your day?
You’ll be able to send GIFS throughout your device, from text messages, emails, etc.
Simply download the PopKey app from the App Store, go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards and select PopKey. You can now toggle between PopKey’s keyboard and other keyboards installed on your device by tapping the globe icon in the bottom lefthand corner of the keyboard.
If you want to make an account and refer a friend (kinda annoying, but certainly doable) you can upload your own GIFS to use on your keyboard. PopKey requires iOS 8 and supports the iPhone 4S and higher*.
Get it free from the App Store!
*Ooh you iPhone 4 guys are really being hit hard this year… ever thought of cashing it in for some hard money and buying a shiny new iPhone so you can do ALL THE THINGS? or go on holiday? We’d love to help out! Get a quote here.
The App ‘Epic Zen Garden’ was used during this year’s WWDC to demonstrate the beauty of Metal, Apple’s new Graphics API, and now you can see it in all it’s peaceful beauty for yourself!
It’s now available to download, but we would recommend only doing so, (sorry guys) if you have an iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air or iPad mini with Retina display. You can download the game on older models, however the game really needs the power of the more recent models and will crash on those ill equipped.
There are several different areas to explore which show off the power of the GPU in your iOS device. Keep in mind it’s not really a proper game per se, as developers haven’t had enough time to harness the graphical power of Metal, but this is an excellent start, and well worth checking out. And besides, it’s free from the App Store!
We all know tech companies offer really, really cool perks if you’re lucky enough to find yourself employed by them. From chef-cooked meals, to gym’s, hairdressers, cool cool & cool, we can now add egg-freezing to the list.
You read me correctly, and no, we’re not talking eggs of the chicken kind. (Side-note – iPhone Antidote are the new proud owners of a chicken named Egg and she’s awesome!)
We’re talking human eggs. The kind that usually live inside women, but sometimes, things get hectic, and then eggs get old and stuff can sometimes get kinda sad.
Tech companies don’t like sad people! So both Facebook and Apple are now offering to pay for the procedure for their employees to freeze their unfertilized eggs for later use. This is actually super expensive, from $10,000 to $15,000 per round plus $500 a year for storage — and not usually covered by insurance, so the offer is definitely a legit awesome one with both companies paying up to $20,000.
There has been some criticism of the offer, with some believing that this is another way the tech companies can have more control over your whole life, not just your working life, and get you to work harder for longer. But Silicon Valleyer’s are big grown up people, right? We think it’s probably better to have the option to make that decision than not to, even if you do have doubts about the intent behind it.
We think it’s just one more amazing perk they’re using to attract and retain employees. Happy egg freezing Silicon Valley’ers!
You guys, it’s almost the Holidays! One week ’til Halloween, then Thanksgiving and then Christmas! All the times you’ll be wanting to take the best possible camera phone photos…
SO you’ll prolly be wanting to get the updated version of VSCO Cam. It’s super cool, the newest update has been catered towards iOS 8 and you can manually control all kinds of wonderful photo-taking things like shutter speed, white balance, focus and exposure.
Not to worry though, they also actually manage to make all that stuff pretty intuitive to folks who aren’t that versed in camera terminology.
It comes equipped with post photo editing tools and the ability to share straight to Facebook or Instagram from the App and it’ll make your Holiday pictures superb, we promise.
Get it from the App store. It’s free with the option to make in-app purchases for filters etc.
Less than one week until Halloween! All Hallow’s eve! Samhain! Whatever you call it, it’s fun and it’s coming our way fast. Hopefully you’ve got your decorations up, bought your candy (full size chocolate bars this year? you don’t say…) and organized your kick-ass costume, so all you need now is THIS.
Ghost Cam + Screamer edition not only adds a variety of ghosts to any photo but also sets up a Halloween prank for you to play on your friends and family. Import any of your photos into the App, hand it off to a friend to look at and when the secret timer goes off a screaming ghost will come shrieking out in the photo. Pretty Cool, eh?
Scaring people is cool. Just remember to have them sitting down on a soft couch or something, unless the idea is that you want them to buy you a new phone after they drop and break yours (we’re not condoning this of course, you crafty little crafter you).
You can also use the app to adjust the brightness and contrast in a way that’ll make the subject of your photo look like a ghost, which is ok, but nothing that’s gonna make people scream. That’s the cool bit.
Get it for $0.99 from the app store.
Happy Halloween!!
(P.S. We love taking phones broken by halloween pranks. Get a quote here to sell your cracked iPhone.)
Apple pay will be making it’s spectacular (ish) debut this coming Monday the 20th October!
Secret sauces ( mmm KFC, uh…) spilled the beans last week that retailers who will have Apple Pay enabled at their point of sale systems have already completed their training for the payments process AND THEN Tim Cook confirmed at the iPad media event on Thursday that Apple pay will indeed be up and running on Monday.
Banks however look like they’ll begin to support the payment system at different times (makes sense) making the release more of a staggered release. For example, USAA, one of Apple’s bank partners, has claimed that it plans on starting to support Apple Pay come November 7th.
Apple Pay will be enabled on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus with a free update to iOS 8.1 and will be available in over 220,000 merchants country wide, including some big name chains such as Macy’s, Bloomingdales, McDonalds, Staples, Sephora, Walgreens, Whole Foods and, obviously, Apple. Because it would be weird if they didn’t.
You will also be able to use Apple Pay within the apps of companies such as Groupon, Lyft & Uber, Airbnb, OpenTable and Target. You will be able to use Apple pay with iPhone 5, iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c’s with the addition of your very own Apple Watch next year.
Hooray for Apple Pay? It’s spectacularish because it should be awesome, and a solid improvement to how payments are processed BUT not everyone can use it yet and there will probably be some (non-security related) bugs to work out before it becomes totally stable. BUT WE think it’s pretty exciting!
Therefore, Hooray!
Our App of the week is really super cool, and kinda patriotic and interesting and will maybe make you seem all intellectual too (BONUS).
It’s called ScenePast:Americana Road Trip and it lets you search it’s database by location or peruse a catalogue of over 500 postcards so you can see what the place you’re standing in/your hometown/the historic city center you’ve traveled to looked like over the past 100 years. SWEET RIGHT?
It works in all 50 states and also lets you share the postcards on social media. The same guys have a similiar app where you can see how locations from Tv & movies have transformed over time as well.
If this sounds like your type of thing, (history and patriotism and cool things and such) it’s 0.99c from the App store.
As predicted Apple will be holding a special media event at 10am this coming Thursday October 16th. Invitations have been send out with the above tagline – “It’s been way too long”.
The event will be held at the Town Hall Auditorium at the Apple campus in Cupertino and is expected to be a much quieter event than September’s iPhone 6 and Apple Watch media event.
There are many guesses as to what the tagline could be referencing – from Mac Mini’s, to an update or announcement regarding Apple TV, to a new product category, however most agree that as it is a smaller media event, it will mainly focus on updates to existing products.
The predictions mainly lie with new iPads ( Air & Mini) as well as updated iMacs with (fingers crossed) Retina Display. OS X Yosemite will also be officially introduced, and more than likely released to the public that day.
We’ll let you know whatsup as soon as we know!
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November 4, 2014 1:33 pm | 
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