Merry Christmas from iPhone Antidote.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of our loyal customers and blog readers! We love you guys!

We wish you and your family a safe and happy holiday season, and a wonderfully rad new year.

We look forward to providing all kinds of tricky tech news and paying you CashMoney for all your stinky old and broken iPhones in the new year!

Kim Kardashian’s new app

Yaaaaaaaaaaay. A new Kim Kardashian app! Just what you’ve been waiting for? Is it? Is it really? Well, if it is, you’re in luck. A few days ago the super famous Mrs Kanye released an app called Kimoji, which is a collection of emoji’s related to her and her fantastical life that you can use to communicate with your friends and family.

Like Steve Jobs said: “A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”

The app costs $1.99 and you’ll get access to another keyboard with a bunch of Kimoji’s. Like these:

Interesting stuff.  Download it here.

Oh, and despite what you may have heard, or seen, the app did not break the app store when it was released, but it is super popular. Within a day of release,  it was already the top-grossing entertainment app on Apple’s App Store.

Upload your live photos to Facebook!

Do you have an iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus? Do you love taking Live Photos? You’re in luck!

From today onwards, Facebook is rolling out a feature that will allow you to share the Live Photos you love with your friends and family on the social media platform.

The roll out, as always, will take some time for everyone to see, but all users will soon be able to upload and see Live Photos in your Facebook feed using the Facebook for iOS app.

Live Photos are photos that are motion enabled – i.e. you can see the live moments just before and just after the photo is taken.

Even though only iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus devices can create Live Photos,  all iOS devices running iOS 9 can view them in the Facebook app. All iPhones from the iPhone 4s on are capable of supporting iOS 9.

Live Photo away, peeps!

You guys should probably play with the Google Doodle today

The Google Doodle today celebrates Beethoven’s 245th year and is a wonderful little musical puzzle. Apparently Beethoven was a little clumsy, so you have to help him put his sheet music back together in the proper order after he messes it up in different ways!

Happy procrastination and learning about music and Beethoven and Thursday! Yay!

… We’re not sure we have to do this, but what they hey. Go to www.google.com to play!

Watch google’s end of 2015 video if you want to feel chills

Want to feel good about the progression of humanity and the future of mankind?

Watch this!

Can you guess what the top 10 Google searched for 2015 are?

That’s right, folks, here’s where we see exactly how we look in the 2015 Google mirror. What were Americans most interested in finding out more about this year?

Lamar Odom. It’s Lamar Odom. We didn’t want to waste any more time on peaking your curiosity on that one. Donald Trump was the most searched for American Politician. Add in Charlie Sheen, Kylie Jenner’s lips, Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy, What to pack for Cancun, and What is zero divided by zero for the most searched for items in different categories and it’s looking pretttttty bleak.

Thank goodness for other categories, saved by Stephen Curry, The Golden State Warriors, Why do dogs wag their tail, Better call Saul, and Sangria.

Sangria for the win!

Below is the top 10 total Google searches for 2015, and click here for the other category winners.
1. Lamar Odom

2. Jurassic World

3. American Sniper

4. Caitlyn Jenner

5. Ronda Rousey

6. Paris

7. Agar.io

8. Chris Kyle

9. Fallout 4

10. Straight Outta Compton

Google Fi comes with Lego Kit!

If you’re a Google Project Fi subscriber, you’re looking at maybe getting lucky and getting a little treat in the mail from Google! Yay! Google are sending out a super awesome Lego kit that, once put together, works as a charging stand for your Nexus phone. Sweet, right?

You can sign up to request an invite to Google Fi here, and if you sign up today, you can get $80 off the Nexus 5X  (one of only 3 devices that supports Project Fi) through Monday.

The Project Fi  simple plan starts with the Fi Basics for $20/month. It includes unlimited domestic talk and text, unlimited international texts, Wi-Fi tethering to use your phone as a hotspot, and access cellular coverage in 120+ countries.

New glass to save your smartphone battery

Bodle Technologies is a company that has developed a ‘smart glass’ material that some see replacing the screens on phones, smartwatches and tablets in the near future.

This glass would use no power, in contrast to the current screens which take up to 90% of the device’s battery.
Electrical pulses are used to generate vibrant displays that require no power and can be viewed clearly, even in direct sunlight.

We won’t be seeing this new smartglass any time soon – a prototype is hoped to be completed next year. There is also a lot of comptetion in the field. But, it’s some nice hope for the future!

Jimmy Iovine messed up

In an interview with CBS last week Jimmy Iovine, the head of Apple music, kinda messed up. We say messed up, because he implied some things that are not very nice about women, and we say kinda, because it was probably something that was not intentionally malicious or representative of his true feelings towards the fairer sex.

Here’s what happened – Mr Iovine was with Mary J Blige to promote Apple Music, specifically Apple’s most recent Apple Music Ad featuring Ms. Blige, Taraji. P. Henson, and Kerry Washington. All good. He made these comments:

“I always knew that women, some women, at times find it very difficult to find music. And this helps make it easier with playlists, curated by real people, not by algorithms alone. I just thought of a problem: Girls are sitting around, talking about boys, right? Or complaining about boys, when they have their heart broken or whatever, and they need music for that, right? And they need music for that. So it’s hard to find the right music. Not everyone has the right list or knows a DJ.”

Hmm. I think a lot of women would find it a little demeaning to be described as sitting around talking/complainging about boys as their main occupation. A lot of women would also probably find it insulting to hear that the head of Apple Music thinks that they need a service to find music for them because it’s so difficult for them to do it themselves. Simply because they’re women.

Maybe let’s just go ahead and believe that this was Apple Music’s fault in the beginning, for trying to market the service specifically towards women, and failing, because they couldn’t figure out how and why they should be marketing it differently then to their male market. And Iovine had to stand behind that, and find some kind of explanation, and he gave a bad one.

Maybe you can try again, Apple?

Watch the video below.

New Facebook feature

Apparently everyone’s all about helping people break up this time of year.

This could be to due to the ‘turkey drop’ myth. You know, before thanksgiving, when everyone realizes that they’re going to have to spend all that quality romantic time with that special someone over the holidays… and that perhaps they’re not so keen.

More keen on being single under the work party mistletoe, right?

Well, here’s another way to ease the pain of breaking up, this time brought to you by Facebook.

Once you indicate on Facebook that you have ended a relationship, or are now ‘single’, you now have a bunch of options that will limit the posts you see of your ex. You can make it so they don’t see any of your posts, and vice versa, unless you specifically go to their page. You also have the  ability to edit your photos. Edit that crabface  out… or at least their tag.

All this without having to block or unfriend them, because you guys still want to be friends, right? Right? Guys?