Fact of the day

According to a recent United Nations report, more people have mobile telephones than have access to a flushing toilet.
Six of the world’s seven billion people have mobile phones – but only 4.5 billion have a toilet, according to the report.

Unfortunately there are huge health consequences to not having access to basic sanitation such as a flush toilet, but there is also huge infrastructure and costs associated with such systems which people tend to rely on the government to provide – and that isn’t possible in some countries around the world currently.

The UN understands the gravity of such a huge problem and have launched a global campaign to improve sanitation for the 2.5 billion people whose health is at risk.

Go here to read more and find out how you can help! And if you’re reading this on your smartphone whilst engaging in some rad flush – toilet action, pat yourself on the back, you’re one of the really lucky ones.

WWDC dates announced! Details here!

Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference dates have been announced!

This year the conference will run from June 2nd through to June 4th, and developers have had the opportunity to apply for random ticket selection up until today- a different approach to other years.

Here is the run down from Apple themselves:

So, what can we expect?

You should definitely expect to hear Tim Cook making announcements regarding the iPhone 6 and iOS 8 and outlining their release dates and specs. Apple TV will most likely be getting an upgrade, however an actual Apple TV will most likely not be making an appearance.

There is a chance an iWatch will be announced, although analysts and basically everyone in the tech world go back and forth on this one. We think there is a 72.5% chance, but we’re not betting the farm.

We’ll also get pretty video’s played at 9:42 am, inspirational speeches, and special appearances by Craig Federighi and Jony Ive!

Are you excited?? Cos WE ARE!

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iPhone Tip Of The Day

Want all your friends to know where you are or where you will be because it’s either somewhere awesome (pub, beach, puppy park, Thailand) or somewhere awesomely crappy ( Dentist, Jail, Nebraska)?

In Maps, drop a pin on the location you want to share. Tap the pin and select Share, choosing fromAirDrop, Messages, Mail, Twitter, or Facebook.

For example: iPhoneAntidote is totally sipping cocktails in at the Bellagio Pool bar, celebrating our $100,000 craps win. See?

(…iPhone Antidote is really just in our house, on the computer, drinking a coke zero.)

iPhone Tip Of The Day

Today we’re learning about Passcodes! Yay!

Everyone who doesn’t use them, you get the day off! Go play! We said PLAY! 

Ok. Now for the rest of you- did you know that you can use letters for your passcode as well as numbers?

1. Go to Settings > General > Passcode.
2. Turn off the setting that says “Simple Passcode.”

3. A screen will appear asking you to change your passcode, with a full QWERTY keyboard below. The next time you unlock your phone, the keyboard will appear instead of just the number pad.

And did you know that you can ask Siri to create and provide you with a random passcode OR password?

Aaaand, that’s all we got. Thanks for coming, aren’t passcodes cool?

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iPhone Tip Of The Day

Going over your monthly data usage allowance is a giant pain in the

Here’s what you need to do, Monkey Butt! Keep a track of which apps on your iPhone are using the most data and turn them off if need be!

Head into Settings > Cellular.

Easy peasy!

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The Real Guide To using Siri Part 2

Yay! More Siri Stuff!! Welcome to Part 2 of our Real Guide To Using Siri!

Have you been waiting, shivering with anticipation about what else Siri can do to make your life more efficient?

Sweet! Now where were we? Oh yeah. 

SUNSHINE, LOLLIPOPS
Siri can give you the forecast for where you are or for anywhere you’re curious about.

INTELLIGENCE
Ask Siri almost anything from mathematics to definitions and loads of other stuff and she’ll find the answer using sources like Yelp and WolframAlpha.

Siri can figure out your Tip for you.

Siri can check the amount of calories in food for you.

LIFE, OH LIFE.

If you need to make a choice or just need a random number, you can say, “Flip a coin” or “Roll the dice” and Siri will give you heads or tails, or with dice a set of numbers.

Ask Siri how to get somewhere or how long it will take to get somewhere, and she’ll open and plot your course in Maps. Ask Siri to play a track or artist from the Music App, and she’ll do that too.

Wanna know what movies are playing? Siri knows!

Finally, you can ask Siri about what she can do.

Fewf! Now that’s a lot of time saving, life-bettering help Siri can provide you! Hope you’ve found our 2 part Siri fest useful! One last thing- you don’t need to say Siri when asking her to do something for you!

And remember, just because you find yourself speaking like a computer when you’re asking Siri to do something, doesn’t make you any less of a person. Just kinda funny to look at.

iPhone Tip Of The Day!

GUYS GUYS GUYS!!

Guess what?

You don’t have to have WiFi turned off when you’re in airplane mode!

Yeah, it automatically turns it off when you enter Airplane mode but you can turn WiFi back on afterwards!

Sweet!

iPhone Tip Of The Day! Mail Edition.

If you guys are anything like us, we’re kinda obsessed with emphatic typography.

Wait, what?

Italics, man! Underlining! Bolding! BOLDING COMBINED WITH CAPITALIZATION? OH MY.

IT’S JUST SO HANDY and cool and kinda lazy sometimes but that’s ok.

Did you know you can use this awesome stuff in Mail now?

Double-tap any word to bring up the options menu, tap the arrow, and select the B I U option to bold, italicize, or underline your text.

Sweeeeeet.

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Seven years, one week and one day ago, Steve jobs introduced us to the iPhone

And then the world changed, just a little bit.

We wanted to make the anniversary 7 years, one week and one day because, well, we’re awesome? And who are we to say that everyone has to curtail to society’s strict view on anniversary’s? Huh?

Just because the word itself means yearly. We’re making this one the anniweekidayiversary. Take that society.

Erm, anyway. 7 years 1 week and 1 day ago Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld Expo 2007 in bright and breezy San Francisco to show us what Apple had been working on.

What we saw was not what we ( for the most part)  were expecting. We had seen all the parts before- we knew iPods, we knew phones fairly well and we knew how to communicate on the internet. An amalgamation of those things, a small and sexy one at that, blew our combined socks off.

And then these guys got stuck in them!

But Mr Jobs was less concerned with the kittens stuck in our blown off socks. He was concerned with revolutionizing a bunch of different technologies at once, as you do. The iPhone sparked the beginning of a huge and fast moving change – how we use the internet in almost every aspect of our life, how we interact with people, how we use technology in occupations and education, advertising, the list goes on.

This is what Steve had to say on that day.

“Today, we’re introducing three revolutionary products. The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary mobile phone. And the third is a breakthrough Internet communications device.

So, three things: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet communications device. An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone…are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device. And we are calling it iPhone.

Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone.”

It’s amazing to us that the iPhone has only been around for 7 years ( and one week and one day).

Thanks Steve!  Everyone who’s happy about iPhones, raise a drink to Steve in the Sky tonight! (and if you accidentally drop your iPhone into said drink, you know who to call to sell your iPhone- www.iPhoneAntidote.com, duh.)

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Head of T-Mobile crashed At&T party

See this guy? This guy is John Legere, the CEO of T-Mobile. A couple of days ago he was at CES 2014, the biggest consumer electronics show in the world. Probably because he has some kind of mild interest in new technology, right? Also – apparently John Legere really likes Macklemore., because he went to see him perform while he was there, and because Macklemore is pretty rad, right?

All of this sounds realllly logical. Until you get to the part where Macklemore was actually performing at the  AT&T CES party at Rain Nightclub, which John Legere crashed, and was promptly escorted out by security because AT&T got a little upset.

CNET News Executive Editor Roger Cheng was at the party and tweeted:

“Ran into @JohnLegere at the AT&T party. Yep, he crashed it. And still wearing the pink t-mo shirt. #CES2014”

and then:

“Oh wow, security just escorted @JohnLegere out of the party. AT&T is not happy with my tweet. #ces2014”

“Some security guards escorted him out. It was crazy. ”

According to a security guard that spoke with Geek Wire AT&T staffers said that the CEO was “harassing” them.

Later on in the evening, the twitter world heard from the man himself-

” @RogerWCheng great to see you! I just love Macklemore! Very bad move by @ATT and #PalmCasino . Have a great night! I am very angry!

C’mon guys, can’t we all just get along? What would  Macklemore do? What what what whaaat what what what whaaaaat…?

Also, some friday afternoon hilarity just for you guys:

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