Play cards against humanity online!

Have you guys played Cards Against Humanity yet? If you haven’t, get on it! (but only if you’re not super politically correct?)

If you have, and you loved it, you’ll FUR REALZ welcome, as we did, the introduction of a new way to play.

Online B*itches!! Woop!

Yup, you read right, you can now play the game for horrible people online.

Here’s how: when the game was first created, it was created under a creative commons license, which meant that anyone could recreate their own copy of the game. Any spinoffs are perfectly fine as long as they’re not for profit.

Dawson Whitfield, a designer and a genius, has now turned it into an online browser based web app. You can play it on your smartphone, iPad or computer against your friends. You do however have to be in the same room, so it’s not perfect yet. Skype cards against Humanity is coming, though, we swear.

Featuring all the original cards along with the five expansion sets, all you need is for one player needs to set up a new game and then send its custom link to everyone else who wants to play.

It’s called Cards against Originality. Get on it horrible people!

Partying for St Patricks day this weekend? Read this!

Yes, St Patricks Day isn’t until next week on the 17th of March, however most people need a weekend to celebrate the day of the Irish, so festivities are kicking off tomorrow with block parties, parade’s and a very many Guinness’s drunk!

St Patricks day is synonymous with drinking of course, the color green and a good deal of ‘craic’ to be had. To start your celebrations off the right way, you should probably have a drab of some good Irish Whiskey and start calling yourself by your Leprechaun name. Obviously. You can do that with the Leprechaun Name Generator App, free from the app store.

Then, consider your options for the day. You’ve already started drinking, so you should probably look into getting that good friend of yours who owes you one on the line. If you’re in California, set them up with the California office of Traffic Safety’s DDVIP app, which lists bars that offer designated drivers free (non-alcoholic) drinks and snacks as well as connecting them to Uber, Lyft or Curb in case they cave to the devil drink!

Now that that’s sorted, get thee to a pub! Eat some cabbage, some  corned beef and some soda bread! Do a jig (or pretend to)!

Now that you’re set up with a pint or some whiskey with a crew, take this opportunity to record the events just in case your brain…forgets to do that part. Check out St. Patrick’s Day Photo Free so that you fill that photo with Irish stereotype stickers!

If you’re single, check out the Irish Proverbs app for some St Patricks Day themed pick up lines, a great way to make people Irishly happy!

Finally, a very important St Patricks day reminder: Get home safe people!! Don’t you dare drink and drive! To help you out, Uber is offering first time users $20 off with promo code RIDESPD.

And finally, if an iPhone in a Guinness accident happens, don’t worry, we got you! Send us in that beer soaked smartphone and we’ll give you straight cashmoney!

Happy Weekend before St Patricks day guys! Be safe, drink well, and may the wind always be at your back and good things in your lap… Irish, Irish, Irish, Irish …

iPhone 6S rumors already?

Yup, now that we’re over the Spring forward special media event, we now have WWDC to look forward to, and with that comes the rumors as to what actually will be revealed or announced at the annual conference. Which means, generally, a SHINY NEW IPHONE!

Yay!

We’re expecting iPhone 6S and iPhone 6 plus…S? iPhone 6S Plus? Not sure how that whole naming thing will work with the Plus, but unless Apple are upping the Ante with their iPhone release schedule, we shouldn’t expect an iPhone 7 until 2016.

If we’re looking at a ‘s’ update then we’re probably looking at incremental spec updates rather than anything astonishing design or capability wise, especially in the same year as the Apple Watch is released.

We’re probably looking at two different sized new models, just like the iPhone 6  and the iPhone 6 Plus. The bigger screens have proven successful for Apple and they should definitely be happy to continue in that direction. Although we would be very surprised to see them move any larger than the current 5.5 inches of the iPhone 6 Plus. There have been rumors of a new third size, a 4-inch iPhone to be released alongside the larger phones, to please those who are still attached to the size of the 5S.

We’ll be expecting the new iPhones to have brand spanking new A9 processors from Samsung, which will apparently be 15% smaller, 20% more powerful and 35% more power than the current A8 chips. Camera improvements are also on the cards, possibly a two lens system that would provide the iPhone with the ability to take DSLR quality photos, although this rumor is highly debated, as it would require a rather large chassis design change.

More RAM could be a possibility, going up to 2Gb from the current 1GB in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus. The Touch ID feature as well as Siri would be expected to have some improvements. There have been rumors that the new iPhone could come with the new force touch haptic feedback seen on the Apple Watch, however that is a rumor not many are clinging to.

Then there are the constant rumors that have a little less credibility – that the new iPhones will start at 32GB instead of the beginning-to-be-too-meagre 16GB, that the new iPhones will have wireless charging (we wish!) and that the new iPhones will come with a mini unicorn that will grant you 3 wishes.

That one has far less credibility. Just sayin’

The new iPhones are, of course, believed to be announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco June 8th – 12th this year, which, at time of writing is 90 days, 16 hours 51 minutes and 42 seconds away. 

Following Apple’s previous release schedule, we should be looking at a September release.  

Deals of The Week Thursday !

Hiya! Ready for some rockin’ deals? Yeah? YEAH! Here they come, slugger.

* Coming in bang on the money in first place, we have Macbooks on sale at Best Buy! Due to the new Macbook and the updated current models announced at the Special Media Event on Monday, Best Buy has dropped prices on it’s current inventory of the old models.

So!

Get a 11″ MacBook Air 128GB Model  for just $799.99.  College Student Pricing: $749.99

11″ MacBook Air 256GB Model for $999.99 / College Student Pricing: $949.99

13″ MacBook Air 128GB Model for $799.99 / College Student Pricing: $749.99

13″ MacBook Air 256GB Model for $1099.99 / College Student Pricing: $1049.99

13″ MacBook Pro with Retina 128GB Model for $1149.99 / College Student Pricing: $1099.99

13″ MacBook Pro with Retina 256GB Model for $1349.99 / College Student Pricing: $1299.99

13″ MacBook Pro with Retina 512GB Model for $1649.99 / College Student Pricing: $1599.99

You can pick these deals up online WITH free shipping, however, if you want to get an even better deal, combine the sale with a Best Buy Movers Coupon (Available from your post office)  and purchase in store for another 10% off. Wowza.

* Get a $100 Staples Gift Card (Email Delivery)  for just $85 clams! Check it out at eBay now! 

*On Nintendo’s online store they have a refurbished Wii U with Nintendo Land and Super Mario 3D World for $225. Limited stock available so get in quick!

*Into cooking? Know that sous vide is a super fancy cooking method? You might be interested in getting an Anova Precision Cooker (Sous Vide) for just $154, down from $179 after you enter promo code SPRING25 with Free Shipping!

*Get the Transformers movie for free on Google Play! Note: You must be logged into your Google account to get this deal.

*Grab yourself a Bluetooth Selfie Button for just $7.99 from Groupon!!

* Got an old console hanging around? Wanna upgrade? Don’t leave your stinky electronics hanging around! GameStop is offering an extra 50% Trade-In Credits when you trade in a console INCLUDING the PlayStation 2! Deal is on until March 15th.

*forget about your 60-inch TV, live it up this summer with a Pyle LED Home Theater Projector with up to 140″ Viewing Screen, Built-In Speakers, and USB Reader. From Groupon!

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Get a 3 Month Google Play Music Subscription for just $3. This deal is for new subscribers only and after the 3 months is up you can either cancel or continue subscribing for the regular price of $9.99 a month.

Happy wheeling and dealing guys!

Tech Of the Day!

Our tech of the day is something that has seemed like a long time coming. Food wastage is not only an extremely serious problem in our world, where there are so many people without, but definitely also a first world problem when you go to the supermarket hungry, after pay day, after watching a cooking show, and go ahead and buy all kinds of fancy Salmon and beef cheeks and scallops and prawns and pork belly.

Then you get home, and realize that you forgot that you work and have family and stuff and you don’t really have time to cook all of that before it goes bad, but you still have hope so you don’t freeze it and then it’s a couple of days past the sell by date and you smell it but you don’t trust your nose so you throw it out.

Bad.

Food wastage is bad. Food poisioning  is also, pretty bad.

But hooray! This product is here to solve both! Introducing the Foodsniffer. 

This new tech product helps you figure out the quality of meat, poultry and fish, and their suitability to eat.

How?  Well, the product has four different sensors that measure temperature, humidity, ammonia and VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds) all of which point towards the freshness of the meat in question.

Point the product towards the meat, and it will send all the data it measures via bluetooth to your smartphone or tablet, where it will show you the results in detail, as well as a recommendation regarding the safety of the meat.

You can pre-order the Foodsniffer now for $120 in three different colors. Check it out here for yourself. 

See all of Apple’s new ads and videos!

Missed the Apple Special Media Event yesterday? Want to look at some pretty pictures, hear Jony Ive speak and find out a bit more about the Apple Watch, the new Macbook, and Research kit?

We got you !

Check out the following Ads and videos from yesterdays event below. And don’t worry, these aren’t the make-you-cry type Apple videos, so enjoy!

The Apple Watch Ad –

The Apple Watch – Aluminum

The Apple Watch – Steel

The Apple Watch – Gold

The Apple Watch with Christy Turlington-Burns

ResearchKit – how iPhone is transforming medical research

The new Macbook!

If you want to watch the whole keynote, check it out here. 

Get the lowdown on the Apple Special Media Event!

Today, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Apple held a Special Media Event. The event was thought to largely focus on the imminent release of the Apple Watch, which it did, and announce a new Macbook, which it did. A really, really nice looking new Macbook.

Rumors had them announcing the rebranded Beats Music, which did not happen, but what did happen was the announcement of an Apple Supported HBO streaming service (with an exclusive viewing of a new Game Of Thrones Trailer) and the announcement of Apple’s entry into the Medical research field.

Say what?

You read right – Apple has partnered with a bunch of medical research firms and universities such as Stanford and Oxford to come up with a way that medical research scientists can collect medical data from the millions of iPhone users around the world, creating a much more quantitative, objective and communication-centric way to look at health, disease progression and giving a stronger more effective way of treating and curing diseases and conditions such as Asthma, Cardiovascular disease, and Diabetes.

Very exciting stuff. Before we get too far into that, let’s start off with some more of the lighter features in the event. We’ll be splitting this report into 3 parts, because it’s a lot of information, and…  it’s Monday. We got you!

Tim Cook started off, as he most always does, with giving us some stats about how awesome Apple it is. Here’s a shortened version:

*Apple opened 6 retail stores in China in the past 6 Weeks, making that a total of 21 stores overall so far,  and 453 stores in 16 countries around the world.

*120 million million retail customers in the last quarter

*25 million Apple TV’s sold so far

*700 millionth iPhone recently sold

*99% satisfaction score for customers owning an iPhone 6 or an iPhone 6 Plus.

*Apple Pay has grown massively since it’s launch with a lot more retailers accepting Apple Pay and thousands more banks supporting the payment system

Next,  Tim Cook brings on stage the CEO of HBO, Richard Pepler, to announce a new streaming service HBO Now – initially only available on Apple devices, called HBO Live. Giving you access to the entire HBO catalog. You can access the new service on it’s own dedicated Apple TV channel, or on any Apple Device. The service will begin early April ( in time for the new Game Of Thrones Premier on April 12th) for $14.99 a month, and you’ll get the first month free.

Mr Pepler also debuted an exclusive new trailer of the next Game of Thrones season which you can watch here. 

The next announcements were simple and welcome one – Apple TV is going down in price from $99 to $69, sweet, and every major car brand has committed to delivering Carplay, with more than 40 new models of cars shipping by end of 2015.

Now on to the interesting stuff.  Medical research. Up until now scientists had to rely on relatively small sample sizes and subjective data when it came to research. Apple is making it possible to change that, creating an software developer kit called Research Kit, which will be open source (!), allowing developers to create interactive apps that will make it possible to collect substantive and important data on our health, gauge the effects of disease degeneration and turn our iPhones into diagnostic tools.

The first five apps, released today, are ‘mPower’ for Parkinson’s, ‘Diabetes GlucoSucess’,  ‘MyHeart’ for Cardiovascular disease,  ‘Asthma Health’,  and ‘Breast Cancer – Share the Journey’. 

An important detail to note here – you choose what you participate in, and Apple will never see any of the data. An exciting idea created by Apple here, full of potential to help a lot of people. As long as they can make sure to keep all of the Data out of evil genius bad guys hands, this gets a huge thumbs up from iPhone Antidote.

Next – Part 2. The new Macbook. Ooooh, aaaaaah.

Apple Special Media Event Part 2 – The new MacBook

Today, Tim Cook announced a new Macbook, and it is very, very shiny and pretty and new.

What, you wanted more information? Okay, okay. Here’s what you can expect from the new member of the Apple Family.

* It weight 2 Pounds. That’s less than a 1 liter bottle of soda pop. It’s lighter than our iPhone Antidote Guinea Pig, Papa Nu.  It’s really light.

* It’s the thinnest Macbook, coming in at a anorexic 13.1 mm thick, 24% thinner than the previous skinny-minny, the 11-inch Macbook Air.

*The enclosure is, for the first time, all metal.

* The keyboard is full size, and is actually an entirely new keyboard, with  a butterfly mechanism instead of the usual scissor mechanism, making it 4 times more stable than before. The keys are 40% thinner and 17% larger, and now come with an LED light each. The new Keyboard and the new track pad (see below) apparently will take some getting used to.

* The trackpad has also been redesigned, with 4 force sensors and a new ‘force’ click with a range of different applications, from bringing up the Wiki page for a word you force click, to opening up the calendar for force clicking a date in a message.

*It comes with a new 12-inch edge to edge Retina, 2,304 by 1,440 pixel resolution display that uses 30% less energy.

*It’s the first fanless Macbook. It wasn’t actually explained how the new macbook will keep itself from overheating, but we assume (hope) that detail will be forthcoming.

*The logic board is super tiny, coming in at 67% smaller than previous logic boards.

*They will have the new intel core M with 1.3 ghz and turbo to 2.9 ghz

* The Battery life has improved, thanks to terraced battery contours helping you to get all day battery life.

* The new Macbook will be almost entirely cable-less, with one port to RULE THEM ALL. Or, just one port, really, for Power, USB and video output. The USB cable/port is a new industry standard that we will see more and more of, called USB-C.

Cool, but definitely something that will get some users fired up, as to gain USB compatibility you will need to use an USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adaptor with included HDMI, USB 3.1, and USB-C inputs located on the device. This adaptor, currently unavailable, will come in at a rather large $79 clams.

* The Macbook is the most environmentally friendly and the most efficient Macbook.

* They will come in Silver, Space gray, and Gold option. Is the Gold option a little too flashy? We think maaaaybe. Time will tell. They will come with 8GB memory, and 256 GB storage space.

* Shipping  April 10th, you’re looking at $1299 big ones, or if you have a couple more big ones handy, there’s also a slightly more powerful model for $1,599 with a 1.2GHz processor and 512GB storage space.

See what we mean? Apart from needing another adaptor Apple, this new Macbook sounds like a definite step forward in notebook technology.

Next: Part 3 – Apple Watch in all it’s shiny detail!

Apple Special Media Event Part 3 – Apple Watch

A lot of what we heard today about the Apple watch was just a reiteration of what we’ve heard since the product was announced last year, a practice in upping the anticipation for it’s imminent release. How it’s the most personal Apple product ever, the tech that will become integral in your day to day life, from improving your health to being a full on iPhone impersonator sitting pretty on your wrist.

You will be able to use it for phone calls, look at your photos, use Siri, get and reply to notifications, emails, social media, track your health data, play music, make calendar appointments, use Apple Pay, get an Uber, unlock your hotel room at SPG hotels, open your garage door, etc. All very exciting things. That we already kind of knew. Nice to get a reminder, though, right?

So what new information did we get?

We learnt that Christy Turlington Burns is basically superwoman, and that’s why she was chosen to test out the Apple Watch in a half marathon in Africa, and a full marathon coming up in London. She loved the Apple Watch ( uh, d’uh) and she spoke about the Charity she founded,  ‘Every Mother Counts’,  which aims to improve maternal Health and prevent childbirth and pregnancy related fatalities around the world.

You should definitely check it out. 

Back to the watch! It will have… drum roll please… 18 hours battery life! Yay! Pretty good, Apple, pretty good.

The Apple Watch will come in three collections. Apple Watch sport,  the Stainless Steel Apple Watch and the Apple Watch Edition.

Apple Watch Sport is crafted from Aluminum and will cost you $349 clams for the 38mm model, and $399 clams for the 42mm model.

The Stainless Steel Apple Watch will start at $549 and top out at $1099, depending on the band and buckle combination you choose.

The Apple Watch Edition is crafted out of 18 Karat solid yellow or rose gold and will start at $10,000 and top out at $17,000. Yowza. This model is also limited. Because that’s how you know you’re fancy, if not very many other people have the same fancy thing.

Bands will retail for between $49 and $449, with additional magnetic chargers costing $29 for a 1-meter cable and $39 for a 2-meter cable. A new bands and accessories page on the Apple Online Store lists all of the available add-ons for Apple Watch.

Pre-order starts on April 10th, and you can also go into an Apple Store from that day to try it out. The Watch will be officially released on April 24th, in United States, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and United Kingdom. Apple Watch will be available for purchase by reservation at Apple Stores, online and at select authorized resellers in China and Japan. 

And that’s a wrap! What an exciting morning. We’re ready for a nap.

Apple Special Media Event

Did you catch the Apple Special media Event today? It just finished up, beginning at 10:00 AM P.S.T this morning at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

The event, hosted by CEO Tim Cook and featuring guest speakers from both within and outside of Apple touched on details of the upcoming Apple Watch, a new Macbook, as well as a couple of other well kept secret surprises such as a new HBO streaming service and Apple’s movement into the medical research field.

We’ll be releasing a detailed rundown of all the relevant information from the event shortly, and you can head on over to the Apple Website to take a look at a replay of the Keynote yourself, also available shortly.