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?
Sadface.
Adele is NOT sating Hello to Apple Music ( see what we did there) by not allowing her new and much anticipated album ’25’ to be streamed on the subscription music service. Bummer hummer.
It’s not all bad for Apple, however, with the album not appearing on any music streaming service at all. Adele is old school, y’all.
The album is out today! Go buy it? Or whatever you’re supposed to do? We forget. Just Kidding. Kind of.
Adele actually asked Apple to put the album in their retail stores, to which Apple said … “uh, no. We have this streaming service maybe you’d like to use?”
You’re still able to buy the album through iTunes, though.
Target has a pretty awesome deal on right now – trade in a Xbox 360 and you will get a $100 gift card with the purchase of a Xbox one.
Additionally, Target is offering a free game with the purchase of a xbox one (excludes battlefront, rock band 4, guitar hero live and fallout 4)
To get this deal, make sure you local store accepts trade ins, because not all of them do. To find a store that does, check out this link here. This deal is awesome – but if you’re thinking of trading anything else in, like, say, an iPhone, remember, we pay more and Target will only pay in a Target Gift Card.
Sell your iPhone here! But probably get an Xbox first, cos this is a good deal that will run out, and we always give you a good deal !
This weekend is a great Xbox weekend, we feel it in our bones.
Our tech service of the week comes right at the…right time? No, it’s not a Happy Holidays App, although maybe some people might think of it that way?
It’s called The Breakup Shop and it will break up with your partner for you. For cash, obviously. You can pay between $10-$40 depending on the service, be it text, email, phone or handwritten letter. The breakup content is either written by you or provided.
Once the company has broken up with your partner for you, they offer said partner the opportunity to buy from their gift shop – items like Netflix Gift Cards, or chocolate.
Apparently it’s a way of stopping the ever prevalent ‘ghosting’ technique that recent generations have become used to. You know, when people you’re dating disappear. But really, don’t ghosts appear? Isn’t that their thing? Like, why they’re scary?
Sorry. Got sidetracked. Ghosts are scary. BUT ghosting is a way to get out of a relationship or a courtship by pretending the other person doesn’t exist anymore. Aziz Ansari talks about it a lot and it’s funny, but in real life, it’s douchey*.
So, these guys figure that instead of being a douche, just let them break up with your person instead! Less douchey? The jury’s out.
If you want to try it out, go here! They’re also hiring heartbreakers! Let us know how it goes! Unless… are you breaking up with us?
* Is it just us or does the word douchey when written sound like douch-AY in your head too?
Are you looking for a new no contract phone plan? How about a new one that’s mostly free?
Check this out. RingPlus has a today only offer for the Leonardo 3 Free Plan.
That’s 1200 Minutes per Month
1,200 Texts per Month
1,200MB LTE per Month
Tethering Included
All for – $0 per month
The reason why we say it’s mostly free is because a ‘$12 Top Up is required during sign up to cover usage overages and other charges (e.g., using more than the 1,200 minutes or changing phone numbers). If, and only if, the Top-Up balance reaches $0, another $12 auto Top Up will be automatically charged to the credit card on file.’
You can bring your own Sprint device, or by a phone through Ringplus (before the deal expires).
Check out the details here. Quicksticks!
Republican candidate Donald Trump is an avid Tweeter – and this past weekend he used his Tweet powers to get in a Twitterfight with none other than our favorite non-carrier, T-Mobile CEO John Legere. And this is not for the first time.
Last Spring, Legere booked himself into the very nice Trump Hotel in New York, BUT complained of noise and that the hotel wouldn’t allow him to switch rooms. On Twitter.
Trump was not a fan – “T-Mobile service is terrible! Why can’t you do something to improve it for your customers. I don’t want it in my buildings.”
Legere promptly checked out of the Trump hotel.
Now, they’re back at it. Because they have so much free time?
It all started with Ronda Rousey’s painful defeat in the ring over the weekend.Trump is apparently not a fan of her either. –
And then, of course, it continued. Here it is in it’s full glory.
And there you have it Ladies and Gents – two of the richest men in America, one a top CEO, and one a presidential candidate. We think we need a lie down.
According to those in the know, Twitter is testing expanding the ‘like’ or heart button into multiple emoji reactions, similar to how Facebook is currently rolling out Facebook Reactions – buttons other than ‘like’.
This is in line with a growing number of people who have a difficult time pressing ‘like’ when a friend or fellow Twitter-er puts something out into the social media world that is not necessarily happy.
The rumor is that the heart option on twitter will be reinvented to include a pop up menu that shows a bunch of emoji’s showing an array of emotions.
Twitter has so far not commented on this, but we for one think it is a GREAT idea.
Every year the folks over at the Oxford dictionary pick a word that best reflects the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of said year.
This year? The news might be a little uncomfortable – are you ready? The Oxford Dictionary Word of the year is -the “Face With Tears of Joy” emoji. It is the most used emoji globally of 2015. Some would argue that this does not actually make it count as a word, but hey, we’re progressive world, are we not?
You can check out the reasons behind the choice on the Oxford Dictionary blog here.
Oxford is currently polling readers on its blog about what word they’d chose as Word of the Year. As of the time of writing, “They” is winning with 21%, followed by the ‘Face With Tears Of Joy’ emoji at 20%, followed closely behind with “refugee” at 19%.
Here is the list of the Oxford Dictionary words of the year up to today.
It’s that time of year again! Folks – Christmas time is almost upon us.
To help you prepare, Apple has a new page on their website with a truckload of gift suggestions for the Apple loving people in your life. We’ll be putting out our own awesome iPhone Antidote Tech Gift Guide shortly, but until then you might want to have a peruse through the Apple gifts and tech accessories Apple suggests for Xmas happiness.
You can pick through categories like travel, learning, photography, fitness and music.
Happy browsing!
Have you ever wondered what the very first transaction to be completed over the internet was? Let’s have a few guesses – Was it a computer and pleasantly ironic? Was it diamonds? A big old rusty boat? Camera equipment? Dirty magazines?
Nope, guess again. Well, no, you don’t have to, because we’re about to tell you. It was weed. It was definitely marijuana.
Straight from the sauce – John Markoff ‘s 2005 book ‘What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry’:
“In 1971 or 1972, Stanford students using Arpanet accounts at Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory engaged in a commercial transaction with their counterparts at Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Before Amazon, before eBay, the seminal act of e-commerce was a drug deal. The students used the network to quietly arrange the sale of an undetermined amount of marijuana.”
Go technology! Gettin’ people high since 1971.
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November 20, 2015 12:44 pm | 
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