The best Apps for iOS in 2014

The list of 2014’s most popular apps has been released by Apple! Usually a pretty solid indication of the functionality or enjoyability of an app, it’s a quick and handy way to see if there was anything you missed this year that could help you start off your 2015 right.

Here’s we go –

Best of Free Apps for iPhone

1. Facebook Messenger
2. Snapchat
3. YouTube
4. Facebook
5. Instagram
6. Pandora Radio
7. Google Maps
8. Flipagram
9. Spotify Music
10. 2048

Best Paid Apps for iPhone.

1. Heads Up!
2. Minecraft – Pocket Edition
3. Afterlight
4. Plague Inc.
5. Sleep Cycle alarm clock
6. Facetune
7. Cut the Rope 2
8. Bloons TD 5
9. A Dark Room
10. 7 Minute Workout Challenge

Best Paid Apps for iPad

1. Minecraft – Pocket Edition
2. Cut the Rope 2
3. Heads Up!
4. The Room Two
5. Survivalcraft
6. Notability
7. Terraria
8. Plants vs. Zombies HD
9. Hide N Seek : Mini Game With Worldwide Multiplayer
10. Card Wars – Adventure Time

Best Free Apps for iPad

1. YouTube
2. Netflix
3. Calculator for iPad Free
4. Skype for iPad
5. Microsoft Word
6. Facebook Messenger
7. Facebook
8. Candy Crush Saga
9. Chrome
10. Clash of Clans

Apple has also just released a Tumblr page for the best of iTunes in 2014, featuring the highlights in movies, music, books and and TV.

Check it out here! 

Facebook launches new app with all our favorite friends

Who are all our favorite friends? Well, these guys are, dummy:

The weird gorilla guy, the other weird gorilla guy, as well as the cactus and the rabbit and all the rest of them that are becoming so popular to use within the Facebook messenger app. Well, now, as you can see above, you can doso much more with these little dudes!

It’s a new App just released by Facebook called Stickered which allows you to add these stickers onto photos from your camera roll, or take photos with them already on the live camera view. You then can save them to your camera roll or send them to all your friends who then think that you’re hilarious and awesome. Until you do it too much, and then they think you’re stupid and annoying. So don’t do that, k?

You can download Stickered for free now on the App Store.

Happy Holidays!

The iPhone Antidote family would like to wish all of our wonderful customers and blog readers a wonderful and merry Christmas.

The blog will be taking a 2-day hiatus – don’t miss us too much- we’ll be back right after! (A little fatter, and a little bit sore in our smiling muscles.)

We sincerely hope that your Holidays are full of family and love and smiling and some sneaky eggnog and mistletoe!

Peace x

Google’s year in search 2014. Yup, it’ll make you cry.

So, following on from yesterday where we showed you Apple’s tear-jerker Holiday Ad, here is Google’s end of 2014 tear-jerker ad.

It’s all about searching. Uh….d’uh. But they make the art of search beautiful, and somehow like you’re proud to be a human?

Here’s Google’s Year in Search 2014.  Humans can be awesome.

Happy holidays.

Christmas App Guide!

It’s CHRISTMAS! iPhone Antidote LOVES Christmas.

And we love spreading all the joy and love and good feelings that abound around about now. Following is the best Christmas Apps so you can do just that! Also, the best Apps for Christmas shopping, countdowns, recipe’s and all things Christmas!

Enjoy!

For Christmas shopping :

Get the Gift Suggester – Gift Ideas for Every Occasion

Have no idea what to get anyone? Starting to freak out? Get this app! Free from the App Store.

RetailMeNot Coupons

The RetailmeNot App scours the web for deals and coupons for all kinds of shopping! Check it to see if you can get the perfect gift for a better price!

Free From the App Store.

For on-the-go shopping, check out: Amazon for iOS, Target for iPhone, Disney Store for iPhone, Staples for iPhone, eBay for iOS and Groupon for iOS.

The Christmas List

This is the all -time best Christmas shopping list app! Add pics of all the lucky family and friends you’re planning on buying gifts for, track your budgeting for gifts, keep a record of items you think people might like and which store it’s in, make sure you know all of your secret present hiding places, what’s been wrapped AND it comes with an app-specific passcode so no prying eyes can peek into your personal present guide.$1.99 from the App Store.

To get all of your Christmas shopping deliveries organized,  take a look at the Deliveries App. It tracks all of your deliveries, updating you with the status of your shipments. You can also use this to track Christmas gifts you’re sending to friends and family, making sure they arrive on time.

$4.99 for iPhone & iPad
$4.99 for Mac

Singing is an awesome part of Christmas. If you love singing carols loudly, off or on key ( doesn’t really matter, does it? Unless you’re Mariah Carey or that girl from Love Actually) then this App is for you! Sing Along Christmas Carols Free

Free from the App store

An old favorite, it’s time to get it back out so you can giggle ridiculously over you and your friends dancing as elves. It’s gotta be a christmas tradition by now, right?

Free from the App Store. 

NORAD Tracks Santa

The NORAD Tracks Santa App is the official mobile app of the NORAD Tracks Santa program. Watch the days countdown to Santa’s flight, follow Santa’s progress on December 24, play “Thin Ice” to help Santa’s elves deliver presents, and learn about NORAD and its mission. Free from the App Store.

Foodie Recipes

One of the best Apps for recipes period, Foodie recipes will give you tons of ideas for holiday cooking, including deserts, hors d’oeuvres, and the big feast itself. Do yourself a favor and download it now! Free from the App Store.

Although not starting until after Christmas on the 26th December, Apple’s iTunes 12 Days Of Christmas is another app to look out for, as Apple will be giving away one free App every day until the 6th January! The App isn’t available to download yet, but should be any minute now!

That’s our best Christmas App recommendations! Tra la la la! We hope you find some of them useful, and if you have any of your own app recommendations, please let us know!

We hope you’re enjoying this special time of year. Now, put on some Christmas music, take a big sip of eggnog, throw some tinsel around, hug some people, and keep an eye out for the iPhone Antidote Christmas Gift Guide – coming very soon!

New 4 inch iPhone model next year?

After upsizing their iPhone models this year to 4.7 inch and 5.5 Inch with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, there are rumors skittering about that next year Apple may be introducing a new smaller iPhone model.

This new model would be 4 inches, which is the size of the 5S and would bring back the one hand ease that some feel they have lost with the larger models. The expected release would be alongside the larger models in the third quarter.

It’s expected that Apple will continue with updates to both of the larger models next year as the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have both had great sales. The rumors of the 3rd smaller model may not be amount to anything, but it might make sense for them to still make updates to the smaller model iPhone to cater to that portion of the smartphone market.

App Of The Day!

Guess what? It’s the holidays! That means Christmas Parties, cheap booze gift packs, eggnog, aaaand hangovers.

Yeah, sorry bout that, but unless you’re a teetotaler, there’s a good chance you will experience at least one hangover this Holiday Season.  So here’s what we’ve got for you today: BrainWave Hangover Relief

Developed by Banzai Labs, this app aims to relieve symptoms of your hangover (Headache, nausea, general discomfort) by synchronizing your brainwaves to low frequency alpha and theta waves.  Fancy.

Hangover relief is a kind of Holy Grail at this point (the only for sure certain way to avoid them is to stop drinking, d’oh), however the search for a cure is still a worthwhile journey to undertake!

If this app doesn’t work for you, we also suggest eating a banana, taking a shot, and dancing. If you can’t quite handle that, we’ve found that even attempting to dance helps. Also: watching other people dance.

The App has to be used with headphones and it’s $0.99 from the App store.

Cheers & Happy Weekend!

Deals Of The Week Wednesday!

Deals, had enough of them yet? No? Well, it’s Wednesday, so you’re in luck! Here’s what we have for you the week after Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

*Get the Amazon Fire Phone (unlocked!) for AT&T and T-mobile WITH 1 year of Amazon Prime for just $199. Excellent deal.

* Looking to switch carriers? From this Friday, Sprint is offering defectors a pretty great deal –  bring a current AT&T or Verizon bill to a Sprint store, they’ll set up a new plan for you that is HALF of the service portion of that bill (the cost of calls, texting and data). In order to be eligible for the deal however, you’ll need to buy an unsubsidized device, either up front, through installments or using one of Sprint’s new leasing plans.

* It’s cold outside! Get some Aduro Touchscreen Winter Gloves; One or Two Pairs from $5.99–$9.99 from Groupon.

*Also from Aduro & Groupon, Get fancy with a  3-Piece Camera Lens Kit for your iPhone for only $9.99

* We found a pretty good deal on a Sony 40″ 1080p LED LCD HDTV for only $348 plus free shipping from Walmart.

*Get a Monster ClarityHD Bluetooth Speaker (refurbished) for $29.50 with free shipping from eBay.

*Planning on shopping at Amazon for Christmas gifts? Amazon will now donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to a charity of your choice when you shop at AmazonSmile. 

And there you have it! Happy Deals Wednesday!

New Apple Ad

There was  new Apple Ad released last week focusing on the ability to send audio messages over iMessage in iOS 8. Have you guys tried it yet? It’s pretty rad. You should probably try it. Perhaps this humorous Apple Ad will convince you.

New Steve Jobs film updates!

Sony Pictures has dropped the upcoming Aaron Sorkin penned Steve Jobs biopic while the movie is still in pre-production, BUT it has just been picked up by another big player – Universal.

The movie is still in the middle of casting, with names such as Christian Bale previously being thrown around before it was confirmed that the man himself, Steve Jobs, will be played by Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen will play Steve Wozniak, with Jessica Chastain also attached. Currently, Natalie Portman is also rumored to be taking a part.

Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) will be at the helm directing and the film will focus on three distinct events in Apple’s history, based on Walter Isaacson’s biography and with the consulting help of Steve Wozniak himself.

There was no insight as to why Sony dropped the film, however those in the know advise that this swap of studios will not hinder the production from following the path it was already set on by the creative heads of the film.

There is no public production or release date as of yet.