April fools day Prank ideas from iPhone Antidote!

It’s almost here! The 4th most glorious day of the year that’s not a real holiday but is still an awesome day!

Tomorrow is April Fools Day!

Tomorrow also represents Apple’s 38th anniversary, with their partnership having officially been founded on this day in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. So there’s another reason to celebrate! There’s also often App and iDevice pranks that tech companies pull, so we’re looking forward to that! As long as their not lame, cos that’ll just be…lame. 

So whadda YOU gonna do for April Fools Day Pranky McPranksters? Cos we’re cool like that, here’s some ideas specifically designed for your friend’s iDevices and Macs!

* Replace the shortcuts on their iPhones to whichever words you may find hilarious. Like poo. Or Strippers.

*Flip their computer screens for some excellently frustrating bafflement! Open System Preferences, click Display while simultaneously holding down Command + Option. A new menu called Rotation should appear, and you can flip the display and save it or undo.

*Set a screenshot of their homescreen as wallpaper, and then move around the actual apps so it seems as if nothing is working when really YOU’RE CLICKING ON NOTHING, MAN! NOTHING! BAHAHAHA

*Turn your friends iPhone App icons into baby kittens! Well, not really, but it LOOKS like it, which is almost as fun. Go to www.iphoneceptions.com on their phone, and follow the instructions listed there.

*Download the Nicholas Cage chrome extension that makes every image on any website actually be a picture of Nicholas Cage. Brilliant.

Other ideas not specific to tech include:

*Hire a smoke machine, lock your room-mate in his room with the machine right next to his door at 4:35am.

*Mix Soy sauce and sprite together for a surprisingly disgusting diet coke.

*Put toothpaste in their Oreos

*Paint their soap with clear nail varnish

*Finally, our favorite, put tabasco sauce into their sleeping mouths, then give them vodka to douse their burning lips.

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Apple Fact Of The Day

Look closely next time you see an Apple Ad or press shot, and  you’ll find that the time is always set to 9:41A.M. or 9:42 A.M.

Why?

Because all Apple events start at 9 a.m.

“We design the keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation,” former Apple executive Scott Forstall has said. “When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience’s watches. But we know we won’t hit 40 minutes exactly.”

Forstall’s exacting his team chose the 42-minute mark for the launch of the first iPhone in 2007. “It turned out we were pretty accurate with that estimate, so for the iPad we made it 41 minutes,” he said.

Plus, 42 is the answer to the meaning of life, so there’s that going for them too.

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iPhone Tip Of the Day

Are you guys as obsessed with the weather as we are? It makes for killer socially awkward conversation filler! You also start to care about it waaaay more the older you get, are we right oldies?

In iOS 7, the Weather app will show your basic info for your chosen cities. DUH.

Here’s what a lot of people don’t know. Tap on the big temp number for each city, and you’ll get a breakdown showing humidity, the chance of rain, wind speed, and what the temperature actually feels like.

So much good weather stuff.

Umm. So, How ’bout this rain, huh?

Oh Wait, we actually had something real to say. Just a heads up- there is no native weather App on the iPad for iOS 7 & it’s really frustrating when you’re sure that there is.

Images courtesy of iPhonehacks & Mememage.

Google Tip Of The Day

Oh Google, you wonderful way too powerful magic machine beast you. We love/hate you, but this is pretty cool.

Search for a word followed by the word etymology and Google will give you a simple outline of the etymology of that word!

For those playing at home- etymology is the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.

Also known as something to make you seem more intelligent,which is something Google is getting quite good at. We just hope they don’t go too far, because then HOW WILL WE KNOW, GOOGLE? HOW WILL WE KNOW?

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The Real Guide to Using Siri

Hands up who uses Siri?

A lot? Sometimes? Only to see if you can get funny answers?

There are a lot people that don’t know about mysterious Miss Siri. Did you know for example that you can do this with her?

No? Here’s part one of our complete rundown on Siri – what she is, what she can do to improve your life, and the future she can bring us.

Siri is an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator. She’s basically an App, present on all Apple devices after Siri was acquired by Apple on April 28, 2010. The original application ceased to function on October 14, 2011.

She uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Web services. Apple claims that the software adapts to the user’s individual preferences over time and personalizes results.

Although a lot of people think SIRI stand for ‘Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface, the name Siri is actually Norwegian, meaning “beautiful woman who leads you to victory”. It was named after the intended name for the original developer’s first child.

Currently, Siri supports English (American, Canadian, Australian, British), French, German, Japanese, Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Spanish (Mexico, Spain), Mandarin (China, Taiwan), Korean, and Cantonese.

The original American voice was provided by Susan Bennett in July 2005. Now, in settings alongside your choice of language, you have an option of gender for Siri’s voice.

NOW, here’s the important stuff. Here’s what you can use Siri for to make your life more efficient:

SPORTS
Ask Siri for baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer scores as well as schedules, rosters, and stats.

EATING
Ask Siri to search for restaurants or bars using different criteria. Siri will give you results based on these as well as photos, reviews, and reservations.

SOCIALISING
Siri can post to Facebook for you as well as on other people’s pages.

Siri can also tweet for you.

You can also search for recent tweets. Say, ” What is person’s name/company/brand saying?”  and Siri will show you their most recent Tweets.

LAZINESS

With iOS 7, you can ask Siri to open apps. Just say something like “Play Angry Birds” or “Open iPhoto.” You can even say ‘Take a picture.’ Although Siri won’t actually take the picture for you, she’ll just open the app for you.
Use Siri to turn Bluetooth and other settings like WiFi on and off simply by saying, “Turn Bluetooth/WiFi  Off/ On.”

ORGANIZATION

Tell Siri when and where you want to be reminded of something.

Schedule meetings. Say who, what, where, and when. Siri puts it on your calendar and sends an invitation to the person you’re meeting with via email.

In fact, Siri can write and send all of your emails or text messages or even organize for you to FaceTime with someone.

Use Siri to set the Alarm Clock for you.

Lastly, for Part one of All About Siri, we give you one of our favorite Siri features: What planes are above right now?

Stay tuned for Part Two so you’ll know how to use Siri to make your life more efficient!  Until then, here’s some Siri inspired humor, just for you guys.

Images courtesy of Hapshirecatteries.co.uk, Imgur.com & iPhoneAntidote.

iPhone Tip Of The Day!

Want to know where you hang out most often cos you forgot? OR want to keep your battery charge up and how much Apple knows about you down?

We got you!

iOS 7 (On 4S and above) keeps a tab on where you hang out, cos it’s like your closest, stalkiest friend!

Go to Settings>Privacy>Location Services> System Services to see a list of where you’ve been most.

AND

Turn off the feature  in the same place if you find it less fun, more stalky.

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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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iPhone Tip of The Day! iMessage Edition

iMessage is an awesome way to send free text, photo, and video messages to friends who are using iOS 5 and above. Read receipts allow your friends to see whether you’ve viewed their message or not.

Now, we’re all good people around here, right, but sometimes there are circumstances when you don’t really want people to know if or when you read their messages.

If you don’t want your friends notified of when you have read their messages, go to Settings >Messages > Send Read Receipts > Off.

You’re welcome!

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iPhone Tip Of The Day!

Hand up who listens to music in bed at night?  Hand up who sometimes falls asleep then wakes in a heart attack of terror 2 hours later when your playlist hits onto your awesome screamer metal songs? It might not be a problem for all of us, but boy, for some of us, it can be a little…

Well now you can stop freaking out boys and girls, cos you know what? We got you! Use a timer to help you shut down the music before the heavy metal comes on.

Clock >Timer > When Timer Ends. Scroll down and tap Stop Playing. Then, set a timer (say 30 mins) and tap Start. Now you can play music as you fall asleep and it will be turned off according to the timer.

Brilliant.

Images courtesy of Lightweightfunny & Sodahead.