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A Date with the iPhone 4S’s Siri
The biggest new feature of the brand-new iPhone 4S is, without a doubt, Siri. Siri, you see, is like your personal assistant, only better, because you can carry her around in your pocket. You can ask her to call people and she’ll do it; texting, ditto; if you need directions, she can do that; hell, just about anything you need, she can find a solution for you. In fact, you can carry out whole conversations with Siri.
This got me thinking. Whole conversations? What would Siri be like in a place where questions and answers really matter? Like, say… on a date?
So I did just that. I dressed Siri up and I took her out to her favorite restaurant, and we attempted to get to know each other a little better. How did it go? Well… More »
Rachael Yamagata Shot Her New Album Cover on an iPhone
Y’all, I have a confession: I’ve got a big old lady crush on singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata. Like a serious one. I took her photo to my hairstylist once and was like, “This, please!” It looked terrible! Sigh. Anyway, Rachael’s got a new record coming out in October, and she just released the cover art, which was shot on the iPhone app Camera+. More »
Art Crush: David Byrne’s Fake iPhone Apps
Talking Heads founder David Byrne is perpetually up to something cool. If he’s not singing backing vocals on Arcade Fire records or writing his New York Times column about cycling (seriously), he’s creating wry and topical art. His latest offering is this series of fake iPhone apps which will be seen in a group show called “Social Media” alongside works by artists including Miranda July and Christopher Baker.
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Gallery: The Most Fitting Sabotaged iPhone Self-Portraits
Hey you — yeah, you, the girl posting photos taken in the mirror with your iPhone. Beware how public you make your “candid” Facebook self-portraits, because Slacktory may choose you to add to their hall of fame, where they Photoshop in a NSFW accessory like a douche or a dead baby. Now that we’ve given you fair warning, laugh at the people who were unable to avoid this embarrassing fate — especially because the objects that Slacktory has chosen are so wrong they’re just right for the people who snapped the photos. More »
The Daily WTF: This iPhone Case Is Your Boyfriend’s New Girlfriend
“The iBoobies is both an iPhone case and an iPhone stand.” Great! I already have both of those things and neither needs to be taken in for a yearly mammogram. Are you guys aroused right now? I bet you guys are totally around right now. More »
Your iPhone Knows Where You’ve Been
iPhone users: Did you know that your phone has been tracking everywhere you’ve been since June of 2010? Because it has. And it wants everyone to know it.
The Guardian reports that every detail about your phone’s movement is saved in a secret file on the phone itself;then, once you’ve synchronized your phone with your computer, the file is copied over to your hard drive as well. The coordinates are recorded in the form of latitude and longitude, and there’s a timestamp to go along with them– so not only does your phone know where you’ve been, it knows exactly when you were there. This is weird enough on its own, but you know what makes it even weirder? If your phone or your computer are stolen, the thief could hypothetically unearth this information quite easily. More »
Gallery: 11 Smartphone Apps That Let You Exercise God-Like Powers
Let’s face it: Smartphones are terrifying. I mean, they do all of these things for us, they ask for nothing in return, and yet we blithely hand over our lives to them fully knowing that one day they could possibly become self-aware like Skynet and take over the world? What is WRONG with us? Oh, wait, I know: Smartphones also give us the illusion that we are more powerful than we actually are. This must be why there are so many apps out that there let us experience the power usually only available to gods. Feel like trying it yourself? Here are the best apps to play god with, both in real life and in games, on the market: More »
The Daily WTF: Sardine Can Kardashians
This is an image of Perez Hilton looking inside a tin can that holds tiny Kardashians with mermaid tails. It’s part of an iPhone app that evidently contains a whole bunch of photographs of celebrities dressed as first-act Ariels. Not quite as interactive as Angry Birds, but we suppose you can poke and prod them on your screen all you want. More »
Congrats To Verna, The Winner Of Our iPhone 4 Giveaway
This month we were super excited to offer Crushable readers a chance to win an iPhone 4, courtesy of amazing music app Moodagent, which selects songs from your music library based on your mood. We were blown away by how many readers took the time to tell us what song they always go to when they want to cheer up (check them all out on our Facebook page).
And today, we’re proud to announce the winner: Verna Chen from Austin, Texas. More »
Don’t Forget To Enter Our iPhone4 Giveaway, Become Our Facebook Fan
Don’t forget to get in on our awesome giveaway offer — exclusively for our Facebook fans — before it’s too late. We’ve gotten our hands on an iPhone4 thanks to innovative music app Moodagent, and one fan of Crushable on Facebook will win it plus a special code to download Moodagent on their new phone. More »
Become Our Facebook Fan, Enter To Win An iPhone
It’s just a few days into the New Year and we already have an awesome giveaway offer — exclusively for our Facebook fans. We’ve gotten our hands on an iPhone4 thanks to innovative music app Moodagent, and one fan of Crushable on Facebook will win it plus a special code to download Moodagent on their new phone. More »
A Guide To Miley Cyrus’ Provocative Pictures
Rumors of naked photos of Miley Cyrus are circulating around the Internet again, and not the classy, Annie Leibovitz kind. More »
The Daily WTF: iSwarovski Crystals
Ah yes, this reminds us of our favorite old idiom, “Don’t judge an iPad by its cover, unless its cover is actually 12,000 Swarovski crystals, in which case it is most certainly owned by a lunatic.” Korean company Crystograph is selling these crystal-covered Apple gadgets. The iPad comes in both crystal and black diamond versions, while the only iPhone option is the jeweled version seen above. More »
We feel old and useless. Again. 17-year-old Fei Lam has earned $130,000 over the last few months, by making and selling white iPhone 4 covers to obsessive Apple fan boys who don’t have the patience to wait for Apple to release them. (brandflakes)
The 10 most hilarious text mistakes from Damn You Auto Correct! – Banging under the stars, penis butter flavored cake and Viagra; iPhone autocorrect is the worst. But actually we mean the best. (Urlesque)
Video: Dude Proposes To His Girlfriend With An IPhone Ad Parody
This is really sweet! Some guy wrote a song about how he’s, like, totally addicted to his girlfriend, then created a mock iPhone commercial that ended with a proposal. He surprised his lady by getting his local movie theater to play the vid before the trailers – cute!
(She said yes via a PC ad parody video. Match made in Heaven.) More »
Fatbooth: The iPhone App to Make You Hate Yourself - Ever wanted to see what your face would look like with an extra 200 pounds added to it? We certainly didn’t, but if you want to plunk down 99 cents to lower your self-esteem, definitely try out FatBooth. (iTunes)
The Daily WTF: The iFood 4
Not feeling fancy enough that you’ve got yourself a flashy iPhone? Make people even more envious of your high tech tool with a fried egg and bacon or some rice as a case. Or just make yourself hungry! These are real and for purchase, BTW.
Wonder how the spotty iPhone reception is when you’ve got a serving of rice attached to the back.
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Download The iPhone App To Make Your Keyboard Into Wingdings
Have you ever been like “Wow, I really love my new iPhone with all its amazing features and toys, I just wish there was a way to convey the skull-and-crossbones international symbol for ‘poison’ without having to spend precious minutes typing that word out on my texts?” Thank goodness some genius programmer has created the Glyphboard app for download, so you don’t waste a moment telling someone to not eat that rat poison…. More »
Video: Adam Scott and Brittany Snow Talk iPhones
Remember that fake iPhone commercial with Jane Lynch that was circulating a little while back? Now her former Party Down co-star Adam Scott is starring in a similar parody about the new iPhone 4, which makes us believe that all the cast-members from that show still hang out together and give each other pro-tips on being awesome. And then pass them along to other costars: Adam Scott was in The Vicious Kind with Brittany Snow earlier this year, and she… More »