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Fast Fives Video Game: High Five Here, Fist Bump There

By Hazel Chua on 01/22/15 • Leave a comment!

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Looking for a game to wean you off Flappy Bird? Then you should definitely check out Fast Fives. It’s a game that tests your hand-eye coordination in the silliest way possible. Basically, you give the virtual hands on the screen high fives (and low fives and side fives) as well as fist bumps if the virtual fists call for it.

You’ll have to avoid blades, hot dogs, chicks, fish, and the occasional foot along the way, and the hands appear (and disappear) faster as the game progresses. You can give it a go here.

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Breathometer Mint Lets You Know When You’ve Got Bad Breath

By Hazel Chua on 01/20/15 • Leave a comment!

Breathometer Mint

Oral hygiene is one thing you should never ignore. Brush, floss, gargle, and make sure you’re doing it right– and doing it enough times. A good way to keep track of it is with the Breathometer Mint. It’s a portable oral health monitor of sorts, as it monitors and keeps track of your overall hydration and oral bacteria level. The latter sounds strange, but it makes sense, because it’s probably all that bacteria that’s making your breath smell rank.

To use it, just stick the Breathometer Mint into your mouth. It’ll take a sample of your breath and give you results about the state of your oral health within a few seconds. It’s currently up for funding, where a minimum pledge of $89 will get you one of your very own.

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Unsubscriber App Helps You Clean Up Your Inbox

By Hazel Chua on 01/16/15 • Leave a comment!

Unsubscriber

Spam after spam after spam in your inbox? You probably don’t remember when (or why) you subscribed to some of those lists in the first place, but unsubcribing can be a pain sometimes. An app that can help you out is the aptly-named Unsubscriber. Just fire it up and log in to your Gmail accounts. It’ll parse your inbox and present you with a list of newsletters and mailing lists that you’re currently subscribed to.

Then comes the easy part: just swipe left to unsubscribe and swipe to the right if you want to keep that particular subscription. Easy as pie.

You can download Unsunscriber for iOS here.

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The Bristlr App Helps You Meet Fine, Hairy Folks

By Hazel Chua on 01/02/15 • Leave a comment!

Bristlr app

What do you look for in a potential partner? Some people choose personality over looks, while others prioritize the amount of facial fuzz their potential partner has. The latter sounds strange, I know, but an app that aims to match people up based on beards (or the lack thereof) actually exists. It’s called Bristlr, and it connects “those with beards to those who want to stroke beards.”

Catchy tagline, eh? It’s not your average dating app, but then again, if your criteria for choosing a partner lies mostly on their beards, then you don’t exactly have run-of-the-mill needs either.

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Hotel My Phone App Lets You Use Someone Else’s Phone As If It Were Yours

By Hazel Chua on 12/24/14 • Leave a comment!

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So you’ve run out of battery or left your phone at home, and you need to call or send someone a message. You can borrow your friend’s phone, but there’s little you can do if you can’t remember the number of the person who you want to reach…unless he’s got the Hotel My Phone app, that is. It’s a nifty app that lets you check in to a “smartphone hotel.”

There, you’ll be able to log in securely and message or call your contacts using your number, even when you aren’t using your phone.

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Wakie App Lets You Get Wake-Up Calls from Strangers

By Hazel Chua on 12/18/14 • 1 Comment

Wakie App

 

You can hit snooze on your alarm, but you can’t exactly hit snooze on someone, can you? That’s what the developers of Wakie are counting on to make sure that you’re awake when your alarm goes off. It’s an app that makes alarms social in the sense that it works by having a complete stranger give you a wake up call.

Just set it up so that you’ll get a call at the desired time and go to bed. No contact information or numbers will be exchanged, and the call will automatically be disconnected after a minute to save everyone from awkward goodbyes.

Wakie is available for the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone.

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Need to Get Someone’s Opinion? Get the ‘Ethan’ App and Ask Ethan!

By Hazel Chua on 10/20/14 • Leave a comment!

Ethan app

There are just some things you just can’t ask Siri–and for that, you’ve got Ethan. Think of him as the friend you never had, only cooler, because he created this awesome app (which he aptly named after himself) that lets anyone get in touch with him, anytime, anywhere. Ethan Gliechtenstein originally made the app so his friends could send him a message, but when random people downloaded the app and sent him a message, well, he didn’t disappoint.

But then random people started downloading and I became sort of a virtual assistant at one point, finding music for romantic dinner or animes with dragons for them. Sometimes it’s hard because they keep asking me questions while i’m sleeping. That’s why I added the rules on the home page.

I downloaded Ethan and sent him a few messages, just for curiosity’s sake, and got a couple of responses faster than I expected. You can get the app for free from the iTunes app store.

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Yovo Photo-Sharing App Messes Up Screenshots to Protect Your Pics

By Hazel Chua on 10/17/14 • Leave a comment!

Yovo App

So a lot of snaps that were taken and sent using Snapchat were leaked recently. I, for one, am a firm believer that if you need to have an image deleted mere moments after you’ve taken it, then you probably shouldn’t be taking that picture in the first place. Scores of people disagree, so if you’re looking for an alternative to Snapchat, then you should check out Yovo.

It’s an image sharing app created by ContentGuard and it uses a simple but ingenious way to keep your images private. All pictures taken using the app have a blurred grill overlay added to it, which isn’t apparent when you’re checking out the picture. However, it effectively ruins (or rather, blocks) the image when the recipient tries to take a screenshot.

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Anti Tagging App Glitches Your Face Out So You Can’t Be Tagged

By Hazel Chua on 10/09/14 • Leave a comment!

Anti Tagging

How many times has social media screwed up your work and personal life? From that drunken night you can’t remember anymore to someone’s bachelor party, there are just some things that are best kept private. Unfortunately, there’s Facebook and their face recognition algorithm that makes it easier for people to tag other people in their photos, making some supposedly-private moments public.

You won’t be able to prevent others from doing this in the future, but you can make a statement with Anti Tagging. It’s an app that detects people’s faces in photos–and glitches them out so no system can recognize them, much alone tag them. … Continue Reading

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