Facebook are trying to find out more about you in a way that looks less obtrusive. It’s called Facebook Lists and they’re totally customizable to make them whatever you wish them to be. For example you can have, ‘My 2018 Goals’ or ‘Things to do before I’m 30’ or even ‘Who inspires me the most’
Like with customizable status updates, you can change the background colour, or even add emojis to it to spruce it up a little.
To make things interesting you can copy someone else’s and make it better (or worse) or even straight up copy and see who achieves the most.
Why Facebook Lists?
The whole idea behind this relates to Facebook pushing down company pages content and promoting users content. They want their users to make more original content and thus making people engage more and more with one another. Therefore engaging less with company ‘engagement’ bait style posts.
This alongside Facebook’s recent update at the end of last year (gradually rolling out to more and more users) is the “Did you know” status or “Fun fact about me” style updates. Whereby users would write a question for example “My favourtie food is” and then listing it. Is Facebook’s push to make each other more friendly and interact more.
This is getting a huge push with Facebook allegedly promoting posts from friends and family as well as prioritising local news in the news feed. Even pushing to including a dedicated local news and events section on their site. (Though this is limited to 6 cities in the US)
Facebook Lists is currently only available to Android users. If you’re on iOS you can see lists but you cannot create them just yet. (No news on when it will arrive to iOS either)
To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!
To download Facebook please click here Apple / Android
Books in the 21st century are changing and they’re becoming a lot more than just an e-book on an Amazon Kindle! As seen online and many different apps, books are becoming a lot more interactive and more like a movie or a tv show! Last Seen Online is just that, an interactive book on just your phone. It takes place over 7 days and is in the form of a WhatsApp style chat log.
Last Seen Online is developed and created by unrd, the BookTech company of the year 2016, it’s award winning and best of all it’s free to download!
The fictional chat style story allows users to read through messages of a missing girl. We are then introduced, in real time, messages from her friends and family as you and her friends and family discover what happened to her.
In an almost cluedo style game, the app replicates a group chat messenger experience. It is here where you can delve into relationships between each of the characters. Understand how they fit into the story of a woman’s disappearance. It can get quite thrilling and sometimes scary so, you’ll most likely be gripped to your phone!
Last Seen Online: Plot
Amy Morris was out with friends celebrating her 26th birthday. However it is the day after and she never made it home. You have access to her text messages.
Read all of her conversations she had with her friends and family before she went missing. Then start receiving messages in real time as they realise she never returned home.
Over the next 7 days you’ll receive texts, audio messages, images and even videos as you delve into the life of Amy Morris and experience a mystery thriller, in a manner which is unlike no other.
To download Last Seen Online please click here Apple / Android
To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!
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Another month and we have another set of apps for you to check out. Here we have 4 fun apps for march 2018!
Hero Hunters
This is a HUGE RPG shooting game on mobile devices for free! It’s a lot of fun and you are sent into battle with an army of your choice of heroes. You’re able to be equipped with a bunch of guns, sniper rifles, swords and a whole lot of crazy weapons. The Energy Cannon for one!
Alongside the massive multiplayer battle games, take on the campaign mode and battle against Kurtz’s army. You can join alliance or play alongside a buddy in co-op missions. Take on daily events to get extra bonuses, play the ever crazy gauntlet mode or kill a LOT of hours with Multiplayer boss raids!
To download this game please click here Apple / Android
Goat Simulator
This game is hilarious!
Goat Simulator is basically that, a simulator in which you take on the life of a goat.
The aim of the game is all about causing as much damage as possible. It plays a lot like an old school skating game. But you destroy stuff. It’s crazy. Wacky. Hilarous. Stupid and a LOT of fun! There is nothing you cannot do. Play it and find out!
To download this game please click here Apple / Android
Star Wars Force Arena
Star Wars Force Arena is a multiplayer battle that requires a lot of strategy based gaming to fight your way to a win!
Battle teams in a 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2 style matches. Select a squad of your Star Wars team and send them into battle, selecting a range of add on cards to help increase your chances of survival and the goal of destroying the opponents shield generator.
To download this game please click here Apple / Android
Snake 97
Snake97. This is a remake of the original snake on the Nokia’s back in the day. There is no up to date graphics or change of features. Snake97 is the same game that you know and loved back when you were younger. Be prepared to kill a lot of hours on this game!
To download this game please click here Apple / Android
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Batman The Enemy Within – Your New Point and Click Game!
Batman The Enemy Within is the sequel of the hugely successful “The Telltale Series”. Published by Telltale Games and distributed by Warner Bros, the game follows an episodic format.
Both Bruce Wayne and his alter ego are forced into situations and roles that they have yet to experience. An old foe in The Riddler has returned to wreck havoc on Gotham City, while gruesome his puzzles may be. While is something a lot worse going on within Gotham City.
A players actions by either dialogue and physical effects the story of Batman The Enemy Within immensely. Yet a player will be approaching as Bruce Wayne or Batman, players have to decide what to do to move the story forward.
Batman The Enemy within follows a similar run to that of Netflix TV shows, releasing episodes in monthly intervals.
1
“The Enigma”
August 8, 2017
2
“The Pact”
October 3, 2017
3
“Fractured Mask”
TBA 2017
4
“What Ails You”
TBA 2018
5
“Same Stitch”
TBA 2018
Bathman The Enemy Within is available on Xbox One, Playstation 4, Microsoft Windows, Android and iOS. So you have got no excuse to not check it out!
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This is the first game to use the camera as the main function to play! It’s called “Facedance Challenge”
Think of it like “Guitar Hero” but for your face!
Using the camera technology of your smartphone the app detects your face in real time and you have to use the varying facial expressions to match the markers on screen!
The app is so smart that the engine of the game will generate emoticons based on the beat and rhythm of the song!
Hence making your face to always dance in the correct way and right rhythmically to the music!
Furthermore you can include filters and record yourself playing the game and share it with your friends!
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Castle Creeps: Tower Defense is an epic tower defense game that is built for mobile devices (ios/Android) It comes complete with a stunning fantasy story written by James L.Sutter, making it the first mobile Tower Defense title with a story! Furthermore, the plot which revolves around a cast of memorable Heroes and Warlords each with intricate backstories and personalities, updates every two weeks!
With over 40 battles over 12 chapters to complete and conquer there is more than enough to keep you busy! Build and upgrade your Towers as well as customising your Heroes to fight and defend your kingdom! Castle Creeps: Tower Defense is also highly detailed making it one of the most visually appealing mobile games. In addition, the simple intuitive playability makes for pick up and play for even the most casual of gamers.
Top Tips
First of all, upgrade your Heroes to unlock extra abilities, this will help you immensely in battle!
Also, check out the Creep Book to check out an opponent’s weaknesses.
Log in to Castle Creeps every day to open the Tower Chest and collect resources! Even replay completed missions to help gain more!
Send sentinel charges to your Facebook friends to receive some in return!
Complete quests to earn keys to unlock Hero Chests! These contain resources needed to improve your Heroes!
Aim to take out the Goblin Saboteurs and Ogre Gunners first as they can cause serious damage to your Towers!
Most of all, use your elixir boosts and reinforcements to take down bosses easily!
Castle Creeps: Tower Defense reached over 2 million downloads during the first five days of release!
To download and play Castle Creeps: Tower Defense please click here Apple / Android
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Every month we are showing off and highlighting to you the fans, the top 5 best mobile apps. It’s what started off How To Kill An Hour and we want to champion that! we love apps here at How To Kill An Hour and we also love Killing Time! Funny that, huh? Anyhow, we aren’t going to bore you with a lot of talk, we know you all love seeing things in action and getting down to what matters the most – killing time! So without further ado, here are the Top 5 best mobile apps to kill time with for September 2017:
1.) Cut The Rope
Cut The Rope is an oldie but a goodie, we can remember this back when iPod touches were a thing! It’s still going strong and has spawned plenty of spin offs and sequels. But we’d like to remind you of the what made this franchise so good. Cut The Rope is a lot of fun! This crazy and simple game is based around getting the sweet to the little monster. Use physics and cut the rope at just the right time to avoid the spikes, burst bubbles at the right moment. Be careful though cut at the wrong moment and and you’ve got one upset monster. So cut wisely otherwise it’s game over! Just don’t blame us when you play for too long and miss your stop on the train, it will happen at least once. It’s that good!
Ketchapp are at the forefront of mobile gaming and Space Frontier is no different, as with many Ketchapp games the aim of the game is to get something as far up or along a track as possible. Space Frontier’s aim is to get your rocket as high into orbit as possible. Again, as with many Ketchapp games the controls are super simple for pick up and play gameplay, simple touches control when you release each stage in your rocket. The further you go the more in game currency you earn to acquire new rocket parts. How far can you get?!
Stack is a simple tower game that requires you to build a tower with a selection of blocks as high as possible, however if it is not perfect you will lose a piece of your block. Keep building your tower as high as you can without losing too much of your block, if you do, it’s game over! What’s makes this game better than the original? Now you can build your blocks entirely in AR! We don’t know what it is what Ketchapp do what makes their games so good, but they do. They keep knocking it out of the park and Stacks AR is no different!
In PPKP you take on monsters from Monster Corps, they have attacked and are wreaking havoc on the city! Beat up cars to get building materials for your scrapyard. Even go to the restaurant to increase and replenish your health and your combo powers! Practice your martial arts in the dojo to get better at fighting off hordes of monsters, or go to the laboratory to get special power ups. Plus if you’re stuck you can tap on people around the city to give you hints and tips! Arguably this two button game will leave you glued to your phone for hours! We love it just because it is so so simple, two buttons is all you need!
First of all this game is SICK! Furthermore it is one of the world’s first competitive multiplayer games that is played in its entirety in AR! Transform your floor/table into a fierce battle arena, assemble and lead a team of specialised machines against friends online! Use super weapons by aiming your phone in the battle field as you physically move around the level! – This game HAS to be played!
TOP PICK FOR TOP 5 Best Mobile Apps Sept 2017: The Machines
The Machines was the game that Apple showed off during their iPhone 8 event which touched on AR and how it is going to affect our lives. Apple are taking a huge interest in Augmented Reality and it is showing with their support for The Machines. It makes you move around a virtual world to get a better look at your level and get a step up on your opponent. We cannot wait to see what Apple and various other companies integrate AR in to our everyday lives. To illustrate how AR will help, we’ve seen demo’s of augmented reality tape measures both in the regular sense and in the digital sense.
So there are our Top 5 best mobile apps for September 2017!
Let us know what you think by Tweeting us: @howtokillanhour!
Check back next month for another Top 5 of the best mobile apps for October 2017!
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The next iOS is even more secure than we first thought!
According to security developer ElcomSoft, iOS 11 will require your passcode on the device itself when plugged into a new computer or laptop for the first time, to establish a new trusted computer, regardless if you click ‘trust this computer’
This is especially important for user privacy as constitutional laws try to catch up with technology, over in the US the Fifth Amendment does not protect fingerprints but can apply to passcodes in some instances.
The FBI even paid $900,000 to unlock the San Bernadino terrorists iPhone after Apple refused, claiming privacy violations and apparently the police have even tried to unlock a dead victims device with a 3D printed fingerprint!
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Last week Apple showed off their flagship feature on the iPhone – FaceID
They did an incredible presentation on it and then went to demo it on stage – after a couple of attempts by Apple’s Craig Federighi, it bummed out and said to enter a passcode and they had to go to a backup.
Embarassing.
Well, Apple spoke to Yahoo’s David Pogue and explained all
“People were handling the device for stage demo ahead of time and didn’t realize Face ID was trying to authenticate their face. After failing a number of times, because they weren’t Craig, the iPhone did what it was designed to do, which was to require his passcode. Face ID worked as it was designed to.” (Yahoo News)
Apple later confirmed to the BBC that the quote was real and the phone worked exactly as it should.
When you think about it, it does make sense as the same happens when your thumb is wet or dirty and it doesn’t recognise it, it asks to enter the passcode.
Apple were never going to release a faulty product on release were they, come on. (Ignoring iPhone 4 reception issues)
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