Want to Find Out if Your Friend is Really a Zombie? There’s an App for That

It is always wise to keep the possibility of a zombie invasion open; it’s usually the people who don’t believe in zombies that are the first to be eaten. To make matters worse, they’re not only eaten, but devoured by the people they thought were their friends; and perhaps they were friends, before one couldn’t help but stalk their friend down and start feasting on their meaty arm.

Luckily, there is now an iPhone app that could possibly save your life in the case of a zombie attack. Max Brooks’ bestselling book The Zombie Survival Guide is now a free iPhone app.

The Zombie Survival Guide Scanner is an app from the Crown Publishing Group that uses the iPhone’s rear camera to take a picture of someone and “scan” their face to illustrate their infection rate. After all, it’s the people you know the best who are always trying to convince you that they’re not infected and then before you know it, they’re trying to eat you. With this app, you just scan their face and see if they’re truly an uninfected human who needs to accompany you out of town, or if you need to shoot them in the head.

All joking aside, this app is hilarious and will keep you occupied for hours, especially if you walk down a busy street and snap pictures of random people and see them get zombiefied right on your phone. It’s great to see more businesses, in this case Crown Publishing Group, developing apps that will go over huge in order to use it as a marketing tool to help build a book’s fanbase.

Hulu Plus: $10 Per Month for Every Episode of Every Show You Watch

The internet television website Hulu is going the way all successful free services go eventually–they want your money.

Hulu Plus is a monthly subscription service that will give you access to every episode of every show they have available; shows from networks like ABC, NBC, FOX, and others. The paid service also includes every episode of past seasons, instead of just the most-recent four or five episodes of the current season, as it is currently set up.

For $10 per month, you will gain access to any and all episodes of a show on your computer, iPhone, iPad, as well as on your television, if you have an internet-connected TV or Blu-Ray player. Hulu Plus will also be made available on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, as well as on other platforms in the future.

Paying $10 a month to get Hulu (almost) everywhere you want it and gaining access to not just current and future episodes of your favorite shows, but also to all past episodes as well seems like a pretty sweet deal. However, I was pretty disappointed to see that Hulu will be keeping their commercials, even for people who pay the monthly service fee. Not only that, but they have worded it in such a way that they want you, the person paying $10 every month for their service, to get excited about getting to watch ads. In a company blog post, they had this to say about their ad-supported pay service: “Hulu Plus is a new, revolutionary ad-supported subscription product that is incremental and complementary to the existing Hulu service.”

Yeah… I get that the people behind Hulu want to make money. I understand that any business needs to make money and when there is a way for them to make more of it, they should take it. But they will be making money from the people who choose to frequent the Hulu Plus service and who will be paying for that service. I think the most logical move here would be to keep the ads on the free version of Hulu, leaving it as it is now, but do away with them for the people who are putting money in their pockets.

Hulu Plus will quickly become a threat to services like Netflix, Amazon and iTunes, who currently charge upwards of $2 per episode. People who watch more than 5 episodes of a show a month will see substantial savings when they opt to utilize Hulu Plus.

Hulu Plus is invite-only as they roll out the new service, obviously taking a few pointers from Google when they introduced people to browser-supported email with Gmail, which you could only gain access to with an invitation from a friend who was already a Gmail user. If you’re excited about Hulu’s new service, you can sign up for an invite and wait until one becomes available.

Guitar Hero is Now Available on Your iPhone

Guitar Hero is hands down one of the hottest and most coveted games to have ever hit the market. It has been a huge hit with pretty much every age group out there who can pick up a plastic guitar and press its buttons, from small children to the elderly. Since its debut in 2005, Guitar Hero has raked in more than $2 billion and it was really only a matter of time before it was taken to the iPhone level.

News of the arrival of Guitar Hero to the iPhone was announced during yesterday’s WWDC conference just before the news broke of the new iPhone 4.

It will cost you $2.99 to get Guitar Hero on your iPhone and contains the same features and functionality you’ve grown accustomed to in the original, full-sized game. You have the ability to create a custom, 3D avatar that you can share with your friends and can play along with music from Queen, The Rolling Stones and many others.

The app is compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Download Guitar Hero for the iPhone.