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This Is Why It's Taking so Damn Long for Apple to Make Your Next iPhone

This week bloggers were in a tizzy about revelations that Apple has two new iPhones in the hopper, much to the chagrin of San Francisco DA George Gascón who criticized Apple for not including anti-theft technology in the newest phones.  While the DA groused about a recent surge of iPhone burgl ... More >>

Next Two Generations of iPhones Already Developed, and DA George Gascón Is Bummed

Yesterday, Examiner crime reporter Mike Aldax got the gadget news of the day during an interview with San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. According to the paper, the Cupertino tech giant Apple Inc. has no intent to implement a "kill-switch" that would disable devices that are report ... More >>

Your iPhone Can Now Tell You If You Are Too Wasted to Drive

You know those evenings when you have a few cocktails to blow off whatever happened at work that day and whatever is to come when you get home? The problem is that amid the light conversation and lamenting, you seem to lose track of how many beers you were drinking. Alas, your cellphone is about t ... More >>

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Local Nudist Makes Being Naked Seem Kinda Dull

Public nudists act like running around town without clothes is like Christmas, Hanukkah, and their birthday rolled into one. We had no reason to doubt them, until now. SF Weekly intern Coburn Palmer shot this photo of this San Francisco nudist who makes going naked look about as exciting as din ... More >>

iPhone Thief Acquitted After Admitting to Stealing Phone to Support His Drug Habit

A San Francisco jury acquitted a 21-year-old man of robbery even after he admitted to snatching an iPhone from a Whole Food shopper's hands. Instead, the jury convicted him with the lesser charge of theft, agreeing with his attorney that this case was "outrageously overcharged."Malcolm Graham, 21, w ... More >>

Phoning Out: The Future of Buying Concert Tickets May Be in Your Pocket

Top 5 Free Food-Related Games for Your Smartphone or Tablet

Food games have come a long way since we were shooting bison on the Oregon Trail. A few days ago SFoodie shared the news that Zynga has released ChefVille, a new Facebook game where you can build your own restaurant, cook recipes for friends, and take cooking lessons. We're not social gamers, but we ... More >>

For Sale: 24 Hour Fitness

A time traveler from, say, the Renaissance era or the Hellenistic period, would immediately find two things strange about our beloved present. First (in no particular order): Michele Bachmann. Second: "Wait, people are paying money to run in place and lift heavy things?"Everything else would sort of ... More >>

Summer Audio Roundup: Headphones and Amps For Out-and-About Listening

Summer is the season of getting pumped, and that doesn't just mean showing off all the work you put into getting in swimsuit shape. Summer is the season of the pop song, of high energy exploding from every open window, of Carly Rae Jepsen and Japandroids and Rita Ora and Calvin Harris and Passion Pi ... More >>

Tablehopper's App Finds Good Food After 11 p.m. in San Francisco

San Francisco has a poor reputation as somewhat of a ghost town when it comes to late night eating. But Tablehopper maven Marcia Gagliardi is challenging this notion with her new iPhone app, Tablehopper's Top Late Night Eats, which maps out nearly 100 places in town that are open after 11 p.m. "As ... More >>

Meet PuurBuy, the App Designed to Find Sustainable Meals

Yelp is just so 2010! Depending on it is reminiscent of the days when San Franciscans used to toss their orange peels and disposable forks into the garbage. But, for those of us who still need a little help from our phones when choosing dinner, PuurBuy has an app for that: A free download with list ... More >>

In-Ear Monitors: A Post-Christmas Buyer's Guide to Making Your Music Sound Better

The Bowers & Wilkins C5 will make your iPhone sound great.​ It's after Christmas, and you're flush with gift certificates and $5 checks from Grandma. Still, you never received the present that hits all the right notes for on-the-go listening. No matter your post-holiday budget, it's possible ... More >>

Apple Will You Help Find Your Friends ... And Cheating Wife

​Just like iTunes put record stores out of business, the new iPhone app, Find My Friends, will likely mean less work for private investigators. According to Forbes, a man might have busted his cheating spouse using the new Find My Friends app a week after Apple released it. The app is supposed to ... More >>

Apple Unveils iPhone 5 iPhone 4S Today

​Unlike Apple CEO Tim Cook, we're going to cut to the chase and tell you what you really want to know from the Let's Talk iPhone event that kicked off at 10 a.m. today at Apple headquarters in Cupertino. For the tech journalists who sat through the three-hour conference, perhaps a more fitting nam ... More >>

Apple Closes Stores, Puts iPhone 5 Rumor Mill in Motion

Guess we'll have to go buy a PC then​The temporary shutdown of several Apple stores has people wondering whether there's a connection to the highly anticipated iPhone event to be held at Apple headquarters in Cupertino on next Tuesday.Considering that a number of stores have closed and reopened p ... More >>

These San Francisco Bars Are Streaming Online Footage of You Getting Drunk

Courtesy of the East Bay Express​The East Bay Express had an excellent and eye-opening item this week about an iPhone app called BarSpace. According to Express writer Ellen Cushing:Founded by a handful of Sonoma County entrepreneurs, the app, BarSpace, and its related Website, BarSpace.tv, employ ... More >>

Hilarious: Local Rappers Erk Tha Jerk and LoveRance Beef on Twitter Days Before They Gig Together

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Please, Ban Video at Concerts -- It Will Improve the Experience

Jane's Addiction at Google I/O: Look familiar?​ So Apple may be developing a technology that automatically turns off an iPhone's video camera when it's shooting a concert. The idea, reporters have surmised, would be to protect copyright holders (artists and show promoters) by limiting the free ... More >>

Summer Food Festivals, Product Placement, and the Mysteries of Meal Snap

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Mark your summer calendar. Every year I swear I'm going to make it to events like the Fiesta Filipina and the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral's Taste of Greece but always fo ... More >>

Apple Dumps DUI Checkpoint App

This is something your iPhone can't help you with ​SF Weekly readers might recall the controversy that ensued after Apple released an iPhone app that would let drivers know exactly where and when they might be crossing a DUI checkpoint. Of course, it wasn't nearly as controversial as the app that ... More >>

iPhone 5 to be Released Next Month

Waiting for the next generation ​On Friday, we gave iPhone users some grim news -- customers were being overcharged by as much as 300 percent for data they never used. But now we are here to deliver some good -- if not curious -- news: The iPhone 5 will be out in June!At least that's the buzz amon ... More >>

San Francycle: Riding to Work Doesn't Make You an Athlete

​If you're like us, you spend an hour or so on your bike every day, from home to work and then back, then maybe to the supermarket, and occasionally over to a friend's house or up to Corona Heights to watch the sunset. Wouldn't it be neat to keep track of your rides so you know how far you've gone ... More >>

Check Out and Check In with Our Best Of... App

Our brand new Best Of... issue isn't just on newsstands. It's in the App Store. Our free iPhone app takes the Best Of... issue and crams it into your pants (or purse). You can find out which Best Of... spot is closest to you, check in via Facebook to let your friends know where you're at, and vo ... More >>

Check Out and Check In with Our Best Of... App

Our brand new Best Of... issue isn't just on newsstands. It's in the App Store. Our free iPhone app takes the Best Of... issue and crams it into your pants (or purse). You can find out which Best Of... spot is closest to you, check in via Facebook to let your friends know where you're at, and vo ... More >>

Check Out and Check In with Our Best Of... App

Our brand-new Best Of... issue isn't just on newsstands. It's in the App Store. Our free iPhone app takes the Best Of... issue and crams it into your pants (or purse). You can find out which Best Of... spot is closest to you, check in via Facebook to let your friends know where you're at, and vo ... More >>

Apple Bans Immigrant-Smuggling Game (Video)

There is a big difference between smuggling and snuggling illegal immigrants​With all of the recent ire over controversial smartphone apps, including dogfighting games and apps meant to cure gays, the average iPhone user has probably started to wonder: are there any apps that are too offensive to ... More >>

Steve Jobs Mocked on South Park, Introduces "HumancentiPad" (Video)

The humancentipad still feels something out of a horror movie​If there is anyone who can make Steve Jobs obscene, it's Trey Parker and Matt Stone -- the creators South Park. Staying true to their art, they have created an offensive version of the Apple CEO who introduces the revolutionary "Humance ... More >>

Apple Sued for Privacy Invasion -- Again

What does he know about you?​The number of iPad and iPhone users that claim Apple has passed around their private information is growing by the day.In December, two separate groups of iPad and iPhone users sued Apple, Inc., claiming the company had created apps that distributed personal informatio ... More >>

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mSpot Lets You Stream Your iTunes Library on Your iPhone

via VentureBeat​There are smartphone apps which give you access to millions of streaming songs. But sometimes they don't have those rare recordings that you spent months tracking down. And there are smartphone apps that kinda, sorta let you connect to your home-based server or hard drive. But the ... More >>

Target Christmas Album: Best Coast/Wavves, Blackalicious, Jason Schwartzman et al. Hock Holiday Cheer

Don't they know it's Christmas? Seriously. Are they aware?​Now that it's December, the merchants of the world have declared open season on premature holiday festivities, turning life into the cultural equivalent of that house on your block that puts up Halloween decorations in August. Target (pron ... More >>

How to Be a Tech Company for Halloween

​ Forget the Zuckerberg mask -- be a whole damn tech company for Halloween. Here's how. Apple How to dress: Wear all white with silver shoes. Limit your ports: No pockets, no fly. Your hair should be seamless.   How to scare people: Jailbreak your pants.   The night's over when: You call ... More >>

Horacio Toure, Allegedly World's Unluckiest iPhone Thief, in Court Today

Yoink!​Horacio Toure, who made international headlines as possibly the world's most hapless thief, will be in court today. You may recall the e-mail-it-to-your-friend, tape-printout-on-fridge-worthy story of Toure's brush with the law: The 31-year-old San Franciscan last month is charged with snat ... More >>

Baylinks: Cryptic Code, Bomb, Muni

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Baylinks: American Idol, Haight, iSex

chemistryland.com​A year later, Oakland police hold press conference about missing child [Oakland North]American Idol asks the city to shut down an intersection [SF Examiner]Muni-inspired woven craft [Muni Diaries]

San Francisco Ballet Dancer Beats Down Mugger in BART Brawl

That's not stage makeup on Ben 'Pupi' Stewart's face...​Mugger wants ballet dancer's iPhone. Gets bloody face instead.Ben 'Pupi' Stewart, a 5-foot-7, 140-pound dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, was about to become the next victim of an iPhone theft on BART. Instead, Pupi gave the dude a ballet ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ Il Gato

​Calling itself the Latin band without a Latin name, Il Gato began as a solo project by Daimian Holiday Scott (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica, loop pedal, etc.) during his days living in Spain. Upon returning to the States, he turned the project into a full band. Utilizing an array of instrum ... More >>

Judge Keeps Warrant Under Wraps in iPhonegate

There are some things you can't even do with a newfangled iPhone...​A San Mateo County judge today ordered that a search warrant used to search a Gawker Media editor's home be kept secret, leaving media organizations in the dark as to what exactly police hoped to find in the home of Gizmodo editor ... More >>

Sex Offender Locator: You're Doing It Wrong

Screencap via Krapps​ This example of Geo-locational fail is from an iPhone app called Sex Offender Search, which thanks to Megan's Law allows you (quasi-legal) mobile access to a database of sex offenders. Due to the unintentional hilarity of the GPS notification above, the makers of the app, L ... More >>

Twitter, Now Filling Its Own Hole

Image via Ben Metcalfe​ In what turned out to be a benchmark day for mobile clients, Twitter just announced that they've acquired Tweetie, a leading iPhone app run by just one guy, Loren Brichter.From Loren's blog: I've had the privilege of working with the folks at Twitter from the outside as the ... More >>

Sierra Club Launches Inane iPhone App, Eco-Unfriendly Contest

​Dear Sierra Club: Your new, brilliantly-titled iPhone app, "Eco Hero," is super rad and awesome. We have been waiting so long for a public, tech-based way to make promises to eat local/organic, ride our bike, write letters about green issues, and bring reusable bags to the grocery store! We are p ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Roost Uno of Lowbrow Sundays, Tipsy Tuesdays

​Sometimes your set takes so long you've gotta pee your pants. Or so says DJ Roost Uno, who'd rather whiz on his leg than step away from the turntables. Luckily in his six years of keeping the party going Sunday nights at Delirium (and various other weeklies and events around town), Uno has yet to ... More >>

iPod App Lowers Hipster Bar

For the price of a 99-cent iPhone app, this existence can be yours...​For those wishing to become "hipsters" -- scrupulously dressed young adults with strong ideas about white-person music -- but uncertain how to begin, a new iPhone/iPod application points the way.BeVideo, which also provides iPho ... More >>

When Geeks Collide: iPhone Apps the Perfect Mashup of Food and Technology

You stood in line for the friggin' thing, now put it to use where it counts. Today in our Phoenix sister blog Chow Bella, Michele Laudig details some of the tastiest iPhone food and wine apps out there. Looking for sustenance on streets so unfamiliar they might as well be the city from Blade Runner? ... More >>

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