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May 17, 2012
Forget Traffic School, This New App Will Help You Get Out of a Speeding Ticket
You know how impossible it is to get out of a speeding ticket when it's your word against a cop's. Well, now there's an app for that. TicketDefender, a new app that tracks your speed, time of day, and GPS location, will help drivers beat the system for a change. According to creator Ralph ... More >>
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May 2, 2012
San Jose Man Says Apple Is Double-Billing iTunes Customers
Apparently, Apple isn't just dodging taxes, it's also double-dipping from its customers. At least that's what one San Jose man claims after he says he was charged twice for one song he bought on iTunes.Robert Herskowitz filed a class-action lawsuit this week, claiming Apple's e-store refused to reve ... More >>
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April 24, 2012
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 >>
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April 17, 2012
Seeking a Path to Riches
Oh, good. More "sharing." The mobile social-app company Path (yes, the one that found itself in the middle a big privacy controversy not long ago) announced on Monday that it had landed another $30 million in venture financing from some top-tier firms, making its total valuation $250 million. Hey, t ... More >>
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April 6, 2012
Happy Easter: New iPhone App Will Help You Find the Latest and Gayest Events in Town
We all know how colorful San Francisco is -- especially on Easter, when the much-anticipated Hunky Jesus contest takes over Dolores Park. Joining in the LGBT community's celebration of everything Easter and all things gay is Wsup Now, a local company offering a new iPhone app that will help queer Je ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
Path Apps Being Sued for "Snooping" on Users
As if Siri and her spying ways weren't disturbing enough, now a Texas man has filed a federal class action lawsuit against the popular Path app, claiming the San Francisco-based company is using its own app to pry into users' lives. Path's image was already tarnished last month when researchers b ... More >>
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February 15, 2012
Contraband Coffee Takes Online Orders With TapViva App
The future of food ordering is upon us. New phone apps offer customers the chance to pre-order so that food and drink will waiting when they arrive. Large-scale Mexican chain Chipotle has been offering online ordering to its customers since 2009, and just last year San Francisco's grilled cheese ... More >>
News
February 1, 2012
Fare Hack: Exploiting a Clipper Card Flaw Is Easy
The future of food ordering is upon us. New phone apps offer customers the chance to pre-order so that food and drink will waiting when they arrive. Large-scale Mexican chain Chipotle has been offering online ordering to its customers since 2009, and just last year San Francisco's grilled cheese ... More >>
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December 13, 2011
iTunes Claims SF Weekly Best of App Is Tops
Earlier this year, we decided to make it that much easier for readers and tourists to find the best restaurants, bars, and and coolest places to sip on lattes with one slick touch of their iPhone. Turns out, we were onto something pretty damn cool -- iTunes selected our free iPhone app as one ... More >>
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November 25, 2011
Graff City: New App Encourages Virtual Graffiti
For those who've wanted to tag the walls of San Francisco with impunity, now's your time. The San Francisco Arts Commission and the Department of Public Works are launching a street-art graffiti app that lets anyone paint, spray, tag, etc on the walls of our fair city. However, it's done through ... More >>
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November 8, 2011
Barnes & Noble Takes on Amazon in Tablet Wars
A quick scan of this New York Times blog post is all one needs to conclude that Barnes & Noble faces a major challenge against Amazon in the tablet wars. Start with the picture, depicting B&N CEO William Lynch standing in front of a giant graphic showing that the Kindle Fire looks bet ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Woman Says 'Hipstamatic' iPhone Photo App Violates Copyright Law
A Hipstamatic photoA photographer is suing Apple in federal court in Texas, alleging that the iPhone's popular Hipstamatic app violates copyright law by republishing her photos and those of others without permission.In a complaint filed against the Bay Area-based company, plaintiff Shanti Deva Ko ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Occupy Wall Street App Comes in Handy When You Get Arrested
Ping NewsThere's an app for that...Some might say that the Occupy Wall Street protesters are out there trying to upend capitalism by demonstrating against big banks and economic disparity. But, somewhat ironically, it's these very protests that have spurred a new enterprise -- with the inevitable ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
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 >>
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October 14, 2011
Don't Worry About the Future of the Cookbook
Is this the future of cookbooks? (Cross your fingers.)Yesterday, the New York edition of Grub Street published a great essay by Hugh Merwin on the bright future of cookbooks, even as more and more readers are switching to e-readers and bookstores are flailing. Cookbook sales are still strong, an ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Foodspotting App Shows the World What You Ate
Most startups have an "elevator pitch," a short one-liner or phrase that explains what they do. I can think of several for Foodspotting: Yelp 2.0, Instagram for meals, FourSquare for food, or a foodie social network. Foodspotting is a free smartphone app that lets you take a picture of your ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
iPhone App to Push Earthquake-Themed Social Networking
Yow: Let's play earthquake preparedness!!!!San Francisco's government is creating an iPhone app patterned after FarmVille and Foursquare where players can prepare themselves for an earthquake, rather than feed imaginary chickens or collect badges.Called SF Heroes, the app is scheduled to be relea ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
These San Francisco Bars Are Streaming Online Footage of You Getting Drunk
Courtesy of the East Bay ExpressThe 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 >>
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July 8, 2011
Apple Can't Stop Amazon from Using "App Store"
Weren't apples famous before Apple?In another case of the Silicon Valley giants butting heads, a federal judge denied Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction against Amazon and its use of the term "App Store."Lawyers for Apple argued that the "Amazon Appstore for Android" name infringes on it ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
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 >>
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June 13, 2011
Here's What Would Happen if You Remade Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day" in S.F. Today
Angry Birds on the iPad. Does this look familiar? We can say with near-total confidence that Jello Biafra will hate the people in this video. You tech-employed, indie-pop loving Twitter users might just love it, though. This none-too-subtle advertisement for a new wireless speaker is a music ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
How Does Chronicle Books' Asian Ingredient App Measure Against Sutro Media's?
This week, Chronicle Books officially launched its "Asian Market Shopper" app, part of the publisher's new line of cooking apps for iAppliances (Droid versions are reportedly on the way). Asian Market Shopper screenshot. Researched and written by Santa Cruz-based author Andrea Nguyen, author o ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
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 >>
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May 19, 2011
Tartine's New Focus on Ancient Grains, More About Fair Trade Coffee, Another Questionable Food App
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.1. Ancient Grains. The Bay Citizen conducted an e-mail interview with Tartine's Chad Robertson, who's been taking trips to Denmark to learn how to bake with ancient varieties of rye an ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
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 >>
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May 18, 2011
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 >>
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May 18, 2011
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 >>
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May 11, 2011
Pomplamoose Covers the Angry Birds Theme, Because You Don't Hear it Enough Already
One more red bird and we'll crush her... We've been taking a hiatus from Pomplamoose news after our cover story on the local YouTube sensation back in February, but this is too meme-tastic to resist: It's Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn covering the theme from Angry Birds -- that little cellphone ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
"Dog Wars" App Is Back on the Market, the Fight Continues
The fight continuesYesterday SF Weekly reported that the controversial "Dog Wars" app was mysteriously pulled from the Android market. But a quick search for the game now shows that the virtual dogfighting app is curiously back.The national uproar over "Dog Wars" could have been the reason it was ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
Google Pulls Dog Wars App
Google: a fight not worth havingYesterday, SF Weekly recounted the national uproar over a new Android game "Dog Wars," which even Michael Vick said is training ground for dogfighters. Apparently, Google felt the heavy pressure and yesterday announced it would remove the app from its online store. ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
Michael Vick Says Google's "Dog Wars" Game Glorifies Animal Abuse
The fight against dogfightingIf Michael Vick says something is skirting on the edge of animal cruelty -- you have to give it a pause. The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback who was jailed for his involvement in a dogfighting ring, has come out against a new Google Android app that lets users train t ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Calorie-Counting Apps, Coca-Growing Locavores, More Creepy Legislation
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.1. Is Meal Snap for real? MobileCrunch just posted word of a new calorie-counting iPhone app called Meal Snap. The premise: You take a picture of a dish, you add a caption, and the ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Find the Best of San Francisco on Your iPhone
If you've ever been out and about and wondered where's the best place grab a good gin and tonic or get your bike fixed ― as chosen by seasoned pros like ourselves ― you're in luck. We've just launched a completely free iPhone app that takes all the goodness of our Best Of... issues and crams i ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Find the Best of San Francisco on Your iPhone
If you've ever been out and about and wondered where's the best place grab a good gin and tonic or get your bike fixed -- as chosen by seasoned pros like ourselves -- you're in luck. We've just launched a completely free iPhone app that takes all the goodness of our Best Of... issues and crams it ... More >>
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March 23, 2011
Apple Dumps Controversial 'Gay-Cure' App
Apple's newest positionApple on Wednesday quietly removed the controversial "gay-cure" app created by a religious group with the goal of helping people resist their unwanted homosexual desires. Media outlets are reporting that while the company has not made any comments, the iPhone app is no long ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
Spotify Is Coming to the U.S. Soon -- You Should Be Excited
What Spotify looks likeOver the past few weeks, streaming music startup Spotify has quietly been signing deals with the major U.S. music distributors as it prepares for a U.S. launch. But now that the Swedish firm has locked up EMI and Sony (with Universal in tow), it's also begun to hire people ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Meet Appetites, an Interactive Cooking Show for the iPad
It's been 10 months since the iPad launched, and companies are still figuring out how to tailor apps to the notepad computer. Many have simply enlarged existing, text-based iPhone apps or have treated the iPad as an electronic version of a glossy magazine. A new generation of iPad apps is finall ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
mSpot Lets You Stream Your iTunes Library on Your iPhone
via VentureBeatThere 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 >>
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November 29, 2010
Wanna Resist Arrest? There's an App for That.
Shoulda read the section on nautical D.U.I.'sWe know, we know. Not-so-clever variations on the "app for that" phrase long ago jumped the shark. But please, read on -- someday this blog post might save you from getting arrested.How else, after all, would you know that Florida criminal defense lawyer ... More >>
News
October 6, 2010
Mobile app measures cellphone radiation
Shoulda read the section on nautical D.U.I.'sWe know, we know. Not-so-clever variations on the "app for that" phrase long ago jumped the shark. But please, read on -- someday this blog post might save you from getting arrested.How else, after all, would you know that Florida criminal defense lawyer ... More >>
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September 29, 2010
Worried About Cell Phone Radiation? There's an App for That.
WARNING! CODE RED!This June, San Francisco became the first city in the United States to require retailers to post information about how much radiation cell phones emit. Now, an Israeli company is capitalizing on the as-yet-unjustified anxiety surrounding cell phone radiation and allowing phone u ... More >>
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July 30, 2010
Has the Android Data-Stealing Scandal Been Overcooked?
Are Android phones like this stealing your personal information?The tech world has been buzzing with news that a San Francisco firm, Lookout Mobile Security, has discovered that wallpaper applications used by millions of phones with Google's Android operating system send subscribers' information ... More >>
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April 16, 2010
Can Technology Help Get Everybody Off the Corporate Food Grid?
Frog DesignTech-driven urban ag systems could bring Slow Food within reach of everyone in a city.It's the sort of question guaranteed to surface at every Slow Food showdown, dinner discussion series, and urban farming tutorial in town: How can we make local food accessible, affordable, and ap ... More >>
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February 23, 2010
SuicideGirls, In Defense of the App Store Ban: 'Bummer for Apple, We Get It'
Missing the opportunity to do so at San Francisco's Goldman Sachs' tech conference earlier today, Apple has yet to clarify guidelines as to why over 5,000 apps were removed from its App store this weekend. As is the case with most news about Apple, the Internet has responded to the most easily acces ... More >>
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January 20, 2010
iPhone App of the Week: Spot, Tweet, and Check In with Foodspotting
Dish-share startup Foodspotting has released its Foodspotting Lite iPhone app, which lets users share food sightings in real time. The best part? The free app lets you simultaneously submit a finding, tweet it, and check in on Foursquare. Load the app, scroll through others' food sightings, and c ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
You Get Around
Dish-share startup Foodspotting has released its Foodspotting Lite iPhone app, which lets users share food sightings in real time. The best part? The free app lets you simultaneously submit a finding, tweet it, and check in on Foursquare. Load the app, scroll through others' food sightings, and c ... More >>
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June 24, 2009
Still Fit to Print?
Dish-share startup Foodspotting has released its Foodspotting Lite iPhone app, which lets users share food sightings in real time. The best part? The free app lets you simultaneously submit a finding, tweet it, and check in on Foursquare. Load the app, scroll through others' food sightings, and c ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
iSuit: 'America's Premier Puzzlemaster' Sues Apple for Allegedly Parking In His Spot (So to Speak)
Don Rubin's original 1977 puzzle; the goal is to get the black car out of the lot in the fewest possible movesDon Rubin is "America's Premiere Puzzlemaster" -- or so his lawyers would inform you on the very first line of Rubin's suit vs. Apple. It seems Rubin has a legitimate claim to that title -- ... More >>

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