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  • Blogs

    July 24, 2006

    Give Me (Bomb) Shelter

    I get by with a little help from my friends. Got a note from one of 'em today, in fact, a patriot hard at work supporting our troops. [Dear Navy Customer], On Friday we discussed pushing the Dev. updates from February to the [Server of Imminent Doom]. As you know, these updates broke the Dev. serve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2007

    Fun with Computers (Friggatriskaidekaphobia edition)

    If your plan for getting your taxes done before the looming deadline involves using Turbo Tax's online service, you may want to reconsider. According to NBC 4 in Washington D.C., a customer wanting to check her tax info Turbo-ly, discovered something big and bad by accident. ""I knew immediately ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2005

    Insta-Feedback to the New Website

    The names have been withheld to protect our incense. Your Favorite Time-Waster's answers--not that anyone asked for them--appear in groovy italics: Where did the link to the personals.ocweekly go on the home page? http://personals.ocweekly.com With the new website format instituted today, WHAT ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    Pardon Our Digital Dust

    So our website has changed quite a bit. Many of the differences are intentional. Some of the others are, um, not. If you're having problems using our online article archive search feature, or if you click through on a link and it takes you nowhere, it's not you. It's us. Our crack development team ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    The Wire: Haidl and Carona Caught on Tape

    Today at ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's federal corruption trial, prosecutor Brett Sagel introduced the following inflammatory excerpt of a secretly recorded July 7, 2007, conversation between then-Sheriff Carona and Don Haidl, who had served as assistant sheriff. At the time of the conver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    Get your FREE Coachella App for your iPhone [Correction]

    Correction: Before you read further, the video and description of the Coachella iPhone App below is NOT THE FREE ONE. This program is not affiliated with the festival. The FREE App, written by Dave Bullock has a few specific differences:1) The official Coachella App is FREE, the program below costs ... More >>

  • Music

    January 10, 2008

    Aural Reports

    Debutante Squall: Millionaires' naughty intentions and catchy electro pay dividends

  • Features

    November 15, 2007

    Wax-scratch Fever

    FEEDBACK: The analog-digital wars rage on as OC DJs debate their weapons of choice

  • News

    August 19, 1999

    Internet Appleiance

    What the iMac really isand what it means for Apple

  • Film

    February 9, 2006

    Fire Bomb

    Ford limps and wheezes through his latest action thriller, Firewall

  • Music

    March 3, 2005

    The Tweakings of the Decent

    David Byrne apparently loves PowerPoint

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    Geek My Mail

    Netizens swap treats, immortality, even husbands for coveted invitations

  • Music

    December 11, 2003

    Award of the State

    Netizens swap treats, immortality, even husbands for coveted invitations

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    The Danger of Google History in a Time of War

    Or Dennis Prager called me a liar

  • Film

    May 23, 2002

    The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized

    Geek David, corporate Goliath in Revolution OS

  • Culture

    July 19, 2001

    By Any Means Necessary

    Finding new, free music without Napster

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    Filtering Flip-Flop?

    County librarian now touts CyberPatrol

  • News

    March 23, 2000

    Game On!

    The Linux revolution spreads to gaming

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Making Copies

    The menace threatening the global entertainment industry? Linux users!?

  • Supplement

    December 16, 1999

    Extreme Holiday Gift Guide

    The Wish List They Don't Want You to See!

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    Y2K Ready, Set, Doh!

    Microsofts home remedy for the millennial bug: Download more products

  • News

    March 18, 1999

    Sequelitis Hits Gaming!

    Are megamergers healthy for the industry?

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    Non-Windows Users of the World, Unite!

    Microsoft Windows Refund Day is just around the corner

  • Features

    January 7, 1999

    The Year in Cyberspace

    Microsoft Windows Refund Day is just around the corner

  • News

    December 24, 1998

    Millennium Plan Madness

    Microsoft Windows Refund Day is just around the corner

  • News

    December 17, 1998

    X-Stopped

    Court rules library must remove OC firm's filtering software

  • News

    March 5, 1998

    Shut Up, Again

    Senate takes another whack at free speech online

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Welcome to Agrestic, errrrr, Orange County

     When did Showtime's Weeds, which is set in Valencia or Calabasas or Santa Clarita or Stevenson Ranch or Gorman or wherever the hell it is, spring up in Orange County? It's sure seeming very Agrestic-like based on two police incidents mere hours apart Wednesday.First, cops started going door-to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Dance Music Pick of the Week: Joris Voorn at Code

    Krijin van Noordwijk​Once every few years a game-changing album will accelerate the evolution of electronic dance music. The Prodigy added punk rock aggression to the scene in 1992 (Experience), the Chemical Brothers became the Beatles of club-land in 1995 (Exit Planet Dust) and Moby introduced th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Are You Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Into Computer Game Platforms?

    ​"Think Inside the Box: Platform Studies" is the topic of the next Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds Speakers Series presentation Friday at UC Irvine.Panelists are: Ian Bogost, associate professor of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology; Nick Mon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Ten Hilarious Anti-Piracy Methods for Video Games

    For as long as video games have existed, there have been people who try to find ways to play them without paying for it. These software pirates use a variety of techniques to steal games, from something as simple as burning a CD to the complicated method of hacking into a console.In response, game p ... More >>

  • Food

    July 22, 2010

    We've Got an App for That

    For as long as video games have existed, there have been people who try to find ways to play them without paying for it. These software pirates use a variety of techniques to steal games, from something as simple as burning a CD to the complicated method of hacking into a console.In response, game p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Sierra Club Appeals Ruling Limiting Public Access to Orange County Parcel Map System

    ​After losing a ruling in Orange County Superior Court, the Sierra Club is turning to the California Court of Appeal in an attempt to win no- or low-cost access to the County of Orange's Landbase parcel map system, which the public must currently pay thousands of dollars to get to.The lower court ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    [UPDATE] Three Things You Didn't Know About the 'Tron: Legacy' Soundtrack

    ​The whole interview is up on KCRW.com. Listen to it here. "Solar Sailer," an instrumental track, will be offered today only as a free download.Last Saturday in Santa Monica, California, Disney unveiled parts of the Tron: Legacy soundtrack. Five of the 22 tracks were previewed, and director Jose ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 9, 2010

    UC Irvine's New Computer-Games Major Gets Its Game On

    The school is banking big on computer games as an emerging discipline

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    UCI Presentation Explores Designing, Sharing and Customizing Video Games in Your Browser

    ​An academic from Switzerland will be at UC Irvine this afternoon advocating a web-based game-design program aimed at the general public.Navid Ahmadi, who is on the faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland, will present AgentWeb, a first-of-its-kind web-based game design and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Forget The App, It's A Playable Angry Birds Cake!

    There's SweetSpot Baker's Workshop, where they encourage fun Color-Me-Mine-ing your own cupcake. The gang at Blackmarket Bakery will even get you started with flames or waves, but the finishing touches are at your discretion. And you'll remember Michelle's post on the Angry Birds gingerbread hous ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Controversy Over Smartphone Apps That List DUI Checkpoints

    The Checkpointer iPhone App ​Accidentally drank too many brewskies and now need to bypass the cops on the dangerous drive home?   There's an app for that. Several of them, actually, including the $4.99 iPhone "Checkpointer" by Baron Zweber, which lists DUI checkpoints in OC. According to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    WeedMaps Owner Expanding OC Headquarters

    ​No, General Cannabis isn't a Jamaican dancehall singer. It's a Nevada-based technology company that owns Weedmaps.com, CannaCare.com and other medical marijuana related concerns. The company is currently headquartered in Costa Mesa, but according to a press release today, it just moved into new o ... More >>

  • Film

    April 21, 2011

    Newport Beach Film Festival: Programmers' Picks!

    A dozen of the finest the fest has to offer

  • Culture

    May 5, 2011

    There's a Shopping App for That

    [Trendzilla] Coupon Sherpa, Stylebook and Amazon Mobile are there to help

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2011

    E3 2011: Hands-off Impressions of New Kinect Hardware

    Peter Mai/OC Weekly​Unlike Nintendo and Sony, Microsoft's biggest focus this year is all about software--specifically, software to support the Kinect sensor that was released half a year ago. Although the peripheral sold a world-record amount of units since launch, the amount of games and applicat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    [UPDATED with Sentencing] Gary A. Shawkey's Trail of Lies Ends in Santa Ana, Where He's Found Guilty of Murdering Partner

    Shawkey​UPDATED, JULY 22, 12:40 P.M.: Today in a Santa Ana courtroom, Gary A. Shawkey received his sentence for murdering a 71-year-old business partner in 2008: life in prison without the chance for parole. The victim was last seen on a boat with Shawkey, leaving Dana Point Harbor. It is believed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    TSA Agents No Longer Get To See You Naked

    Bluefly​Soon, air travel will no longer require passengers to put on a virtual strip show.The Transportation Security Administration announced that over the next few months, full-body scanners at airports nationwide will be upgraded with new software that eliminates "passenger-speci ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 28, 2011

    MouseWait and More of OC's Best Apps!

    [Trendzilla] Download them now. Even better? They're FREE!

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    WeedMaps Unveils New Amazon-Friendly Android App

    ​General Cannabis, the Newport Beach company that owns WeedMaps, is celebrating the official launch of a new marijuana-club locating phone application. While WeedMaps has already released I-Tunes and Google Android apps, this latest version is specially designed to work for Amazon-platform Android ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Ambulance Chasing? There's an App for That

    ​You're sitting there at the side of the road with another slack-jawed driver you've just engaged in a fender bender. Time was, you'd fumble for paper and pen and switch names and digits with the other bumper carsman for insurance deductible considerations to be figured out later. But now, a Newpo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Three Reasons the Michael Jackson Trial App Feels So Wrong

    ​So yes, there is such as thing as a Michael Jackson Doctor Trial App, a mini "media center for the iPhone and iPad and Android devices." Released by Fox Television Stations, the app includes live video of the trial proceedings, recorded local news segments, photo galleries and biographies of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    iTunes, Wired Love Our 'Best of . . .' App, They Really Do!

    Have you downloaded it yet?​You know how we're doing all these Ten Great lists of different local faves (pizza, tacos, etc.) under the "Best of Best of Best of!" category? It's for more than cheap hits--we're slowly trotting out our Best Of . . . app for smart phones and the like, which group toge ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 12, 2012

    Mr. Chiizu Makes You Say, 'Cheese!'

    [Trendzilla] IPhone app lets you create your own Japanese-style photo booth

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