Software

New Times Unveils Latest City App for iPhone and Android

Brand new versions of the Phoenix New Times apps are now available on iTunes and Google Play. The apps are loaded with new features. Check em out and download them now. Download the new app here.

New Times Unveils Latest City App for iPhone and Android

Brand new versions of the Phoenix New Times apps are now available on iTunes and Google Play. The apps are loaded with new features. Check em out and download them now.

New Times Unveils Latest City App for iPhone and Android

Brand new versions of the Phoenix New Times apps are now available on iTunes and Google Play. The apps are loaded with new features. Check em out and download them now.

We Test the ICP iPhone App (It Has A Grindr-Like Juggalo Locator)

By David Thorpe While perusing Insane Clown Posse's Twitter timeline, like a person does, I came across something interesting: our favorite rap clowns announced a new update to their official smartphone app, which I didn't even know existed. For the advancement of pop journalism and human knowledge ... More >>

Bill Montgomery's Smoking Gun: ICE PowerPoint Shows Monty's Minions How to Deport More Immigrants

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office and Arizona-based attorneys for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement are engaged in a partnership to ensure the deportation of undocumented aliens who otherwise would benefit from President Obama's proposed comprehensive immigration reform, despite ... More >>

Waygo App Promises to Translate Chinese Menus On the Fly

Fellow adventurous eaters: There is now an app called Waygo, specifically designed for translating Chinese menus on the fly.That's right, now you can ask for the "real" menu at your favorite Chinese joint and be certain you're ordering something more interesting than chow mein. See Also: --Chow Be ... More >>

Microsoft Sues E-Waste Harvesters of Phoenix, Claims Firm Sold Pirated Software

Computing giant Microsoft is suing a Phoenix e-waste recycling firm in federal court, claiming that the company has been selling unauthorized copies of its software. Phoenix's E-Waste Harvesters and its principal, Earl Campbell, have repeatedly advertised and sold refurbished computers that contain ... More >>

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Apple Adding Food and Drink Category to App Store: Yes to OpenTable, No to Fruit Ninja

Good-bye "Lifestyle," hello "Food & Drink." Macstories reports that, "in the next few weeks," Apple's App Store will be updated with a new "Food & Drink" category. Good news given that currently, finding apps having to do with eating and drinking means trolling through the "Lifestyle" category and ... More >>

Sexual Predator Trolling on Free Smart-Phone App Farm Story For Victim, Police Say

www.market.android.comA sexual predator found a victim on Farm Story, a free smart phone app, and then lured her into a private chat room, police say.​Detectives from the Peoria Police Department's Special Victims Unit arrested Jose Sanchez, a 37-year-old Colorado man, for allegedly engaging in se ... More >>

Tommy Reed Gets Life in Prison For Murder of Man He Met Through an iPhone Gay Social Networking App

Tommy Reed was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder.​Tommy McKey Reed was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where Judge Paul McMurdie sentenced him to life in prison for the 2010 murder of a man he met through a gay social networking app for his i ... More >>

Saffron Kitchen Pops Up with a South African One-Night-Only Dinner

​If you frequent local farmers' markets, no doubt you've been tempted by Andrea White's sassy, swanky, sexy (can you tell we love her names?!) Saffron Kitchen pies. Now White is presenting a one-night pop up dinner, Thursday, May 19, at Cycle, called "Ubuntu in Phoenix." The price ... More >>

Best of Phoenix: Yup, There's An App For That

​Introducing the Best Of App for iPhone (pictured right). Don't worry, the good, old-fashioned paper version of Best of Phoenix isn't going anywhere. Still, the print and paper version isn't exactly pocket friendly. Consider this a smaller version of your favorite guide to Phoenix (and severa ... More >>

Wanna Complain About Graffiti and Pot Holes? If You Live in Avondale, There's an App for That

www.fairfax.cc​Complaining to the city about mundane crap like potholes and graffiti isn't just for geriatrics with rotary phones anymore. The city of Avondale has unveiled a new smart phone application that allows residents to alert city officials to municipal eye sores like graffiti, weeds, and ... More >>

Marcia Powell Cage Death: County Attorney Releases ADC PowerPoint, Internal ADC Investigation Not Reviewed by CA

Marcia Powell, whose death remains unavengedThe Maricopa County Attorney's Office did not review a 3,000 page internal Arizona Department of Corrections investigation into the 2009 cage death of Perryville Prison inmate Marcia Powell.The County Attorney's office last week declined to prosecute anyon ... More >>

Brain Scans on Your iPhone? Yeah, There's an App for That, and They're Testing it Out in Scottsdale

www.thepreppyprincess.com​At last, an iPhone application that does something a little more useful than finding the closest Applebee's.Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale are conducting clinical trials on a new iPhone app that would allow doctors to view brain scans with their iPhone ... More >>

Ruby Suns

Indie-pop band rolls through the Valley

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Rites of Spring Ball, Tim Barry, Miss Derringer, and More

Deja Dance will participate in the Rites of Spring Ball on Friday at the Alwun House.According to the calendar on our wall, more than a week remains until spring has officially arrived. But for all intents and purposes, it feels like it's already sprung. The last gasp of winter has come and gone, te ... More >>

Community Collage

Photoshop for the common good at @Central

Fishy Fundraiser -- Part Two: Arpaio's Office Goes North to Alaska, Spends County Money, Brings Home Bacon for Joe

A couple of weeks ago, we related how a top official with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office met with some rich guys during a fishing trip in Alaska three years ago. As we were told by the lawyer for the rich guys, Grant Woods, the Alaska trip -- which was attended by MCSO Director Larry Black -- ... More >>

Metadata in Electronic Government Records Must be Released to Public, Arizona Supreme Court Rules

Phoenix police Sergeant David Lake may get to find out whether his supervisors screwed him over, thanks to unanimous pro-public-records ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court. As we related back in January, Lake was halted twice by the court system in his quest to obtain the metadata embedded in a Micr ... More >>

Google Launches Fancy New Music Search

Google has launched - albeit slowly - their new music search feature, making it easier to immediately hear an artist's music right awayEvery wonder how many Google searches are music related? Two out of every 10 searches just so happen to be music related, you curious cat, you. Google, the internet ... More >>

Cisco Company Partner in Tempe Giving $527,000 "Donation" to County; Sheriff's Office Questions Deal

​ A planned $527,000 "donation" to Maricopa County's IT department by Tempe-based Insight Networking (a.k.a. Calence) looks suspicious to the sheriff's office. After a hearing last week over the sheriff's takeover of the ICJIS system, Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott told New Times and oth ... More >>

Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Open Investigation Office in Flagstaff

  Image: ICE PowerPoint presentationThe U.S. Bureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is seeking a supervisor and agents to operate a recently approved investigation office in Phoenix. The news, (first reported in the Arizona Daily Sun yesterday), comes after about t ... More >>

Fountains of Wayne deliver debut DVD

After releasing their first album in 1996, power pop purists Fountains of Wayne finally deliver their debut DVD, No Better Place - Live in Chicago, 13 years later. While that may seem a little late in the game, it's about right on schedule for FoW time. After all, this is a band that earned a G ... More >>

Heartland Payment Systems Waits Till Inauguration Day to Release News on Massive Data Breach

A New Jersey company that processes payments for tens of thousands of American restaurants and other small businesses had its electronic pockets picked in a data breach that may be the country's largest ever.And it waited until Inauguration Day to let us know about it.A Washington Post article by ... More >>

Top 10 Country Records of 2008

By Michael McCall Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergTwo young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core work ethics, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, helped country expand its fan base in these years of shrinking music sales. Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGra ... More >>

Breathalyzer Software Issues Give Attorneys Hope for DUI Dismissals Across Arizona

"I can tell you with absolute certainty that every breath test result on an Intoxilyzer 8000 is inaccurate," Nesci says.

Podcast: Love Phoenix or Leave Phoenix Continued

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Cyberspace Invaders

County law enforcement's seeking more and more Web site information to mount investigations against private citizens

New Chow Bella URL

How to Restore a Photo

Memory enhancement

Coming Zune

Microsoft shoots at the Apple again

Unnatural Beauty

The bare facts

The Art of Darkness

What's inside

Hacked

Ford runs smack into it, poor guy

Burning the Faithful

New copy-protected CDs screw over the only honest customers the music industry has left

All Bark and No Bite

The county attorney could've forced elections department reform, but he backed down

Legal Love

Getting the cream for free

County Connivers

Maricopa officials let the hospital system collapse financially, costing taxpayers $82 million-plus

BEAT IT:

Quitting for dummies

Shotgun Franny

Local blues diva gets some Texas-size love from the Red-Headed Stranger

Blood on the Dance Floor

Art, commerce and ideologies all collide in the strange world of the remix

System Failure

Two years later, Maricopa County's computerized inspection effort is still struggling to get online

Letters

WHAT'S $12 MILLLION AMONG FRIENDS?

MARICOPA COUNTY IS SCRAPPING A BRAND-NEW, VERY EXPENSIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM SO IT CAN BUY---SURPRISE!---ANOTHER NEW, EXPENSIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM

HIGH-TECH'S MISSING LINK

IS JAMES J. DILETTOSO A TECHNO GOD OR JUST ANOTHER FLOPPY DISCIPLE? EVEN HE CAN'T SAY FOR SURE.