Subject: Apple iPhone

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  September 21, 2007

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  October 23, 2007

• Go! The St. Louis Weekend Calendar, August 8-10, 2008

  August 7, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Monday, 10.20

  October 20, 2008

• Last Minute Gift Ideas for Chris Duncan, Richie Incognito, Albert Pujols and Other St. Louis Sports Personalities

  It's tough being a St. Louis sporting figure these days. Whether you're calling out your players for poor play, making demands for an $11 million luxury, or just trying to make sense of what you just saw happen to your team, life is flat out hard. But you know what can make it all better? Why, a truly great Christmas present, that's what! I know there's nothing in the world that makes me feel more special than when someone takes the time to get me just the right gift. Of course, I know

  December 24, 2008

• Missouri Ranks Number 35 in Something! (That's Good News, Right? Wrong!)

  Stuff sometimes conspires to make Unreal feel like a pretty dense Mensan. To combat Alzheimer's, we engage in iPhone calisthenics like Word Warp. But when we really want to stump ourself, we turn to the New York Times' Freakonomics blog. A recent installment involves an interactive map of the USA, a feature that always tends to make Unreal's baited pole bounce around in the water, and a poor showing by Missouri, which simultaneously satisfies our appetite for schadenfreude and gives us hives.Via

  February 18, 2009

• TSA Detains Ron Paul Campaigner at Lambert; Asks Him: "Are You From This Planet?"

  Remember that controversial memo Missouri officials circulated to law enforcement this February? You know, the one that lumped followers of Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty (and other political organizations) as possible militia members? campaignforliberty.comSteve BierfeldtWell, that memo is getting a new round of attention today courtesy of the Washington Times. The right-leaning paper reports that Transportation Security Administration officials at Lambert Field detained and harassed Steve Bie

  April 6, 2009

• Balloonatics: Hey kid, wanna see my balloon dog?

  February 18, 2009

• Get Literati

  May 28, 2008

• Face the Nation

  We find out what rocked across the country in 2007.

  December 26, 2007

• The Popcorn King

  April 25, 2007

• Auto-Chaotic

  July 4, 2007

• Mizzou to J-School Class of 2013: Be Prepared, Buy an iPhone!

  flickr.com/photos/ryanmftLet nobody say the administration of University of Missouri School of Journalism is out of touch with its students. These profs understand that lectures, the scourge of college students since the Middle Ages, are so, like, boring. Especially when they're at the ungodly hour of nine a.m.So, starting this fall, incoming Mizzou journalism students will be required to purchase an iPhone or an iPod touch. No, silly, not for texting their friends during boring lectures. It's s

  May 7, 2009

• iSnort: The World's Hottest New iPhone App (Club Edition)

  I don't own an iPhone, and I also don't go clubbing. But if I did, I would totally download this awesome new app, iSnort. I mean, if it existed. There are a lot of hypotheticals here. Including the one that this would somehow help me fulfill my dual lifelong dreams of being able to forego sleep and also being supercool.  

  May 21, 2009

• The Noble Writ: So You Want to Be a Wine Geek?

  Dave Nelson is the author of the blog Beer, Wine and Whisky. He writes about wine for Gut Check every Tuesday.Wine is a daunting subject: tens of thousands of producers, located in unique microclimates all around the world, each creating between one and dozens of wines, each of which is different to some degree every year due to variation in the weather. How even to begin learning about it?The breadth and depth of the topic of "wine" make knowing it intimately outside the scope of all but a few

  May 26, 2009

• June Phone Showdown: Palm Pre vs. Apple iPhone

  June is turning out to be a big month for gadget geeks. Last week Palm finally released its much anticipated new phone, the Pre which looks a lot like an iPhone with a slide out keyboard. It's no surprise, some of the same engineers who designed the first iPhone also worked on the Pre. Right now it's only available on the Sprint network but it's been rumored that Verizon will also carry the handset in six months. Is the Pre an iPhone killer? Time will tell. It will at least be a good contender i

  June 8, 2009

• RFT Picks for Twitter Follow Friday: STL Tweeps

  There's no particular theme to this weeks picks, other than these are some local people who I enjoy following on Twitter.

  June 19, 2009

• The iPhone Revolution

  see more Lolcats and funny picturesFans of the iPhone lined up at Apple and AT&T stores all around the country on Friday hoping to be among the first to snag the new iPhone 3G S. The newest addition to Apple's popular line of phones that I told you might be coming a couple of weeks ago. Apple loves to keep their new products a secret until the very last possible moment before release. But judging from the information that trickled out before this announcement, Apple isn't having much success

  June 22, 2009

• Board Okays Demolition of San Luis Apartments; Twitterers Report the News

  Photo by: Steve Patterson UrbanReviewSTL.comBloggers and Twitterers in attendance at the Preservation Board Meeting (the ones with their heads down looking at their iPhones and Blackberrys)Last night while I was enduring a five-hour power outage in my neighborhood, the St. Louis Preservation Board was meeting to determine the fate of the San Luis building (previous story by Keegan Hamilton) in the Central West End, which the St. Louis Arch Diocese would like to demo

  June 23, 2009

• Google Continues its Quest for World Domination with Google Voice

  I finally got my Google Voice invite last week. Voice is Google's move into what has traditionally been the domain of the big telephone companies. The service is still in private beta, which means that you have to get an invite to try it out. It's very likely Google will roll out voice in a similar way they did with Gmail by allowing existing users to send out a few invites to their friends. But for now, the only way to try it is via direct invite from Google, which you can request at the Google

  July 20, 2009

• Are You Ready to Augment Your Reality? [Fun With iPhone]

  Most people have heard of virtual reality and probably have at least some vague idea of what that is. But have you heard of augmented reality? Well it's coming to your iPhone 3gs this fall. In case you don't know what augmented reality is (and unless you're a sci-fi geek you probably don't) it's a heads up display for life ... Okay, maybe that's not a good way to explain it either. Perhaps it's best just to show you. Here is a video demo from a developer of one such app that will be available th

  July 27, 2009

• Foursquare Coming to St. Louis this Fall! ... Maybe.

  ​The popular social location game Foursquare is coming to St. Louis this fall. At least, that's what one of its founders Dennis Crowley hopes. I've been hearing about Foursquare since the South by Southwest Interactive conference last spring where apparently it made a big impression on the attendees. It generated almost as much buzz as Twitter did in 2007. I attended that year and one of the reasons Twitter was so popular then was that it was a quick and easy way to let your friends know where

  July 28, 2009

• Ten Tech Releases to Look for this Fall

  Photo by Marcin Wichary via Flickr​It's August. The economy is bad. Things are slow, but technology marches on. In spite of the global economic slowdown, there will still be plenty of new high-tech products to look forward to this fall. A lot of them will actually be cheaper (even Apple has lowered its prices) and a few things will actually be free, like the some of the new Google products. Here are ten things to look forward over the next few months:Google VoiceDid you get your invite yet? Se

  August 7, 2009

• Show Review Photos Setlist: Green Day and Franz Ferdinand at the Scottrade Center, Tuesday, August 11

  Photo: Todd OwyoungFrom last night's show at the Scottrade Center. See more photos of Green Day last night.​ Caveat: I've been a Green Day fan since 1994 or so. And so I have a sneaking suspicion that last night's Scottrade Center show wasn't for me - even though the band ran through plenty of its bratty, jawing pop-punk hits. But then again, last night's show wasn't for new fans, either - at least, not the hordes of elementary-school-aged children there with their parents. How do I know

  August 12, 2009

• Oh iPhone! Is there Anything You CAN'T Do?

  It takes photos, plays music and video, you can browse the web, it even catches criminals. What can't the iPhone do? Not much, apparently. Apple's iPhone store has been an incredible success -- 2.4 billion worth of success. Proving that the iPhone is way more than just a phone. It's the worlds first successful hand held computer. Here are a few random apps that have caught my eye recently. Some you may find useful, some ... not so much. Text PlusIs a free text messaging app. And by free, I don't

  September 1, 2009

• A Guide to the Hidden Socialist Agenda in Barack Obama's Message to School Kids

  ​Today the COTUS (Commandante of the United States) indoctrinated the youth of America with a speech laden with socialist rhetoric. A few of those references were very apparent, while many more were extremely subtle -- part of the Obama administration's vast conspiracy to brainwash the nation through the use of subliminal messaging. But never fear! The Daily RFT is here to save you from falling victim to this nefarious plot. Following is Obama's prepared speech to school children with its

  September 8, 2009

• Apple Announcement a Big YAWNER

  ​So, my guess was wrong about Apple releasing the Beatles catalog on iTunes. I'm not ashamed of that. It was a long shot. But I did get some things right about the Apple announcement and I was surprised by quite a few things, too. I was right about iTunes 9. That wasn't hard to guess. I haven't had a lot of time to explore the new version yet, but it seems they have tweaked the interface a little bit by adding some new sharing features. They've also changed the layout of the store quite a bit.

  September 10, 2009

• Get Busy

  October 14, 2009

• Foursquare Makes Its Splash in St. Louis (Finally)

  Last week Foursquare finally made its debut in St. Louis. That's a little later than co-founder Dennis Crowley told us back in July, but it is within his expectation of being available here by the end of October.​Here is a little recap on what Foursquare is and what it does. Foursquare is a location based game that you can play with your phone. There is an iPhone app, an Android App and it works via a mobile website for other smart phones and you can also play via SMS text message on other non

  October 22, 2009

• The Dive Bomber: Super Digital Fun at Super's Bungalow Beer Garden

  Screenshot: foursquare.com​This week, my cranky old cell phone died, so I joined the addict-addled world of the iPhone. And because I have to have every free application created, I joined the addict-addled world of foursquare. Because I want everyone to know how to find me. That won't be annoying at all, considering how much I like people.Foursquare proved its usefulness within hours after I joined when I saw several recommendations for Super's Bungalow Beer Garden.Dive bombing has officially

  November 5, 2009

• TSA Changes Policies After Detaining Ron Paul Follower at Lambert Field

  campaignforliberty.comBierfeldt​Remember the case of Steve Bierfeldt? If you answered no, you're not reading enough Libertarian blogs. Let us quickly recap...Bierfeldt is the development director for presidential candidate Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty. He was in the St. Louis airport back in April when Transportation and Safety Administration officials found $4,700 in cash in his luggage and detained him for questioning. When Bierfeldt refused to answer their inquiries, TSA officials respon

  November 13, 2009

• St. Louis Company Hawks This Christmas' Hottest Toy. Are You Ready? It's an Artificially Intelligent Hamster!

  But of course!Who wants to clean up hamster poop and pony up for rodent feed when fake little critters are available for only $7.99?Or, were available. The New York Times reports that Ladue-based Cepia LLC can't keep the shelves at Toys 'R Us, Wal-mart and Target stocked with its crazy-popular Zhu Zhu Pets. The retailers are taking desperate measures: placing limits on purchases per household and doling out promotions for certain sale-days in order to control lines and call volume. On eBay, the

  November 25, 2009

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  January 13, 2010

• In Honor of Apple's Big Announcement Today, Here are Some of Its Other Tablets

  Today is the day when St. Jobs comes down from the mountain and delivers his (Apple's) "latest creation" ... that's what the official Apple press release says anyway. Nothing about a tablet or anything, just "our latest creation." You would think that with all the hype about a tablet, that Apple has announced that they are releasing some sort of tablet computing device today. That's not so, they've never mentioned a tablet at all. (Which is not to say that they aren't releasing a tablet today.)G

  January 27, 2010

• Washington University's iPhone Apps Class: Only Real-World Job Seekers Need Apply!

  Kill Cupid! Kill Cupid!​Todd Sproull was finishing up his Ph.D. in computer science at Washington University last summer when his research advisor asked him if he'd be interested in teaching an entire undergraduate class on developing apps for the uber-popular iPhone. "I was kind of surprised, like, 'Really? I can do that?'" remembers Sproull. The course debuted in the fall with 20 junior and senior computer science majors who spent all semester inventing a slew of intriguing apps: a workout m

  February 10, 2010

• Gut Check's Week in Tweets

  ​Don't you know? Gut Check has a Twitter account. You can follow us @gutcheckstl.Here's some of what you missed on the Twitter feed this week:RT @StevenCaravelli: Boys II Men ate at SLeeK last night. Here's what they ordered. http://yfrog.com/33ffvmj <Motownphilly cheesesteak?@EvanBenn @Ericstl6 @StevenCaravelli It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to His Bernaise

  February 19, 2010

• Presenting the Microwave Art of Kenny Irwin

  Image sourceIrwin and some of his (non-microwaved) art.​Lucia Pamela, the musician and space traveler who is the star of this week's feature, was not the only artistically gifted member of her family. Her mother, Lucia Beck, was a concert pianist. Her daughter, Georgia Frontiere, was a nightclub singer. And her grandson, Kenny Irwin, who also goes by the name Hassan, is a pioneer in the burgeoning field of microwave art."I was actually the first to come up with the concept of microwaving for e

  March 10, 2010

• Twitter Fight, Take Two: How Chipotle Uses Social Media

  A few weeks back, virtual sparks flew when local restaurateurs clashed with a group of social media-packin' diners on Twitter. But while social-media exchanges can cause anger and hurt feelings, the medium can be a catalyst for discussing problems in the industry and ultimately bringing down the wall that has for so long separated the kitchen from the dining room. ​What happens when Twitter complaints are aimed at a large chain? Well, that depends on the chain. Chipotle Mexican Grill has

  March 17, 2010