Computer Technology

Tinder Is Like Pandora for Hooking Up

Twenty-seven-year-old Justin Mateen knows a whole lot about your dating life. He knows how old you are, how many Facebook friends you have and what physical characteristics you're most attracted to in a potential mate -- that is, if you're a member of the nationwide, L.A.-made dating app, Tinder, wh ... More >>

Rustic Canyon Review: Chef Jeremy Fox Makes a Good Restaurant Even Better

The high-profile chef brings out the Californian at this nine-year-old mainstay

The Undercover Vegetarian: Rustic Canyon

Chef Jeremy Fox once presided over the most celebrated vegetarian menu in the country at Ubuntu in Napa. So now that he's taken the helm at Rustic Canyon in Santa Monica, it is no surprise that it's quite easy to eat incredibly well without meat at his current endeavor. On the current menu, more t ... More >>

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 >>

Restaurants, Please Use This: Wordpress Launches Confit For Restaurant Websites

It's a cry that's been uttered many times: Why are restaurant websites so bad? Why do web designers, in cahoots with chefs and owners, think that we want to see a fancy Flash presentation collage of your restaurant and hear smooth jazz but we have no interest in say, the hours, or address, or access ... More >>

Tech for Food Nerds: Chefs Feed 2.0 Launches Today

Chefs Feed, the app that launched a little less than a year ago, released version 2.0 today with a bunch of new cities and more social media interaction capabilities. Chefs Feed aims to do much the same thing as our Where the Chefs Eat posts aspire to -- that is, let the food professionals guide y ... More >>

Los Angeles Map App by Caltrans Lets You Know Traffic Sucks in Real Time

No longer do you have to buy a crappy navigation device and suction-cup it to the wrong part of your windshield only to get stopped by cops for obstructing your driver's side view. Caltrans this week announced that it's helping to put TomTom out of business with a new, a traffic website called Quic ... More >>

L.A.'s Best Arts & Culture Apps

New Project Hopes to Turn Building Façades Into Virtual Murals You Can See on Your iPhone

Los Angeles isn't known as a city with great public spaces. It's a city that traditionally has been beholden to private interests, back-room development deals and, of course, the car. Not coincidentally, it's also a city that has been hostile to street art, until it recently began conflating murals ... More >>

John Anthony Borell III, 'Anonymous' Hacker Charged With Police Leaks in Utah, Also Suspected of Posting L.A. Cops' Info, Nude Pics

Some young hacktivist in Ohio apparently gives a damn about police accountability in far-off Los Angeles County. According to the Los Angeles Times, the FBI suspects 21-year-old Ohio resident John Anthony Borell III -- who's already facing 10 years in prison and a quarter-million-dollar fine for al ... More >>

Club Dead

Accessories for Keeping Your iPad Out of the Chicken Stock

The only thing that has stopped us from buying an iPad -- besides lack of money -- is our paranoid fear that we'll use it in the kitchen and accidentally knock it into the simmering pot of chicken stock. Or helplessly smudge it with flour-dusted fingerprints. Or absentmindedly put the milk in the ... More >>

iPad Killer Sought by Tribune Co., Corporate Parent of L.A. Times: Try Not to Laugh

Newspaper suits want to go head-to-head with this.​The Chicago-based geniuses at the Tribune Co., corporate parent of the Los Angeles Times, have their sights set on an iPad killer. Really. Because nothing says "future-forward high-tech hub" like the land of hot-dogs and coronary disease. The ... More >>

Angry Birds: The Cookbook

Flickr/tomazstolfaone very angry bird​ If weather girls can become television food megastars, then why can't massively addictive Finnish game apps become cookbooks? That was a rhetorical question; of course they can. And what better game to make the transition to cookbook than Angry Birds, a g ... More >>

Apps That Tip iPhone Users Off to Drunk Driver Checkpoint Locations Nixed by Apple

hotgirlswithiphones.com​Trying to avoid DUI checkpoints this weekend? There's an app for that. Or, at least, there was. Bowing to pressure following outrage from anti-drunk-driving activists and politicians over the tip-off apps, Apple has quietly written them out of its App Store, omitting t ... More >>

The Flaming Lips Releases New Music in Life-Size Gummy Skulls, Teases Gummy Wayne Coyne Statue

The Flaming LipsGummy skull​Silver trembling fetus ornaments and posters screen-printed with human blood--the colorful antics of The Flaming Lips' promotions are well documented. In January, Lips singer Wayne Coyne announced the band was planning to release small batches of songs in unorthodo ... More >>

iPhone Snitch? There's an App For That, and It's Connected to L.A. County Law Enforcement

hotgirlswithiphones.comDo tell.​In the hood they say snitches get stitches. But what if they can tell all with the push of a few keys on their iPhones? You'll never know, pelon. This could change the whole game, player. Look here, my snitches, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced th ... More >>

Hackers Who Targeted Celebrities' Nude-Photo-Filled Laptops Allegedly Aiming at Politicians, Sports Stars Too

Sony / RCAChristina Aguilera was a hacking victim, reportedly.​Updated after the jump with some doubt cast on the latest report. Hackers who allegedly have nude photos and video of Vanessa Hudgens, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera, and more have apparently also set their s ... More >>

Where Are #Wikileaks Media Friends? (Updated)

By Michael Lacey Executive Editor, Village Voice Media Updated: "WikiLeaks Betrayed by Amazon, Visa, Mastercard---and Worst of All, the Media" Where are the First Amendment's estabishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down Wikileaks? Hackers with computers, not hacks with ... More >>

Project Fishmap, Monterey Bay Aquarium's Newest App: Almost as Much Fun as Angry Birds

​Here's something new to add to your phone if you're a seafood lover. No, not a bluefin tuna version of Angry Birds, although that would be kind of fun. Slightly more useful is Project FishMap, a new feature of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch app, which lets you tag any of more than ... More >>

iPhone App Allows Fans To Search For Stars On Hollywood Walk Of Fame

​ An iPhone application allowing people to search for their favorite stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Wednesday, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced. Those eager to find the stars of Lucille Ball, Clint Eastwood or Mark Wahlberg can now do so with a few strokes of the ... More >>

Google Vows To Cover Cost Of L.A. City Hall's Delays In Implementing Its 'Free' Email Service

​Following the bad press that continues to dog the city of Los Angeles' move to "free" Google email service, the computer giant agreed this week to cover the costs of delaying City Hall's transition to gmail, costs incurred mainly because the Los Angeles Police Department isn't happy with the ... More >>

Will.i.am Uses iPad To Track Down Thief In Los Angeles

​Black Eyed Peas Rapper Will.i.am used his iPad's built-in tracking system to locate $10,000 worth of belongings (including his new iPad) stolen from his Bentley last week. According to KTLA News, Will used the tracking system to locate the thief's location and forwarded the information to th ... More >>

Today In WTF: Sex Hacker Allegedly Took Over Computers, Demanded Sex Acts On Video

​A self-proclaimed member of an international computer gang hacked into females' computers and demanded that they perform sexual acts on video for his pleasure or face identity theft, federal authorities allege. Some of the women did as he requested, officials said. The suspect, 31-year-old S ... More >>

iBallz: Protective Balls for Your Tablet Device

This Saturday, Apple will begin selling the much-hyped iPad and new users of the tablet device will begin wondering, how am I going to protect my new, expensive gadget. L.A. DJs Derek Michael and Lee Doerr think they have the answer and it's called iBallz. ​ Consisting of four balls attached ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from L.A. Food Blogs and Newsletters

-- Oprah rebuilds her television set out of chocolate. No word on how much of it she ate. [Grub Street] -- The White Stuff: an author's exploration (in Gastronomica) of his mother's all-white eating habits. [Psycho-Gourmet] -- Biking the L.A. River, but with food. [Eating L.A.] -- Ubuntu's former ... More >>

Meth-Face Imaging Software Puts Scare Into Kids

Face2Face​A California sheriff has helped a tech company develop 3D imaging software that can show people what their face would look like if they start and continue abusing methamphetamine for months and years. The results are shocking and compelling enough that law-enforcement agencies from L ... More >>

Pedraza vs. Macintosh: Worms in the Apple

Contemporary Korean Art Exhibit

Cab Fare: Hope Swings Eternal

Even amid the economic meltdown and collapse of the music industry, hope springs wherever there's a microphone, green grass and baked goods. This Saturday, at Culver City's Woodbine Park, a new recording label launches with a DIY fundraising event. "A Day in the Park" features Orange Cab Records' de ... More >>

Hollywood's Magic Castle Goes Adobe for a Day

Plus: The Owl that guards the entrance is a hoot

The World's Largest Rodent

Short Cuts

UPDATE: More Buzz in Hirsch’s Hornet’s Nest

The stinging continues

Evolution on the Desktop

Creating creatures at sodaplay.com

Art in Jeopardy

Not a pretty picture for Mayor Hahn

Booty Recall

Letting go with Supreme Beings of Leisure

Webs

Steven Johnson has seen the future, and it’s SimCity

Hackers Unite

Geeks rally for jailed Russian programmer. But it’s hard to explain why it really does matter.

Please Pass This Notice On

Netlore is fast replacing urban legends in limning 21st-century angst

Computer Mouse

The perfect (test) beast lives in a Caltech lab

Being Ron Unz

The Genius Son of a Welfare Mother, He Made a Fortune in Computers. Now He's Spending it Trying to Reshape the World

Control Freak-Alt-Delete

Reading the Microsoft Findings of Fact as a riveting novel

Psst . . . Wanna Pay for a Music Download??

Busta Rhymes, All the Time . . .

. . . if you want it: Scour.net, straight from the underground

Wetlands and the Well-Ordered Society

Coming to terms with Playa Vista after DreamWorks

Letters

...One point of view he fails to discuss at all is the enormous potential Y2K represents in terms of creating enough chaos to enable the corporate entities that pull our strings to manipulate a confused public into acting against its own interests...

The Scream of the Hard Drive, the Roar of the Fan

Toon Out

The Second Annual World Animation Celebration