Reel in a Netflix movie with the ezMoviePick app

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Published Dec. 3, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
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I am a huge movie fan and have been a customer of Netflix since they opened for business. I would say that I average over 200 movies a year delivered to me in red envelopes, so I was quite excited when ezMoviePick $0.99US [iTunes Link] was released. This app, which works with any iPhone or iPod touch running OS 3.0 or better, is a Netflix queue manager and movie selector rolled into one, so I had to check it out and see if if it could replace a few other Netflix apps like PhoneFlicks, that I

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iPhone app manages Netflix queue

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Published Dec. 1, 2009 at 6:58 p.m.
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TouchMatter has released ezMoviePick, an iPhone companion app for Netflix. Like the popular restaurant app, UrbanSpoon, ezMoviePick lets you shake your mobile device to receive a recommendation ...

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The Week In iPhone Apps: Deliciousness [IPhone Apps]

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Published Aug. 28, 2009 at 6:20 p.m.
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Finding restaurants, learning recipes, hunting down local food, eating with a conscience, feigning culinary expertise, and everything else food : Welcome to this week's Friday iPhone apptacular, Taste Test edition ... People who don't really care about The Victuals, what's wrong with you? don't worry!: I've still trawled the App Store for non-food downloads this week, and there are plenty—just scroll waaay down. Everyone else? Commence feast ... NOW ... Eating Out ... Yelp: If by some

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Mobile AdSense Beta Expands as Google's Push to Own Mobile Marketing Gains Traction

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Published June 25, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
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Google's anticipated move into mobile advertising came one big step closer to fruition today, as the beta version of Mobile AdSense opened to a broader range of application developers after initial testing with a group of ten apps, including Shazam and Urbanspoon, proved successful. Mobile AdSense will provide targeted contextual ads based on location, keyword, or demographic, and marketers can bid for key placement on a particular mobile app ... Right now the beta trial is open to iPhone or

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Lonely Planet San Francisco City Guide for iPhone free for a limited time

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Published June 2, 2009 at 11:30 a.m.
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Normally the Lonely Planet guides for iPhone are $15.99, so any way you look at it, getting the San Francisco guide (iTunes link) for free is a great purchase. At worst you'll see if you like the Lonely Planet way of doing things in a travel guide and at best you might discover something new in San Francisco. Yep, the guide is free in anticipation of WWDC, allowing attendees to do a little sightseeing if Apple's sessions aren't enough for you ... I've only spent a bit of time with the app (I'm

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Design's Reach: Let's Begin a Dialogue

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Published May 11, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
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Design. Everyone seems to know about it. Some discredit it as superficial, while others crave it as a lifestyle. Business can be perplexed by it or harness its power. Not even designers can agree on its meaning ... It's no wonder the design profession can't get its story to the world straight. It was much easier thirty years ago we could simply tell the story about our process of sketching and model-making that led to more beautiful and desirable objects. But now, any story focused on "objects"

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MySpace Partners With Citysearch for "MySpace Local"

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Published March 31, 2009 at 1:23 p.m.
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In a Web event this morning, MySpace announced a new service called MySpace Local in partnership with Citysearch that will debut in open beta next month. Using the latter's database of 75,000 local businesses, MySpace has created what it's calling a "social community" to allow users and local businesses to connect to one another ... Here's how it'll work: small businesses can now have pages on MySpace, that in turn connect to "hubs" based on localities. MySpace users can connect to the city hub

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