Thursday, March 24, 2011

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AnyLeaf Gets An iPhone App For On-The-Go Grocery Deals

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:09 PM PDT

I’m absolutely terrible at saving money at the grocery store. Having grown up surrounded by gadgets, the idea of tearing through page after page of those weekly grocery store mailers seems about as savvy as getting all of my news via smoke signal. Nine times out of ten, they go straight from my mailbox to the recycling bin.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been using the Y-Combinator backed grocery deal aggregator, AnyLeaf. The idea of it is pretty simple: those mailers? AnyLeaf digs up digital copies, aggregates all the data, sorts all of it by category, and then highlights the “hot” deals (based on historical prices). In the past month alone, I’ve saved a few hundred bucks, and my fridge is stocked better than ever.

Up until this point, using AnyLeaf while actually at the store (to look at a list of saved items, for example) has… kind of sucked. The site is a bit wonky to use on the iPhone, and pushin’ around a grocery cart with my iPad in the child seat makes me feel like a gigantic bag of tools. Fortunately, AnyLeaf’s got a new iPhone app that ought to make bargain-hunting on-the-go a bit less painful.

The iPhone app packs just about everything found on the site, squeezin’ all of the categorical sorting and hot-deal finding into a much more mobile-friendly format. The best feature, though, has to be the shopping list view. You can build up your list from the comfort of your full blown PC, then just hop into the app to view that same list at the store. It’s a pretty simple idea, but it makes the entire service a whole lot more useful.

You can find the (free!) app in the App Store right over here.

(Note: Heads up, non-Californians: Looks like AnyLeaf is a Bay Area-only thing right now.)

Anti-Virus Company Installs Cellphone Malware And Then Charges To Remove It

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:41 AM PDT

A Chinese company, NetQin, secretly installed malware whenever users installed a copy of their special “cellular malware detector” and then charged a 30 cent update fee to remove the virus. The software also deleted other anti-virus solutions on Android phones.

All major Chinese carriers have blocked NetQin from selling their app on their app stores and they can no longer charge users ransom. The company recently filed for an IPO on the NYSE.

via Cellular News


I, For One, Welcome Our New Dancing Android Overlords

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 10:56 AM PDT

Little known (and completely false) fact: once upon a time, the Android Robot (the platform’s lovable lil’ green logo) entered a dance contest. First place was a lucrative dance contract with one of the world’s finest agencies, with dancing gigs from Paris to Rome. Second place meant you got to dance next to a Sony Ericsson stand in Taiwan. Needless to say, Android didn’t get first.

Also, I find it amazing that a guy in a massive inflatable rubber suit can still dance considerably better than I can.

iPhone 4 Survives 1,000 Foot Fall From Airplane

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 10:28 AM PDT

Late last night, we received an email from U.S. Air Force Combat Controller Ron Walker, who wrote to share an incredible story about his iPhone 4.

Airman Walker’s duties as a jump master require him to ensure that his aircraft is the the proper location before sending parachute jumpers into the air. One week ago (on March 16), he stuck his body out of the open door to look for landmarks as the plane sped through the air at 130 knots (about 150 m.p.h.). As he did, the Velcro seal on his pocket flew open, and out popped his iPhone. Airman Walker could do nothing but watch it fall away from the plane; he assumed it was lost forever, not to mention destroyed by the fall.

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