GeekWire Radio: Our favorite apps to find a date, a car ride, a haircut, and make your tweets self-destruct

We’re again with one other app-apolooza on this week’s GeekWire radio present — speaking about our newest favourite apps with our particular visitor, Alex McConnehey, the founding father of the See Jane Repair cellphone and pill restore service.

After getting suggestions from Alex on conserving our telephones in working order, we dive into the apps — overlaying all the things from ride-sharing apps to courting apps, and I reveal my decide for one of the best app for scheduling a haircut.

GeekWire’s Taylor Soper makes his return to the present, filling in for John Cook dinner. We begin by rounding up our favourite highlights from the week, together with the return of Microsoft Flight Simulator, and the information that summer season interns at massive tech corporations are already making greater than the U.S. median family revenue.

On this prolonged podcast model of the present, we discuss in regards to the meals supply providers which have been rising in Seatte and across the nation, together with the brand new Peachd supply service, which has raised $2.7 million in funding. We’ve been testing many of those providers at GeekWire, and Taylor previews his upcoming evaluate.

Plus, Taylor prepares for the arrival of a skilled chef who will cook dinner dinner at his home subsequent week, utilizing the KitchenSurfing service.

Hearken to the present beneath or through this MP3 file, and proceed studying for hyperlinks to the apps that we talk about on the present.

Title that Tech Tune: The reply to final week’s problem is … Independence Day. Congrats to our randomly chosen winner, Taylor Duce, who gained a pair of tickets to GeekWire Sounders Day, and the Sounders vs. Earthquakes match, on Aug. 20.

Our App of the Week, Xpire for iPhone enables you to set your tweets and Fb posts to self-destruct after a specified time frame.

Ridesharing and transportation: OneBusAway, Car2Go, Lyft.

Haircuts: The Nice Clips apps allow you to schedule your appointment and see wait occasions out of your cellphone.

Relationship apps and providers: Tinder and Grouper. (See Taylor’s previous submit about his Grouper expertise.)

Procuring and style curation: Polyvore

Motion pictures: Flixter and Fandango

Sports activities: ESPN Sportscenter for Android and iPhone.