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All 510 rooms and 22 suites include high-speed Internet, two-line speaker-phones, bathroom phone, fax machine, and CD player. There's even an e-fridge that notifies the front desk the moment you grab a beer, so there's always another waiting for you the next morning.

This whimsical ecoconscious hotel is so San Francisco. Located just off Union Square, this unique and fun hotel features celebrity suites designed by Jerry Garcia and Santana. The rooms also feature iPod docking stations, LCD flat-panel televisions, Wi-Fi and wired broadband, and in-room laptop safes.

This ultramodern boutique hotel has a sleek stainless steel decor and free wireless throughout the entire hotel. It's adjacent to a Starbucks and right across the street from two movie theaters. They even rent iPods to hotel guests.

Where we go for all things geek in a pinch.

A new high-tech playpen with an Imax theater, a Sony Style Store, a high-tech arcade, great restaurants, and a Julian's pool hall.

Offers high-tech exhibits.

If you're in the mood for some old-school 19th-century technology.

Maxfield's House of Caffeine 398 Dolores St.

Two doors down from Mission Dolores, where Jimmy Stewart stalked Kim Novak in Hitchcock's famous flick Vertigo.

Maggie Mudd 903 Cortland Ave.

Not only can you get lactose-free vegan ice cream, you can get lactose-free vegan wireless. You'll have to pay for the ice cream. But not the wireless.

Rockin' Java 1821 Haight St.

The place to find geeky Deadheads in the Haight.

The wireless is free, and the coffee's organic.

FAST FACTS Google and local start-up Feeva already offer free Wi-Fi access in Union Square, San Francisco's Tourist Central. After a trip to Saks and a theater matinee, you can sit down at the Dewey Monument and log on to PCMag.com • Sure, the Giants are at AT&T Park in San Francisco (which also doubles as an enormous hot spot). But if you wanna watch major league baseball at a park named for an antivirus company, take the short BART ride to McAfee Coliseum, home of the Oakland A's and Moneyball.

WHILE YOU'RE IN TOWN Forget the tourist traps. Coit Tower, Chinatown, and the Wharf are all well and good, but if you want something out of the ordinary, we've got two recommendations. First, head over to the Mission and grab lunch at La Taqueria (2889 Mission St.) â€" the best tacos, burritos, and quesadillas north of the border. And that might be an understatement. We recommend the carnitas burrito with guacamole. Then head across town to the Castro Theatre (www.castrotheatre.com), one of the country's great old-time movie houses. Get there well before the show: They still play the organ before the curtain goes up…