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Apple iPad

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Denver start-up Octa wants to make your iPad more adorable

    Denver-based Octa has created a new product that aims to make your iPad more user-friendly, and also more adorable in the process. "When we got our first iPad, we said, 'This is really cool, but really hard to hold,'" says Octa co-founder Kevin "Prometheus" Trotsky. So the group made a handle for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Food & Wine unveils its 2012 cocktail book -- with recipes from two local bartenders

    Each year Food & Wine releases a cocktail guide, which, in addition to being an anthology of recipes both classic and creative, is a window into the minds of some of the country's best bartenders and a reflection of current drink trends. This year's guide -- Food & Wine Cocktails 2012 -- just hit th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    If you have a face, caricature artist Brooke Howell wants to draw it

    Looking for a new Facebook profile picture? Brooke Howell can help. Her company, *LoL* Caricature Company, celebrates its grand re-opening on the 16th Street Mall this weekend and for just $12, you can get a digital caricature (drawn on an iPad), e-mailed to you to use on social media sites, or howe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Morton Subotnick: The pioneer of synthesizer on what keeps him engaged in electronic music

    Morton Subtonick (due Thursday, April 26 at ATLAS Institute as part of the annual Communikey Festival) is the pioneer of synthesizer music. Before he commissioned engineer Don Buchla to build a device that didn't yet have a name, the synthesizer did not exist. Electronic music existed but not to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Game of Thrones Season 2 premiere was full of tumult (spoilers within)

    Warning: Spoilers within! In one of the final scenes of the Season 2 premiere of Game of Thrones, henchmen of boy-king Joffrey, the incestuous product of his mother and uncle, tear through King's Landing, slaying the many bastard children of Robert, Joffrey's official but now totally dead father. B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Furniture designer Ray Hill turns to iPad cases with the F3 Folio

    Ashley Tauch shows off her iPad inside the Folio around the Westword office.The Denver-based company F3 Designs, has stumbled upon success in that much-coveted of technology niches: Apple product accessories. Its flagship product, the "F3 Folio," has become a local hit and has begun to gain moment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Reader: Baking bread takes as much talent as making a perfect sauce

    ​Many chefs are sour on baking, but enough sour beer convinced Patrick Langlois to come up with a gingerbread cookie recipe that worked perfectly with Crooked Stave Wild Wild Brett Orange. That no-baking chef business gets a rise out of Mantonat:

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Signal Snowboards brings iShred Steve Jobs tribute to Loveland

    ​Signal Snowboards has built a special tribute to Steve Jobs, complete with an iPad mounted in the nose of the board and a glowing LED Signal logo in the aluminum base (similar to Apple's iconic MacBook laptops). To test it, the California-based Signal crew brought the iShred to Colorado for s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Andy Turner of Plaid on The Black Dog, Michael Arias, Scintilli and virtues of soft synths

    Terrorbird MediaPlaid​Andy Turner and Ed Handley of Plaid (due Saturday, November 19, at the Bluebird) were part of the groundbreaking electronic music project The Black Dog in the late '80s through the earliest part of the '90s with Ken Downie. Mixing ambient soundscaping with textured, synco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Brandon Smith gets 25 years for iPad finger-ripping theft -- and soliciting victim's murder

    Big pics below.​Brandon Smith set out to steal an iPad shortly after the device's release, and he did. That's a relatively minor crime -- so how did he wind up being sentenced to 25 years behind bars? By pretty much shredding the finger of the iPad purchaser, and then, after the act got inter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Songza tops our list of music apps this week

    Music apps are quickly taking over our smartphones, turning music into toys, productivity tools and providing free tunes no matter where we are. This week, we've got a few great ways to find music and stream it, plus one of the best score readers for iPad yet.

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Turntable.fm finally becomes mobile and VidRhythm lets you make idiotic cat videos

    ​This past two weeks in music apps have been chock full of awesome for music apps. Some of the incredibly ridiculous things you can do with your smartphone this week: VidRhythm gives you the ability to make stupid songs out of videos, we're finally introduced to a Turntable.fm app, Play It Dow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Tradesmart wants to sell you media like its 1995

    ​It would seem the '90s are going to come back, whether we like it or not. This apparently doesn't just mean flannel shirts and Velcro shoes, as the recently opened Tradesmart, 8500 West Crestline Avenue, Littleton, hopes to also bring you the shopping experience you might remember from decade ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Music App Roundup: Bandito, Groove Coaster, My Wedding Music, Voloco, Rdio

    ​As smartphones have opened the door to amazing mobile applications, the sheer amount of them being released makes it difficult to keep up with the best of them. So to help filter though all of it, we take a look at the best and tally them up here. This round, we've got an amazing rhythm game, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Marijuana critic William Breathes's sublime & ridiculous global media blitz (AUDIO, VIDEO)

    Mr. Breathes.​If medical marijuana reviewer William Breathes looks tired lately, it's not because he's been critiquing too much weed. Since being featured on Rupert Murdoch's iPad-friendly The Daily and National Public Radio, he's been absolutely inundated with interview requests, many from in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    It's time to start playing our books

    ​Interactive texts have been around since the '70s (or earlier, depending on how you're defining them), but the recent push of handheld electronic reading devices has exploded the potential for creating and reimagining works. Still, it hasn't been until recently we've started seeing anyone mak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Medical marijuana critic William Breathes gets the NPR treatment -- thanks to Starbucks

    Mr. Breathes.​A few weeks ago, in an interview for Ruper Murdoch's iPad newspaper, The Daily, I casually mentioned that Denver has more dispensaries than Starbucks -- a fact Denver Post's Chris Osher first pointed out back in January. I had no clue then that paraphrasing that quote would re-ig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Medical marijuana critic William Breathes fires up for Rupert Murdoch's The Daily (VIDEO)

    Video below.​Westword medical marijuana critic William Breathes has gotten blurry-face time on loads of media outlets, from CNN to The Daily Show. But the latest profile can be found in an unusual place: The Daily, an iPad-specific venture launched by Fox-y titan Rupert Murdoch. In the video, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Lola's Don Julio bartending competition serves up "luxury drops"

    Jenny AnBrian Melton's drink included coconut powder, maple agave, sea salt and toasted coconut.​Fourteen bartenders. Twenty minutes. One winner of an iPad. That was roughly the formula for the bartending competition Sunday night at Lola, sponsored by Don Julio. Using either Don Julio's Reposa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Björk's new album, Biophilia, slated for simultaneous iPad app release

    ​Björk has a relationship with technology that rivals that of Joe Satriani with his guitar -- the two cannot exist without each other. It has always seemed like Björk has been waiting for technology to catch up with her, and when Apple launched its iPad, she finally had a place to experiment ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2011

    Hop to It

    ​Björk has a relationship with technology that rivals that of Joe Satriani with his guitar -- the two cannot exist without each other. It has always seemed like Björk has been waiting for technology to catch up with her, and when Apple launched its iPad, she finally had a place to experiment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    May the Fourth be With You: Ten weird pieces of Star Wars memorabilia

    ​When George Lucas created Star Wars he had no idea it was going to become the phenomenon that it did. In fact, if it wasn't for the dedicated merchandising work of Howard Roffman that caused the resurgence of popularity, we may not have ever seen revival of the brand. However, where there is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Science Lounge combined the whimsy of childhood with the drinking of adulthood

    Please touch the artifacts.​As a small child whipping my crayons around the perfect spiral assistance of the Spirograph, I never never anticipated that I could maximize that activity by adding the sweet elixir of booze, or that I'd be doing both with the aid of the Denver Museum of Nature and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Judgment Day is coming May 21: Downtown billboard guarantees it

    Big pic below.​That gutter-cleaning job you've been putting off? Forget about it. That iPad you've been cautiously eying? Time to splurge, my friend. Why? Because we only have a mere seven weeks, just 47 more days, until Judgment Day. Swear to God. After all, a downtown billboard proclaims -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Jason Hann of EOTO on how the group made a name of its own apart from String Cheese

    ​ "EOTO" in Japanese means "good sound," which perfectly suits the like-named electronic duo EOTO. With extensive histories as professional drummers, it seemed only natural that members Michael Travis and Jason Hann would evolve to another level in their musical careers. After all, they had m ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 10, 2011

    After forty years, the Flagstaff House is still a cause for celebration

    ​ "EOTO" in Japanese means "good sound," which perfectly suits the like-named electronic duo EOTO. With extensive histories as professional drummers, it seemed only natural that members Michael Travis and Jason Hann would evolve to another level in their musical careers. After all, they had m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Review preview: Flagstaff House at forty years

    Mark Manger​I try to table all expectations when I first visit a restaurant. But sometimes, that's simply impossible. And when I decided to review Boulder's Flagstaff House -- a legendary romantic spot -- in anticipation of Valentine's Day, I suspected that I was in for some disappointment.

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    The Daily: Five ways it could fail

    ​Rupert Murdoch's News Corp unveiled The Future of Journalism this morning in an elaborate, hour long event at the Guggenheim in New York. The product: The first tablet-native newspaper, a 14 cents per day, iPad-only publication called The Daily. There was some amount of fervor surrounding it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Stormtroopers trying to break into cars in Centennial? May the Force not be with them!

    ​Plenty of thieves have active fantasy lives. Remember the guy who robbed a 7-Eleven using a Klingon battle weapon called a bat'leth? Or the teen who reportedly deployed a sword to steal Oxycontin? But alleged lawbreakers in Centennial recently took things to the next level, disguising themse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Rick Griffith's cult of letters: Do complicated typefaces make people smarter?

    ​Last week's cover story, "Extra Bold" deconstructs the weird, wonderful world of Denver designer Rick Griffith, a man who's constantly scrutinizing how words and letter-forms are used everywhere -- including the Denver School System. Griffith might be on to something, since a new paper report ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Mac App Store: Five best free apps

    ​Apple debuted its app store for computers today. And it's way cooler than you thought it would be. Yes, right now it's mostly carryover from the iPad and iPhone app store, which is somewhat uninteresting because those apps were designed for a mobile touch screen. But there are some regular o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    The five best music apps of 2010

    ​As 2010 has come to a close, we've seen plenty changes on the music landscape, but nothing has been as strange and welcome as the increasingly more awesome new ability to create fully fleshed out albums on your phone. This all came to a head when the Gorillaz decided to release The Fall, an a ... More >>

  • News

    December 30, 2010

    Hall of Shame: Westword's worst of the worst from 2010

    ​As 2010 has come to a close, we've seen plenty changes on the music landscape, but nothing has been as strange and welcome as the increasingly more awesome new ability to create fully fleshed out albums on your phone. This all came to a head when the Gorillaz decided to release The Fall, an a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Graphic.ly: Boulder-based start-up aims to become the iTunes of comic books

    ​So present-unwrapping is over and you're freshly stocked up on new socks, kitchen utensils and copies of the soundtrack to Glee, but is there a tiny, immature part of you that's still hungering for something that's just pure fun? If so, Graphic.ly is your answer. The Boulder-based start-up is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    iPad theft defendant Brandon Smith, 2010 Shmuck of the Year nominee

    Theft in action.​Westword is asking readers to help us select the Shmuck of the Year by rolling out five candidates this month. The winner -- loser -- will be announced on January 3. Our first four candidates were Josh McDaniels, Scott McInnis, Gary Faulkner and Ron Perea. This week, say he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Deck the shelves with boughs of cookbooks: Local chefs sound off on their favorite culinary reads

    Lori Midson​Ah, Christmas: The season of giving, receiving, in-law spats, road range, parking lot clusterfucks, check-out line massacres and cookbooks and food books -- the ones that you hope will end up wrapped under the tree, right alongside the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Over the course of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Tjutjuna at Larimer Lounge, 11/19/10

    Tom MurphyTjutjuna​ TJUTJUNA Woodsman • Married In Berdichev • DJ Peter Black 11.19.10 | Larimer Lounge For his set, Peter Black used an iPad to control and trigger some of the sounds he was weaving into his live remixes. This set of songs had kind of a raw, percussion heavy sound and se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Two major synth and drum machine apps make music making easier on the iPad

    We don't generally spend too much time talking about gear here, but over the last couple of days, two incredibly rad and hard to ignore apps made it onto the iPad. We're talking about the release of ReBirth and the Korg iMS-20 -- both of which, even if you're not a musician, are exceptionally keen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Social Media Sobriety Test: top signs you're too drunk to use Twitter/Facebook

    A Flickr photo.​As we reported yesterday, Boulder-based Internet security company Webroot has released the Social Media Sobriety Test, an app that checks your level of inebriation before you risk making a drunken fool of yourself to all your online friends. But there's an easier way to tell if ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    iShmuck: accused iPad thief and wannabe murderer Brandon Smith

    Brandon Smith​Just when you thought the story of the iPad thief who caused his victim to lose a finger couldn't get any weirder, the alleged genius, Brandon Darnell Smith, 21, has been accused of trying to have the man killed so he couldn't testify against him in court. Is there an app for th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Brandon Smith: Alleged iPad thief who tore off man's finger now accused of wanting to kill him

    Full-sized photo below.​Back in April, newly introduced iPads were in high demand -- so much so that Brandon Smith allegedly tore off the finger of customer Bill Jordan trying to steal one of the gadgets at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. Smith's actions made international news due to the c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Guitar amps in your pocket with new AmpliTube app for iPhone

    Sure, there are guitarists who'll say that no software will ever come close to emulating a '65 Deluxe Reverb or a Marshall JCM800. But the folks at IK Multimedia have been doing a pretty good job emulating those amps as well as effects for a while now. Earlier this month, the company came out with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Keytar not ridiculous enough? Try the iTar!

    Until now, if you wanted to look exceptionally silly playing an electronic instrument the keytar was your best bet. Not anymore. That's all changed with the introduction of the iTar, a "Guitar/DJ frame" for the iPad sporting doofus with everything but a sense of shame.

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    High water in Golden gets the finger

    Move rapidly.​The spring runoff in Colorado has made recreation dangerous, with multiple drownings on the Western Slope in recent days. No fatalities in Golden yet due to fast water. But fire fighters there responded to multiple rapids-related emergency calls yesterday, including one that co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Watch some pretty lines with interactive pocket-art Thicket

    Yesterday's news might have been a bit too iPhone-centric for normal, non-tech-dork human beings, but for those of us enthralled with shiny, touchable objects, it's a format and medium we've come to love. While the iPhone and iPad are often lauded as great media consumption devices they're rarely ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Brandon Smith charged with third-degree assault in pinky-shredding iPad theft

    Brandon Smith allegedly took off with more than an iPad.​Most snatch-and-grab crimes don't get nearly as much attention as the one Brandon Smith is accused of committing at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center earlier this month. But he made national news because his alleged attempt to steal a tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    iPad thief gets the finger: Icky pinky-mauling story is the talk of the town

    The alleged iPad thief​ You know what people everywhere love to read? Wacky crime stories. And sometimes, a wacky crime from Colorado catches the world's eye. Like the threesome from hell that shook up Niwot. Or the guy who robbed a 7-Eleven in Colorado Springs with a Klingon bat'leth. Or the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    iPad thief!: Denver Police on the lookout for early adapting criminal

    Have you seen this presumably tech-savvy fellow?​Update, 3 p.m.: Channel 31 has posted video of the suspect. Check it out below the original item, which was published at 11:37 a.m. Last week may have marked the first-ever iPad theft in the state of Colorado! Hooray! Of course, the person who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    The iPad launch is tomorrow. Here's five awesome music apps.

    ​ We're all pretty well aware that the iPad launches tomorrow, and while your standing in line at the Cherry Creek Mall waiting for yours, we'll be busy banging drum sticks on a stone tablet wishing we were you. Just because we're not getting one, however, hasn't stopped us from drooling at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Is iPad an iFailure, or are we just iSpoiled little crybabies?

    ​Haven't had a chance to watch the Apple keynote yet and kind of wondering if we need to at this point. From the sounds of it, the ingenuously named iPad (killed a lot of brain cells there, eh, Apple?) sounds like a enlarged, glorified iTouch. We gleened this notion, of course, from the Twitt ... More >>

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