Subject: Apple iPhone

• Mass Media

  January 12, 2007

• One Week Wasted: iPhone Edition

  June 29, 2007

• Review: Transformers and License to Wed

  July 3, 2007

• Produce Paradise, August 29

  August 29, 2007

• Popcorn Lung, September 6

  September 6, 2007

• Best 2007 - Houston: Teeing Off with Scarface

  December 26, 2007

• Haunted DIA Strikes Again, Befuddles David Byrne’s WiFi

  February 13, 2008

• 45 Second Reviews: Jaymay, Fat Joe, Ferras, Paul Benton

  March 13, 2008

• The Soundtrack to Your Future Unemployment: Five More Songs

  May 7, 2008

• Geek in the Galley: How we get from here to there on Urbanspoon

  I am a luddite. And I don't mean that lightly.  I am not some cutesy dipwad who gets flustered trying to work the copy machine.  I don't eschew the use of computers out of some misplaced paranoia over the loss of my IBM Selectric.  I am not your grandma who can't figure out how to use the remote control. No, I am an old-school luddite of the traditional definition -- a direct descendant of those British weavers who assaulted the machinery of the industrial revolution, of the guys

  December 15, 2008

• Geek in the Galley: Another spoonful of Urbanspoon on iPhone

    Okay, so I already wrote about the urbanspoon iPhone app, but just after I filed that blog, I went out back for a smoke (brrrr) with Sean, the IT guy who first introduced me to the gadget in question, and he showed me a couple other sweet (and marginally creepy/nerdy) things it can do. First, it knows where you live. It knows where you are at all time.  It's like Seymour Skinner's overprotective mother in The Simpsons because it has GPS built in and never gets lost.&n

  December 15, 2008

• With Face File, your phone's camera can help solve your murder

  If you're in a high-risk profession that requires you to meet with lots of clients one on one (say, prostitute or pizza-delivery guy), or perhaps just sure you'll be abducted or murdered at any moment, Face File has just the thing to help you feel a little safer -- or at least a little more certain your killer will be brought to justice. The Lakewood-based company's new service -- it's serving fewer than ten-thousand clients right now but launches nationally this month -- lets you send pictur

  June 2, 2009

• Holding on by letting go, part one

  Bands in Denver are lucky. Getting gigs and building a fanbase locally are actually pretty easy. There's no shortage of small and midsized venues where a nascent group can cut its teeth, build the buzz and start to plot its graduation to theaters. But how do you get your music into the hands and ears of people who don't breathe our thin air? How do you tangle with the machinery of the music business? Do you have to? In my conversations with Denver musicians, this question comes up

  February 19, 2009

• Hanging on by letting go, part two

  Never mind that old saw about setting something free if you love it, but in the world of music, it's amazing how much you can hang on to by just letting go. Yesterday, I was marveling over the Presidents of the United States of America and the killer deal they're giving to fans and would-be fans by delivering four albums for three bucks via an iPhone app, while retaining complete artistic and almost-complete commercial control. Today, having just heard about Denver rapper Dent giving away h

  February 20, 2009

• Only in 21st-century America: Warring fartlords head to court

  An image from the ifartmobile.com website. There's a flatulence flap a-brewin' in Denver's U.S. District Court. Loveland-based software developer InfoMedia, Inc. -- creator of the Apple iPhone app iFart Mobile -- has asked a judge to rule that it can use the phrase "pull my finger" in its marketing without infringeing on the trademark of another fart-noise app called, you guessed it, Pull My Finger. The history of the fart-app war is explained in what is possibly the funniest court filing eve

  February 25, 2009

• A most sadistic take on five Jay Cutler trade destinations

  Jay Cutler: Buffalo Bill? So Jay Cutler's (probably) getting traded. Fine by me. He's a talented guy, sure, and he's got an arm like a diesel-powered T-shirt gun. But I like my quarterbacks savvy and cerebral and not so damn pouty when things go awry. And while Josh McDaniels has proven to be just as delusional as Cutler in the last few weeks -- how the Dove Valley floor beams supported the weight of those two plus-sized egos is a mystery -- Cutler has pulled out out a narrow victory in the ong

  March 24, 2009

• The Denver Post's giggle-worthy fart story

  An image from the ifartmobile.com website. The Denver Post is a little late to the fart party. Today, the Post had a story about the court battle between two Apple iPhone app creators -- one of them based in Loveland -- over the phrase "pull my finger." The same story was covered by other local and national media last month. (Click here to read Westword's blog on the subject, "Only in 21st-century America: Warring fartlords head to court.") But that's okay. The headline on today's Post story

  March 27, 2009

• From the week of March 3, 2009

  March 5, 2009

• What's So Funny weighs in on this year's Grammy nominations

  February 5, 2009

• In the Limelight

  November 6, 2008

• Westminster's House of Babes lives up to its name

  September 11, 2008

• Is This Muslim Republican Mr. Right or the Big Cheese?

  Ali Hasan is young, rich and brash, and plans to follow in his parents' political footsteps – cowboy boots and all.

  January 17, 2008

• Doctor Eternity

  If Terry Grossman lives forever, he wants you to be there to see it.

  June 12, 2008

• Worked Up

  Here’s the soundtrack to your future unemployment!

  May 8, 2008

• Hot for Teacher

  At least the Graland sex scandal gives me something to talk about at holiday parties.

  November 29, 2007

• DenverSportsRadio.com prepares to launch ambitious online station

  Dino Costa beside the new Denver Sports Radio logo. According to talk-show host Dino Costa, one of the principals behind DenverSportsRadio.com, a new online project that will be introduced at a press conference today in advance of its scheduled Monday, April 20, launch, the sports-radio offerings in Denver at present are "below mediocre." He adds, "We're confident we can provide an independent, fearless talk-radio model that will eclipse anything that's available now." Of course, Costa has nev

  April 17, 2009

• Bad Joke

  A poorly executed farce puts a small Denver paper on the map.

  August 16, 2007

• Transformers

  There's nothing more than what reaches your eye in this crash-and-bang flick.

  July 5, 2007

• Fight Night

  A Denver fighter takes on the ultimate challenge.

  July 5, 2007

• It Was Free Cuz I Stole It

  The year in unfair shares.

  January 4, 2007

• The Blogtrotters

  What's the next big trend? Follow the bouncing ball.

  January 25, 2007

• Today's Featured Event: Objectified Screening with Directory Gary Hustwit

  An "Objectified" image. How many different manufactured objects do you lay hands on in an average day? From the moment you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock until the moment you switch off the lights and snuggle into bed, almost every second involves an interaction between you and a manufactured object of some sort. And while most of us can appreciate the beauty in the design of, say, an iPhone, we don't often think of the people who design the more mundane items we use every day. Who

  April 27, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: High on the Mile Haiku City

  Verse came to worse last night at the Central Library, where close to a hundred people gathered for last night's Fresh City Life poetry reading inspired by "Mustang," Luis Jimenez's blue horse sculpture out at Denver International Airport. We were in the depths of the basement, but spirits soared as one by one, reluctant poets stood to read their haikus, their limericks, their sonnets and free verse dedicated to the deadly steed -- many of them focusing on the sculpture's truly scary hindquart

  April 28, 2009

• What makes Denver happy? Pot...

  This afternoon, dozens of 16th Street Mall walkers had this experience: You're walking along, sipping on a Frappucino and poking at your iPhone, trying to look busy and important enough so the panhandlers won't bother you but unable to suppress a smile because of the gorgeous sun and the fact that you've stretched your lunch hour to an hour and a half. Then a lady in a poofy black-and-yellow dress, striped high heels and giant gold sunglasses pops out in front of you. "Do you want to tell the

  May 6, 2009

• Media coalition takes on CSU over alleged open-meetings-law violations

  Joe Blake, as seen in an image from the Fort Collins Coloradoan. Today at 2 p.m., Colorado State University's board of governors will hold a meeting at which it will discuss "the resignation of Mr. Joe Blake from the CSU System Board of Governors," the "appointment of a replacement to fill the vacancy of Mr. Blake's seat," and "designation of finalist for chancellor" who just happens to be the aforementioned Blake. The public is invited to listen in on the conversation -- but the citizenry didn

  May 26, 2009

• Jay Marvin talks about his health crisis

  Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin in his Denver home. AM 760 morning talk-show host Jay Marvin has spent the last several months fighting for his life. He's been in and out of the hospital for a variety of serious health concerns since early March, and aside from occasional updates provided by his wife, Mary, on the radio and his Facebook page, most of his fans have only an inkling about how he's really doing. To address this issue, he invited yours truly to his Denver-area home yesterday afte

  June 9, 2009

• With Coathangr, social media meets "You're wearing that?"

  If you've got a hot date but just can't decide what to wear, Coathangr is here to help. Coathangr is, in the words of their beta slogan, "Social media for your pants" -- although co-founder Dave Wiskus says that will probably change to the less catchy but also less-apt-to-be-misinterpreted "Social media for fashion." The Denver-based service is a lot like Twitter (and it integrates with Twitter for easy cross-posting), only with integrated images. "We've got Twitter for what you're doing, we

  June 17, 2009

• A Hummer driver with road rage? Well, that's unexpected!

  The car looks like this, but presumably with way more blood on it. In perhaps the least surprising news since the cancellation of Frank TV, Colorado State Patrol troopers are looking for the driver of an Hummer H2 who, in a fit of road rage, may have intentionally caused a wreck that left a motorcycle rider seriously injured. The incident happened Sunday afternoon on Route 287 in Larimer County. The driver of the Hummer side-swiped an RV, which then swerved and took out a motorcyclist parked

  July 20, 2009

• Indie 101.5 moving its broadcasts online

  ​We heard murmurs about this over the weekend, but the official word just came down. Beginning Friday morning at 10 a.m., Indie 101.5 will be broadcasting at Indie303.com. Being billed as Denver's internet station, Indie 303 will presumably work to build its niche ala WOXY.com (which, incidentally, is in the process of moving its home base to Austin from Cincinnati). According to Whip, who just made the announcement on the air, the station has designs on playing local bands at the top and bott

  July 29, 2009

• iPhone saves itself from thieves

  Social media and tech website Mashable reports that a fifteen-year-old Colorado boy named Dustin Simantob was able to lead police to his stolen property, thanks to a nifty new feature of the iPhone. It's called Find My iPhone, and that's just what it did. Simantob was able to provide police with the address where the stolen phone was located. From there, he says: so 4 police showed up at the door of this house and ended up getting mine and my dads iphones back along with my wallet and the Garm

  July 29, 2009

• Mile L'Chaim: How Denver's small Orthodox community plans to get a lot bigger

  August 13, 2009

• Twitter trying your patience? Join the eSwarm instead

  ​If you dipped your toes into Twitter but found the whole thing a disorganized, confusing mess, have a look at the just-launched social networking service eSwarm. The idea is to take the best features of existing social networking service such as Twitter and Facebook, streamline them and apply a technology based on "swarm theory" to create, if the company's plans bear fruit, the Next Big Thing. "This is all about the conversation. This is all about the technology," says Matt Etlinger, co-

  August 12, 2009

• Coathangr goes mobile with release of iPhone app

  ​Denver-based Coathangr, a social media service aimed at the fashion conscious (read about it here), has just made it easier than ever to collect your friends' opinions about that pair of pumps on sale -- or to let them giggle at a distance when you spot a fashion disaster out and about -- with the release of their free iPhone app. The app lets you quickly and easily snap a pic from your iPhone and send it to Coathangr for your friends to comment on. Perhaps just as handy, you can use the

  August 19, 2009

• Jay Marvin well enough to head home at week's end

  Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin at home in June.​ We've been keeping you abreast of developments regarding an epic surgical procedure undergone by AM 760 host Jay Marvin; the operation, which took place in New Jersey several weeks ago, addressed serious medical issues that have kept him from manning his morning-drive shift since March. For the most part, updates like this one have come courtesy of Jay's wife, Mary. Yesterday, however, I received an iPhone note from Jay himself, and whil

  August 25, 2009

• Next frontier in smart phones: decent service

  AT&T: Sucks like an ElectroLux​Here's a free tip for all you tech entrepreneurs looking at making an "iPhone killer:" Concentrate on the phone's Achilles heel, its service. People love the phone, but all too often the service simply sucks. Actually, it's unfair to single out Apple/AT&T for a haterade bath. The truth is, most service sucks to some degree. The San Jose Business Journal reported today on a recent survey showing that about 71 percent of people are happy with their phone, what

  September 2, 2009

• Get the Heyday on your iPhone

  ​ If you have an iPhone or iPod touch and really like the Heyday, start jumping up and down with excitement because the band is now available in convenient app form. The free app (is there any other kind?) will keep fans up to date on Heyday concert dates and news, let them watch videos, hear samples of new tunes and put them in touch with other Heyday fans. Oh, and it comes with three free songs -- "Turn Me Around," "Come In or Stay Out" and "Where I Want to Be" -- so if you're just wanting

  September 8, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 8 edition

  Photo by Aaron ThackerayBlink-182's Tom DeLonge.​Blink and you'll miss it. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Blink-182 at Fiddler's Green. • Over the Weekend: Fell at Larimer Lounge. • Over the Weekend: Ween at Red Rocks. • Over the Weekend: Warlock Pinchers (almost) reunion at 3 Kings Tavern. • Get the Heyday on your iPhone. Today in Cafe Society: • Milking It: Cap'n Crunch's Race Car Crunch. • Tavern Hospitality Group introduces its own stimulus package. • B

  September 8, 2009

• Jaya Asian Grill is hot — in more ways than one

  September 10, 2009

• Denver Blogs: For your grilling pleasure...

  Our daily round-up of local blogs. A Denver-born iPhone app is on fire. Literally! (Actually, figuratively!) (Denver Egotist) How Denver will rebound from the recession. (5280) The Broncos aren't as bad as you think. According to this guy. We'll see. (HuffPo Denver)

  September 16, 2009

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