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  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Local deals on National Margarita Day

    Happy National Margarita Day!​It's National Margarita Day, and although that's not an official holiday, several local restaurants are getting into the celebration with specials today. Among the party places:

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2012

    This Is the Modern World

    Happy National Margarita Day!​It's National Margarita Day, and although that's not an official holiday, several local restaurants are getting into the celebration with specials today. Among the party places:

  • Calendar

    December 15, 2011

    The Hard Cell

    Happy National Margarita Day!​It's National Margarita Day, and although that's not an official holiday, several local restaurants are getting into the celebration with specials today. Among the party places:

  • News

    September 1, 2011

    R U Buzzed? The drunk-o-meter iPhone app comes to Android...and in Spanish!

    Happy National Margarita Day!​It's National Margarita Day, and although that's not an official holiday, several local restaurants are getting into the celebration with specials today. Among the party places:

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Five surefire ways to kill time at the DMV

    Trip to DMV? Noooo!​Save your tips for the best DMV in Denver, because I've already been. For most of us with day jobs, going there -- especially if you're from out of state and need a driver's license and to register your car -- involves going to two locations, taking a day off work and spend ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Locally developed EchoKast app takes iPhone and iPod recording technology to the next level

    OK computer: the EchoKast app logoHey, there, is that a portable recording studio in your pocket, or are you just happy to see us? Both? Ah, yes. We are pretty easy on the eyes. Oh, and you must have the installed the EchoKast app, which allows you to record, edit and playback live audio on your iPh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Get Dazbog Coffee, even if you forgot your wallet

    Flickr photo by dyobmit​Dazbog Coffee understands that its undercaffeinated, too-tired-to-function customers may not always remember their wallets -- and so the stores are offering a payment method that doesn't require a wallet. "Everyone has their cell phone before their wallet these days," s ... More >>

  • Music

    June 9, 2011

    Your smartphone makes you look like an irritating prick

    Flickr photo by dyobmit​Dazbog Coffee understands that its undercaffeinated, too-tired-to-function customers may not always remember their wallets -- and so the stores are offering a payment method that doesn't require a wallet. "Everyone has their cell phone before their wallet these days," s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Marijuana bud's name slip your mind? There's an app for that -- called Strain Brain

    ​Smart phones can already do all sorts of clever things, like tell you where the nearest medical marijuana center is located. But can they help you tell a sample of Green Crack from G-13 Haze? If Strain Brain makes good on its word, they will soon be able to -- courtesy of the company's stra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Beery reasons we're glad April Fool's Day only comes once per year

    craftcans.com​Craft brewers and craft beer fans have a particular fondness for April's Fool Day. Here are some of the good jokes we've seen so far. From CraftCans.com When [Oskar Blues's] newest offering, Twen Teny Triple Imperial Stout, hits shelves it will be far and away the strongest can ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    FanTrail app aims to mobilize fans. Take to the Oars one of the first acts on board for launch.

    ​It's no secret that smartphones have changed the way we experience music, but most of the apps we've seen thus far have been spotty, poorly realized cash grabs that have little or nothing to do with the artists in question.

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Google vs. Apple: Whose world do you want to live in?

    ​Apple introduced its Facetalk app in the computer App Store today, charging $0.99 for it's video chat platform. Google, meanwhile, is in the midst of a contest where users create video demos of the company's apps and users vote on the winners. Both companies continue to stride into overlappi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Amy Burkhardt, app developer, talks geofencing, sibling relationships and blown minds

    ​For those old enough to remember, the website was once a novelty, a nebulous idea that companies knew they had to have, but nobody was really sure how or why. These days, it's kind of the same thing with smartphone apps, speculates Amy Burkhardt, a first-time businesswoman who recently co-fou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    How to get my job: iPhone developer

    ​Matt Johnson is the owner of Mindful Software, LLC, an iOS developer that just released the app Group Trivia, a trivia game that hopes to bridge the gap between online and local play while providing a perfect way to waste a few minutes at a time. With iOS becoming such a popular medium for de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Browser game of the week: Robot Unicorn Attack Heavy Metal

    ​Robot Unicorn Attack was a great game, but the Erasure soundtrack and generally puffy visuals might have turned off people who have been looking for something more, ahem, metal. That's really the only reason to release the heavy metal edition, but it's reason enough for us.

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    eBay bids for Boulder's RedLaser and wins: Download app for free here

    ​Occipital is a Boulder startup that just hit the big time. The company's just been acquired by eBay on the strength of its RedLaser app for iPhones, which scans barcodes, allowing users to compare prices on the go. As part of its big push into mobile shopping, eBay has reduced the price of R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Top five (fake) iPhone apps that would inspire us to camp out for the latest upgrade

    ​ Last night and this morning, thousands of people across the nation roughed it outside Apple stores to be among the first, well, thousands of people to poke the touchpad of the new iPhone 4. What's so great about this new doo-hickey? It has a camera, it's skinnier and it lasts longer withou ... 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

    May 27, 2010

    B-cycle launches an iPhone app to help you find and return its big red bikes

    From apple.comRenting a B-cycle? Use this.​B-cycle, Denver's cool, month-old bike-sharing program, has up and gone all technological. This week, B-cycle rolled out a free iPhone app that tells users how many shiny red B-cycles are available at each station, ready to rent. It also tells users h ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 13, 2010

    Let Westword's Happy Hours app guide your after-work debauchery

    From apple.comRenting a B-cycle? Use this.​B-cycle, Denver's cool, month-old bike-sharing program, has up and gone all technological. This week, B-cycle rolled out a free iPhone app that tells users how many shiny red B-cycles are available at each station, ready to rent. It also tells users h ... More >>

  • Music

    May 13, 2010

    Drake

    Monday, May 17, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Kenny Be's Sign Language: Go fast beer at mice

    ​ Upon reading the "go fast beer at mice" message spelled out on the Sloan Lake-area sign in the above photograph, I was confused. Immediately I imagined that it might be advertising a new instant-pick lottery game based on a popular smart phone application that allowed gamers to fling mugs o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    RU-Buzzed? or are you going to get a DUI?

    ​There were a lot of new iPhones opened on Christmas Day, and that was a big present for the Colorado Department of Transportation, which created its own iPhone application in November to help people measure whether they are too drunk to drive.

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Five fearless tech predictions for 2010

    Nostradamus predicted Twitter, but he never thought Facebook would be as big as it is.​The end of the year -- and the decade -- is just around the corner. So it seemed like a good time to pull out the old crystal ball and look ahead to the year and decade to come. Predicting technology is a f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Denver Public Library offers e-titles on the go -- sort of

    A Flickr photo.​The Denver Public Library has long been hip to technology, whether it's offering DVD selections that rival Blockbuster or allowing patrons to download tawdry B-movies from its website. Now the institution's getting into the smartphone craze, having developed a mobile website o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 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 -- wit ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 16, 2009

    Mountain Mojito at Primebar

    ​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 -- wit ... More >>

  • Dining

    October 9, 2003

    Drink of the Week

    Max Martini

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