Bartender Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

MIT makes a smartphone-controlled bartender

by Mike Schramm (May 13th, 2013)

We've seen beer-pouring robots before, but MIT has recently put together a smartphone-controlled robot bartender, with three robot arms that can pour and mix up to 100 different alcoholic and non-alcoholic flavors. The Makr Shakr lets you order up a drink directly from your iPhone, and then it ...

Bartender will hide your menu bar icons, goes to version 1.0

by Mike Schramm (Oct 25th, 2012)

Bartender is a simple but excellent little app that lets you control that flood of icons up in your menu bar on the top of your OS X window. Now, designer Ben Surtees, who we spoke with earlier this year about where the app came from, has released version 1.0.2 of the app, officially releasing ...

TUAW Origin Stories: Bartender

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 5th, 2012)

We wrote up Bartender for Mac as a Friday Favorite some time ago, even though the app isn't out of beta. In this Origin Stories, I speak with Ben Surtees, who has been programming since he was 15. Check out the story behind Bartender in the video below, and the app itself if you're tired of ...

Podsites put a bartender in your pocket

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 19th, 2005)

Slashfood has a note about a couple of iPod-based drink recipe databases suitable for using on your iPod. Using html-linked notes (some call them podsites), the databases are browsable and somewhat interactive. Drunkenbatman would be proud.The iPod bartender has a working demo on their site. ...