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Toast the new year with a virtual glass of booze on your iPhone (or iPad!)

IKEA, the lord of bland, cheap, spruce and spartan Scandinavian furniture, has released a toasting app just in time for New Year's Eve. Pick from the huge range of glasses and drinks, and enjoy a virtual toast! The app, which is called Skål!, or "Cheers!" in English, has a neat trick up its sleeve: it uses the rear-facing camera to create a backdrop for your virtual drink. Then, as you ...

Think you might be too drunk to drive tonight? There's an app for that!

Download Squad doesn't condone irresponsible levels of alcohol consumption - at least not without a plan for how you're getting home - but we know that it happens sometimes. Fortunately, you're likely to have your phone with you when you're drinking, and there's a new, geeky way to determine whether you've had one too many to drive safely. Yes, my friends, there's an app for that: R-U-Buzzed. ...

Wine? Grow some stones, laddie! Connosr is a social site for whiskey

William Faulkner once said "There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others." Well, late Mr. Faulkner, have I got a social networking site for you. Connosr is the place to be. Fans contribute ratings and reviews to help you decide your next single malt purchase. Whiskeys are broken down into Scotch, Irish, and American, and can also be browsed by ...

Extratasty: Drinking the Web 2.0 way

There are a lot of drink recipe sites and some of them will give you a list of drinks you can make based on your list of what your bar is stocked with. However, none of them were quite able to get it right until Extratasty. From skinnyCorp, the makers of Threadless, Extratasty has all the Web 2.0 fixins: pastel colors, big fonts, tags, RSS feeds, and AJAX. But beyond all that, it's social software ...