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Turning Three Paper Passport Programs into an Engaging Mobile App for Taste of Nova Scotia

2025-03-03T19:22:07+00:00December 2nd, 2021|Case Stories|

Taste of Nova Scotia (TONS), a non-profit marketing association representing the province’s restaurants and food producers, had three popular paper passport programs—the Lobster Trail, the Chowder Trail, and the Good Cheer Trail for craft beverages. TONS wanted to modernize their passport programs by incorporating them into a single mobile app—and asked Daruma Tech to help. Client Overview Taste of Nova Scotia (TONS) is a non-profit, membership-based marketing association representing over 200 restaurant, [...]

A Mobile Passport App for the Texas Craft Brewers Guild

2025-03-03T19:20:20+00:00December 2nd, 2021|Case Stories|

When the Texas Craft Brewers Guild tapped Daruma Tech to build a mobile passport app to attract craft beer aficionados to its member breweries, its initial goal was to bring more foot traffic to Texas taprooms. Then COVID-19 hit, and the guild doubled down, successfully leveraging the app to promote take-out sales and build brand visibility for its members. Client Overview Founded in 2009, the Texas Craft Brewers Guild supports the interests [...]

Daruma Launches App For Promotion of Culinary Tourism, Restaurants and Agricultural Producers

2025-03-03T19:45:49+00:00October 6th, 2021|Press Releases|

HALIFAX, NS—Nova Scotia’s residents and visitors now have a powerful way to discover and experience the province’s famed seafood chowder, lobster, restaurants, and varied craft products and beverages, including coffee, wine, beer, spirits, and cider, thanks to a mobile passport app built by award-winning software developers Daruma Tech for Taste of Nova Scotia (TONS), a not-for-profit, membership based marketing association representing over 200 restaurant, producer/processor and industry members. The app, built on Daruma Tech’s [...]

Windows 11 will be released soon. Find out if your PC is compatible!

2025-11-19T21:39:12+00:00September 23rd, 2021|Productivity|

It is official, Windows 11 will be available for the general public on October 5th, six years after the Windows 10 release. If you want to make sure your computer is ready for the latest Windows experience, Microsoft has an easy-to-use tool for that. It can be downloaded here. After the download, run the installer, by the end of the installation it will open automatically. To find out if your computer is compatible, all [...]

Maryland’s Grow & Fortify Launches Craft Beverage Trail App

2025-03-03T19:50:53+00:00August 17th, 2021|Press Releases|

BOCA RATON, FL, UNITED STATES, August 4, 2021 -- Thirsty travelers in Maryland now have a fun and easy new way to discover and connect with the state’s growing number of craft breweries, wineries, and distilleries, thanks to the new Maryland Craft Beverage mobile app, created by Boca Raton, FLA-based software developers Local Explorers, a Daruma Tech company, for Grow & Fortify, the advocacy group representing Maryland’s value-added agricultural producers, startups, and growers. The app, launched on [...]

Windows 11 is here and Tik Tok is coming to your desktop!

2025-11-12T22:44:50+00:00July 8th, 2021|Industry News|

On Thursday, Jun 24th, Microsoft presented Windows 11 to the world. The new version comes with a redesigned user interface that focuses on improving the experience across different devices. The goal is to provide the same look and feel, it does not matter if you are working on a desktop computer using the mouse and keyboard or just reading your e-mails on a tablet with touchscreen. Following a similar path to the one that [...]

Copy and paste screenshots like a PRO on Windows 10

2025-11-19T21:40:36+00:00June 22nd, 2021|Tech Tips|

Microsoft has a tool to make it easy to take partial screenshots and edit them, without the need to use the Print Screen key, paste it in an image editor like Paint and crop the area you need. Before Windows 10 this tool was the Snipping Tool but since the October 2018 Update of Windows 10 the Snip and Sketch was introduced. To quick access the Snip & Sketch tool on your Windows 10 [...]

Windows 10: End of support unveiled

2025-11-19T21:33:09+00:00June 21st, 2021|Industry News|

Microsoft has been hinting a new version of Windows is coming. Known by the codename Sun Valley, nobody knew if it would be released as a major Windows 10 upgrade or under a Windows version. Now we know, Microsoft announced the end of support date for Windows 10: October 14th, 2025 The question still waiting to be answered is "What will the next Windows version be called?". So far, the hints point to the [...]

Developing an effective password policy

2025-11-19T21:37:15+00:00June 8th, 2021|Cyber Security|

All employees and personnel that have access to your computer systems should adhere to the password policies defined by your organization in order to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information stored in your systems. The Operations/IT Department must provide adequate protection and confidentiality of all corporate data and proprietary software systems, whether held centrally, on local storage media, or remotely, to ensure the continued availability of data and programs to all authorized [...]

Amazon wants to share your internet with your neighbors

2025-11-18T16:55:03+00:00June 2nd, 2021|Cyber Security|

If you have an Amazon device like Alexa, Echo or Ring, starting June 8th you will be enrolled automatically in an Amazon experiment that will share a small portion of your internet bandwidth with neighboring devices: Amazon Sidewalk. Amazon Sidewalk is a shared network that helps devices work better. The usage of your bandwidth and data package is not the only problem, there are privacy and [...]

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