As all days do, St. Patrick's Day, too, must come to an end. Among the useless clutter, developers have come up with some genuinely valuable applications to make your night's conclusion reasonably painless.
Android's DrunkBlocker (free) easily takes the prize in this category. Set the time when you will begin drinking and an end time that approximates when you'll be more or less in control of your phone again. Then, choose all of the people whom you really shouldn't be speaking to while intoxicated. If you try to dial the banned numbers during the allotted time, DrunkBlocker makes you pass a fairly difficult test in order to complete the call. Voilà--you'll never drunk-dial your ex, boss, or mom again.
Though they have varying degrees of accuracy and shouldn't be used as an exclusive measure of sobriety, monitors for blood alcohol content are available in nearly all app stores. Windows Mobile features the Alcograph ($1.99), BlackBerry owners can download Blood Alcohol Calculator ($12.99) or BAC Finder ($2.99), Palm has the Advanced BAC Calculator ($1.49), and Android apps include the BAC Tracker ($1.00).
If you're more snockered than Boris Yeltsin wandering outside the White House in his underwear, the iPhone's OverTheLimit ($3.99) and LastCall (free) will not only track your alcohol consumption but also help call a taxi. Alternatively, you can attach to your iPhone a genuine breathalyzer, the iBreath ($79).
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