On how to silence the noise from vuvuzelas at the World Cup in South Africa, this press release came from DCU today.
Interestingly it notes after method two that “This could be done by broadcasters”, so now there’s no excuse for the likes of RTE to claim they can’t do anything?…
So you’ve started watching the World Cup in South Africa, you’re enjoying the [...]
As I seem to be using Twitter for many links I would usually put on this blog, here’s some of the recent Twitter updates from @cianginty:
‘Taoiseach in High Court challenge to release Cabinet CO2 document’ http://www.irishtimes.com/n… …Getting a look at the minutes of Cabinet discussions on Ireland’s emissions would be interisting to say the least
‘Two [...]
Baker Tweet is an interesting little device allows busy bakeries to tweet what is fresh. Twitting from presets by just a flick of a dial and pressing a button. When they are not so busy, they just have to log into bakertweet.comto change the presets. It was made by digital creative agency Poke who [...]
Ireland is ‘’slipping in broadband league” according to the OECD’s latest broadband report. The full results are are on the OECD Broadband Portal (source of the charts). Penetration is the main news angle — broadband penetration has increased in Ireland, but we’ve been oven taken on the league table.
Out penetration is mostly low speeds broadband [...]
In Firefox (with the Google tool bar activated), if you enter an address with ” http://” missing the colon mark, you’re redirected to the Wikipidia page which explains Hypertext Transfer Protocol. I was going to put this down to a programmer being smart, but on second thought the browser is likely not seeing past the [...]
(Via Mulley) Cork-based Cubic Telecom have partnered with Dopplr — the travel social networking, I suppose — to promote their MAXroam roaming sim cards. Indeed, a great fit.
Note to self: Must update Dopplr account.
John Cleese, on Twitter (it is apparently the John Cleese), has two comments on a Daily Mail article about celebrities using Twiter, he says:
Daily Mail Cottons onto Twitter Shock! http://tinyurl.com/77ganh they of course hate the fact we chat and interact without them, don’t they?
And, adds:
The thing is that the press and trad media have had [...]
(Via Memex) From the Register comes some good comment Dell and Limerick, even if some of it has probably been mentioned already.
But these lessons are not new for Ireland. The scale is new. But in a way it’s not. It might be argued that the equivalent of the affect of Dell leaving Limerick has been [...]
(Video via Memex 1.1) I love the way numbers and a limited amount of text can tell you a lot.
The Guardian has done this increasingly well since they redesigned a few years back.
Eoin O’Dell writes about laptop usage in lectures and how usage in his classes isn’t quite as high the US yet, but it’s growing every year. The screens that I’ve seen sitting behind people using laptops in DCU would confirm the that usage often isn’t for taking notes. However, I’ve read the Irish Times in [...]
