Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

LastPass – You’ll never have to remember a password again!

Thursday, January 7, 2010 17:19 No Comments

This is truly one of the most amazing little programs I have ever discovered, and I can’t believe I had not seen this years ago.
It’s a very simple program that installs in your browswe; IE, Firefox Chrome and many more, and quite simply securely remembers all your passwords for every site you want, and [...]

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Top 10 Essential Google Chrome Extensions

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:48 2 Comments

If you are not using Google Chrome yet – I highly advice you download it right now, and make it your primary Browser. I’m absolutely loving Chrome, especially since they brought extensions into the game. The quality of the Extensions in Chrome are simply fantastic, here are my recommendation for the Top 10 Must have’s [...]

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Paypal – Some things will never change

Monday, September 7, 2009 14:36 No Comments

Nice little add from PayPal showing the future of things to come – they are soon to open up their API so any developer can integrate their super easy and safe payment method into, well, almost anything! Banking on the fact that microsoft-surface type gagets everywhere. Somehow I think it will be a while before [...]

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Swoponomics – Recession 2.0!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:02 No Comments

Here is a really great idea I just had to share with you. lets face it we are all totally head-melted with the recession ebign shoved down our throats, but here is a website that takes a positive turn to it.
www.swoponomics.com is a new Irish barter/trade exchange website. It provide a community where services and [...]

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Isle of Man Legalises Piracy for £1 a month

Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:22 No Comments

The Isle of man are about to Legalise Piracy – for a flat fee of £1 a month! Sounds too good to be true? Read on…
Under a proposal announced this month, the 80,000 people who live on the Isle of Man would be able to download unlimited amounts of music — perhaps even from notorious [...]

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Microlending – Charity 2.0

Saturday, February 21, 2009 13:11 No Comments

Charity. It’s something we all think about and most of us try to do our little but, but form many reasons we just do not do it as much as we should, or could really afford. I think one of the reasons many people are reluctant to give to Charity is the lack of knowlege [...]

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Social Networking now more poular than Porn on the Internet!

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:58 No Comments

It finally happened. We all knew it was coming one day, and apparently people are actually using the internet for something other than porn. Yes, you guessed it, facebook, bebo and myspace now account for more traffic online than anything else.

Alexa.com the internets mail source for information on traffic and popular websites shows the social [...]

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T-Shirt Hell closing its doors

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 16:21 2 Comments

If you’re not familiar with the site T-Shirt Hell, take a look now before it closes. The website is the Internet’s home for the worlds most offensive (and funny) t-shirts. unfortunately the founder is about to close his doors after 8 years and currently 3,000 sales a week, due to far too much [...]

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Diesel’s Advertising

Saturday, January 17, 2009 15:28 No Comments

Diesel would be my favorite brand of clothing, I really like a lot of their stuff, runners and jeans especially, but I’m also quite fond of their advertising messages. They can be quite different to some of their other quite high end competitors – they just tend to take themselves a little less seriously. Take [...]

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Fantastic deals on TV’s right now…

Monday, January 12, 2009 15:23 No Comments

I remember the day i saw my first ever flatscreen TV. It was upstairs in the old electronics division of Brown Thomas, where they had all the best and most expensive (ripoff) new products.
It was a 42″ which may be pretty commonplace today, but it looked as big as a cinema screen to me at [...]

This was posted under category: Internet, Ireland

Watch loads of great Documentaries online!

Sunday, January 11, 2009 18:47 No Comments

I love watching interesting documentaries, and I just found two fantastic sites that have massive collections of documentaries that you can watch online. There are some great ones on Technology, The Future, Science, Drugs, History and Biographies etc, take a look through the list and everyone is bound to find plenty to interest them. [...]

This was posted under category: Entertainment, Internet

Windows 7 – It rocks!

Thursday, January 8, 2009 22:04 1 Comment

The last OS release from Microsoft after Windows XP, was Vista. It took them 7 years to bring out a new release, and it was almost universally hated. How embarrassing. Many home users were forced to use it cause if you buy a new PC you have no other option. Even after making XP end [...]

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My Favorite Tech Blogs and Websites

Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:42 No Comments

I like to keep up to date on what is going on the interweb, specifically the “Web 2.0″ type companies, new ventures on Web Applications and the likes of what Google and Facebook are planning.
If you have an interest in these too, here are a few sites I recommend:
http://www.ReadWriteWeb.com
http://www.TechCrunch.com
http://www.ArsTechnica.com
http://www.Mashable.com
http://news.cnet.com
If you have any favourites that are [...]

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Resell your old Mp3’s!

Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:44 No Comments

I thought this was a joke, but no apparently there is no a site where you can upload your unwanted Mp3’s and resell them to to others. The site is: http://www.bopaboo.com – Read more here:
Now I assume after you upload your song you probably have to tick a box confirming you have then deleted it [...]

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Education 2.0 – Forget Memorising

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 13:18 No Comments

Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics and Growing up Digital, says that Education as we know it is going to change. With almost instantaneous access to facts and figures via sites like Wikipedia, Tapscott says that there will be less influence on the ability to actually memorise reams of facts and figures, since they are only [...]

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