March 16, 2008Nokia N95-8GB
If you are looking for the ultimate business phone rather than the gadget equivalent of a Prada handbag, then this is the device for you. Quite simply the best phone I’ve ever owned.
Cards on the table - I love this phone. I’d marry it if it was legal. The rest of this review is [...]
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March 3, 2008Jaiku Invites is a great initiative from Ciarán Rooney. When Google bought Jaiku they shut down new user registrations. There are a lot of people out there who would love to join and take part in all the great discussions we have there, particularly around events like OpenCoffee and BarCamps. Luckily each existing member was [...]
Posted in Community, Technical 5 Comments »
January 19, 2008There has been some new buzz about Movable Type since version 4 was released a while back. I had carried out one install of v3 previously to ensure that we supported it ok in LouderVoice. It was one of the worst install experiences I’ve ever had. I’d prefer to build XEmacs from source on Windows. [...]
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October 15, 2007I was sent information about a very meaty looking three day seminar organised by GPS Ireland in the NMCI facility of CIT in Ringaskiddy. It’s on from 22nd-24th October.
Day 1 is aboout Fundamentals of GPS/GNSS and is open to anyone interested in seeking conceptual and detailed explanations of GPS technology, operation, capabilities, applications and development [...]
Posted in Conferences, Events, Technical 2 Comments »
June 25, 2007We announced LouderTweets recently, which are 140 character mini-reviews you can send to LouderVoice from Twitter without needing a LouderVoice account.
Last night we turned on LouderViesti which is the equivalent feature for the superb Jaiku. Jaiku is like Twitter but can do much much more. They are based in Finland and are adding great [...]
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May 23, 2007Please please please stop changing what I write.
You don’t know best. I do!
If I enter three dots, I want three dots, not a bloody ellipsis.
I don’t want smart quotes.
Don’t replace my apostrophes with backticks.
I don’t want my perfectly valid nested XHTML trashed when you “fix” it.
If I enter a div in [...]
Posted in Software Development, Technical 6 Comments »
March 28, 2007This is just one of those “I wish someone else had written this before I tried to do it” posts. Unlike most popular software on Fedora or indeed in Python, there is no simple installer for PyLucene and no binary that you can use yum or rpm to install with. The install instructions have a [...]
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March 5, 2007We had a wonderful night at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday. Big congrats to Kieran Murphy who won Best Business Blog (and Best Speciality Blog) and Bernie Goldbach who won Best Technology Blogger (and Best Contribution to the Irish Bloggersphere which he in turn gave to Damien). They are two of my favourite bloggers [...]
Posted in Business, Community, Technical 2 Comments »
February 22, 2007Given the lack of free wireless at FoWA and the disastrous wireless at LeWeb3, it struck me yesterday that conferences are the ideal opportunity for FON to give people real hands-on experience of their routers.
Imagine if the guys had provided all the wifi for free yesterday? They could still use the logon screens so [...]
Posted in Conferences, Suppliers, Technical 10 Comments »
February 13, 2007I paid a fair chunk of cash for an N70 last year in the expectation that it would be the solution to all my mobile app needs for the foreseeable future and replace things like the Tungsten T. Overall it’s a fine but slow phone and there are some nice applications for it (Opera mini [...]
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February 7, 2007I’ve followed a lot of the happenings with OpenID over the past nine months or so. I signed up to a few of the providers (Verisignlabs and MyOpenID) and I used it successfully to log on to Zooomr.
Two announcements caught my eye since yesterday. First Microsoft announced they are going to support it - [...]
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February 1, 2007I love the idea of Snipperoo and widgets in general. There is of course the conflict between widget-rich blogs and the tendency for people to read more and more via RSS but I still believe that the whole idea has legs.
I signed up for the beta when it was opened and got an account [...]
Posted in Technical, Web20, widgets 2 Comments »
January 25, 2007Can anyone recommend a decent podcast player for my phone? The built-in music player is a bad joke and only suitable for playing 3 minute songs - it has no ability to jump directly to a position in an MP3. It’s use of Spanish in the status messages is also interesting.
Ideally I want something that [...]
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January 22, 2007I compressed them a lot to reduce upload time on ADSL but the sound quality is ok.
The first segment is all about Wordpress itself:
The second has more on Wordpress but also a lot on working in a global virtual team and working from home:
Both well worth viewing.
Technorati Tags: wordpress, wordpress+mu, donncha+o+caoimh, barcamp, barcampireland, [...]
Posted in BarCampIreland, Business, Community, Technical 7 Comments »
January 22, 2007I have written both positively and quite negatively about FON on this blog. I had no success recently with redeeming a voucher for a free router and started to wonder if it fact the reality matched the PR.
I did finally manage to order the free router by signing up with a dummy account using [...]
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January 16, 2007John Collins recently blogged that ROS no longer supported Firefox and he was unable to get support from ROS on this. I ran into the same problem last week and just used Internet Explorer instead. However last night I tried to logon and got the same problem as Firefox i.e. no error, just sent back [...]
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January 8, 2007I’m starting to become very dubious about the supposed free FON offers that keep popping up. When the very first offer appeared quite a few months back, I applied, and got nothing. I mentioned it to Antoin who said I needed to reply to some email that I had been sent as a confirmation. So [...]
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January 8, 2007I’m seeing a lot of “offline” messages from blogs I read in Google Reader and they all seem to be Wordpress ones. Co-incidence or is there a general problem? I’ll hold off on upgrading for a few days in any case.
Technorati Tags: Wordpress, Wordpress+2.0.6
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November 28, 2006I’ve had backup processes over the years which ranged from copying files between machines to fully automated systems using ATLs. I’ve never been happy with how we did it in Argolon as it was far too haphazard.
It finally bit me badly a few weeks back when I did a bare-metal re-build of a server [...]
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November 24, 2006Can’t access my Voicemail or logon to the web-site. Serious whatever it is. Ireland only?
Technorati Tags: Vodafone
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