Apple are one of those companies that made its name by telling us what we wanted. Not the other way around. With the release of iOS6 Apple removed the Google Maps application and replaced it with their own solution. Unfortunately, as thousands of iPhone users found out, the new Apple solution caused more problems than […]
Archive | September, 2012
Child Safe Browser For iPad Launched
MetaCert have launched their new child safe browser for iPad – Olly. The browser leverages MetaCert‘s index of adult and other non-child safe content. Once installed you can easily tweak the browser’s settings to either block or allow various social networks and different types of content: You can also choose which specific sites you want […]
Breaking: Portugal Says Peer to Peer Sharing Is Legal
A Portuguese court has ruled that peer to peer sharing of music and films is legal. The decision was made public in the last couple of hours in the Portuguese tech press. From what I can understand the Portuguese court is upholding users’ right to make copies for personal use even if the source was […]
World’s Worst WiFi [Podcast #44]
Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s the technology.ie podcast with Michele and Conn. It’s been three weeks since our last podcast – so forgive us if this one is a little long. We had some catching up to do! Michele’s back from Montenegro where he attended the Eastern Europe ccTLD conference and Webfest.me and discovered the […]
XXX Rated Porn Search Engine To Launch This Week
Remember .xxx domains that launched a few months back? Well the guys behind the .xxx domain registry are launching a new search engine specifically for “developed” .xxx websites. The new search engine is using a pretty obvious and easy to remember name – search.xxx While the new search engine is unlikely to be a “Google […]
XKCD’s Randall Munroe Coming To Limerick
The University of Limerick’s computer society, Skynet, is running SkyCon again this year. This time round the event will take place over the weekend of October 6th and 7th and the lineup of speakers is pretty impressive. Randall Munroe, the guy behind XKCD, will be speaking, as will Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth. They’ll be joined by […]
Irish Web Awards Breaks New Record!
We mentioned the nominations list was out for the 2012 Irish Web Awards .. What we didn’t mention, however, was that they’ve broken a new record Over 900 websites were nominated for the awards by over 350 people Damien Mulley, the awards organiser, was both delighted and a bit taken aback by the award’s success […]
Irish Web Awards Long Nominee List Out
The “long” list of nominees for the 2012 Irish Web Awards has been published The list will probably shrink a small bit as the judging commences, as some of the sites will be disqualified for a number of reasons. You can check the list here. Related articles Irish Internet Awards Showdown? (technology.ie) Irish Web Awards […]
Infacta Launch OSX Email Marketing Software
Infacta, who are based in Sligo, have been producing email marketing software for Windows for several years. They recently announced Hoolie, which brings their solution to OSX for the first time. Judging by the information on the site and the screenshots it looks like it covers all the bases, though the list management options appear […]
The Ultimate Geeky Lightbulb?
Over on Kickstarter at the moment there’s a very cool project which is for a new type of light bulb. To be honest it’s more than just a “bulb”, it’s more like an entire lighting system that comes in the shape / form of a light bulb. It’s got wifi, IPv6, it’s eco-friendly .. it’s […]