Archive | June, 2013

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Preview Grumpy Cat’s Book

Grumpy Cat is probably the most popular cat on the internet. She got a bigger crowd at SXSW earlier this year at Austin and stole the show! So if you like her then you’ll probably want to get your “paws” on her upcoming book: Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book They’ve released a preview which gives […]

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NSA Proof Font?

So if you’re worried about the NSA (and other government agencies) reading your emails, documents etc., then maybe this new font is the solution. Here’s a video explaining both how it works, what it looks like and how standard OCR technology handles it (or doesn’t ..) What do you think? Good idea? Bad idea? Waste […]

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Debian User? Check Your Repositories

If you’re a Debian user you may need to verify which repositories you’re using. Apparently one of the unofficial Debian multimedia depositories was using the domain debian-multimedia.org. Unfortunately the domain lapsed and is no longer pointing to valid Debian packages. Not sure if you’re using it or not? Simply run this command in a terminal: […]

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Facebook finally gets #hashtags

Well Facebook was a bit of a flutter yesterday,  at least in my stream, with people wondering why there were so many hash tags around. I assumed people were cross-posting from twitter to facebook, but no it’s not that. Facebook have gone the way of Twitter and Instagram and quite possibly numerous other services and […]

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Grabone By The Numbers

Irish deals site Grabone.ie recently released some figures on the site’s activity. The site is only 2 years old, but in that time they’ve managed to grab quite a large slice of the market and report 20% share of the “daily deal” market in Ireland. To illustrate the site’s activity they’ve put this graphic together: […]

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Magnet Top Netflix ISP Index Again

Irish ISP Magnet has managed to retain its number 1 position on Netflix’s ISP index for the 4th successive month. UPC dropped 3 place this month, with Digiweb, Eircom and Vodafone rising up the table. Full details on the Netflix site. Related articles Netflix Publish Latest ISP Index (technology.ie) Magnet pips Eircom to post (independent.ie)

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Designer Strikes Back At NSA Presentation Style

While most of the media coverage and social media conversations around the NSA and Prism have focussed on the security and privacy implications, some people obviously thought that the NSA could have done a  better job of the slides. So one industrious designer went off and re-did them: Dear NSA, let me take care of […]

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