Archive | August, 2013

The White House seen from ICANN's HQ in Washington DC

Breakfast in America [#Podcast 69]

Michele is in Washington DC this week for ICANN meetings, but he got up early this morning to Skype Conn for this week’s podcast. How the New York Times could have been better prepared for the Syrian Electronic Army DNS hack.  Also, MSouden in our chat room shared an anatomy of the attack by GigaOM. […]

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A Bit Of Tech Nostalgia

If you’ve been around for long enough then this sound will bring back memories. If you still hear the sound every day then you have my sympathies! If you don’t recognise it then you are too young to have lived through the joys of 56k dialup modems 🙂

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Grok my BUTT [Podcast #68]

“Let’s do the podcast live this week”, I said to Michele. “OK”, he said, without batting an eyelid.  So we did! Of course, he wanted to know about the technical side – so we started the show with that.  We had previously experimented with Google Hangouts for the show, with mixed results.  This time we kept […]

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Bill Thompson Coming To Dublin

Journalist Bill Thompson will be speaking at the Royal Irish Academy next month. The lunchtime talk is entitled “The Open Data Society and Its Enemies”: The talk will be grounded in his own experience as a journalist, developer and support of open data, and will explore ways in which open standards for networks, catalogues and […]

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Google celebrates Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy Claire de Lune Google Doodle

Google’s “doodle” for today celebrates French composer Claude Debussy and his work “Claire de lune”:   Apparently today is the 151st anniversary of the  composer’s birth. The animation and music lasts for over 2 minutes and is quite captivating. Did you stop to watch it on the Google home page?   Related articles Google Doodle […]

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Adding films and shows to "my list" on Netflix

Netflix Adds Wishlist Feature

Netflix has finally launched a “wishlist” feature that they’re calling “my list”. As a regular Netflix user this is a very welcome addition. The feature will be available to Netflix Ireland and UK users as well as those in other markets. One of my pet peeves while using Netflix is that there was no easy […]

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Slick Slim USB Cable

Most of us have smartphones these days, be that an iPhone or an Android. But if you use your phone for data heavy applications its battery will get drained quite quickly. This product doesn’t solve this, nor does it extend the battery life of your phone, but what it does do is give you a […]

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Amazon.com Offline, Amazon.co.uk Working Fine

Several people have been reporting issues accessing Amazon.com At the moment the US site is not loading, but the UK one is working fine. When a site like Amazon goes offline it makes headlines.. Whether the site is under attack or suffering some other kind of technical issue is not clear. UPDATE 20:08 It looks […]

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