Archive | December, 2013

Just Eat Ireland takeaway trends

Just Eat Visualise Irish Takeaway Habits

Just Eat have released a simple, yet quite informative, graphic illustrating trends in takeaway orders. (Click to enlarge) While their data won’t capture all takeaway orders their market share is big enough for it to provide a good indication of trends. So the most popular day for ordering takeaway is New Year’s Day – why […]

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11 Year Old vs Steel Panther

This might not be  technology related, but it’s on Youtube and it’s cool. Aidan Fisher might be only 11 years old, but he can play guitar with the best of them. He challenged Steel Panther’s guitarist at a concert before Christmas and this is what happened: Post by Aidan Fisher.

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Reserve Your Profile URL on Vine

Vine is now offering users the option to reserve their profile URL. So you’ll soon be able to direct people to a simple web address such as http://vine.co/username instead of the current quite random looking one. It’s not 100% clear when the web profiles will go live, but if you are a Vine user, or […]

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Unboxing Day

Conn and Michele have a quick chat, and an uncharacteristically short podcast.  We discuss Snowden, Christmas gadgets and Amazon Mayday.  And then we go back to being on holidays! Hope you’re having a good one! Technology.ie is brought to you by Blacknight, Ireland’s largest provider of domains and hosting. Like the show?  We love making it! […]

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Google Blackmail

So Google+ may not be the most popular social network. How can Google fix this? This hilarious spoof video from the guys at CollegeHumor explains Google’s new strategy – exposing all the data you’ve given them over the last few years. Enjoy!  

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Snowden’s Alternative Christmas Message

Edward Snowden was chosen by Channel 4 to give their “Alternative Christmas message”. While the BBC carried the Queen’s speech where she focussed on the birth of great-grandson, Snowden’s message was focussed on how today’s children will never know privacy. A bit of a contrast! Snowden’s speech, while short, made references to Orwell and contained […]

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