Vienna has the first city TLD: .WIEN
Kevin Murphy at Domain Incite reports that the first city TLD went live on DNS on Friday. .WIEN is the domain name for the city of the same name – known in English as Vienna. Registration for .wien will be open to those who “can demonstrate that they have an economic, cultural, historical, social or any […]
Computer Code In Movies & TV Shows
Films and TV shows often feature computers. Some of the computers display code on the screen, but is the code real? What would the code actually do? Well some people have gone to the trouble of checking it out in detail and, of course, there’s a blog dedicated to collecting it You’ll find screenshots and […]
Are We Living In The Moment?
This video has been doing the rounds for the last few months and has, so far, clocked up over 36 million views on Youtube. It’s a short, but very powerful reflection on how mobile phones can interrupt our experience of daily life. Some food for thought? The video is directed by Miles Crawford
Vine Web Profiles Now Live
Twitter has launched “Vine on the Web”, which means that if you reserved your custom URL / profile it’s now live. The profile page of a user is quite similar to what we’re used to seeing with Twitter, in fact, most of the experience is similar. However there are differences. For example, while you can […]
Tableaux Lego: The Irish Online
Over at Forbairt.com, James Larkin appears to have kicked off a project with a life of its own. Take a community of online personas – each with their own idiosyncrasies and traits – and create a scene in Lego depicting some of its better known members. It’s like a portait. Not a ‘likeness’, obviously. More like […]
Irish Government Considering Banning Anonymous Sites?
From the “only in Ireland” department .. In common with many governments, the Irish government allows citizens to submit petitions online. While many other governments would expect a petition to have some backing before they’d consider them, the Irish system apparently allows petitions to be submitted by a single person without any backing. According to […]
Michele Shares the Secrets of Social Media for Business [Audio]
For our first audio podcast of 2014, Michele Neylon spills the beans on social media success for business. Blacknight is Ireland’s largest provider of hosting and domains – but it’s also a leader in the use of blogging and social media for business, winning numerous awards (and shortlisted) for online customer engagement in the last few […]
The First ‘Honest’ Spam in the Irish Language?
It’s not the first piece of spam as Gaeilge – although previous efforts have been more phishing than spam. (Fioscaireacht!) So, it may well be the first piece of “honest” spam as Gaeilge! The email received by Piers Dillon Scott this morning is – probably thanks to Google Translate – certainly intelligible to an Irish speaker. […]
“Derek” Coming To Netflix Ireland & UK
Ricky Gervais’ “Derek” will finally be available to Irish and UK Netflix members from January 30th. As usual viewers will be able to access the entire first series at once and binge as much as they like! The show originally debuted in all Netflix territories with the exception of the UK and Ireland back in […]
Scanner Pro for iPhone / iPad Free This Week
While Apple’s “12 Days of Gifts” app has been nice, though quite mixed, some of the best deals on iPhone apps are available from the developers themselves. Several people have been sharing links to Scanner Pro, which is currently free. What is it? It basically turns your iOS device into a portable scanner. You can […]