Google’s doodles are usually static images, but from time to time they have pretty slick animated ones. Today’s is pretty cool, though I didn’t do too well trying to control the little man in the animation: [youtube]http://youtu.be/kmSH26CbOL8[/youtube] You can browse past Google doodles on their dedicated site. Related articles Google London 2012 hurdles doodle lets […]
The New York Times is doing a series of visualisations of current Olympians compared with their historic counterparts. So far there are three sets available, the 100m freestyle (swimming), 100m sprint and the long jump. The visualisations use historic data and make it come to life so even those of us who aren’t that interested […]
According to a report in the Sunday Business Post, Bus Eireann, the Irish semi-state bus company, is to offer free wifi on 100 of its buses. Several of the private bus companies that service routes such as Dublin Airport to Galway, have been offering free wifi on their services for the last couple of years, […]
Ulster Bank’s technical disaster, which left thousands of Irish customers without access to their money, will cost the bank at least 35 million Euro in compensation. Scarily the bank’s parent, RBS, is still not stating that the issue has been fully rectified: The bank’s parent, Royal Bank of Scotland, said the computer error, which stopped […]
OK so we know that .CO is pitching itself as the “cool” TLD, but there may be more to it than spin if Crystal Peterson is anyone to judge by. Crystal Peterson is cool. She’s a natural podcaster and could have a career in media if she ever gets tired of the domain industry. Right […]
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is appealing a case to the Irish Supreme Court. The case involves Irish ISP Eircom’s out of court agreement with the music industry to implement a “three strikes” rule or “graduated response” to alleged copyright infringers. The Irish Times has full coverage of this latest chapter in the IRMA vs […]
Aer Lingus is exploring offering wifi on both European and Transatlantic flights reports Damien Mulley. According to Damien’s article the airline would charge €10 for a UK or European flight, while they’d charge €20 for a flight to the US. Other airlines, such as Delta, base their pricing on the more traditional time periods eg. […]
While Netflix might be available in several countries, including Ireland, the biggest and most important market for the company remains the USA. So when reports came out that the service’s traffic was down 25% some analysts might get a bit worried. Netflix, however, are blaming the dip in traffic on the Olympics. Subscription based video […]
So what’s in the numbers. We’re constantly hearing about people buying fake followers on most of the social networks, you can head on over to the likes of http://fiverr.com/ and for you guessed it a fiver you’ll end up with someone getting you a load of new followers. Of course if you don’t know any […]
If you browse the web enough (I do!) then you’ll come across a lot of filler text, AKA Lorem Ipsum. It’s usually the same text over and over again: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud […]
