Google may be a big company with a huge turnover and thousands of staff worldwide, but the company still has a sense of humour. From time to time they insert little “Easter eggs” into the search engine or do something quite playful. Remember the 1980’s style low resolutions graphics on Google Maps a couple of […]
This week we’ll be speaking to a very special guest – Patrick Ruddell. Patrick is the founder and Editor in Chief of ScienceFiction.com. ScienceFiction.com was launched in 2010 and covers all aspects of sci-fi and fantasy, with regular updates on movies, tv shows and a whole lot more. Apart from running one of my favourite […]
Conn and I are old enough to remember the ZX Spectrum, so Google’s “doodle” on Google UK this morning both brings back memories for me and makes me feel a little old 🙂 I remember picking up a secondhand ZX Spectrum 48k a couple of years after their initial release. It was a wonderful machine, […]
Many of us know the feeling of being the geek in the family. Â Tech support … what should I buy … oh – give us a look at your phone! And sometimes the show is on the other foot, like this weekend when my sister-in-law asked: “have you tried Viber?” She’s an IT professional, so […]
It looks like Paypal is centralising everything under their .com domain name. So if you’re using Paypal to accept payments via your website you might need to check your code. More details on our company blog
Even though this week is “shorter”, as Monday was a holiday in many countries (including Ireland) it’s been a very busy week in technology news circles. The announced acquisition of Instagram by Facebook is probably the biggest story this week, but what other stories are people talking about? We’ll be recording this week’s podcast tomorrow […]
And here’s another infographic to help people get to grips with the new timeline:
Facebook has turned on the timeline for all business pages. If you haven’t made some changes to how your Facebook page is setup it might look a little odd or plain ugly! Hubspot have released a pretty good info-graphic explaining it in simple terms
Love them or hate them, Google does some pretty cool things. For April Fool’s Day they’ve enabled an 8-bit retro version of Google Maps. It’s pretty cool if, like me, you’re old enough to remember the days when 8-bit graphics were the norm. If you’re bored you can check out some of the monuments that […]
Pinterest “soft launched” a few months ago, but in the recent weeks it not only opened its doors to the public, but rapidly became one of the hottest online properties. So, are you using it yet? If you are using it, are you just using it for personal stuff, or are you trying to use […]
