Spotify is now available to Irish users. In case you’re not familiar with it Spotify is a digital music service that gives you “on demand” access to over 18 million songs. If you like music then you’ll love it. So now the digital music service seems to have quietly enabled access to Irish users over […]
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Kiss Microsoft Messenger Goodbye
Microsoft is killing off Microsoft Messenger / MSN Messenger / Windows Live Messenger. The instant message service is being replaced with Skype and if you’ve already upgraded to the latest version of Skype you’ll be able to access and merge your messenger account and contacts there. It’s not clear how users on other platforms ie. […]
Infographic: Current State Of Linux
Which Linux distributions are popular? Why do people use it? Who contributes the most to it? Pingdom have released a pretty slick infographic that answers these and other questions:
US iTunes Store Now Offers Charity Donations To Red Cross
US iTunes users now have the option to make donations to the American Red Cross directly from within iTunes. Users can choose to donate amounts from USD$5 up to USD$200 directly from within their iTunes account. Apple has been rolling out a number of payment options for users of subscription services like Hulu via iTunes […]
Apple Releases iOS 6.0.1
Apple has released an update to iOS. The update addresses a number of issues that iOS users were experiencing: Fixes a bug that prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air • Fixes a bug where horizontal lines may be displayed across the keyboard • Fixes an issue that could cause camera […]
Sick Of Politics? Remove Them From Your Streams Easily
If you’re active on Twitter or Facebook (or both) then your streams probably fill up with a lot of talk of politics – especially when there’s an election going on.. At the moment the big one is obviously the US Presidential Election, but there’s plenty of others.. So what do you do if you’re not […]
Crossover Office Free Today Only
If you’re a Mac or Linux user then you might have heard of “Crossover Office”. Basically it’s a bit of software that allows you to run Windows applications on your Mac or Linux desktop. So, for example, using it you can play games that are only available for windows, run Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office […]
US Deems Phone Unlocking Illegal
The US introduced the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) back in 1998. From time to time the US revises it .. The latest set of revisions, as reported by Digital Trends, are a little .. well .. “odd” would be too polite a word, so let’s go with “crazy”. Under the new provisions in the […]
Anonymous Targetting Zynga
Zynga laid off a staff the same day that the tech media were distracted with Apple’s launch. Now Anonymous are coming after them – or at least this video claims that they are: [youtube]http://youtu.be/OG1ypqhWDQ0[/youtube] They’ve also made available the transcript of the video (since it’s a computer generated voice) as well as files that they’re […]
Irish Company Launch Open Source Mobile CMS
IQ Content have launched Antenna, which is an open source CMS for event listings. The event listing software is also mobile optimised The system offers three publishing options for event listings’ operators: web, mobile and email: You can find out more about the CMS on the official site or grab the code from Github. A […]