Explore The Getty Museum’s Digital Photos For Free
The J. Paul Getty Museum recently announced that they were lifting restrictions on some parts of their image collection: the Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds all the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose This is even more open […]
Blast From the Past : Internet Guide From 1997
Remember surfing the ‘net back in the 90s? Remember when the internet was a big mystery? The Kids’ Guide to the Internet from 1997 features the Jamison family .. Worth watching 🙂
Internet Usage By Time of Day
Visualising internet traffic and usage is fascinating. This graphic (via) shows internet usage by time of day and confirms that usage is higher during office hours (doh!) While the usage patterns are interesting, what’s potentially even more interesting are the areas of the globe with little or no usage. You can dive into Irish and […]
Designing For Social Media? You Need This!
Every social network out there has different options. You can upload headers, avatars, cover images, background images etc., etc., But each social network uses different dimensions and sets different limits. And trying to find all the information you need to design and resize a brand’s images to fit in properly on all the social networks […]
Grumpy in Havana [Podcast #67]
Michele is back from his Cuban vacation and joins Conn for this week’s podcast. Â It’s the most offline he’s been in years! Â In fact, it’s the first time he’s ever set up an email auto-reply! Conn tests the Pirate Browser. Â It works. Google filing says Gmail users have no expectation of privacy. Google Maps’ latest […]
Save 5% On O2 Billpay Phones
We write about mobile phones and gadgets here, so being able to share an offer with you makes sense 🙂 O2 Ireland are offering a 5% discount on the purchase of a phone when you sign up for a bill pay plan. Full details of the phone handsets available here – just use the coupon […]
Photobomb With Grumpy Cat
Grumpy Cat is an internet sensation and now you can bring her to your mobile device with GrumpyBomb. The app, which is 100% free, lets you easily add Grumpy Cat to your existing iPhone photos, or take a new one and add her and an appropriate caption. The icons are cartoonish and playful and […]
Exploring The Tardis Via Google Maps
Some of the “easter eggs” that you can find embedded in Google products are fun and oh so very geeky. Today’s find (thanks Rick) is the Tardis. Here’s a quick screen grab of what you can see, in case they disable it.. Enjoy 🙂
Carphone Warehouse Launch Partnership with Lycamobile
Carphone Warehouse have announced a new partnership today which allows them to offer Lycamobile to their customers. With the addition of Lycamobile Carphone Warehouse are now able to offer Irish customers a choice of 6 different mobile networks. I’ll be honest, I didn’t know much about Lycamobile, though I think I’d seen some advertising for […]
Pirate Browser Hits 100k Downloads
We mentioned the Pirate Bay’s new browser a couple of days ago.. In just three days it’s been downloaded over 100 thousand times and the official torrent is being shared by over 5 thousand people. Full details over on GigaOM