Live Fast & Prosper [Podcast #62]
Brought to you by Blacknight – it’s another Technology.ie podcast, with Michele & Conn and the tech news of the week. Remember Barcamp? 3DCamp is flying the flag in Limerick on May 25th. (Listen out for a bonus podcast on this tomorrow!) The case begins in the Supreme Court in the Data Protection Commisioner’s appeal […]
Mac OSX Productivity Bundle
Software bundles for OSX are fairly common and often great value. MacHeist and others have made them very popular. If you missed the last MacHeist bundle then this week’s bundle from StackSocial might be worth looking at. It gives you $690 worth of software for $49.99. A single copy of Camtasia for Mac would cost […]
Breaking The Language Barrier With Webflakes
If you don’t speak a language other than English you are probably missing out. You might not realise it, but there’s a LOT of excellent content out there that you can’t read or even be aware of as it’s published in languages other than English. Startup Webflakes is trying to do something about this by […]
Buy Gaming Credits With Your Mobile
If you’re a pay as you go mobile phone user and a gamer then this new service might suit you. Buy Game Points is a new service from Phonovation that launched recently. It does exactly what you’d expect it to do – it lets you buy points for Xbox Live using your mobile phone. At […]
Track The Syrian Internet Outage In Realtime Via RIPE
RIPE may be the “home” to hardcore network geeks, but they do some really cool stuff that the rest of us can appreciated and understand. One of their recent additions is bunch of tools to help mere mortals visualise how the internet is working (or not). In the case of Syria, as has been reported […]
Akamai Visualise Internet Traffic
Akamai carries up to 30% of the web’s traffic so when they start talking about data they’re not only dealing in big numbers, but also significant percentages of the internet’s users. They’ve made public a lot of their data and they’ve done so in a pretty visual and engaging fashion. For example, here’s broadband penetration […]
Debian 7.0 Wheezy Released
Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” was released on Saturday. The latest version of Debian brings a number of new features to the open source operating system including “multiarch support”. Multiarch support means that you’ll be able to install both 32 bit and 64 bit software on the same machine without having to worry about dependencies ie. it’ll […]
The Puppy Gets It [Podcast #61]
Easyjet does away with checkins This is very cool if you’re a Mac fan (but eye bleedingly expensive .. ). Twitter warns journos about security and open up their advertising platform. Ultra secure messaging – wipe the messages on both ends – they’ve even got a hacker challenge! The Ennis Innovate incubator programme invites applications from startups. MicksGarage.com […]
Samsung Galaxy S4 Unboxing
The Samsung Galaxy S4 will be available via Three later this month and they’ve put out a video showing the unboxing, which shows off some of the phone’s features. Three Ireland are offering a number of plans with the S4 that include plenty of data, so that you don’t have to worry about how much […]
ICT Excellence Shortlist Announced
Mediateam’s annual ICT awards are being held in the Ballsbridge Hotel on May 16th. This year’s shortlist has been announced: T Project of the Year (Public Sector) Triangle Opensky Data Systems & Dublin City Council DataEdge & IAA McKesson & HSE Post.Trust IT Project of the Year (Private Sector) Codec-dss Arkphire VMWare TEKenable and VoiceSage […]