Netflix Hits 1 Million Users in UK & Ireland
Netflix has announced plans to launch its service in Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland) in Q4 of 2012. The company announced yesterday that it had signed up over 1 million subscribers in the UK and Ireland since launching back in January. Netflix has over 30 million subscribers worldwide. Related articles Netflix to […]
Young Irish social entrepreneurs heading to Campus Party
The largest technical festival in Europe kicks off in Berlin tomorrow. Campus Party will run from 21st to 26th August at the former Templehof airport in Berlin. It offers more than 600 hours of talks, discussions and workshops covering topics such as free software, entrepreneurship, social media, gaming, development, robotics and design. It brings together […]
Music: Game of Thrones Theme – 10 Hour Version!
You might be a Game of Thrones fan and you might like the theme music, but would you really want a 10 hour loop of it? Well if you want it here it is: [youtube]http://youtu.be/uaFLdr8vBNc[/youtube]
Instagram Adds New Features Removes Others
The latest version of Instagram for the iPhone was released a couple of days ago. The user interface has had quite a bit of an overhaul and they’ve also added a new feature – geotagged maps. But they’ve also removed at least one sharing option – Posterous is no longer available! You can still, in […]
Whatever you like doing, do it!
Letters of Note published this letter recently by award winning Pixar animator, Pete Docter. It was in response to a question from a teacher who asked for some advice to give to students. The last paragraph reads: “So, Middle School Student, whatever you like doing, do it! And keep doing it. Work hard! In […]
Interpol Confirm Assange Still On Wanted List
Over the last few days Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange has been in the news again. Assange has been hiding out in the Ecuador Embassy in London and that country finally granted him asylum yesterday. The UK and Swedish governments are not too happy about Assange’s new status (understatement!) Interpol have also confirmed that Assange is […]
Video: Lego History Explained
We all know Lego, but do we know its history? Lego’s celebrating their 80th birthday this year and released a video explaining their story: [youtube]http://youtu.be/NdDU_BBJW9Y[/youtube] Enjoy!
Changes are coming to the Twitter API
As per the title it seems like there are some pretty big changes coming to how you can use the Twitter API. A post over on the dev blog https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api discusses them in more detail. You can read a breakdown of some of the changes over on Marco Arment’s blog. Interpreting some of Twitter’s API […]
Realex Payments Running Free Application Security Workshop
Realex Payments have announced a free workshop on application security next week in their offices in Dublin. The course is designed to give developers a basic understanding of common vulnerabilities, insights on penetration testing and code reviews. Full details here. Related articles Online Payments Provider Realex Announces Growth (technology.ie) Irish Web Awards Announce Headline Sponsor […]
More on the Web Awards
We posted some details of this year’s web awards the other evening, but this was before the official press release had arrived .. The event organiser, Damien Mulley, has a very positive outlook for this year’s event: For our 5th birthday we hope to see over 400 people attend the event and see another increase […]