Sitting in Murphy’s Ice Cream on Wicklow street at the moment, reading about the new video calling features Facebook is rolling out. Part of me thinks that these features are a knee-jerk reaction to everything Google Plus is announcing recently. Facebook aren’t gonna be happy at all about all the attention Google Plus is getting, [...]
That’s the message you get if you’re an iPad owner and reader of the New York Post. They’re attempting to block any iPad readers from accessing their content without a subscription. It’s not a great firewall, because using other browsers on the iPad (such as Opera Mini) allow access to the site perfectly. When New [...]
On June 6th, Apple previewed iOS 5 to the public, announcing a release date sometime in the fall. Among the dozens of features announced, system-wide Twitter integration is the one that most caught my attention. From Apple’s website: Sign in once in Settings, and suddenly you can tweet directly from Safari, Photos, Camera, YouTube, or [...]
If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, you might remember the post In Defense of Instagram from November last year. I was talking about a relatively unknown iPhone application that let you attach filters to photographs on your iPhone. An example here, of a cheese plate I had in Hungary a few months [...]
So I’ve just successfully installed Mac OS X Lion on my 2010 MacBook Air. My reasons for doing this were twofold: 1) Auto-saving and having all versions of a document readily accessible sounded like a really handy thing to have when I use this laptop to do my Junior Cert this month. 2) I’m a [...]
Getting absolutely zilch/zippo/nada/nothing out of my Facebook account these days, so took the plunge and officially deactivated my account. Forgot the pseudo-emotional blackmail you go through to before they allow you to kill off your account. Also, whichever radio button I select, a little yellow box pops up, giving the Facebook-break-up equivalent of “I can [...]
I procured recently a great book on journalism. It’s a series of articles written by journalists about the profession, as well as detailed analysis of famous journalism cases and critique of popular journalism techniques. However, the book isn’t in all that great nick, so I’ve decided to preserve it by uploading it to my computer [...]
This week, Twitpic, the service that lets you upload pictures and attach those pictures to tweets, modified its terms and conditions. Imperatively, it changes what rights you have over your uploaded photographs: While TwitPic still says, “You retain all ownership rights to Content uploaded to TwitPic,” it also receives a free worldwide non-exclusive license to [...]
In a sea of nerd-jokes, pop-culture references and mathematical ‘humor’, there lies an archipelago of a poignant few words here and there in XKCD’s comics. They’re few and far between, but they make you stop and think all the same: Of course, this profoundness would appear in a comic strip about a zombie Marie Curie.
There’s been a quotation making the rounds on Twitter and Facebook since the announcement last night of bin Laden’s death, though it’s been misattributed to Mark Twain and misquoted to boot: the real quotation, by famed lawyer Clarence Darrow, is (with the line before it that improves it) “All men have an emotion to kill; [...]