Month: November 2006

  • Email sending problems

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    Anyone else having problems sending emails via Blacknight Solutions today? I had a desperate time trying to send mails this morning and I have three emails trying to get out now which can’t seem to send. Normally they are reliable – ironically their support is via email so finding out what is causing this could…

  • Salim, the early bird…

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    The first of the speakers for the it@cork 2006 Business and Technology conference flew in last night. Salim Ismail, founder and CEO of Confabb (coincidentally a conference aggregation site!), is taking a couple of days before the conference starts to drive around beautiful West Cork and Kerry. Salim will be arriving back in Cork tomorrow…

  • Barcamp South East Ireland

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    Barcamp South East Ireland is taking place in Waterford this coming January 20th 2007. There is a good list of speakers and attendees already signed up. If you want to go too, leave a note at the wiki or drop an email to barcampsoutheast at gmail dot com

  • Zune DRM hacked

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    The Zune has hardly been launched a wet week when an article has appeared on Gizmodo detailing how to share music over wifi without the Zune applying its DRM to the shared music. The hack involves a little bit of work and I wonder just how much longer it will be until someone releases a…

  • Vladimir Putin is a nice man

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    Tom Raftery
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    He’s a very nice man. Due to the unfortunate habit his opponents, and people who link him to atrocities like the Moscow apartment bombings have, of dying nasty deaths, you won’t find me saying anything bad about Vladimir Putin.

  • Is Jason's experiment flawed?

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    Alexa is a site that ranks websites’ popularlity by analysing sites visited by people who download their toolbar. However, its stats have long been thought to be dubious at best. This morning I see Jason Calacanis is running a little experiment to see how easy it is to game Alexa’s results. The only thing that…

  • Keychain saves my life (and my passwords)!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Keychain is a fabulous application which comes as standard on every Mac. It is the program which stores all your passwords for you. For me, it has proven to be a lifesaver time and time again. I have more passwords for more sites than I have hairs on my head (not that that’d be very…

  • Western Digital are not interested in customer feedback

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    Tom Raftery
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    I bought a new Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II last week to beef up my storage. It cost me €522. Unfortunately it was a dud. Didn’t work, out of the box. I wrote a quick post about the fact that it didn’t work last Monday. A Google search for the term “My Book…