Category: Technology

  • Yahoo! releases Pipes – online programming for dummies!

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    Yahoo! released Yahoo! Pipes today to almost universal acclaim! What is Pipes? According to Yahoo!’s Jeremy Zawodny it is: a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by…

  • BarCamp Cork 2007

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    I spoke to the owners of the National Software Centre the other day and they said they’d be delighted to host a BarCamp there. I reckon sometime in May would be an appropriate timescale for the next one. What do you think?

  • Google PowerPoint in the works

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    I mentioned Google’s lack of an online Presentation app (i.e. a browser-based PowerPoint) previously. Well, according to TechCrunch today, it looks as if they are addressing that gap in their offerings. With the addition of online presentation software, Google becomes a serious player in the Office software space. Key advantages of Google’s Office software offering…

  • Congrats Walter

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    Congrats to Walter Higgins of sxoop for getting another positive review for his pxn8 (an online photo editing app) on TechCrunch today. The TechCrunch article is a review of six online photo editors and of pxn8 TechCrunch says: PXN8 is the best of the Ajax based editors (and the best overall until Picnik launched) and…

  • Flickr go-slow?

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    I’m uploading a couple of images to my Flickr account right now and it is like wading through treacle – they are going really slowly. I’m not sure if there is an issue with my broadband provider of if Flickr is having problems/throttling upload speeds. Anyone else noticed this?

  • The sad demise of Bifsniff cartoons – sniff!

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    I was very sad to read that Bifsniff will no longer be releasing their weekly cartoons – at least not for the foreseeable future: This does mean that the cartoons are now officially on hold for the time being – possibly forever. I regularly use their cartoons in my presentations and I have had their…

  • Annoying Snaps

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    I have mentioned previously, in response to a question, that I don’t like the Snap Preview plugin for blogs. It seems that I am not alone in this. Nick Wilson has written a piece on his blog about why he can’t stand the Snap Preview and while some of the commentery is tongue in cheek,…

  • Slow news day at Valleywag

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    It really must have been a slow day at Valleywag yesterday for them to put up a clip of Bill Gates leaving the stage after his interview with Jon Stewart’s Today Show. The title of the Valleywag post was “Bill Gates walks out of Daily Show” – implying that he walked out in the middle…