Tag: Technology

Martin McMullan, from the Highpoint Group was one of the other speakers at the Events Day Conference I spoke at a couple of weeks back. Martin showed the following video and then made the point that at any restaurant or event we attend, we should specifically ask for Fairtrade coffee. http://www.youtube.com/v/jEVozJa13poI tried this yesterday when…

I’m in Dublin this evening and suddenly find myself at a loose end – if anyone would like to meet up for a drink/bite to eat/chat/whatever, leave a comment here or drop me a mail to tom@tomrafteryit.net I’m staying in La Stampa which is just opposite the Mansion House and will be free from around…

WordPress.com, the WordPress powered, hosted, free blogging platform has just announced support for OpenID. What this means is that if you have a WordPress.com account, you now automatically have an OpenID! What is OpenID? From the faq: OpenID is an open standard that lets you sign in to other sites on the Web using your…

Off to WebCamp in Galway – looks like an interesting line-up!

I was sent an invite to try Skitch. Skitch is a downloadable Mac app for taking pictures (via screen grab or from web cam) or adding pictures to via drag and drop; then annotating or doodling on the pictures, before sharing the resultant image via web service or simply dragging to email or desktop. The…

I went along to the 2007 Irish Blog Awards on Saturday night and had an absolutely fantastic night. I met loads of people whose blogs I had only read before and caught up with lots of old friends. Brilliant. Can we do it again next week Damien? Loads has already been written about it so…

I decided to do a comparison of the three major online mapping services – Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps and Microsoft’s Local Live. I couldn’t get Live.com to work in Camino so I used IE7 for it – the other two worked fine in Camino. Minus 10 points for Microsoft! The satellite/aerial photography on all sites…