Tag: Technology

  • Online photo editing heats up

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    I see News.com reporting that Adobe are to make a free, online, lite version of Photoshop available in the next few months. According to Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen: although hosted Photoshop is meant to be a low-end product, the company intends to ensure that it is of a higher quality than free alternatives. I wonder…

  • F22 Raptors brought down by computer glitch

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    Unbelievable story in the DailyTech a couple of days ago. Seemingly six Lockheed F22 Raptor fighter jets on a flight from Hawaii to Japan were crippled when they flew over the International Date Line! Their computer systems were unable to cope and their computers crashed completely. Everything from fuel subsystems, to navigation and partial communications…

  • Parallels networking error resolved

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    I had a problem with my copy of Parallels ufter upgrading last night – the shared networking no longer worked and it was grabbing the same ip as my Mac – causing all kinds of problems. The program wouldn’t allow me to re-configure the network settings (all other options were greyed out). So after a…

  • Social network event in Galway

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    I notice that the boys in UCG’s DERI institute are holding a Webcamp next week, on the 7th. It is on social networks and includes a few big names in the space. Should be good.

  • Really retro website!

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    I came across Mark Woodman’s homepage this morning and was well impressed by it. It is all done by client side scripting and as you can see from the screen shot above, it renders like a terminal window. Even this is configurable so if you are more comfortable in a DOS prompt, click on the…

  • Saul proposes European YCombinator

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    I spotted over on the Web 2.0 Ireland blog that Saul Klein (Saul is VP of Skype, a Founding Partner of The Accelerator Group (TAG – an active early-stage investment and advisory network, and has recently been appointed to Index Ventures) is proposing a European techstars/ycomibinator type facility. Saul says: this is really a call…

  • Conor's pain

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    I came across Conor O’Neill’s blog post about his vasectomy today. It was on his personal blog, which I am not subscribed to, so I missed it when he posted it originally last month. I came across it today when looking over the posts in the Best Blog Post category in the Irish Blog Awards.…

  • Pat's in trouble – continued

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    A couple of days ago I posted that Pat Phelan was in some trouble. This evening Pat confirmed it: From Pat’s blog: Our allfreecalls provider in Iowa today took flight due to increasing pressure from a large USA based carrier. We are working on getting a new number up. We expect to be back in…