Tag: web_apps

  • Palm's steady path into decline

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    PocketPCThoughts has an excellent article tracing the steady decline of Palm’s OS over the last five years. Most of the diminution seems to be attributed to PalmSource’s failure to produce the long-promised version 6 of the Palm OS. This failure coupled with OS 5’s inadequacies led inevitably to palm looking elsewhere for an OS supplier…

  • RSS event in IT@Cork

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    I am organising an IT@Cork event around business uses of RSS to be held in the NSC on October 25th at 6pm. The provisional title for the event is: RSS for non techies: Advancing brand and market awareness using simple internet technologies. More details as they become available.

  • Stormhoek guilt

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    I’m feeling guilty. Hugh sent me a bottle of Stormhoek wine (with no obligation) and I haven’t done anything about it. The bottle is in the fridge, unopened. Why? It is white wine and both Pilar and I prefer red. So it sits there in the fridge, with its personalised label (nice touch), unmolested. It…

  • The even lighter side of blogging

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    I posted a cartoon yesterday by Alex Gregory which appeared in the New Yorker on Sept 12th and is now doing the rounds of the blogosphere (see below) FrankP (the illustrator of the funny cartoons on bifsniff.com) decided that the cartoon would work better with a little re-wording (see below for Frank’s re-worded version) Personally,…

  • Broadband in Rushbrook

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    I am moving into a new house in a couple of weeks in Rushbrook, Co. Cork and I need to get a broadband connection there (with a static ip preferably) and at least 2mb down. I haven’t been following the state of Irish broadband providers for a while now since I got my own connection…

  • Record labels getting desperate!

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    Record labels – the only companies more reviled than insurance companies, are obviously getting desperate now. They are looking enviously at the income coming to Apple from iTunes music sales and from Apple’s iPod sales and want for a larger slice of the action. Now they say Apple should share the revenue from iPod sales…

  • Cool iPod Nano pics

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    There are some cool iPod Nano pics on Seog’s site – they really put the size of the Nano into perspective. I especially like the picture of the nano beside the credit card. Try not to get too upset by the fact that Seog listens to Will Smith and Glen Frey!

  • Netvibes.com trounces Start.com!

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    I have complained, both here and on the Start.com blog, about Start.com’s stubborn refusal to support the Mac platform – this is a short-sighted move on Microsoft’s part as they appear simply to be “preaching to the converted” rather than trying to win new customers. In any case, it didn’t matter too much for me,…