Tag: wifi

  • In Spain at the minute

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m in Spain at the moment. I flew over here on Sunday for my brother-in-law’s wedding. All good. However, this has been a nightmare journey. I woke up on Sunday morning with a temperature of 38.8C. And Tomás, our four year old, had a temp of 38. We managed to get the kids and bags…

  • Had a ball at BarCamp Galway

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    Tom Raftery
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    I went to BarCamp Galway over the weekend. I arrived a bit late because I drove up from Cork on Saturday morning and then spent around 30 minutes wandering around NUIG looking for the DERI institute before I realised it is off-campus! I eventually made it at 11 – just in time for coffee and…

  • Google Reader saved my life!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Well, that might be exaggerating it slightly 😉 Still, I was away recently on holidays for three weeks and I didn’t bring my laptop with me. I was offline. Cut off from the infostream for the first time in months. Then one evening, while walking my son Enrique around the local plaza, I noticed there…

  • OS X to Vista networking help needed

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    Anyone know of any good resources for networking a Mac (running OS X) and a PC (running Vista) on a peer-to-peer lan network? I’m asking because I have a 4.75gb file on my Vista machine which I want to transfer to the Mac and it is too big to burn to DVD. I have turned…

  • Off to MIX07

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m writing this post in Terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport waiting to board a flight to Chicago (and then another to Vegas) for Microsoft’s MIX07 conference. I’m looking forward to the conference, the line-up of talks looks really impressive and I’ll get a chance to meet some great people. What is really cool as well…

  • Problems receiving calls with Truphone

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    Tom Raftery
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    I set up a Truphone account to try out with the Nokia E61 I have been using the last few days. Truphone gives you a US landline number when you sign up for an account with them (mine is 14259053151). Calls to this number are supposed to be routed to my mobile whenever I am…

  • Is your mobile operator crippling your phone?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Making calls from your mobile over wifi, instead of your mobile provider’s network, saves lots of money on call charges. This has the obvious consequence of reducing the income of the bloodsucking mobile operators (all together now, awwwww). To ensure you can’t do this, some mobile operators have crippled the ability to make Internet calls…

  • FON need to improve their router firmware

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    Tom Raftery
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    FON have a nifty little idea (and some investment from Google, Skype and Index Ventures, if memory serves). Their idea is that if you use one of their wireless routers, you get a login which you can then use on any other FON owner’s wireless router. This gives you free wi-fi Internet access anywhere there…