Category: Technology
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Ouch
This is the broadband speed in UCC, pity it’s not at home. 🙁
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Article
I wrote a piece in today’s Irish Examiner about the BarCamp event on Saturday. Page 17, no Internet link. Will copy here shortly.
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Mac Mini entertainment
A few readers have been asking about my Mac Mini setup, so I have taken a couple of pictures to demonstrate how it stands currently. I actually love the option of picture-in-picture. There’s iTunes on (an abundance of country), with al Jazeera on as picture-in-picture via the television. You can have the TV sound on…
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Mac Mini as home entertainment
I’ve been meaning to post about buying a Mac Mini, and hooking it up to a Samsung 32′ R7 HD TV in the living room. It works wonders on your music collection, with Front Row at your beckon call. Setup was flawless, plugging straight into the wireless network and downloading the latest updates. It’s even…
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Arabic translation
Quietly, Google added some new languages to its translation tool. They are all in BETA at present but it’s interesting to see. The languages are Arabic, Korean, Chinese and Japanese. Maybe I missed it and this is old news. 🙂 They have also updated Google Maps to be more zoomable, not unlike Microsoft’s Live service.…
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Intervention for broadband
On a tangent to Frank’s discussion on the costs of corruption, I asked myself a slightly related question. While I am of the opinion that government should be kept to a minimum, and that the market should be largely left to it’s own devices, I am dismayed by the lack of broadband in this country.…
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Street Fighter Online
It’s back, and it’s free. Brings back memories. (Shockwave required)
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Fired
The Comcast guy has been sacked. Poor guy.
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Orlowski on photo communities
Andrew Orlowski over at El Reg penned an article his week where he claimed Flickr was getting far more publicity than it’s due. He cites a Hitwise survery that suggest Photobucket is the biggest of photo sharing sites, while Flickr lies in 6th place. He suggests that Flickr, being a Web 2.0 darling, receives far…
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Radio kills the Internet star?
Engadget links to a story about WiMax transmitters in Sweden: According to Sweden’s SVT, which reported on the incident, the local hospital emergency room was flooded with calls regarding various symptoms such as headaches, difficulty breathing, blurry vision and even two cases of heart arrhythmia. All of this was mere hours after the base station…