Bloody Nokia
I paid a fair chunk of cash for an N70 last year in the expectation that it would be the solution to all my mobile app needs for the foreseeable future and replace things like the Tungsten T. Overall...
View ArticleSuggestion for FON
Given the lack of free wireless at FoWA and the disastrous wireless at LeWeb3, it struck me yesterday that conferences are the ideal opportunity for FON to give people real hands-on experience of their...
View ArticleBlog Awards
We had a wonderful night at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday. Big congrats to Kieran Murphy who won Best Business Blog (and Best Speciality Blog) and Bernie Goldbach who won Best Technology Blogger...
View ArticleInstalling PyLucene on Fedora Core 6 (FC6)
This is just one of those “I wish someone else had written this before I tried to do it” posts. Unlike most popular software on Fedora or indeed in Python, there is no simple installer for PyLucene and...
View ArticleA plea to the WordPress developers
Please please please stop changing what I write. You don’t know best. I do! If I enter three dots, I want three dots, not a bloody ellipsis. I don’t want smart quotes. Don’t replace my apostrophes with...
View ArticleLouderMinis now on Jaiku too
We announced LouderTweets recently, which are 140 character mini-reviews you can send to LouderVoice from Twitter without needing a LouderVoice account. Last night we turned on LouderViesti which is...
View ArticleGPS Seminar in Cork
I was sent information about a very meaty looking three day seminar organised by GPS Ireland in the NMCI facility of CIT in Ringaskiddy. It’s on from 22nd-24th October. Day 1 is aboout Fundamentals of...
View ArticleMovable Type – Not there yet
There has been some new buzz about Movable Type since version 4 was released a while back. I had carried out one install of v3 previously to ensure that we supported it ok in LouderVoice. It was one of...
View ArticleJaiku Invites
Jaiku Invites is a great initiative from Ciarán Rooney. When Google bought Jaiku they shut down new user registrations. There are a lot of people out there who would love to join and take part in all...
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Review of Nokia N95-8GB
Nokia N95-8GB If you are looking for the ultimate business phone rather than the gadget equivalent of a Prada handbag, then this is the device for you. Quite simply the best phone I’ve ever owned....
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Outcome of testing Mobile Broadband (O2 and Vodafone)
Mobile Broadband in Ireland This is actually a combined review of O2 and Vodafone Ireland mobile broadband services since I tested them in parallel. Neither is a replacement for fixed-line BB but in...
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N810 leaves me cold
Nokia N810 Internet Tablet I really thought I would love this device considering how much I like its old N770 brother. However it completely misses the mark and I can find no place for it in my daily...
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Top Travel Tip
I mentioned before that a few months back I was in London for an event and I decided to forego my laptop and just bring my Nokia N95-8GB. This would provide e-mail, RSS reading and Twitter. Of course I...
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Chrome on Ubuntu
If you just can’t wait, Chrome will run on Ubuntu with a little help from Wine. Some scrappy fonts and I don’t think Flash works. But still, pretty darned impressive. Picasa 3 also seems to work well.
View ArticleUsing Android phone in Ireland
I got an unlocked HTC G1 from the US recently for a project we are working on. This is the first Google Android phone and I’ll be doing a full review soon. The first thing you have to do is activate...
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