Archives for “Tech”

Blogging like a boy

Sabrina gave a great session at CreativeCamp Kilkenny last weekend on how to blog like a boy – or in other words how to make your blog look great and be user-friendly. Her slides are available here, with her talking points in the comments of each. One of the points that she raised was about blogrolls – [...]


Shift happens…


Nokia have announced a battery recall for some BL-5C phone batteries manufactured between Dec 2005 and Nov 2006. In very rare cases the affected batteries could potentially experience over heating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Since so many people carry Nokia phones, I though it might help to post [...]


Technology – Grrrrrr!

I’m having one of those crappy weeks when everything around me seems to break and suck all the energy and life out of me while I get it repaired. Our HTPC is broken, so we’ve had no recorded TV for weeks now, I have to plan to be in the house when shows are on. My new [...]


A new way to open car doors

Class! Although I’m not sure how practical it would be with the amount of rain we have in Ireland…


One of the reasons that I hadn’t blogged over the past few weeks (apart from being sick) was that I had got bogged down and behind in all my surfing. I read a ton of blogs and news sites via NewsGator every day and if I don’t make time every day I soon fall [...]


Geekspeak still baffles web users…

Normal service has been resumed… The BBC ran an article last month with the above title which I found pretty interesting. The article was based on a survey by Neilsen/Net Ratings entitled the 21st Century UK Digital Consumer. We often see stories running in the news about new ‘technological’ words that have become mainstream and [...]


Getting Granny using RSS…

In a similar vein to my presentation at BarCamp last weekend, I found an article this week over on “back in skinny jeans” that explains RSS the ‘Oprah’ way. It’s a really clear guide that would be perfect to give to a non-technical person of any age, nevermind your granny – one of the [...]


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