Archive for the ‘Cool stuff’ Category

A glimpse of our future GPS Systems

The future of your driving experience will be pushed by that of your social network and the places they recommend and have seen (or are looking at in real time).


YouTube’s Top 10 Accidental Heroes

This is a rundown of the 10 most famous YouTube video’s that ended up being more famous that they bargained for from video remixes, sound boards to even mugs and shirts. These are the heroes of YouTube in no particular order.
Number 1: The Techno Viking

Number 2: Star wars Kid

Number 3: Charlie Bit me

Number 4: Ginger [...]


Go Mocking Bird and Lovely Charts

Every now and then, simple apps come along that grab your attention. Whether you use them for an hour, a day or the rest of your life, they’re great things to have access to. One of the very great things about web based apps is just that; they are web based and so can be [...]


Real-time web

Have you EVER thought that information on the web wasn’t close enough to real-time?


Shaddapp@font-face!!!

Ok, not quite in the Joe Dolce school of productivity, but this is all over the web at the moment and needs a mention.
While choosing a project for my degree, I toyed with the idea of creating a plugin for Firefox which would allow developers to include their own fonts in stylesheets and webpages by [...]


Twitter captures the anger of Irish football supporters

Ireland have just lost a World Cup play off against France in Paris. The French footballer Thierry Henry handled the ball in the penalty area before passing the ball to his team mate William Gallas who scored.


TubeRadio.fm

All that music on YouTube… but how to pull it all together?
You have your favorite bands, and there is content on YouTube from all of them, maybe even entire albums worth of live performances or straightforward bootleg uploads. You can laboriously search YouTube and create Playlists,  or you can use TubeRadio.fm.
The Layout is reminiscent of [...]


Please put your hands on the Dashboard…

Two things strike me about Google Dashboard. The first is how much more convenient it has made all of the (already convenient) Google tools I use to me. I sync my calendar with my phone, have my email available anywhere I want, keep docs I need to access regularly in Google docs and once I’ve [...]


Can you tell me how to get, how to get to our anniversary!

It seems that not only is the internet 40 years old, but another prestigious anniversary is shared with this industry changer in a programme credited with helping expand the imagination of children all over the world (many of whom work in this very office!). Sesame Street is 40 years old next week (10th November 2009) and as a [...]


Happy Birthday Mr. Internet

The internet is 40 years old today. Can you believe it? It only seems like yesterday… only joking I am not that old.
October 29th was when one message was sent from one computer to another… the message consisted of one word with three letters …. “Log” but the computer crashed and only “LO” was received.
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