Dec 19, 2009
An Irishman goes into the confessional box after years of being away from the Church.
There’s a fully equipped bar with Guinness on tap. On the other wall is a dazzling array of the finest cigars and chocolates.
Then the priest comes in. “Father, forgive me, for it’s been a very long time since I’ve been to [...]
Dec 19, 2009
The LaCie 2Big USB 3.0 RAID drive is lightning fast, with throughput speeds of 275 MB/s and coming real soon. The 2Big uses Symwave’s USB 3.0 standard-compliant dual SATA and RAID bridge controller and a dual-disk RAID o/1 setup and LaCie say with this type of throughput, users can stream and edit multiple HD files [...]
Dec 19, 2009
O2 Ireland announced yesterday its launch of a Twitter SMS service, the first Irish mobile carrier to do so.
Sending and receiving Twitter messages will cost the same as sending and receiving regular SMS text messages on the O2 network.
If you’re an O2 customer, to begin, text START to 51210. Twitter has a handy list [...]
Nov 8, 2009
And you thought you’d seen it all eh! Can you believe that someone is actually making money from this one…could I not just cellotape a normal thermometer to the side of the bottle??!! Anyways, so no more guessing if your wine is chilled just right or too warm to serve. Within minutes, this [...]
Nov 1, 2009
Tom, Dick & Harry are a very cute set of porcelain tea, sugar and coffee storage jars designed to make an entertaining and stylish addition to any kitchen worktop.
The glints in their eyes indicate what’s inside (T: tea, S: sugar & C: coffee) and their air-tight heads have room to fit the handle of a [...]
Oct 27, 2009
Facebook today announced that the company plans to more than double the size of its operation during the official opening of its new EMEA headquarters in Dublin.
Facebook’s European operations have been headquartered in Dublin since October 2008 with over 70 employees currently on site.
The company expects to double the size of its [...]
Oct 27, 2009
Someone at microsoft decided that Telnet was not a secure application and so in Vista & Windows 7 it is not installed by default. To enable it:
Open control panel
Then go into programs
Then in programs and features there should be a part that says ‘turn windows features on or off ‘
Click ‘turn windows [...]