I’m no film buff by any standard. I hold close company with quite a few good friends who are either in love with, or involved with the film industry in Ireland. Friends range from passing interest to full blown career. So much so that I was dragged to went willingly to the Galway Film Fleadh. [...]
So after much speculation, titter-tatter and natter online, Steve Jobs took to the stage yesterday in Cupertino to launch Apples latest revolution in computing – the iPad. Set up to be a computing device for a “mobile” generation (Jobs was quick to point out that Apple is as much a mobile tech company as it [...]
It’s been a very good decade for music. Various genres blossomed into fully fledged music industry standards. The industry crippled itself in the face of digital distribution while Apple Computers, Inc. made us think different, becoming the leader in music sales globally (almost). I’ve loved a lot of music in this decade, most of which [...]
I have written about Spotify, and discussed it a lot in 2009. Basically, the service allows users to stream almost any song, album or artist catalog online, for free. The caviat is that you get an advert every 30minutes, and to remove these ads you can pay a €10/month subscription. Sounds great, and in reality [...]
When I was a kid, clouds were occasionally fluffy things in the sky, that more often then not – being in Ireland – rained down an incredible amount of dirty water on our heads. As a teenager, Cloud was some sort of homo-erotic character from Final Fantasy games. Games I never, ever played and as [...]
