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 [...]
As a tech-head it’s slightly embarassing to admit that I’ve been entirely out of the loop as far as the world of RSS feeds go. I can play with them, know what they do, implement ‘em, etc., but never actually used them myself. For those not in-the-know, an RSS feed is a lightweight stream of [...]
This is likely to be topical, and spawned from various debates that have gone on lately on twitter among the rather excellent Irish twitter community regarding twitter “experts”, or “social media” experts. Now before I go on, I must say I’ve offered myself up as such. Not selling myself a social media or twitter expert, [...]
One of the big touted features in the arsenal of the 3.0 update to iPhones was the ability to tether it to your computer. A hacked feature allowed for it through cydia previously, but now Apple were offering it. No need for 3G dongles, strange price plans or anything “extra”. Just use your iPhone plan [...]
