I notice that /. (Slashdot) are having a CSS redesign contest … winner gets a new laptop. Any Irish tech-bloggers giving it a lash? I couldn’t be arsed, I have neither the time nor energy (nor skills truth be told) to attempt such a thing. Anyway it looks like I’m holding on to my current [...]
The rise of An tImeall continues. It’s not enough to be writing for Lá now Conn has gone a step further and achieved radio syndication! Some of you may have gotten this press release from Conn Ó Muíneacháin this morning, if not here’s the full release in English agus as Gaeilge.
Congratulations to you Conn!!
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NEWS RELEASE: First Irish Podcast to Achieve Radio Syndication
An tImeall, the daily podcast in the Irish language, today becomes the first independent Irish podcast to cross-over to traditional radio, as it begins a syndicated run on Galway city’s college community station, Flirt FM. The 15 minute show will air each weekday at 5:30pm
Thinking more about new domain names, i’m trying to create a short list. Here’s what I have so far … i’ve gone for odd, easy to remember or catchy names … madelk fiftypockets donotshake doomedtofail minorobsession samuraimac (ala Samurai jack) crankytank whatchamacallit This won’t be for the blog, it’ll be for the main tech site. [...]
My head is wrecked trying to think of a new cool and interesting domain name. If I sell the current one (looks likely) i’ll have to find a new virtual home but am hopeless at thinking of cool names. I thought “poncdotpiste” might be one option (“dot” in Irish, English & Finnish). Or maybe I [...]
A little bored this evening so I took a trip around the blogosphere to see what’s happening and came across a few blogs worth bookmarking… The first is Manuel Stimulation, a blog from a Spanish dude living in Ireland. Hilarious blog, I’ll be dropping by there often. The next I found was it’s all fun [...]
Vote now for your favourite Irish Blogs!After the public vote the top 5 blogs per category will go before a judging panel to select each winner. Winners will then be announced on March 11th.
The Beta 2 Preview of IE7 has been released to the XP SP2-using public. I think the only people actually waiting for this were the self-pleasuring nerds who hang around the MS forums and would cut your throat if you dared diss their favourite browser. Still, I donned my geek cap for a short while [...]
Back in November I posted some news on browsers, mainly Firefox and related extensions but I also mentioned the release of Opera Mini, a web browser for mobile phones, which was initially released only to users in Nordic countries. Well Opera have now officially launched the scaled for mobile version of their browser (2 days [...]
Just a reminder about the Irish Blog Awards, nominations are closing in just 3 days time (on Jan 23rd) so get your nominations in while you still can. If you’re not sure who to vote for just start with the list of blogs in the right hand column of the Raiméis front page or head [...]
As the title sez, Thunderbird 1.5 is due out tomorrow. I’m not sure yet if the Irish version will be released at the same time or not, I guess we’ll find out tomorrow (probably US time) but i’ll update you if I have any further info (for those that like to keep ahead of the [...]