Comment spam can be a bit of a problem. Although it doesn’t look like I have a problem on this blog, I do, the moderation system I have here prevents spam from showing up on the blog but my inbox is treated to a healthy dose of spam on a fairly regular basis. I’ve managed [...]
Google Base has finally launched. According to Google: Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we’ll host and make searchable online. Basically if you have any type of content which you want to make available to others you can submit it to Google base. [...]
Firefox 1.5 RC1 has been released this week, RC2 should be coming in another 8 days or so and should be pretty much the same as the 1.5 final release. [Download RC1] Here’s a good Firefox extension I came across this morning, IE Tab, it allows you to open pages within Firefox using the IE [...]
I’ve just downloaded a new browser called Flock, it’s basically a Firefox clone (btw Firefox just hit the 100,000,000 downloads mark yesterday!) but with a few new features. You have to sign up to their mailing list to get the current version, “0.5pre developer snapshot”, but they should release a public version soon. It looks [...]
I love having a fast net connection, it makes life so much easier if you’re maintaining websites, into heavy surfing or, as in my case, searching for animal porn. At home I have a 1Mb connection (Eur30 muntly) which I consider to be decent-ish, I couldn’t imagine working with anything slower. At work here I [...]
Google have announced plans to spread the wealth by setting up a $1bn charity fund which will fund social investment projects in the developing world! At the time of Google’s initial stock market flotation last year founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin made the pledge that they would set up a foundation to do “good [...]
Via the rebel smoker, Damien Mulley is mulling over the idea of creating an Irish Blog Awards. Not a bad idea, there’s certainly a good wide range of Irish blogs ar líne, although you can already pick out some likely winners like Slugger, Twenty or Richard Delevan mar shampla. Still, it might throw the spotlight [...]
I’ve just started playing with Google Reader, it looks pretty cool so far. It’s basically just an online news & rss reader. I guess it must be just released as I never heard of it before. With Google’s ‘personalised home’ you can add RSS feeds there, alongside your Gmail or whatever so that’s kinda handier. [...]
Yep that’s correct, 30gigs.com are offering free email accounts with storage space of 30 Gb! The last thing I need is another email account, what with the 1000 mail accounts which come with my website plus my Gmail account (and umpteen extra Gmail accounts there if I need them) but I decided to sign up [...]
Some big[-ish] news from the browser world this week, Opera have made the decision to offer their browser for free. This is a huge move for Oslo based Opera who before this charged $39 for their browser (there was also a free version with annoying ads at the top). With 100,000 buyers per year the [...]