My radio controlled Ford F350 car that is, not my real one.
Recently the new AIB in Blackpool in Cork have been promoting a car finance package. A friend working there borrowed the Ford and the cardboard Porche from the animated move Cars which is actually my sisters, she got it from my brother who [...]
Short.ie is a free URL shortening service allowing you to truncate long unfriendly web addresses into short and easy to use URLs. Ideal for emailing, instant messaging and text messages.
This isn’t the first URL shortening service but it’s definitely my favorite for one main reason, the data it provides about the URLs I have shortened. [...]
In July I wrote about moving the ewrite applications away from software as a service and back to software as a product and the reasons for doing so.
Springloops has played a huge part in facilitating this change. Our applications eWrite Lite, eWrite Messenger and eWrite Essentials (eWrite Lite and eWrite Messenger combined) are now all [...]
A few of our customers websites have Guestbooks. More so in the past but a few still have them now. Im quite fond of them but not for the usual reasons, I enjoy combating the spam that they attract.
Preventing web forms from displaying spam is a challenge I enjoy. I dislike CAPTCHAs, I believe that [...]
Waaaay back in February, Niall Larkin was good enough to post a book to me, “The 4 hour work week†by Timothy Ferriss. In return I set him a copy of Getting Things Done by David Allen. Im still working more than 4 hours a week, I wonder is Niall getting things done?
I read 4HWW [...]
I lost my Jawbone bluetooth earpiece the other day, it keeps falling out of my pocket. I didn’t know I had lost it, my phone just kept disconnecting and connecting again as I moved around the place. With the help of the bluetooth connection connecting and disconnecting I was able to find the rough direction, [...]
If anyone wants to now how Not to send bulk emails, come talk to me. I recently had difficulty getting a particular clients email newsletter into their subscribers email inboxes, this costed our business a customer.
While working on the clients newsletter I decided to start from scratch to do everything I could to ensure the [...]
In the last couple of weeks I have been working with a new customer to come on board with eWrite using our email marketing software called eWrite Messenger. Today I received an email letting me know that they would like to stop using our software to return to a previous method of emailing their customers [...]
Yesterday in the Celtic Ross hotel in Rosscarberry I given the opportunity to talk to Soho Solo West Cork. Thank you to Calvin Jones for inviting me to talk to the members of Soho Solo.
The title of the talk was ‘Take Control of your website’. Originally I intended talking about Content Management Systems (CMS), to [...]
Not my usual topic to write about but I think its so damn cool. Its an Apple Slicer we got in Boston recently. Just press it onto an apple and slice it in to 8 or 16 slices, removing the core. I’m eating far more apples now.
Update: It’s damn good at slicing tomatoes too for [...]
