Trying out Windows 7 Beta

January 21, 2009

Windows 7 Beta is free to download and try out. I tried it out earlier this week to see what its like. I currently use Windows XP Pro and I don’t like Windows Vista at all.
Download Windows 7 Beta (2.43GB)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx
To begin downloading, scroll down the page and select your version and language. I installed  32 [...]

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Missed opportunity for Register365 on Twitter

January 14, 2009

Image via CrunchBase

For context, Twitter is “a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time”.  Sort of like a message board or the office water cooler. Anyone can join, post short messages and interact with others.
I use it often, I find it to be an excellent tool to ask questions and get feedback. When [...]

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Jack and Jill Childrens Foundation

January 4, 2009

Damien is running a competition to encourage people to recycle their old mobile phones for the Jack & Jill Foundation.
For everyone that donates one or more mobile phones to the charity, they’ll be entered into a draw for three prizes (First, second and third out of hat) - a Nokia 5220, a Voyager 815 bluetooth [...]

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Fun Cork Mash Ups

December 16, 2008

CuriousPuddleVoice
(Curious Wines, Puddle Ducks and Louder Voice)
A new website investigating increasing incidents of voices heard from puddles formed on main roads after heavy rain.
eDucks
(eWrite and Puddle Ducks)
The ideal Christmas gift for the nerd that likes taking baths. Check your email while in the bath with the new eDuck! The duck quacks when you get a [...]

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Bloggers Dinner in Cork.

December 16, 2008

At a recent Open Coffee, Joe Scanlon was elected to organise the Bloggers lunch/dinner here in Cork. Joe wasn’t actually at the table at the time, he was off in the bathroom.
Despite being in the bathroom, Joe still managed to organise a great night out. The dinner took place last evening in the Market Lane, [...]

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The bank took my Car

November 26, 2008

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 [...]

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Measures taken to improve our email marketing software

November 18, 2008

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 [...]

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eWrite has lost its first and last customer

November 18, 2008

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 [...]

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Favourite non techie product of the month

November 11, 2008
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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 [...]

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Register365 Support Fail

November 9, 2008

The past few days have been particularly tough. I’ve been working on a new clients email newsletter making sure they can get their monthly newsletter into their recipients inboxes.
The clients site is hosted with Register365.  One of the measures to make sure the email gets through is to add an SPF record. To do this [...]

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