Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us -- and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

- Eric Allenbaugh

Review of Free iPhone News Apps, Part 1

Me Reading the Financial Times

As an Irish person, who tends to be interested in home and worldwide news, the iPhone, and more specifically some iPhone applications, are indispensible. Especially if they’re free… I know there are a large number of paid news apps available but free is always better :) . So looking at the top 50 news apps listed by apple in the Irish app store, I decided to compare a good selection of them(15) on a couple of important factors. Things like application design, ease of use, reliability and speed(3G), will be important, but not the only things taken into account. And while its not my job, or right really, to judge what news you read – I will also be throwing quality of articles into the mix – though in some cases this is going to be pretty bad. But then again, if you like that kind of news feel free to ignore my take on that part of the application. I didn’t rank the list in any particular order but left it in the order that I found them on the app store. (more…)

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Another New Beginning

…Or another end.
As this is my personal website, I tend to try things out here first. Like this design… I am unsure about the colours, but I like this layout and it only took me a weekend to put together. I’m calling the theme Bubblegum temporarily, and its written specifically for wordpress. That said, lots [...]

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Websites in Offline Directories…

Image via Wikipedia

We’ve all, at one time or another, needed to find a phone number of a local tradesman, or business. Now, the first thing I do is google it. However, before the advent of google, the first thing you picked up was the golden pages or some other local directory. Even now, alot of local businesses just [...]

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Search all the computers in your domain

Sometimes, as part of an IT team, you’ll get a strange request to search every PC in your domain for a particular file, or files containing particular information. Also, you couldn’t just search for a file name as someone might have renamed the file. At first I would have said that it was an impossibly [...]

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Windows File Copy

XKCD – Legendary. This web comic is absolutely hilarious and definitely worth a regular read!

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