Archive for January, 2009
It’s official – I’m addicted
I think I may have a problem. In the space of the past half hour I’ve caught myself checking my email three times (once every ten minutes, maths fans). Not so unusual during working hours, but the problems here are: 1. I’m not working 2. It’s saturday, so I should be doing something else, like […]
Filed under: Email, Mobile, Mobile devices | Leave a Comment
Tags: gmail, webmail
Ouch.
Remember when Sony boss Kaz Hirai told us all we’d want to get second jobs to buy the PS3? Turns out these days most people prefer to keep that second job for things we actually need, like paying bills. Sony is feeling the effects of the global recession.
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Tags: Playstation, Sony
My steadily increasing credit card bill. Ebay, to be more precise. In the past week I’ve bought: Shoe goo (to fix my boots) Sandisk memory cards (cheap, for my camera) A hard drive housing (dull but necessary) Eyelash extensions (don’t ask) I’m going to have to start Ebaying some of my own stuff to balance […]
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Tags: ebay, online shopping
Gmail goes offline
I’m a big fan of Google labs. The experimental features that pop up from time to time, some useful, others… not so much. The latest addition, offline Gmail, definitely falls into the former category.
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Tags: gmail, google, online mail, webmail
This week’s tech scribblings
This week, it’s all about PBX fraud.
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Dell’s latest Inspiron
There are very few things that can get me excited about a laptop these days. Netbooks made them ultra-portable and affordable. Apple made them fashionable. Widescreen multimedia machines – seen it all before. So it’s a tough audience for Dell and its latest Inspiron 15 laptop.
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Hard drive goes *boom*
Oh the irony. Less than a week after writing about how data loss is expected to affect an increasing number of people this year, my external hard drive gave up the ghost. All those stern talking-tos I’ve given about backing up the backup, and I hadn’t quite got around to it myself. Fingers crossed I […]
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Tags: data loss
Eircom has agreed to weed out illegal file sharers from its broadband network using the “three strikes and you’re out” rule. The record industry will supply the IP addresses of the offending parties, and Eircom will issue warning letters. The third time, the customer gets cut off. The recording industry is happy, Eircom loses a […]
Filed under: Business, ISPs, music | 1 Comment
Tags: copyright, digital downloads, digital music, downloads, Eircom, file sharing, IRMA, ISP, limewire, music, P2P, peer to peer, uploaders
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