With the recent unearthing of an image on Google’s server, along with the less recent mention of Google Web Drive in Picasa for Mac, I’ve begun to think of exactly what I would want from a Cloud OS.
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Jan '09
Jan '09
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Jan '09
Jan '09
Calling all Irish teen bloggers/techies
Category: Randomness - Tags: blog, internet, meet-upOn Saturday, 17th January, there’ll be an event held in Dublin for Irish teens to meet fellow tech and blog enthusiasts from the same age group. I urge anyone who can make it to come along. You can find out all the details over at Teen Camp Ireland.
Hope to see you there!
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Dec '08
Dec '08
Facebook Connect vs. Friend Connect
Category: Randomness - Tags: Connect, Facebook, Google, identity, internetYesterday, both Facebook and Google launched their universal login platforms, Facebook Connect, and Friend Connect. As you can see to the right, Popple3.com is already Facebook Connect enabled. You can click the connect button to login right now.
For a brief period I had Friend Connect in the sidebar too, but it just seemed pointless to me really. I couldn’t use it to create local WordPress accounts to authorize comments. I would have to replace the WordPress comments with Friend Connect comments, making Facebook Connect AND Popple3.com accounts pointless. Maybe I missed something, but really Friend Connect seems like Disqus with a slightly more social aspect to it.
Based on the last paragraph I think it’s quite obvious which is the better platform in my opinion – Facebook Connect. It allows for full integration with any website, it’s all down to the developer. It’s a bit harder to set up, due to there being PHP involved, but still, totally worth the effort. It also posts actions to your Facebook feed if you choose to do so. I hope that sites all over the internet implement this in some way. Facebook will be launching a WordPress plugin soon, but until then you can still use (the not so great) Sociable.es plugin. With some editing, you can get a good proper functioning Facebook integration, as you can see right here.
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Sep '08
Sep '08
Google Chrome manages to wow, but is also lacking
Category: Reviews - Tags: browser, Chrome, Google, internetSo, I’ve had time now to mess about with Google Chrome, Google’s new web browser based on WebKit, and I have to say I’m quite impressed. Google have addressed most ends of what people really want from their browser, but have also missed out on a few important features.
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Sep '08
Sep '08
Google preparing for world domination; Own web browser
Category: Randomness - Tags: browser, Google, internet, world domination
Google have unvieled that they are working on a new web browser based on WebKit. The first images appeared yesterday, when Google sent out cartoons (yes, cartoons) to promote the new browser.
The new browser, called Google Chrome, is built on WebKit, which came as a shock to many as Google have such a tight relationship with Mozilla, and have invested large amounts of money into their Firefox browser. Google have decided however, not to use an open source JavaScript engine, but instead built their own from the ground up, dubbed V8.
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Aug '08
Aug '08
Disregard the last post – I have new info
Category: Randomness - Tags: internet, Meteor, mobile internet, Mobile PhonesSo, after posting the post below, I emailed Meteor with my calculations, and here is the reply:
In order to support our customers increasing usage of Internet service on their mobile, we are launching new rates for our GPRS service for Pay as You Go Customers. These new rates will be 99cent per day for up to 50MB of GPRS usage. I can advise you that these new GPRS rates will come into effect on the 26th of August.
It’s not great. It’s the same as Vodafone’s offering, but it’s far better than the current situation, where the same volume of data would cost you €246.50 on ISP, or a staggering €1024 on standard Meteor WAP.
I’m awaiting a reply to another email with more questions like,
- Will ISP users still benefit from cheaper data outside of this 50MB bundle? Or get an increased limit?
- Is the limit just download, or both download and upload?
- Will Meteor inform you when you have reached your 50MB limit?
I will post answers to these questions as soon as I get a reply
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Aug '08
Aug '08
I just realised just how much I’m being ripped off
Category: Randomness - Tags: internet, Meteor, mobile internet, Mobile PhonesOver the last few days I’ve been thinking about how much I’d love a data bundle on Meteor Pay As You Go. Just being able to do anything online whereever I am would be ideal. It then got me thinking, what’s the difference in price between my network (Meteor), and a network with data bundles (3), and my findings were outrageous!
On 3, the cheapest bundle in terms of price per MB is €25 for 10GB of data, while on Meteor the cheapest rate is €4.93 per MB. That means 3 charges €0.0024414 per MB (around 1 quarter of a cent). That means Meteor charges nearly 2020 times more than 3 for their data!
I’m posting this now from my phone over EDGE, just to see how much Meteor will charge me. I’ll post the result as soon as I’m at a computer.
Ok that was quite unexpected… I was only charged 2c and even at that I downloaded some message headers and summarys aswell…
EDIT: In fact it’s not actually charging me at all for this! 
I still want a data bundle though.
EDIT 2: Oh wait… €2 just went out of my account!
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Aug '08
Aug '08
The best mistranslation ever!
Category: Randomness - Tags: China, internetI just saw this over on AdFreak (via Slashdot) and I just had to post it.
A restaurant in China, decided they would put the name of their restaurant through an online translator, and buy a sign to welcome their English customers, however, the result wasn’t exactly right…
The best thing: The Chinese characters translate to… Restaurant!
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Jul '08
Jul '08
Android on your Nokia N810 just got alot easier
Category: Randomness - Tags: android, internet, n810A team of hackers over at Internet Tablet Talk have created a simple installer for running Android on the Nokia N810. They’ve only tested it on Diablo, the latest update to the N810′s OS. It’s not the first time Android has been run on an N810, but this by far makes the whole process easier.
[via Engadget]
