Via Sabrina on Twitter, Colour Inspiration Contest Winners. Some inspirational colour palettes for designers. Very nice.
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I visited Forkd today after seeing some a review on TechCrunch UK (& Ireland). It is basically a social network for sharing recipes. Coincidentally, I had just been looking for a good recipe site with user-generated content. I’m sure there are plenty of websites doing this same thing, but Forkd has a [...]
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I just signed up for Creative Camp, a one-day event in Kilkenny Castle this Saturday. There are currently 108 sign-ups, including a lot of familiar names and and some interesting talks are proposed. Looks like a good way to spend a Saturday, and it is completely free. I’ll be there with my [...]
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Justin Mason has just launched Irish Pulse. An aggregator for Irish Twitter users.
I think it is a nice tool. It lets me see what other Irish people are saying (beyond the 70 or so that I follow). It shows me replies that don’t show up in my feed, and I’m guessing that [...]
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Monday, February 25, 2008 Occasionally I see fit to throw a bone to the frantic Googlers out there looking for tech support answers. Here’s an easy one for anyone who forked out on this wifi range extender that they sell in Maplin and is currently finding it completely unusable. The firmware that it comes with quite simply [...]
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 Any Django heads should scoot over to Django People, a new community website centered around the popular Python web framework. Nice site – I love how your location is shown in a strip of Google maps on your profile page. For example, my profile (here) has a ~100px high strip of Cork City [...]
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Friday, December 28, 2007 Inspired by Adam’s repository of silly domain names (verbo.se, foot.ie, explic.it, …) and others like pix.ie, I am now the proud owner of galv.in. Unfortunately jam.es was not available.
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Friday, December 21, 2007 Here is an idea for a variation on one of those premium phone number scams:
Register a premium phone number, one of those super expensive ones where you set the price – €99 per minute or however high the phone company allows you to go
Print the number onto a “How am I driving?” sticker and stick [...]
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 Alexia has declared her disappointment in Science Week’s carrot-dangling approach to spread awareness of science by encouraging Irish bloggers to write about inventions. Let me just preface this by saying: I like carrots. I would like to win a free Nintendo Wii, I am just a bit too lazy to think of an [...]
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