Category Archives: Web

The Veil Collection

Posted on 08/12/2009 by Adam

Some linkage for Walter‘s wife’s wedding veils website The Veil Collection. As James says, it’s great to see Irish businesses competing, particularly in the online space. Nice site Walter!

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Google Public DNS

Posted on 03/12/2009 by Adam

Could spell trouble for OpenDNS. I’m jealous of their netblocks. Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. To try it out: Configure … Continue reading →

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Amazon.com Universal Wish List

Posted on 02/12/2009 by Adam

In case you missed it, Amazon.com has a wonderful new tool for adding items from any website to your Amazon wish list, so you can create a central repository of Stuff You Want. All you need to do is add … Continue reading →

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The Home Crowd

Posted on 07/07/2009 by Adam

Corking LOI vid produced by Peter Brennan and Simon Crowe. Thread about it here on Foot.ie.

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Pirate Bay Bought Out?

Posted on 30/06/2009 by Adam

This is all over the news today. Sounds to a bad April 1 prank, have the lads their dates mixed up? The Pirate Bay has been (effectively) acquired by a gaming company called Global Gaming Factory X, who is plunking … Continue reading →

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Opera Unite

Posted on 16/06/2009 by Adam

While I won’t assign it the “reinvention of the web” tag others are giving it quite yet, Opera Unite is something new in a space where we really don’t see truly fresh things very often. In a nutshell, it’s a … Continue reading →

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KildareStreet.com

Posted on 23/04/2009 by Adam

Well done to the brilliant John Handelar for launching a beta of KildareStreet.com today, where you can apparently: Read a dramatically-more-legible version of the Dáil Record going back to January 2004, Search that record using a fabulous search engine which … Continue reading →

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Your Firefox Add-ons

Posted on 22/04/2009 by Adam

Go on then, what gems have you that I haven’t heard of yet? Here’s my lot, with the ones disabled until I need them in italics. Adblock Plus – Should be obvious. I disable in on sites I support. And … Continue reading →

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I’m still not a blogger…

Posted on 14/04/2009 by Adam

Although to be fair to Mark from the Sunday Times, he did tell me he’d be doing a piece and quoting me, unlike the thieving hacks in the Star who steal content from Foot.ie on a near-weekly basis. This is … Continue reading →

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Blackout Ireland Avatars

Posted on 04/03/2009 by Adam

Didn’t really fancy the one on the Blackout Ireland site, so I made one of my own for Foot.ie. a few size variants below. If you haven’t been paying attention, this is happening in protest against Eircom’s capitulation to the … Continue reading →

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