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#“Loving the sexy new cover on my iPad2” »

#“Very cool, Inkscape can import a PDF so you can edit it” A constant problem in dealing with design agencies and others is that most of them only deliver the print-ready or web-ready files (PDFs, JPGs etc) and don't give you the original source PSD, AI, SVG etc. This means that you always have to go back to them, even for the smallest tweak. We have an old flyer from a trade show last year and I want to do a quick re-spin for the lowest cost possible for a trade show next week. »

#“RT\u00c9 Radio launches its first Android Apps - Install them now!” via rte.ie You know me, I bitch about RTE all the time (I'm allowed, I'm a licence payer) but stuff like this makes me very very happy. The PocketPlayer App has all the RTE Radio stations. My Dad was well impressed with it on his ZTE Blade. Tis far from listening to Irish dancing on his parents' tube radio in Rosbercon he has come in 72 years! »

#“What a Google AppInventor App looks like on an Archos Tablet” I'm not so sure it's supposed to scale like that. Would Honeycomb scale it any differently/better or is the issue AppInventor? That Archos 101 is running Froyo. »

#“The Utter Imbecilic Brain-dead Stupidity of the Amazon App Store for Android” We Irish Android early adopters railed against Google for their slowness in making paid Apps available outside of a tiny group of countries. Finally last year Google got their act together and we're all now good buddies again. No more 3UK SIM tricks for me (except for Flixster, strangely). Amazon has just announced their own App Store for Android. »

#“The Joy of The Irish Blog Awards #IBA11 is finding things like this…” via davidairey.com Universal Wrapping Paper! Well done to David on his win in the Awards last night. »

#“Has the Horror of upgrading Windows on your Sage machine improved?” One of our admin machines is stuck on XP for a very good reason - Sage Instant Accounts. It's a piece of software we truly detest but we started using it in 2004 and moving to another solution has never looked easy. Also none of those solutions looked much better.In an ideal world, Sage (or a competitor) would figure out SaaS properly, give us one-click import of 7 years of data into a cloud-based solution and work seamlessly from then on with local Irish accountants, Irish VAT etc etc. »

#“Today Matthew, I’m going to be Sally Field. #IBA11” This brain-fart of a blog won Best Tech Blog at The Irish Blog Awards in Belfast last night. I'm still in shock. Really thrilled for all the other winners too. Particularly the awesome Daily Spud. »

#“Any opinions on 15.4" laptops?” Youngfella's confirmation money is burning a hole in his pocket. After a short-lived diversion towards getting a Tablet, he is now back in the market for a laptop. He currently uses my ancient Acer Aspire with a lines of dead pixels running down the middle of the screen and buttons missing from the keyboard. Given that his main activity is editing his card-trick videos, Netbooks were immediately cast aside. »

#“Avoid @wittertainment loss, install doubleTwist on Android” via doubletwist.com I've been pretty lucky with the SD card in my HTC Desire. Despite being hammered constantly due to all apps being installed on an EXT3 partition, the main FAT32 partition has never lost any data. Until today. The whole thing went bang and everything disappeared (the EXT3 partition was fine). For most of my stuff it's no big deal, I sync it all out to the cloud. »