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#“Ulster Bank now using Visa Debit Cards instead of Laser. Cheaper Ryanair?” I just got my new ATM card in the post from Ulster Bank and it's no longer a Laser Card, it's Visa Debit. They claim it is accepted in more places globally. This seems reasonable since I have never seen Laser as an online payment method outside of Ireland. One trick a lot of people have been using (the guys in Curious Wines told me about it) when buying Ryanair tickets is to use an Entropay Virtual Debit Card. »

#“Conor’s Patented Saturday Eurovision Filter” I must have accidentally read a story from 2009 when I Googled the finalists of the Eurovision. So it's on in Oslo, not Greece? And we made the final?Did any statues move? To help fellow followers of the "it ain't ironic, it's just shite" school of thought. And also members of the "I'd rather die than re-live the 80s" sect, here is the ultimate Tweetdeck filter for tonight. »

#“Tweetdeck Sports Filter Update” If you want to have a sports-free weekend and summer on Twitter then the Tweetdeck global filter may come to the rescue.This is the filter I am using at the moment. Feel free to suggest more in the comments. tennis, wimbledon, gaa, hurling, hurl, world cup, soccer, football, game, score, result, man u, man utd, liverpool, utd, chelsea, rugby, golf, putt, tiger woods, real madrid, blackpool, wembley, the ref is, ah come on ref, odi, wicket, ball, WC2010 I was going to add a eurovision filter temporarily for tonight but I just discovered we didn't make it to the final. »

#“Paid Apps Imminent for Android in Ireland?” Oooh, I just noticed a change in the Android Marketplace. With my Vodafone Ireland SIM, I can now upgrade paid apps that I bought on my 3 UK SIM. I also spotted a tweet earlier that Google Checkout now works here too. Still can't buy apps but I'm guessing we are very close. Wahoo! »

#“AdBlock on Chrome enabling insertion of invisible spam into Zoho CRM e-mail signatures” I emailed a potential client yesterday who replied that she couldn't read my email as it had crashed her email client. She also said that the email was huge.I had sent the email using Zoho CRM and when I checked it, it looked fine. Only a few lines long.So I sent myself a test message which also looked fine. »

#“Bloody Brilliant Move by PROfounders Capital - Open-Office Hours” Announcing PROfounders Open-Office Hours.  Any startup, no agenda, 30 mins, no VC screening, lets chat.   We have been thinking about this for a long time, but we need to thank Mike Butcher (http://bit.ly/a5dnKh) for the nudge.  We are happy to announce PROfounders Capital Open-Office Hours.  As a first test, we have set aside three hours on Thursday June 10th and three hours on Thursday July 8th for Open-Office Hours. »

#“Want to see how the new Google VP8 video looks?” Grab a nightly build of the Chromium Browser Install it Sign-up for HTML5 testing on YouTube (thanks GammaGoblin!) Go watch the Prince of Persia Trailer here in that browser If you see HTML5 and WebM in the footer of the video (as above), then you are watching a video in your browser without Flash and without the patent-riddled H. »

#“The most important scientific breakthrough in human history?” via ted.com It certainly feels like it to me. How many newspapers ran with it as their headline and lead story? The implications are staggering. One of the messages they have encoded in the DNA is a quote from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. "To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life" »

#“I need help with my Tweetdeck Weekend Sports Filter” I'm working on the best combination of words for a global filter in Tweetdeck to remove Tweets about stuff I don't care about. Of course, of most importance is the Weekend Sports filter. I've started with: soccer football game score c'mon you liverpool utd chelsea man u rugby golf putt tiger woods various russian names What else should I add in there to have a Sports-Free Twitter Weekend? »

#“Google VP8 Video and current Phones. What’s the story?” Quick one on VP8. i'm thrilled Google have done this since the whole MPEG LA thing hanging over h.264 was worryin a lot of people. But.A lot of PC video cards and more importantly, smartphones, now have h.264 hardware decoders so they can play the video without melting the main CPU. Are those decoders hardwired to the h.264 algorithms or will they also be able to handle VP8? »