#“Nokia - So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, Hyv\u00e4sti” I was a mobile phone late adopter for a very long time.After a couple of crappy feature phones from the likes of Panasonic in the 1990s, I got my first decent Nokia in 2000, the legendary 6210. I hung on to that for ages and then finally upgraded to the equally beloved 6230i in 2004. I only joined the ranks of smartphone owners in 2006 when I got the N70. »
#“Dear Vodafone/Meteor/O2, please give Google a hard slap from Irish Android Owners” The first Google Android phone went on sale in Ireland at the start of November 2009. It is now May 2010. And we still don't have Paid Apps in Ireland. All of the networks are losing Android phone sales because of this and all of those people who have Android phone are pissed off and wishing they'd bought bloody iPhones. »
#“TechCrunch TV \u0096 Making me tingle” TechCrunch TV will go live next month. Broadcasting online (and soon possibly elsewhere) 24 hours a day, the channels focus will be on the people behind the stories you read on TC every day: the entrepreneurs, developers, venture capitalists, angels and assorted geniuses who are building companies from Silicon Valley to Serbia and beyond. via techcrunch.com Is Paul Carr trying to make sure I never do a tap of work? »
#“Irish Startups need to Sign the Petition to Stop This - Right Now!” Under the proposed Directive, VCs will be required to disclose a lot more information, which is likely to cost as much as 100,000 annually per investee company. The Directive also imposes much greater capital requirements on venture firms, even as funds are shrinking to reflect the ease of creating startups now. VCs will also have to use outside depositaries (i. »
#“Android is now perfectly complete” You thought this post was going to be about turn-by-turn voice navigation on Google Maps for Ireland didn't you? Hah! (That's the next post). No, this is far more important. There is now a decent ZX Spectrum emulator for Android called Xpectroid and I've been running the games I wrote from 1984-1986 on it. Here's a few screenshots of it in action. Having a few usability and sound problems but dammit, I can run Z80 assembler programs I wrote 25 years ago on my phone. »
#“Facebook Ads suddenly got a lot more powerful” So when you click the new Like Facebook button, being very helpful and all, Facebook will update your permanent profile with your new like. via eddale.co I'm still digesting all of the announcements from Facebook's F8 conference yesterday. Lots of brilliant stuff in there which has me excited. Interesting contrast to the catastrophe that was Google Buzz. There is some work for us to switch from Facebook Connect by the looks of things but no biggie. »
#“Get a proper OS for your iPhone” It should be pretty simple to port forward to the iPhone 3G. The 3GS will take more work. Hopefully with all this groundwork laid out, we can make Android a real alternative or supplement for iPhone users. Maybe we can finally get Flash. ;) via linuxoniphone.blogspot.com Android running on iPhone! Why? Why? Because it's there. How can you not love hackers? »
#“Scorpios” via dilbert.com I've been sharing links to Scott Adams strips since the mid-1990s. In fact, in Integral Design, my entire cubicle was covered in the best ones from his calendars. Yes, sad I know. But then Matt, who worked with me, built a wall of coke cans in his cube. Good times. »
#“Child abuse and cover-ups are about power.” THE BEHAVIOUR OF the institutional Catholic church in Ireland and around the world is certainly a stark example of both of these truths. But it is not the only example, even in contemporary Ireland. The Irish Amateur Swimming Association, for example, gave coaches the power to do what they liked to children and then engaged in a process of denial that was, albeit on a much smaller scale, essentially the same as that of the bishops. »
#“Dontate to Catherine O’Neill’s Flora Women’s Mini Marathon 2010” The aim of 1 in 1000 Running for Cystic Fibrosis, is to get 1000 women to participate in the Flora Mini Marathon on 7 June 2010. We are asking each women to get at least 200 in sponsorship which will enable 1 in 1000 to raise the sum of 200,000 required to fit out and equip a new four bed Cystic Fibrosis unit in Our Ladys Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin. »