#“NY Times Review of Treme” The series turns almost didactic at times, but for a reason. Treme is a work of imagination that seeks to reacquaint the world with a struggling citys reality. via nytimes.com If it's even 1/10th the show that The Wire was, it'll be better than almost everything else out there. »
#“My Mobile Broadband setup due to Eircom’s Uselessness” From midnight to 7pm, Eircom broadband is actually pretty good. I now get a solid 6.1Mbs DSL connection on a 7Mbs line after clenaing up all the wiring in the house. But at 7pm'ish every evening it collapses. I'm not talking slow, I'm talking 1993-era 14.4kbs type speeds and worse. Around 9pm we have nothing. 0bps. Contention my hole, this is a joke. »
#“Twitter tackling potential spam/abuse hard” I got a shock last night to receive an email from Twitter support to say that an OAuth Token we had configured had been suspended due to potential abuse.A quick explanation of what that means: When clients add LouderVoice customer reviews to their site, we provide the ability for their users to Login with Facebook and Twitter credentials and also to send a copy of their review to their Facebook or Twitter Account. »
#“Awesome - Posterous unveils Post Editor 2.0” via blog.posterous.com Posterous is the saviour of blogging for all of those who aren't hardcore committed bloggers. »
#“We’ll miss you Guy Kewney” Was it PCW's Elan Enterprise I swiped (finally, I admit it), or was it What Micro's? Whatever, publisher VNU finally woke up to the insanity of competing with itself and pink-slipped PCN. Other titles faded as the 80s home computing boom faded, but PCW and Guy sailed on, with Guy as the IT guru normal people had quite possibly heard of - and the one the vendors needed to talk to. »
#“Map Of Dublin 1798.” via dublin1798.com Spotted this via @spatialireland on Twitter. Very cool zoomable 1798 map of Dublin. Core layout really hasn't changed much in 200 years. »
#“Nokia Shafts Millions of N95 and N95-8GB Users?” Today, Nokia has responded making Ovi Maps 3 available for the E71 and E66 too. People will be able to use Ovi Suite to side load the latest country maps onto their devices so they can enjoy offline map browsing alongside free navigation. The process of making the latest version of Ovi Maps available for existing devices is quite involved, but the team managed to include complete navigation functionality. »
#“Android need some hardware standards” Anyone who knows me is sick of my bitching and moaning about the closed nature of the iPhone. But that closed nature has one huge advantage; a global ecosystem of accessories has built up around it. From cases to speaker docks to headphones, suppliers work with fixed form factors and interfaces. That ecosystem must now be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It strikes me that Android could achieve the same thing but in an open way and with a focus on interfaces rather than form factors. »
#“Innovation, inspiration & ideation workshops with Cork Open Coffee and YCYC” Your Country, Your Call is pleased to announce a series of innovation, inspiration & ideation workshops designed to inspire creative thinking and help people bring their ideas to life. The workshops, which are open to the public are free of charge and one will take place in Cork as follows: Cork: 9th April 11.00 am, National Software Centre Campus, Mahon. »
#“JumpBox - Open Source as a Service on Amazon EC2” Once you've created your JumpBox account and entered your AWS Security Credentials, you can launch a polished and easy to manage application with just a few clicks. via aws.typepad.com I haven't used JumpBox in anger yet but it's has been brilliant for quickly deploying Drupal, Joomla etc to test things out. I was literally up and running with a configured system in minutes. »