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#“The Iron Giant” A new Top Parenting Tip, keep your kids up until 9pm watching The Iron Giant and they'll all sleep until 8.30am the following morning. Until last night I had only ever seen the start and near the end of movie so had thought it was a dark ponderous but meaningful piece by the director of one of my all-time favourite movies, The Incredibles. I was totally wrong. It's light, funny, interesting and kept 6 of us (aged 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 41) riveted to the screen for an hour and a half. »

#“Podcast-listening car-driving heaven, with Android” I drove yesterday from Bandon->Lurgan->Bandon. Left at 8am, back at 10pm. The entire time I was entertained by many of my regular podcast chums: BBC Radio 4 - Material World BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives BBC Radio 4 - Start The Week BBC Radio 5 Live - Kermode and Mayo Movie Reviews @wittertainment Irish Times Business Podcast TWiT - This Week in Tech TWiG - This Week in Google And my first ever BBC Radio 4 Gardener's Question Time. »

#“How to cancel your O2 Ireland Mobile Broadband” I assume there is some validation of this but anyhow, you just email your account details and the phone number of your dongle/BB-SIM to broadband.disconnections@o2.comLet's see if it works now :-) »

#“Save a few bob on Sky TV” I know we are early adopters/geeks but I think what we are doing with media consumption is a reflection of what will happen in the mainstream in the next two years. Like many people we have been long signed-up to some stupid rip-off Sky package involving movies, multi-room and Sky+. it was costing north of 75 a month. We have slowly come to the realisation that we consume more and more content via the web with a simultaneous collapse in "normal" TV watching. »

#“Our Wordpress plugin list” Our LouderVoice Business site runs on Wordpress. What started as a simple (albeit award-winning!) information site has now become a full blown CMS with access controls and tons of customisation. If you are thinking of doing similar, here is a list of the main plugins we are currently using:Akismet - Anti-spam Contact Form 7 - Simple Contact FormsContact Form 7 widget - Contact Forms in your sidebar Custom Permalinks - Create your own URLs Deactivate Visual Editor - Deactivate the visual editor on specific pages/posts Disable wptexturize - Disable Wordpress screwing with your content FAQ-Tastic - Build FAQs FeedBurner FeedSmith - For RSS Google XML Sitemaps - Does what it says on the tin Live Comment Preview - Ditto My Page Order - Arange your page menus in the order you want them Search Everything - Search more than page/post content Subscribe To Comments - Keeps readers updated User Access Manager - Access Control to files/pages Wordpress Automatic Upgrade - Beats the built-in WP one hands-down WordPress Database Backup - Set it on a cron job WordPress Exploit Scanner - Great tool by @donncha WP-Cycle - Image Gallery for sidebar WP Security Scan - Does what it says on the tin WP Super Cache - Speed up your site by 4 bajillion times. »

#“Symbian Users Can Now Check-In On Foursquare With Waze | Symbian-Guru.com” Today, one of our other favorite companies -- Waze, announces that Symbian users can now check-in on Foursquare through the Waze social navigation application! The feature is available in both the touchscreen and non-touchscreen versions of Waze, so as not to leave anyone out. So, how do you get it setup? First, youll need to download Waze and setup an account. »

#“What if your reseller went away?” The SaaS vendors know they need to build channels in order to scale but it is far from clear which models are most likely to succeed via accmanpro.com Really fantastic stuff from Dennis on SaaS and resellers. A learning curve for us all. »

#“Commenting on Engadget: a human’s guide – Engadget” via engadget.com This should be mandatory reading for anyone even considering leaving a comment anywhere online. In fact it should be force fed to all the teenage commentards on YouTube who are particularly socially challenged. »

#“Get Paid Apps on your Android Phone in Ireland” One thing that has me incensed about Google is how the country that enables them to avoid tax on billions of dollars in revenue is generally paddy-last (pun intended) when it comes to app support.It was only in late 2008 that Google Maps finally showed more than one road in West Cork. Their most recent manifestation of this attitude is the lack of paid apps for Irish users of Android phones. »

#“Xperia X10 lands on Vodafone UK in April – Engadget” via engadget.com The ultimate Android phone. Massive screen, 8MP camera, kick-ass CPU. Surely tho they'll have it on Android 2.1 before release? 1.6 would be a huge mistake. Fingers crossed Vodafone Ireland stocks it so I can get cheap on my upgrade. Would still prefer to keyboard tho. It's the one killer feature of the G1. So Nokia, you have 2-3 months to blow my mind with a new product (think N900 with capacative screen and 8MP camera) before you lose me forever to Android and I retire my N95-8GB. »