#“Speeding up your Eircom Broadband” We signed up for Eircom 7 Mbs broadband last year having moved from dial-up -> ISDN -> 2 Mbs -> 3 Mbs since arriving in Bandon in 2003. However, the lines out to Old Chapel are allegedly "rubbish", whatever that means. So despite being less than 2km from the exchange, we were mainly connecting at 4Mbs on the 7Mbs line. Or worse, connecting at 5.5 and falling back to 4 or worse. »
#“Cloud Kids” The kids use one of my old PCs to access all their favourite sites and print stuff off on a 10 year old Epson Inkjet. It's a solid setup and they are happy with it. However, as it was a self-build, it never had a Windows licence and actually runs Ubuntu Linux.I've always found it interesting that the kids could switch from XP to Windows 7 to Ubuntu on different PCs and laptops without comment. »
#“That Lidl car Stereo I mentioned” Bluetooth MP3/CD Car Radio With USB 4 x 20W RMS Max. Output USB/SD/MMC: Simply plug in your stick/card and: playback from your memory stick/card, record any song or program on the radio with the touch of a button! Bluetooth TM: Thanks to the integrated microphone & bluetooth connection: make & receive calls, speak hands-free with the touch of a button through your car radio! »
#“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. »