Monthly Archives: November, 2009
Dublin City Head Shops
The selling of legal and herbal drugs is a serious threat to the welfare of children the Dublin City Joint Policing Committee said today. The committee raised concerns to Assistant Garda Commissioner, Michael Feehan, that so called ‘Head Shops’ both glamorise and promote casual drug use. Head Shops are stores that specialise in selling ‘legal [...]
YouTube Subtitling
Google has announced it will launch two automatic subtitling features on its video sharing site, YouTube, from next week. The move is designed to allow deaf and hard of hearing users to fully enjoy YouTube content while also increasing the accuracy of video search results. It will also benefit foreign language users who will be [...]
Twitter Lists Big Secret
With hits to the social networking site apparently flat-lining the developers at Twitter are keeping busy with secret additions to their new List feature. Scouring the code this author has discovered that Twitter has plans to allow its users to directly add “people, businesses or brands” to their lists via a search box on their [...]
Happy Birthday Firefox
Firefox celebrates its’ 5th birthday this week and only five years after its’ shaky launch the browser has grown to become the main rival to Internet Explorer, reducing IE’s market share from over 90% at the start of the decade to below 40%. But Firefox should never have been, with a teenage developer, a parent [...]
Get Up, Stand Up…Bring A Scarf
On November 6th 2009 The Irish Congress of Trade Unions marched from Parnell Square to Merrion Square protesting against the Irish Government’s plans to cut €4bn from the national budget. I was there covering the event Removing their hats and gloves, Tony, Harvey and Pat are sitting together on a pew in the lobby of [...]
