Category Archives: Feature
Iceland Volcanic Ash [Live Article]
just noticed the car is covered in a fine black dust #ashtag #iceland 3:42 PM Reactions from across Europe to the Iceland volcano, via BBC iPlayer http://bit.ly/cSI6uw #ashtag 1:33 PM Will the Iceland Volcano Change the Climate? | LiveScience http://su.pr/2sKuRQ 1:17 PM Apparently John Cleese is stuck in Norway, poor guy #iceland #ashtag http://nyti.ms/9bFDVY (video [...]
DCU’s Hybrid Awards
By Piers Scott As the awards season finally draws to a close there remains one more event on the calendar, The Hybrids. The Hybrid Awards, DCU’s annual multimedia awards, take place this Wednesday in The Venue. According to the Media Production Society, who run the awards, this year saw 74 submissions across four categories. The [...]
Acer’s latest laptops have byte
In the week that the Apple Ipad finally went on sale Piers Dillon-Scott reviews the best new laptop on the market…and surprisingly it isn’t the Ipad Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, is no fan of netbook laptops. Back in January, when he introduced the Ipad, Jobs made one simple point about netbooks, “They’re slow, [...]
Three Screens and Glowing Rectangles
An article in Time Magazine some years ago reported that new media will “make radio as obsolete as the horse” and destroy the American cinema industry. Children will not need to go to school as classes will be brought directly into their homes and Presidential candidates will use it to win elections. The article was [...]
Three Screens and Glowing Rectangles
An article in Time Magazine some years ago reported that new media will “make radio as obsolete as the horse” and destroy the American cinema industry. Children will not need to go to school as classes will be brought directly into their homes and Presidential candidates will use it to win elections. The article was [...]
The Mother of all Demos
In this video from 1968 Doug Engelbart gives, what he called, “mother of all Demos” in which he demonstrates the first modern PC-compete with mouse, keyboard, screen and a pre-courser to emails.
Dublin City University’s Silver Surfers
WHILE SENATOR DAN BOYLE was attempting to bring down the government last week with the social networking site Twitter, JJ Higgins was doing something slightly more worthwhile. He was sending his first email. JJ (62), a retired postal worker, is among a growing number of older internet users in Ireland. A recent survey by the [...]
