By sarah on Sep 24, 2009 in Fun Stuff | 0 Comments
After much anticipation littlequiz is finally here!
If you haven’t checked it out already go to littlequiz.com and in a few clicks you’ll be in with the chance to win a great prize.
It’s completely free, all you need do is complete a simple and fun quiz and you’re in with the chance to win.
Not only that [...]
By sarah on Mar 11, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This weeks Tuesday Push is for the great Munster rugby fan site MyMunster.com.
I signed up for this not too long ago to check it out and was pleasently surprised by how many great features were available. Not only can you read up on the latest Munster rugby news, catch the latest chat in the discussion [...]
By sarah on Mar 6, 2009 in Useful Tools | 4 Comments
I’ve been looking for the best way to use Twitter on my Nokia N95 for a while now and rather than give up and go the iPhone route I’ve tried a few different apps instead.
Twitters mobile site m.twitter.com was my first stop on the phone’s browser. While this is good for scrolling back through previous [...]
By sarah on Feb 24, 2009 in Fun Stuff, In The News | 2 Comments
Voting has opened for the RTÉ 2fm Hope for 2009 Meteor Award and the great band Fred need your votes! It’s the one award that the public can vote for, and can do so online on the 2FM website here.
If you still haven’t voted already, here are some easy instructions from Joe Scanlon on how [...]
By sarah on Feb 20, 2009 in Fun Stuff | 0 Comments
Yesterday saw the first episode of Dragons Den Ireland on RTE and in Twitter style using the #ddire tag used by those watching and commenting on the show @patrickphelan was able to make a Dragons Den Ireland Twoud. Check it out!
This post which featured on Fluffy Links 16th Feb explains the 10 Facebook privace settings [...]
By sarah on Feb 5, 2009 in Useful Tools | 0 Comments
For Part 3 on useful Gmail features I have found, here are a few features that I didn’t get to cover in Part 1 or Part 2 as well as some new useful features that have emerged since.
Gmail labs
The Gmail labs features for multiple Inbox views sounds like a useful feature but after trying it [...]
By sarah on Feb 5, 2009 in Fun Stuff | 0 Comments
I came across this cool site, Simpsonize Me recently where you can upload an image of yourself and it will generate a ‘Simpsonized’ image of you.
Although this is a pure and utter marketing ploy, the site is fun to use and you can email your Simpsonized image, full size or avatar size to yourself.
Check out [...]
By sarah on Feb 5, 2009 in Fun Stuff, Useful Tools | 1 Comment
Having wondered for the past few weeks what that bright star was to the south west of my house I was intrigued by the mention of Stellarium on MakeUseOf today.
This app can display stars, constellations, planets, nebulas rendering 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.
It downloaded and installed quickly and I found it quite easy to [...]
By sarah on Jan 28, 2009 in Fun Stuff | 0 Comments
Following on from my first Fun Stuff post on the demise of the Doner Kebab inventor, here’s a shocking report on Doner Kebabs. More shocking than finding pink sauce on your shoes the morning after the night before..
@DarthVader shared this great clip recently: Is Chewbacca in my nightstand?
Amazingly 14,000 people in the UK have been [...]
By sarah on Jan 28, 2009 in Useful Tools | 1 Comment
OK, here is Part 2 of my post on the collection of handy Gmail features, scripts, gadgets and plug-ins I’ve come across, used and would recommend.
Google Docs
There are a few ways of integrating your Gmail and Google Docs. For Word documents I usually click the Open with Google Docs link in the end of the [...]