Category: Web & Technology

  • It’s a work thing but I wanted to crosspost my entry on testing for mobile, because I just love the screenshot. Neil, our testing dude, is a god of focus and dedication. I can’t imagine doing all this thumb-RSI-inducing testing…

  • Two questions for the Facebook team: How can a married woman be found by her old school friends via search? They can’t. Even if you put your maiden name in your profile, it won’t come up in a search. How…

  • Every so often, I trawl through my blog’s search logs to find out what topics have ignited the interest of readers. There’s the top content, the usual search terms. But then there’s the dregs, the random gobshite some people search…

  • On Thursday, I got annoyed enough with my half-assed Twitter username, and not getting a response from the team that I made a blog post out of it. The next morning, I woke up to find a response to my…

  • A few weeks ago, I ordered a laptop bag from Etsy.com. I’d never bought anything there but had heard some positive comments about it being a friendly eBay for handcrafted goods. The stuff undeniably looked cool, and the general feel…

  • Diggnation 106: Alex points out that iPhone contains “fuck” in its dictionary. Props Apple, Nokia just pretends words like that don’t exist.

  • “A man has been arrested after being spotted allegedly sitting in a street with a laptop using someone else’s unsecured wireless connection. Is it immoral to do this?” This BBC article made me laugh. It must’ve been a slow day…

  • Since April, I’ve been asking Twitter to fix a problem. Bet I’m not the only one coming up with bug fix requests and ideas. They must have bug fix requests coming out their ears. I appreciate that. But they’re ignoring…

  • An update from i-Justine on her iPhone bills. No more 300 pages bills!

  • A few weeks ago, we bought an Apple TV. For those who aren’t familiar with it but have used a recent Mac, just picture it as Front Row on steroids. And on your TV. The first logical thing to do…