I was up to my eyes at the time so couldn’t mark the event properly but on the 25th July this website turned three. As is tradition at this stage I tend to mark this anniversary with a bit of navel gazing about what has happened in the last year, both in terms of the [...]
I’ll be on The Last Word on Today FM this evening to talk about smartphones and iPhone rivals – something I recently had an article in Business & Finance magazine about (but ashamedly neglected to mention here). You can tune in online, on your radio (100-102 FM in Ireland or on DAB) or via your [...]
The LG Viewty was probably one of the first off the block in response to the original iPhone and there’s no doubt that it was designed as a competitor to Apple’s device. When comparing the spec-sheet of the Viewty against the iPhone you see a number of trade-offs – The Viewty has a microSD expansion [...]
Jazz Biscuit has linked to a Youtube video on those aforementioned dangerous Dublin ad-shells which puts my previous effort on the Dorset St. advert to utter shame. This video details the dangers posed by the new JCDecaux adverts which were agreed to by Dublin City Council and tells you what you can do to get [...]
I’ll be on Newstalk‘s Culture Shock this evening to preview Sunday’s newspapers. The show itself starts at 7pm and I should be on air at around 8:45pm (as always it’s the show’s closing segment). So if you’re around a radio, digital TV or computer then tune in. I guarantee it will be worth it*. * [...]
On my way home from town today I spotted one of the new advert “panels” that are being erected as part of a deal between Dublin City Council and advertiser JCDecaux. But it wasn’t the advert housed within the new panel that caught my eye – it was the placement of it. I quickly pulled [...]
Having read Cian Ginty’s negative interaction with Dell tech support and having had my own trouble with their courier of choice, UPS, I braced myself for the worst when the power adaptor on my [10 month old] Vostro 1000 kicked the bucket last week. So on Thursday I rang Dell up, expecting to be without [...]
Blog of Irish journalist Adam Maguire, focusing mainly on Irish media & current affairs.
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