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    Google Maps - Street View Coming to Ireland

    Google have now got a car on Irish roads to capture street views for Google Maps.  It’s a black car with a great big mast equipped with GPS and cameras to capture street view images of Dublin. The street view feature is already live for parts of the US and the UK although it will [...]

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Video tour of Googles Container Data Center

The video below gives a tour of a Google Container Data center. Lot's of exciting pipes and cables. :)

Search Dublins 1911 Census

If you have relatives that lived in Dublin in 1911 you can search for them through the National Archives of ...

3 Free Invoicing Web Applications

I've been looking around at the various web applications for invoicing that are available at the moment. I must have ...

Software

IE 8 - Release Candidate 1

Microsoft have released Release candidate 1 of Internet Explorer 8 which can be downloaded here. New features include domain highlighting in the address bar so you can quickly and easily identify legitimate or fake websites and private browsing options so you can secretely buy that special gift for someone or just use it to browse [...]

Email

Eircom.net Webmail to be Upgraded

Looks like eircom.net email accounts are going to get an upgrade this summer. The new Eircom webmail promises 200 times more storage space, increasing the current minute 5MB quota up to 1GB. That’s a significant amount which Eircom email account holders will be surely glad of. There are other improvements being made to the webmail [...]

Domain Names

Top level domains open for registration

Icann announced the opening up of top level domains for registration this week allowing anyone to register a tld of their choice. A tld or top level domain is basically the .com or .ie etc. that you see on the end of URLs. This means that any person can now register a tld such as [...]