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

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 [...]

Google recently rolled out two new improvements to their search engine results. The first of which is better related searches, these are the links that sometimes appear at the bottom of search results and can sometimes help you refine your searches. The second improvement is longer snippets for each result when you search with longer [...]

Michele Neylon from Internet hosting company Blacknight has posted a disturbing letter recieved from solicitors representing IRMA (EMI, Sony, Universal Music and Warner). The letter threatens legal action in regards to filesharing and illegal downloading of music. The letter which targets Irish ISPs like Eircom (who seemingly have agreed under preasure to block websites) requests [...]

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 [...]

Looks like click fraud and botnet activity is on the increase for ppc advertisers. Read the report from Click Forensics for a detailed breakdown.

Need an alternative to MSPaint or another image editing program? Well SUMO Paint looks like it might be a nice alternative. It’s a flash based application that runs through your browser and for a free online application it has an amazing amount of functionality. It has layers, filters and load of other useful tools to [...]

Google launched a new (Digg like) feature to their search engine earlier this week that allows users to promote and comment on search results. You’ll need to be logged in with a Google account to use the new feature.
So what does it do? Well if you find yourself searching the same keywords regularly through Google [...]

Do you think you’ve got what it takes to optimise a website to rank high in Google?
Well if you’d like a chance to prove your search engine optimisation skills Damien Mulley has an SEO competition running where participants must create a website on a brand new domain name and try to get it to the [...]

If you have relatives that lived in Dublin in 1911 you can search for them through the National Archives of Ireland website. At the moment only the Dublin 1911 Census is available online but there are future plans to include other parts of Ireland and census records for 1901. If you’re researching your Irish family [...]