Archive For December, 2011

Charlie Chaplin’s Kerry Accent

Charlie Chaplin, the star of silent movies of a bygone era spoke with a Kerry accent. Well, he did when he spent time in the town of Waterville in that county of Ireland. So his daughter says in this RTE documentary called “Kerry and the Tramp”. It’s a wonderful documentary to listen to, especially as [...]

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Now playing: Saints Row the Third

It’s wacky, it’s crazy and it’s insane. This is part of the intro level. Absolutely love it! I also got Skyrim and various other games in the Steam sale but SRtT has to be my favourite recently purchased game.

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Makerbot 3D Printer makes a Church

Last Saturday I went to the Coderdojo party in the NSC with my son Adam to see what it was all about. We arrived late and all the pizza was gone but there were loads of balloons for the younger kids to play with! The adults and older kids watched a 3D Makerbot printer demo. [...]

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Kids Place Android Parental Lock

My new favourite app is Kids Place. It’s an application launcher for Android that only allows access to the apps you want. The parental lock is protected by a 4 digit PIN but the launcher can be disabled by rebooting the phone. A launcher app, with child lock, for Kids to protect your personal data [...]

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WP Super Cache 1.0

WP Super Cache is a fast page caching plugin for WordPress that can significantly speed up websites. The first release of this plugin was in September 2009 so this has been a bit too long in the making. Back then the main caching plugin was WP Cache, which this plugin is based on, but now [...]

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Your favourite iOS and Android Games in Real Life!

Cut The Rope, Airport Mania, Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies all feature in a new music video by HeyGeronimoMusic. My favourite part is the dog in the Cut the Rope scenes but the Plants vs Zombies bits come close! Great fun!

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