Archive for November, 2006

World champion blogger?

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 28/11/2006
in Blogging and Business blogging
. 9 Comments

I was on NewsTalk 106 again yesterday evening. This time with I was on the Technology for the Rest of us slot with George Hook and Karlin Lillington.

What I didn’t realise going to the interview, was that this was the launch of NewsTalk in Cork and so they had along local politicians, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, CEOs of many local companies, Denis O’Brien, NewsTalk’s owner and Elaine Geraghty, CEO of NewsTalk. The interview was being broadcast from the Sheraton hotel, in Fota Island in front of this live audience, as well as all the station’s listeners!

What really threw me though, was when George Hook introduced me as “World Champion blogger, Tom Raftery”!

I managed to get a correction in but not before George used the term again several times. Mortification!

Free downloadable wallpaper files

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 27/11/2006
in Technology
. 6 Comments

Tired of looking at the same old desktop on your computer?

There’s a free gallery of very nice downloadable wallpapers for Windows Vista available here.

The photos are from a blogger and prolific Flickr user called Brajeshwar and as well as individual photos, you can also download a .zip wallpaper pack.

I’m not quite sure why they call them wallpapers for Windows Vista though. They are just .jpg files and work equally well on OS X (and XP as well).

Email sending problems

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 27/11/2006
in Email and Technology
. 25 Comments

Anyone else having problems sending emails via Blacknight Solutions today?

I had a desperate time trying to send mails this morning and I have three emails trying to get out now which can’t seem to send.

Normally they are reliable - ironically their support is via email so finding out what is causing this could be a problem!

Salim, the early bird…

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 27/11/2006
in IT@Cork and Technology
. 1 Comment

The first of the speakers for the it@cork 2006 Business and Technology conference flew in last night.

Salim Ismail, founder and CEO of Confabb (coincidentally a conference aggregation site!), is taking a couple of days before the conference starts to drive around beautiful West Cork and Kerry.

Salim will be arriving back in Cork tomorrow evening in time for the blogger’s dinner which is on in Luigi Malone’s (don’t judge the restaurant by the website!) at 8pm.

The conference line-up is impressive (but then again, I would say that having sourced several of the speakers!) and I can’t wait to hear what the speakers have to say.

Barcamp South East Ireland

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 26/11/2006
in Technology
. 5 Comments

Barcamp South East Ireland is taking place in Waterford this coming January 20th 2007.

There is a good list of speakers and attendees already signed up.

If you want to go too, leave a note at the wiki or drop an email to barcampsoutheast at gmail dot com

Zune DRM hacked

Published
by
Tom Raftery
on 25/11/2006
in Microsoft and Technology
. 0 Comments

The Zune has hardly been launched a wet week when an article has appeared on Gizmodo detailing how to share music over wifi without the Zune applying its DRM to the shared music.

The hack involves a little bit of work and I wonder just how much longer it will be until someone releases a script to automate this. Either that or people who want to share music will revert to the more traditional burn to CD route.

It just goes to show, though, silly DRM like this will be cracked.

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