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Poll Results: boards.ie are the moderators fair

Here are the poll results for my post on boards.ie are the moderators fair?  The poll has now closed, and I thought it only fair the share the final results. (Click to enlarge it) Tweet

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boards.ie hacked – time to change your passwords!

If like me and most web surfers, you have membership to a rather large number of websites which require a password, you probably have a common password you use for them. I like to keep a common password for sites I don’t mind if someone finds out the password and unique passwords for the important [...]

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What’s new in wordpress 2.9

What’s new in wordpress 2.9

There is a lot of under the hood changes, but some interesting changes to the media components, such as an build in image editor! Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are [...]

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The Future of News – Mark Little

The Future of News – Mark Little

Mark Little (needs no introduction to Irish people), is about to leave RTE, talks about the future of news, and the role of social networking, a very well presented piece, worth a full watch. Mark Little, Presenter of RTE”s Prime Time and a former RTE Washington correspondent, will give a lecture on the future of [...]

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O2 Prepay / Top Up Mobile Broadband

O2 Prepay / Top Up  Mobile Broadband

O2 has finally launched prepay broadband, the prices are not bad at all. Very handy if you don’t wanted to be tied into a contract! The prices are looking like 20 euro for 30 days of use, capped at 5GB of usage. The cost of the modem is starting at 69 euro. Nice idea for [...]

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C64 Commodore 64 iphone app – the return!

I must say I get very nostalgic from time to time. And thanks to the iPhone I can now go back to the wonderful days when I used to hook up a white keyboard to my television set. Yes the commodore 64 is back, iPhone style. I am going to install this app a little [...]

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iPhone Apps for the serious iPhone addict!

In my usual style of listing the greats, here is a small list of great iPhone applications, I have slanted this a bit to include Irish applications, listing is not my preference just the way I did the list. Eirtext Pro Looking to send FREE SMS messages? Using the data connection and your allocation of [...]

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Boards.ie Are the moderators fair?

There is an update to this post found here Being a moderator on any forum can be difficult – it is a hard job, but what about one of the most popular sites on the internet boards.ie. I do think boards.ie is a wonderful site, one of the best in Ireland! This poll is to find out [...]

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