Someone sent me the link to Butch Bakery this morning and I simply had to give them a mention. What is it? They’re a bakery in New York What makes them special? Their product. Sure they’re just selling “cup cakes”, but they’ve managed to take a simple product and give it a new and interesting [...]
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Deal A Day
Since everyone seems to be concerned about saving money and getting “deals” it’s inevitable that I end up looking at more “deal” sites … One that has been around for several years is iBOOD (Internet’s Best Online Offer Daily). Every day they have a different offer on a single product. What kind of products do [...]
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Bidding Can Be Fun
The idea behind BidRivals isn’t that complicated. They sell electronics, such as Sony Playstation 3, at a fraction of their normal retail price. How? By making it into an auction. When the clock stops whoever has the bid wins. Not that complicated really. You can get more details on how the process works on their [...]
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Tours of Dublin in Spanish
All too often English speakers forget that they are not the only people on the face of the planet. It’s all too easy to forget that there are other language groups out there and that they too have money to spend! So when I came across Dublin en Español I was very impressed! This is [...]
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KidareStreet – Bringing Access To Government A Step Further
Image via Wikipedia Successive Irish governments have talked about “initiatives” to encourage “egovernment”. Some of the work they’ve done has been pretty good, but a lot of it wasn’t exactly stellar. So it’s great to see that a totally independent, citizen volunteer project like Kildare Street has not only managed to give us, the people, [...]
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MacHeist Combines Great Software With Philanthropy
As a Mac user you get to hear about “cool software” for the Mac all the time. However not all software is as cool or as accessible as others. What the guys at MacHeist have managed to do, however, is to combine software package deals with a philanthropy to make for a winning combination. MacHeist [...]
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Saving Words From Extinction
Stephen Fry mentioned a site on Twitter that really caught my eye – savethewords.org Language is constantly evolving, with words being added all the time, while other words “fade” into obscurity. The “save the words” site highlights and promotes words that are falling out of use Is it going to improve your life? Probably not. [...]
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Cool Polystyrene Stuff
If you’d told me a couple of weeks ago that I’d be a fan of polystyrene stuff I’d probably have laughed at you. Seriously. The nice people over in MadeinHollywood, however, have made me “see the light”. They did up a really nice set of horse’s heads for us: (see the comments and more here) [...]
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IGOPeople Putting A Slightly Different Spin On Social Networks
I’m more than a little jaded by the plethora of “social” sites and services that have been springing up over the last couple of years. Do we really need another one? What can site X offer that isn’t already available via sites A, B or C? That was my state of mind when I first [...]
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Quality Stock Images At Low Prices
Using images in a website or blog can make a huge difference. A visualisation of a metaphor can be a lot more powerful than any words. Unfortunately stock images can be very expensive, so a lot of people end up abusing other people’s images and breach copyright, which isn’t a very good idea! IStockPhoto, however [...]
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