Ronan’s Blog


Random thoughts of an Irish Software Architect in the GIS Industry.

How to surf without a data plan

Posted in Cool Stuff, Web by Ro on the September 9th, 2011

Ingenious … I love how this works !
How to surf T-Mobile without a data plan | ExtremeTech

Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics

Posted in Cool Stuff by Ro on the July 13th, 2011

Have to say …. I think this is really excellent
Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics - TNW Shareables

Judgement day, the rise of the machines starts slowly….

Posted in Cool Stuff, Web by Ro on the April 21st, 2011

Judgment day (T2 ftw) was yesterday ….. And despite the lack of mushroom clouds on the horizon, we woke today to complete turmoil* … With core parts of the Internet and technology infrastructure in disarray. I for one am imagining a robotic Arnie walking through the aisle’s in Amazon’s data centre destroying it piece by piece.
Amazon EC2 goes down, taking with it Reddit, Foursquare and Quora

* Software turmoil


Text messages to replace stamps in Sweden

Posted in Uncategorized, Cool Stuff by Ro on the March 10th, 2011

Sweden is really becoming such an innovative country … Just goes to show what happens when one Engineer thinks “Lets stop making Volvo’s boxy”
Text messages to replace stamps in Sweden - The Local

Kindle 3.1 Software update……

Posted in Personal, Cool Stuff by Ro on the February 24th, 2011

Promises Page Numbers to be displayed if they are present in the eBook … Very Good.
However, mine has updated and the location information has now disappeared.
So, a little reading on the Amazon site, discovers this nugget of info:
Page numbers and locations are only displayed when the Menu button is pushed.

Annoying.
Amazon.com Help: Customize Your Reading


Funniest Comic I’ve seen in a while….

Posted in Development, Personal, Cool Stuff by Ro on the September 16th, 2010

This has to be the funniest Comic I’ve seen in a long time.

Restore your texts from iPhone to Android Phone

Posted in Cool Stuff by Ro on the August 12th, 2010

Convert Backup to XML File
2) Copy said XML file to Android Phone
3) Install Android App
4) Restore SMS Messages
5) …
6) Profit !

Currently doing it (6631 messages), class … Thought my text history was gone.

http://faked.org/isms2droid/

Memories of Mayrhofen

Posted in Personal, Cool Stuff by Ro on the May 10th, 2010

How to run Multiple Instances of Firefox

Posted in Development, Cool Stuff, Web by Ro on the August 13th, 2009

Found this instructions for how to run your regular Firefox install as well as a portable version at the same time.

Awesome!
Tip - Run Multiple Instances of Firefox Portable | Pro Reviewer (My Free Review)

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

Posted in Cool Stuff by Ro on the January 28th, 2009

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

Wow … This really puts things in context !


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