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Compiled by JOHN COLLINS

INSTALL: St Patrick's Festival app joins the parade

The St Patrick’s Festival in Dublin has been providing free apps for a couple of years now. The Android and iPhone app, developed by Mobanode, includes full event listings, an interactive map and a live twitter feed link, covering Dublin and the National Lottery Skyfest in Wexford. A live streaming video of the parade in Dublin is available this year.

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READ: How many Irish Twitter users?

If the recent general election was your barometer, you would assume that everyone in Ireland was addicted to Twitter. Unlike other social tools Twitter does not provide data on Irish users so online marketer Barry Hand has drawn together what is available and estimated there are 180,000 active Irish Twitter users. Small potatoes when compared to the recent growth of Linked In and Facebook.

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BOOKMARK: The Internet Explorer 6 countdown

Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6. Microsoft IE6 has been superseded by at least two generations of browser that support modern web standards. But as highlighted by ie6countdown.com, 12 per cent of web users are still using it – in fact a whopping 34.5 per cent in China – presenting problems for web designers who still have to support it.

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