Web Log

Compiled by JOHN COLLINS

DOWNLOAD: ActiveInbox for Gmail on steroids

If you use Gmail at work, consider installing the ActiveInbox plug-in to make your life easier. Easily group emails, turn emails into tasks so you don’t forget what you have to do, see previous conversations with the same person at a single click, right click any contact or label to see relevant information without breaking your flow of work.

Works on Firefox and Chrome and doesn’t require registration.

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INSTALL: An app to help you  learn the cúpla focal

Want to brush up your rusty Leaving Cert Irish?

Now there’s an iPhone and Android app for that with the release of an interactive version of Enjoy Irish, the book and CD of the same name from Oideas Gael.

Designed for adult learners the app costs €1.59.

It allows you listen to native speakers while you read the associated texts yourself.

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Memories of the BBC Micro

This week marked the 30th anniversary of the BBC Micro, the home PC the Beeb commissioned Acorn to build to tie in with its 1982 series The Computer Programme. Despite an initial production stutter, it went on to sell more than 1.5 million units and was for a generation of nerds, the introduction to computing.

In this BBC article, seven people whose lives were changed by the BBC Micro share their memories.

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Cotton Candy: the computer on a USB stick

No, that’s not a USB key, it’s FXI Technologies Cotton Candy, the world’s smallest computer which promises “any screen connected computing”. Running Google’s Android operating system and weighing in at a mere 21g, it has a dual-core processor that gives you the computing power of a 2007 laptop. It can connect into any TV, laptop, phone, tablet, or set-top box and create a dumb terminal. This article says pricing hasn’t been set but is expected to be less than $200.

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