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St Patrick's Festival on your mobile

INSTALL:There's an official mobile guide to the St Patrick's Festival in Dublin and Skyfest in Limerick city. It contains information on events happening during the festival such as ticket prices, dates and times, and has an an interactive map to help you find your way around the city.

It’s developed by MobaNode, the company that made a karaoke version of Amhrán na bhFiann a surprise global hit on Nokia phones. If your phone supports Java, simply text “patsfest” to 51315 to receive a download link, while iPhone users can search for “St Patrick’s Festival” in the App Store.

Your iPhone into a credit card terminal

TURN: Need another excuse to get your boss to buy you a work iPhone? WorldNet, the Dublin provider of online card payment processing services, has launched what it claims is Europe's first app that turns your iPhone into a terminal to take credit card payments. At €4.99, it's ideal for sales people who need to take secure payments on the road. It works with both 3G and Wi-Fi connections.

worldnettps.com/

JournoTwit

BOOKMARK:As Twitter becomes more popular, it has also become less useful – it is really hard to find the nuggets of useful information as you start to follow more people.

JournoTwit helps you get over that hump by filtering your communications into useful columns such as Tweets that contain links to news, audio-visual comment, etc. It also generates a word cloud of what your friends are thinking, and if you feel like immersing yourself in the firehose of posts, there’s even a chatter column.

journotwit.com

Google directions for cyclists

WATCH: This official Google video explains the latest feature for Google Maps – directions for cyclists.

When searching for directions, you can now get cycle-friendly routes – complete with colour coding to indicate whether the street has a bike lane or dedicated cycle path.

You can even choose a route that avoids hills. Sadly, it’s only available in US cities for now, but Google is offering to add new destinations all the time.

http://bit.ly/bpJVFO