Archive for April, 2009

Facebook to IE6 – No thanks

Monday, April 27th, 2009

http://blog.jacobburke.com/2008/07/24/facebooks-new-design-on-ie6-doesnt-exist/

My buddy Brian went to view the new Facebook design on IE6 on his computer at work.  The problem, it won’t load!  He got a funny message from Facebook telling him that they are not cool enough to support his browser.

At least this means that all those businesses that still use IE6 won’t need to worry about their employees wasting all their time on Facebook any more. Unless, you know, they allow them to install other browsers…

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KildareStreet.com

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

http://www.kildarestreet.com
http://handelaar.org/blog/2009/04/a-substantial-announcement

KildareStreet.com is a non-partisan website which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their elected representatives in the Houses of the Oireachtas.

A fantastic resource, providing a quick and easy way to see what your local TD is doing, or more importantly not doing.

The only glaring omissions I can see at the moment are contact details for the individual TDs, as it would be great that if the site can stir someone into action it might be best to give them the means to contact their TD about it.

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Opting out of ad cookies

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Seth Godin shows us how to opt-out of web advertising cookie tracking.

Plug-ins like Adblock probably take care of this for most people who know and care, but its nice to know there is at least an “industry standard” for getting out.

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RTE Player

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

www.rte.ie/player

RTE release their take on television catch-up services, most obviously influenced by the BBC iPlayer.

A pet peeve of mine are all-Flash sites, so that counts as a strike against it for me straight away. But as a first public release this isn’t at all bad. It would be great if it was embeddable, and better if the episodes were downloadable.

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