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Dump Internet Explorer – Get Safari!...

(PC Users) Want to know why your computer is full of spyware and viruses?? Internet Explorer – that’s why! Apple however have finally brought their Safari browser to the monopolistic platform of Windows at long last. I’ve been using Safari non-stop for over 18 months now and it’s amazing how it just works perfectly every time. The best news is that Safari for Windows is TWO TIMES FASTER THAN INTERNET...
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First iPhone line forms in NYC (four days early)...

AppleInsider is leading with a story from New York City, where Two individuals can now flaunt the crown of the “first iPhone line waiters”, having camped out Monday morning on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk more than four days before the Apple device is due to go on sale. At 5:00 a.m. on Monday, the two iPhone enthusiasts stationed themselves outside Apple’s Fifth Avenue flagship shop in New York City’s...
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TechReview: BlackBerry Curve (8300)...

Now this is a BlackBerry I can sink my teeth into! This is the latest creation from Canadian firm Research in Motion – the all-new BlackBerry for the masses. With its expanded QWERTY keyboard, it’s a throw-back to the ‘Berry’s of old – the strawberry-speckled 7290 for example. This is a fantastic machine and it’s most dominating factor is its sheer size – the thing is tiny! When...
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TechReview: BlackBerry Pearl (8100)...

I decided some months back, that the BlackBerry 8700 which I’d been wielding for over a year had run its course. The poor thing suffered badly with many rough contacts with such surfaces as the streets of Galway, Dingle, London, Düsseldorf and even Cardiff. It was time it left my presence and retired to a good life with a new owner. But this left a void that needed to be filled. The cravings for a new phone are...
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Ireland: Greener than Ever!...

Well the unthinkable has happened. Our country is now in the boughs of a coalition government comprising the now three-in-a-row winning Fianna Fáil party, of which Bertie Ahern still rules supreme, and the Green Party – our very own national collection of insane hippies with radical notions and ideals. There are of course some smaller constituent parts to the formation, but no one really cares about the. What is...
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Post Election: A FF/Green Government?! NO WAY!...

Looks like Fianna Fáil are opening the door to entertain talks with Trevor’s gang of hippies in the Green Party. Apart from the Christian Solidarity Party, the Greens are my most hated of parties. They’re only concern is the environment. That’s fine for developed cities like, ah, Dublin, but anywhere outside of it is screwed. Let’s face facts, we all love our cars here. Even if we have to travel...
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TechReview: O2 XDA Orbit...

For the past few months I’ve been in the market for a new phone. I have a list of things I expect in the seventh year of the twenty-first century, and one of them high on the list is a GPS navigation device. So, off I hunted. I first looked at the BlackBerry 8800 which has a built-in GPS device and is powered by the BlackBerry Maps system. Sadly, this is a hideous application and only has scant coverage of Europe...
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