Dublin developer par excellence, Ross Duggan, has been playing around with Arduino and produced this delightful video of a pair of floppy drives playing the Tetris theme. Our hearts sing with joy as we watch it. Figuratively.
Category Archives: Internet Will Eat Itself
Facebook has bought Instagram for $1 Billion.
So how do you get your pictures out of it now it’s gone all mainstream and evil?
Enter the talented Über-developer James Whelton (of CoderDojo fame) with GramGrab which allows you to grab your photos before deleting your account while maintaining your hipster credentials.
Change of heart. Happy to have simon mcgarr on panel amarach. If he’ll accept. Time to make amends. @Tupp_Ed @sean_nicholls @naoisen
— Seán Sherlock (@seansherlocktd) April 2, 2012
Minister Sherlock Extends Olive Branch To Simon McGarr (Silicon Republic)
Nick O’Neill dissects how Forbes was able to outdo the New York Times by sexing up a headline. “How Companies Learn Your Secrets” just didn’t set the internet alight like “How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did”.
As of the writing of this story, the New York Times article has 60 likes and shares on Facebook versus 12,902 which the Forbes article has. The Forbes article also has a mind boggling 680,000 page views, a number that can literally make a writer’s career.
[via @irishstu]
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