Category Archives: Tech

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Daddyo-timeline-HDFrom Dublin based digital consultancy iQ Content comes this app aimed squarely at first time fathers.

Based on the experiences of their lead designer and young dad, Tom Cunningham, it provides a timeline from conception to 6 months old.

For each stage, a list of tips and explanations are given to guide the nervous first time father through the nightmare journey.

Daddyo is available on the Apple App Store for €1.79.

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Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

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Neatfreak filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker explains:

The source footage for this video is a 4-minute shot from the Washington Street bridge above State Route 163 in San Diego captured at 2:39pm Oct 1, 2013. My aim is to reveal the color palette and color preferences of contemporary San Diego drivers in addition to traffic patterns and volumes. There are no CG elements, these are all real cars that have been removed from one sample and reorganized.

Cy’s previous two ‘studies’ (which you should peruse without delay if you like the cut of his jib) involve composite videos of planes landing and departing at San Diego International airport.

How he did it.

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Neil Turner (of the Broadsheet Windows Phone app and Bus Nearby) has released his latest Windows Phone app, Fuel Nearby.

Using data from Pumps.ie, it lets you know the price of petrol and diesel as well as the services available in stations close to your current location.

It also lets you save your favourite so you don’t have to go searching for them.

It’s available now on the Windows Phone App Store for free (and with a promise of no ads or in-app purchases in the future).

For iOS and Android users, there are existing apps (by other developers) available on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

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Today’s XKCD is a little bit of nostaliga for an undocumented feature in a Windows product. But for Colin Birge, it reminded him of the woman who talked to Clippy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It looks like you’re crying out for help, would you like some assistance? (Storify)

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https://vimeo.com/81027175

A documentary by Mother London following the trials and tribulations of five internet addicts who go offline for a week.

…have we become addicted to the internet? And if we have, what would happen if 5 digital natives were forced to go cold turkey for a week? Would it be reminiscent of a scene from Trainspotting? Or would they regress to some kind of IRL utopia?

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According to the cloud firm Incapsula, between this year and last, bots went from making up 51 percent of web traffic to 61.5 percent. Most of that, they found, was due to increased activity by “good bots” like search engines, who traverse the web for the betterment of mankind. Spam bots, comparatively, are on the decline.

Are you human? Check now.

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