After Bizspark for Startups, Microsoft launch WebsiteSpark programme for Web Developers and designers .
Barcamp Cork the 3rd is confirmed for November 14th.
A great service for storing passwords, free online password manager www.passpack.com (Via @alexleonard)
In the wake of a blog post from Pat Phelan, James Corbett kicked off ‘OutVesting‘ whereby people on Twitter pledge to donate 50 Euro along with 99 others to give 5,000 Euro to a startup. In what I believe was under a week, 100 people have already pledged to donate 50 Euro. More on http://www.outvesting.org/
Amazing high speed robotic hand. (YouTube video)
Some research from Red Cardinal about Malware Stats for Irish Web Hosting Companies.
RefactormyCode.com Gget your code improved or help others improve their code.
Server2Go, Create a server which runs off a CDROM or USB stick, very handy and very free too.
Use FormIgniter to create forms for use with CodeIgniter. It outputs the neccessary model, view and controll code. A great time saver.
Ever wonder about those ads that Google is showing you? Ever wonder what Google knows about you? Have a look at Google Ads Preferences to see what Google thinks your interests are and modify them if you like.
FÁS creates digital media training programme. Currently Dublin only.
Sponsorship for the 2009 web awards are now open.
If you’d like to develop an iPhone app but don’t have the time or staff to do it, take a look at Swebapps - The easy way to build your own app.
Appointed by the Taoiseach, the Innovation Taskforce is requesting submissions by 18 September.
6 simple ways to increase productivity.
Frank from Website Design Cork has published the results of a poll about PDF files in Google Search results.
Code in your browser with PHPanywhere. Theres also a techcrunch article about it.
If you think a website might be infected with the Gumblar virus? Try out this free tool and read this blog post on how to remove it.
Is this the video of the future? 360 degree video.
DesignFellow are giving away a free CodeIgniter Cheat sheet. I have mine printed out and stuck on the wall.
An excellent tutorial from Nettuts, develop an app in CodeIgniter and then developing the exact same app using Ruby on Rails. From CodeIgniter to Ruby on Rails: A Conversion
An excellent computer hardware chart.
DigiGuide, a TV guide app for tv show reminders. It can give you all sorts of info about upcoming TV shows, including reminders via email and text. It can even tell you what season or episode a show is on.
O2 is looking for innovative iPhone apps. £10,000 up for grabs.
I compared a short list of online payment providers recently and as a result found out about Webpayments.ie. They have an excellent and very detailed breakdown of payment service providers for Irish merchants. Definitely worth a look.
From Gmail, Subscribing made easy. Gmail will now attempt to unsubscribe you from newsletters if you no longer want them. For email senders, make sure you have the ‘List-Unsubscribe‘ header in your emails. More bulk email sending guidelines from Google.
Anthony has found the best link ever on the net.
See how search engines see your site with SEO browser
Stuck for ideas for a great new web app? Find ideas for new apps, services & software to create based on Twitter requests.
A list of official Google Twitter accounts.
A study of over 300 people about how Irish people use social media.
€15k ad prize for start-up competition from 4FM.
Nearly every day I bookmark stuff to go back to later. I don’t always go back to them as I should but I do look back over the posts here so I’ve decided to list a few interesting things I see during a week here in the hopes of catching my own attention and that they might be of interest to others.
Damien has Fluffy links, Alexia has Red links and Joe has Little links so I’d decied to do it aswell.. murmurs.
Slides from the it@corks iphone event on Wednesday in the Airport hotel.
Look and taste being featured on the apple store favourites.
If you were online at all this week you’ll have heard Google are launching an OS, some guy appears to have early info and first pics of it
A cool site listing Irish radio stations online
Litmusapp have a great feedback form to vote for new features
I’m interested in word clouds at the moment, I came across tagcrowd.com which lets you create tag clouds from web pages, files or copy & pasted text.
And finally, if you have 30 seconds can you do a newsletter survey
