Rónán Mistéil's blog

This year’s General Election is the most online fought election we’ve ever seen, and unless politicians have been living under a rock, they should realise the powerful potential it has in allowing them voice their policies/opinions/general ramblings on the unsuspecting public. Even though only a small portion of voters may read a tweet or a facebook update, the mainstream media are guaranteed to be paying close attention, and no one will argue that their coverage is vitally important.

So seeing as a lot of the political parties are new to all this Web 2.0* stuff, here’s how it works.

*You shouldn’t call it that, or ever refer to the country as ‘Ireland 2.0′ or I’ll have to make fun of you like this again.

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I’ve put together an app for the Electric Picnic using the very simple to use Android App Inventor. The app inventor is only in its infancy but from playing around with it, it has a lot of potential for people to get to grips with the basics of programming and put simple apps together in a matter of minutes.

So far I’ve spent not just minutes, but a few hours on making the app, but a lot of that time has been learning the functionality of the app inventor, as well as its limitations.

And so, to the app itself…

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My Asus Eee PC 900 turned 2 last week!

All things considered, it has served me well these past two years, and for the price I got it (€350-ish I think), it was money well spent.

Considering my previous laptop, a massive Dell Inspiron 9100 that weighed a ton and had a broken fan that sounded like a jet engine, a portable netbook was a godsend. (more…)