Fintan Murphy

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Entries for the ‘Technology’ Category

The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

This is a talk by Talks Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology. It is a must watch for anyone. you don’t have to be interested in technology to be amazed by this video. if ya get board skip to the end and watch the demos.
It will be exciting to see this [...]

Cloudforce 2009…every tool has its uses

On Tuesday the 7th of April I flew to London to attend Cloudforce 2009.  Cloudforce was a Cloud Computing event hosted by Salesforce one of the largest players in the Cloud Computing arena and certainly one of the longest standing
So firstly, why did Damson attend.  Well we are Salesforce customers and have been interested in [...]

Gmail is DOWN

Some of you may have noticed that Gmail went down today, tho only for a few minutes.   It caused panic in the Twitter sphere!  People were twittering about the Gmail  outage at a rate of 120 tweets per minute.
If your Gmail stops working there are a few things to check:
The Google Apps status page [...]

A few videos from Cloudforce

Richard Robinson from Google discussing increasing sales with Google Adwords, Free Google tools and Salesforce

Craig Weissman talking about Salesforce and Twitter integration

Samsung X460 – Quick review

I had a laptop order for an important client this week.  He needed something powerful, light weight, but with a decent screen. My answer was the ultra-slim Samsung X460.
It is a masterpiece of mobility and packed with a comprehensive spec list.  This machine is taking Samsungs proven ability to design portable netbooks and bringing it [...]

Abandoning Windows mobile…

As I’d mentioned before with the abrupt demise of my iPhone I was forced into using a windows mobile phone again.  Well it was short lived.  After just one weekend I was driven mad with this crappy device.
The main issues I found were with the fact that I had become so used ot the iPhone [...]

Testing Qik on the iPhone

Testing Qik on the iPhone

This is just a short video I made on Qik from my iPhone.  I was hoping to see how good the quality is as I am heading to the Cloudforce 2009 conference in London on the 7th of April and am hoping to do some video while I am there.

Cloud Computing reality check

As a cloud computing expert my constant job is not only to convince people of the merits of cloud computing but also in many cases explain what the hell it actually is.  Most of Damson’s clients aren’t techies and they don’t like when you make it technical.  So finding real world examples of how cloud [...]

The iPhone repair saga…

So with my iPhone dead and my sensitive data deleted I went about the difficult task of finding out about the repair process.
First a little history on my iPhone, it is less than a year old and was purchased in Verona Italy, as they offer a legally unlocked iPhone there.  So I anticipated some issues [...]

iPhone the slow Death…

So its 4am in the morning, my 4 day old is finally settling down  for some sleep…sigh.  I notice out of the corner of my eye that my iPhone has stopped charging.  At first I am not too alarmed, check the plug and connection all fine.  Hmmm…I go get another charger, still nothing.  I get [...]