When it comes to surfing the web, it's easy to get lost at sea. So let Moncrieff's regular guest Darragh Doyle, a man who knows a thing or two about what's weird and wonderful online, steer you in the right direction.
You can listen back to his full segment below, but here's what you need to know from the Internet this week...
- An opening video – Irish Mammy vs Spider
With more than 40,000 views, Shane O’Connor’s mammy has become one of the more talked about arachnophobes in Ireland this week. She’s trying to squish a spider in her hallway. Will she do it?
It would be remiss not to talk about the extraordinary and tragic events that happened in Paris and the extraordinary reaction online to them, but one reaction that caught my eye was the extension for your browser that replaces the word 'terrorist' with 'coward', and 'terrorism' to 'cowardice'.
Says the maker: “Terrorists aspire to that title but they don't deserve it. This is how we take it away from them.
“Terrorists are cowards. That is what they should be called.”
The Liberty Watch from WatchOvers is a watch, a phone and an SOS GPS location device, all in one. Designed for people who’d like to keep an eye on their kids or elderly parents.
The Liberty is a lightweight and comfortable wristwatch that allows you to instantly locate your loved ones via an App on your smart phone, letting you see where they are no matter how far away. It is suitable for the young and the not so young, giving them more freedom, and providing peace of mind for both the wearer and the carer.
Developed in Ireland, the Liberty allows you to feel more confident in giving your loved ones a little more freedom.
We covered AirPNP a few months ago - where you could rent out your bathroom - but now meet ParkPNP, where you can rent out your parking space to someone who needs it and earn money.
IBM estimates that 30% of driving time is spent searching for parking. If you have a car parking space you’re not using, you can list it on this website and every time it’s booked, you earn money.
A Slice of Home sends Irish treats to people all over the world every day and you can choose exactly what products you want from their website.
For Irish people living in Australia, Canada, the USA and elsewhere around the globe, nothing beats some Tayto crisps, Barry's or Lyons tea bags and some Cadbury's chocolate to bring back fond memories of home.
This is a service that has been around for a while - it “rolls up” all of your subscriptions or newsletters into a daily email, so your inbox isn't cluttered.
Well their new app version makes it even easier to unsubscribe - it shows all the emails with an unsubscribe option in a format similar to Tinder and you swipe left and right based on whether you want to keep it or unsubscribe.
How long should you wait to text that girl or guy back? What’s the ideal wait time? Are you winning or losing at this silent waiting game? These are all questions that have been wondered by pretty much everybody who’s tried dating. This is why we’ve created the ultimate text calculator.
Txtwar calculates exactly how long you should wait to text your crush back. It will also give you a ranking, and perhaps even an award. Some of these aren’t exactly the best though. No hard feelings.
The App designed for when you want to share photos, but don’t want to hand someone your phone or want them to keep them on their phones or store them in the cloud. Albums are unlocked when all the members are in the same real-world location.
People download the HangoverApp and register with your mobile phone number, so it’s secure and anonymous! Make sure the friends that are nearby do the same.
An interesting way to spend/waste time - visit this website to see how Project Oxford’s Emotion API judges your face in a photo. It shows how much anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise or neutral emotion is in a photo.
Now, they do say recognition is experimental, and not always accurate, so don’t be looking at partner’s photos and saying “Oh, you weren’t really happy there!”
- And finally...
“I wanna be Irish” - Mikaela Dewer, a New Zealand singer/songwriter currently based in Austin, Texas. It’s one foreigner’s view of what being Irish is about…
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