Every week, Darragh Doyle – a man who knows his way around the Internet – joins Sean Moncrieff live in studio to fill him in on all the most useful and uselessly amusing apps and sites he's found making his rounds online in the last secen days.
Here's what Darragh covered today...
- An opening video
Thousands of hours of old Irish newsreels from the last 120 years have just been released by the Associated Press and British Movietone, including this gem showing a very Irish pilgrimage... and not a drop of miserable rain in sight:
Facebook users in Europe can assign a contact to manage their profile when they die. When you assign a legacy contact, Facebook users appoint an ‘executor’ of their profile, giving this person the power to manage their profile after their death.
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- FOULERS - a fantasy football game with points for fouls only
Created by Liam Burke, Foulers is a fantasy football game with points awarded for fouls only. You can also create public/private leagues for you and your friends
All you need to do is browse through the players and select just four - a goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and a forward from any of the 20 premier league teams.
If any of your chosen players receives a booking during the game you will receive 50 points or 100 if they are sent off.
Tindog helps you meet dogs (and their owners) in your area.
The app, which launched in May 2015 for iOS and Android, works pretty much like the human dating app, except the focus is on the canines. It currently boasts 100,000 users. Check out the video below:
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Posted by Holidog on Wednesday, 15 July 2015
This lets you figure out how much time it would take to watch all episodes of any TV series. How it works: # of seasons × # of episodes per season × runtime of episode = total for one TV show. So, for The Simpsons...
You don’t really have to guess what this one is about, do you? Take for instance Harper Lee's new novel...
An extremely handy website teaching you how to tie knots. From fishing knots to rope Knots to neck tie knots and more, there are detailed diagrams and animated gifs teaching you step by step how to tie some of the most popular and useful knots invented.
- And finally...
Filmed in UCC, Irish dancers Kieran Hardiman, Alan Kenefick and Ciaran Plummer filmed by Brian Doherty, soundtracked by a speech from The Great Dictator, this Irish dancing video has been a huge viral hit:
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Check out "Freedom" - A collaboration between myself, Alan Kenefick and Ciaran Plummer filmed by Brian Doherty.
Posted by Kieran Hardiman on Friday, 24 July 2015
To see what Darragh covered on last week's segment, click here. And you can listen back to his full slot with Sean Moncrieff below:
