Blogs in general (including some of my own posts here!) are some of the most trafficked sites on the net and the first thing that pops into most people’s heads when it comes to monetizing that traffic is advertising. I’ve been using some of Tribulant’s excellent Wordpress plugins and was delighted to see that they had a Banner Advert plugin as I needed one for a new online venture AboutLeitrim.ie. Read the full article »

We’ve been looking for a house to rent or buy for ages now and I also have an iPhone, so app = handy being able to browse or search homes while in bed or while out and about actually lookin for houses ‘manually’. I’ve tried a few different property apps including MyHome’s and PropertyNews but the Daft one wins hands down.

Propertynews, while feature rich seems to have a Northern Irish/UK bias and I don’t like the map based navigation of MyHome. I prefer a simple list.

Here are the features and reasons I like the Daft app:

• Ease and speed of use.
• List type results with images and main details.
• Photo viewer.
• Comprehensive search filters.
• “Nearby” Searches.
• Maps.
• Quick links to Call or Email agents.
• Bookmark properties.
• Sales & Rentals.
• Sorting.

Hope we find a home to buy soon, only looking for about 7 years now..

Leon.

Took my time going to see this but finally managed to catch it last weekend in the Gaiety Cinema Sligo. It was difficult to avoid all the hype about this film in the last few months and the danger was that it would never live up to its hype. Some early reports suggested as is common with these films that the whole thing was FX and no plot. Well I’m happy to say that for me and my 3 fellow cinema goers it lived up to all expectations and surpassed them! Read the full article »

One of the top feature requests by web design clients is of course the ability to sell items online and I’ve had to do a bit of research to find a suitable and robust shop plugin for my web design tool of choice Wordpress. There’s a few smaller, basic plugins that do a job but for a proper cart the main plugin seems to be WP-ecommerce but I’ve had nothing but trouble with that, seems very buggy. Sometimes you just have to go commercial with plugins and get what you pay for! So here’s my recommendation for the best all round commercial wordpress shopping cart plugin currently available. Read the full article »

It was never my intention to go to see U2 on their current world tour being just a casual fan but I wanted to have a quick look at the Ticketmaster site to see if all dates had sold out and when I found myself on the checkout screen with 2 good seats available I just said what the hell, might as well go! Read the full article »

Had our daughter’s christening recently and decided to pull out all the stops and have a great party because of the length of time it took to have her (5 years infertility treatment) and also partly to avoid cooking and preparing food for the 50 people that said they’d come! So for the first time ever we decided to get catering in and we tried a few local places, got some quotes etc before finally settling on the Bay Leaf Restaurant in Drumshanbo, Leitrim after having been there for dinner one Sunday afternoon. Read the full article »

For me, one of the most important plugins you can have for your wordpress powered Blog or Website is a good Newsletter/Mailing List system. Recently, I’ve researched and tested out quite a few both free and paid for and this one is the best I’ve come across so far. Read the full article »

Got intercepted by the guys at PageLime CMS during a Twitter conversation about something related to CMS’s and ended up checking out their site and system! The power of Twitter eh!? I’d like to do a quick review of their site, software and service here. Read the full article »