By MARIE BORAN
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Caffeine Zone
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Modern societys addiction to coffee knows no bounds; most Irish offices are probably fuelled by the stuff. How though does one judge the best time to imbibe caffeine to ensure peak alertness coincides with the busiest part of your day but doesn’t interfere with your sleep patterns? Tap your poison (tea, coffee, coke) into this app and how fast your drank it, and you’ll get a timeline of peak caffeine levels. It sends you an alert when your levels are low. Addictive!
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Timeline WW2 for the iPad
Its clichéd but true; all dads love second World War history and this app is the perfect way for him (or any history enthusiast) to while away a few hours. It is an interactive zoomable timeline of more than 2,000 key events of the second World War. The user interface is well designed with typewritten letters on yellowed pages, black and white photos, beautiful dynamic maps and lots of British Pathé newsreel footage.
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Who will see it?
Who sees your tweets? Your reach may not be as broad as you think.
Enter your Twitter handle on this site along with whom you plan to tweet. Did you know the @ symbol limits your message to the intersection of those following both you and the person it is directed at? You may want to add a “.” before your “@” to make it visible to everyone. A bare-bones web app but worth using.
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TED 2023
Producer and director Ridley Scott has conjured up some amazing dystopian futures with the likes of Alien and Blade Runner. Now he’s created his vision of what TED talks will look like in 2023. Instead of soft-spoken academics and excited creatives, we have Guy Pearce (left) as fictional hotshot Peter Wayland who delivers a charismatic but soulless speech in a rock-concert level arena to a roaring crowd.
Is Scott suggesting TED is going to go corporate and sell out?
