Compiled by JOHN COLLINS

Power through a mountain of email

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There is nothing guaranteed to rid you of your relaxed holiday feeling when you get back to your officelike a mountain of emails in your inbox. In this blog post on the Fast Company website Lifehacker, editor Gina Trapani provides a range of tips and strategies to put manners on your in-box. My favourite – delete all email over a month old: “If the message was that important, the person would have resent it.” http://bit.ly/d62rWb

The stock market with an imaginary $100,000

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Given the market volatility of recent times, it takes a brave investor to bet their own hard-earned cash on stocks. If you’d still like to get the buzz of the markets without the risk, check out Stock Wars, a free app for the iPhone that gives you a virtual $100,000 to play with. The app works with the US markets and you can also compare your portfolio’s performance to other players.

'The Ticket' at Electric Picnic

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The Irish Times weekly entertainment supplement the Ticket is now on Twitter and will be your source of all the latest news at next week’s Electric Picnic festival in Co Laois. Follow @thetwicket and you’ll be in the know for the whole weekend. twitter.com/thetwicket

First betting app for iPad

Online betting exchange Betfair has launched an iPad app which it claims is the first gambling app available through Apple’s App Store. Nicely timed for the return of the UK soccer season, the app is currently only available in Ireland and the UK. betfair.com