I am a web designer & developer based in Galway, Ireland. Information on my work is available from my company site: Ambient Age Web Design.

I am also completing a PhD in Information Systems. My research is on the Adoption of IT Standards for technologies to support Ambient Intelligence.

Category Archives: Web Applications

Update to TwitEye – feeding you good ideas

Yesterday I made some design tweaks and added some new features to TwitEye, the little web app I launched a couple of months ago.
TwitEye streams ideas for new applications and services based on questions asked by Twitter users, so, for example, “is there a service that lets me translate news feeds into different languages?”. At [...]

FineTuna ~ Tuesday Push

FineTuna is a web application for sharing and collaborating on images. It’s a nice idea (with an odd name), and another really nice & simple design by the folks in Spoilt Child (this is the second service they’ve had Tuesday Pushed – here’s the first one I did). It’s a good thing when an app [...]

Decisions for Heroes ~ Tuesday Push

This time around, the Tuesday Push is the newly launched Decisions for Heroes . Their pitch is:
We’re helping emergency services save more lives by making better decisions. Decisions for Heroes is a collaborative rescue team management tool, that helps record and analyse rescue operations
When they say they’ve launched a web application “that saves lives”, it [...]

It’s Alive! TwitEye.com

Last night I put up the first version of TwitEye; it’s a simple service that gives ideas for new apps, plugins or services based on questions being asked by the people on Twitter. My first impressions are that at the moment, there are lots of ideas for iPhone apps coming through.
If you’re looking for your [...]

Tuesday Push – Sxoop’s Twitter Mosaic

Next up in the Tuesday Push series is the Twitter Mosaic by Sxoop Technologies. If you’re a Twitter user, this service gives you a mosaic of all your friends or followers.
I first saw this being linked to on Twitter when it started out a while ago, and since then, Sxoop have gone into Twitter [...]

Mobile Phone Internet & Camera Usage – Survey (Part 1 of 2)

I had an idea a few of weeks ago for a web / mobile application when I had a quiet afternoon. Rather than leave it in the idea pile, I thought I’d test the waters and see if there might be any demand; so I put together a simple survey to find out how people [...]

Mobile Internet & Camera Usage – A Survey (Part 2 of 2)

This is the second part of the results of a survey I carried out on the use of mobile phone camera & Internet usage. This part looks at how people use the Internet  on their mobile phone.
The first part of the findings look at mobile phone camera usage and profiles survey respondents.
How do you access [...]

Tuesday Push ~ An open push

First off, ignore the obvious fact that it’s Wednesday, not Tuesday. This time around there’s no single web application for the Tuesday Push, instead, everyone’s being left to push something they like. Before I get to that, there are definite benefits from this type of activity for the applications / products getting reviews; Gordon published [...]

Live Query Plugin for jQuery

I spent a few hours yesterday trying to solve a jQuery problem that I was having…until I came across the excellent Live Query Plugin by Brandon Aaron which had already solved it for me. First, the blurb is:
Live Query utilizes the power of jQuery selectors by binding events or firing callbacks for matched elements auto-magically, [...]

Loudervoice get a Tuesday Push

I posted quite recently about this Tuesday’s pushee, Loudervoice. Loudervoice is a web-based service developed by Cork company Argolon Solutions. It allows users to publish reviews of anything they want, from pretty much anywhere they want. Well, almost anywhere – from their own blog (this review will show up on LouderVoice), from Twitter, by [...]