A partially complete listing of every piece of professional or professional-ish writing I’ve had published. Excluding anything that was published and then forgotten about. Dates without descriptions are articles yet to be filled in here.
Gaelscéal
(All available behind a rather annoying “please register” wall, over at www.gaelsceal.ie. Don’t blame me, I’m only a freelancer…)
11/04/2012 – “An féidir liom mo charr a phlugáil isteach?” – Series versus Parallel hybrids, and the futility of electric cars
21/03/2012 – “Cad atá nua faoin iPad nua” – New iPad
29/02/2012 – “An bhfuil ár ndeartháireach móra, Google agus Facebook, ag amharc orainn?” – Internet privacy re: Google, Facebook etc.
08/02/2012 – “An gcaillfidh Zuckerberg smacht ar Facebook?” – The Facebook IPO
25/01/2012 – “Cá raibh Wikipedia?” – Macro-overview of SOPA and the blackout. Probably quite out of date by the time it was published, unfortunately, but then so is everyone else who’s trying to stay ahead of the story (page 6)
11/01/2012 – “Cuma bhreá ar ‘Abair Leat’” – Preview of Irish language social networking site, ‘Abair Leat’ (Page 7)
21/12/2011 – “Cad a bheas ag Santaí do lucht teic?” – Christmas gift guide (page 24)
30/11/2011 – “Tá an tine tarraingteach ach bígí cúramach” – Introducing the Amazon Kindle Fire (page 7)
09/11/2011 – “Go leor ar bun ar mhargadh na bhfón cliste” – State of the market: mobile phones (page 7)
28/10/2011 – “Ar chuala tú riamh trácht ar Dennis Ritchie?” – Obituary of Dennis Ritchie (page 14)
14/10/2011 – “An gcaitheann tú cuid mhór ama os comhair ríomhaire?” – Tips for increasing your productivity when working with computers (page 7)
30/09/2011 – “Ná bac le Windows 8 – go fóill” – Report on the pre-Beta release of Windows 8 (page 22)
16/09/2011 – “DeusEx: Human Revolutions” – Review (page 24)
02/09/2011 – “Titim an fhathaigh – an mairfidh Apple gan Jobs?” – Living obituary of Steve Jobs (yes, about a month before he died, I know…) (page 22)
19/08/2011 – “Faitíos ar Apple dul in iomaíocht dhíreach leis na comhlachtaí eile: Google” – The latest on the perpetual lawsuits that make up the fabric of the mobile phone industry nowadays (page 14)
05/08/2011 – “Sláinte do ríomhaire agus glaochanna ón Ind!” – Those annoying ‘is your computer slow’ phone call scams (front page, cont. page 14)
22/07/2011 – “Tús maith, leath na hoibre do Google+” – Google+, a few weeks in (page 14)
08/07/2011 – “Dúshlán úr Google do Facebook” – The launch of Google+ (page 14)
24/06/2011 – “Athrú ollmhór ag teach ar bhunchruth an idirlín” – The latest on IPv6, new TLDs (page 14)
10/06/2011 – “Ní féidir linn a bheith iomlán cinnte faoi nasc idir ghutháin póca agus ailse” – News report: latest on the link between mobile phones and cancer (and a little bit of pontificating about public understanding of science) (page 14)
27/05/2011 – “Cairr gan tiománaithe le bheith ar an bhóthar faoi 2010″ – State of the art: autonomous cars (page 24 – and not my typo in the headline…)
13/05/2011 – “Scamall áirithe ar an chóras néalríomhaireachta” – Reporting on the Sony cloud-hacking scandal (page 24)
29/04/2011 – “An féidir leat do iPhone a thrust?” – Report on the iPhone location-logging controversy (page 24)
15/04/2011 – “An mbeidh deireadh le do theilifíseán?” – Introduction to Saorview (page 24)
01/04/2011 – “Ag ríomhaireacht sna néalta le Dropbox” – Overview of cloud service Dropbox (page 24)
18/03/2011 – “Cad chuige nach féidir liom amharc ar an chluiche ar mh fhón póca?” – Discussion of IPTV on mobile devices, which descended a little into a rant on data prices (especially data roaming) (page 24)
04/03/2011 – “Ceangail Gnó déanta idir Microsoft agus Nokia” – News round-up, including the then-new joint venture between Microsoft and Nokia (page 24)
25/02/2011
18/02/2011
11/02/2011
04/02/2011
28/01/2011
21/01/2011
14/01/2011
07/01/2011
31/12/2010
24/12/2010
17/12/2010
10/12/2010
03/12/2010
26/11/2010
19/11/2010 – “Opera ag cur brú ar Explorer” – Overview of then newly released Opera 11 (page 20)
12/11/2010 – “Táirgí Teic na Nollag seo” – Christmas gift guide (page 22)
05/11/2010
29/10/2010 – “Cad a bheas ar an TV amach anseo mar sin?” – Google TV, Apple TV, future of set-top boxes in general (page 22)
22/10/2010 – “Cá bhfuil an gluaisteán uathoibríoch?” – State of the art: autonomous cars (page 18)
15/10/2010 – “Tá baol tromchúiseach ann don tsochaí ó víris agus ó bhogearraí mailíseacha” – Advice on prudent deployment of anti-virus software (page 22)
08/10/2010 – “Tá córas cúltaca de dhíth ort!” – A treatise on the importance of regular backups (page 22)
01/10/2010 – “Ríomhaireacht chomhthéacs-eolach” – Introduction to location aware computing (page 22)
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10/09/2010 – “Margaíocht cliste amháin nó an bhfuil táirgí úra i gceist i ndáiríre?” – Roundup of new Apple releases (page 18)
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20/08/2010 – “Ceist and Chóipchirt agus úsáid réasúnta” – What can only be termed a rant about “fair use” (page 18)
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30/07/2010 – “An cuimhin libh ‘Y2K’?” – An explanation of the impending IP Address shortage (page 18)
23/07/2010 – “Mearbhall na bhFón Póca” – Overview of the mobile phone landscape (page 18)
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02/07/2010 – “iPhone 4 seolta” – News story on the release of the iPhone 4 (page 18)
– “Dúshlán gheilleagrach ag barr chlár oibre an G20″ – Report from the G20 in Toronto, + 2 photos (page 6)
– “900 duine gafa le linn an G20″ – Supplementary box-out report to the G20 report (also page 6 – gets its own entry on this list for no particularly good reason except that it appeared as two separate entries on the invoice…)
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28/05/2010 – “Píoráideacht na linne seo” – A slightly heavy-handed look at copyright infringement (page 18)
21/05/2010 – “3D sa bhaile” – 3D technology, how it works, what’s on the market (page 18)
14/05/2010 – “Cluichíocht na linne seo” – Computer games in general, nice little piece of history, focus on the Halo Reach Beta (page 18)
07/05/2010 – “Gaeltacht an Idirlín” – Overview of the Irish language online (page 18, cover story)
30/04/2010 – “Cá bhfuil an t-airgead” – The economics of the internet (page 18, cover story)
23/04/2010 – “Cearta na gCustaméirí” – Discussion of Sony cutting Linux support from PS3 (page 18)
16/04/2010 – “Cén printéir?” – Printer buying guide (page 18)
09/04/2010 – “Cén ríomhaire?…” – Computer buyers guide (page 18)
02/04/2010 – “An mbeidh Microsoft ábalta do Apple?” – Windows Phone 7 and the (ultimately ill-fated) Courier (page 18)
26/03/2010 – “iPad úr nó iPhone mór?” – Overview of the first generation iPad (page 18)
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September 2009 – nós*, eagrán 13
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