Author Archives: John

What to do with my iPad?

Posted on May 30, 2011 by John

So I’ve managed to borrow an iPad for a few months. Exciting…well that’s what I thought but I’m not so sure anymore. My problem is I don’t know what to use it for.

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Facebook for Teachers

Posted on May 16, 2011 by John

Last Saturday I attended, and presented at, the ICT in Education conference which was attended by, I believe, over 160 people (mainly teachers) who have a real passion about using ICT as part of their teaching.

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Old Irish Wives Tales

Posted on April 14, 2011 by John

Over breakfast this morning my 5 year old son was telling me that if you find a horse shoe it’s lucky. I was explaining to him that it is an old Irish wives tale. Then I started to think of the … Continue reading →

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Adding a ‘tab’ to your Facebook Page

Posted on April 13, 2011 by John

Facebook recently announced that FB users will no longer be able to add Static FBML applications (like ‘tabs’) to their (business) pages and that users should instead be using iFrame applications. So how do you create an iFrame application?

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Creating an iPhone icon for your web site

Posted on April 6, 2011 by John

The latest versions of the iPhone allow you to add a website shortcut to your iPhone’s ‘Home Screen’. You can easily specify the icon that gets used on the home screen, here’s how.

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Creative Multimedia Showcase

Posted on April 4, 2011 by John

Tipperary Institute is holding its annual Digital Media Exhibition on its Clonmel campus. Renamed Pen & Pixel, the exhibition takes place on the 14th of April at 6.30pm and will run until May.

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Reading and writing to a local file in Adobe AIR

Posted on April 1, 2011 by John

One of the advantages of Adobe AIR applications over browser based Flash apps is that you can write data to the computers local file system. Here I show you how.

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Retrieving Wikipedia content using the Infochimps API

Posted on March 31, 2011 by John

A group of students at Tipperary Institute are currently working on a web project which requires them to display information about all the counties in Ireland. They were hoping to extract the information from Wikipedia so to help them I … Continue reading →

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Sample code for RMP students at TI

Posted on March 25, 2011 by John

Students studying Rich Media Programming at TI may be interested in the following code. The code could be used as part on an AIR RSS Reader.

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XML, Namespaces and Actionscript

Posted on March 25, 2011 by John

Some of my students are writing an Adode AIR RSS reader and will need to be able to parse XML that uses namespaces, here’s how.

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