You ever been sitting at home thinking, “man I would love to order frozen yoghurt online”? Well the greatest culinary development since Moonpie is here. What a time to be alive.
While we apologise that this is currently limited to the Dublin City area, this is just too big a development to not give it some air time.
Mooch Frozen Yoghurt of Dawson Street now allow you to order yourself some of their amazing frozen yoghurt online. Of course the highlight here is they will deliver it straight to your gaff! Hungover you of the future is so damn happy you are reading about this right now. Future you, loves you.
It’s not necessarily cheap, but also not extortionate considering the well know medicinal qualities inherent within froyo. Your standard cup will cost you €4.50 with each topping coming in at an extra 50 cent each. They have a ridiculous amount of toppings too, ranging from sour worms, Haribo, melted Kinder Buenos and Orange KitKats to blueberries, strawberries, bananas and raspberries.
Here at Goos3D, we love ice cold sour worms…don’t judge us.
So the next time the other half is giving you the hairdryer treatment, just chance getting the phone out and ordering this to the front door. This willdiffuse bombs!
Ah sure with a name like Goosebumps (or Goos3bumps), of course we have a special place in our heart for this epic oldie kids horror show. Have you ever noticed certain things are a little more messed up when you look back through grown up eyes?
Thanks to YouTube, none of those disturbing Goosebumps episodes will be lost forever. Here’s the round up.
Say Cheese and Die
First of all, yes that is indeed Ryan Gosling.
Second of all, this is pretty heavy for kids, as a group of friends find a camera that leads to the deaths of those whose picture is captured.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aaOLCnxVRg
Welcome to the Dead House
Ah the classic murderous zombie storyline, but in a children’s show. Sure what else would you want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOIOmMOrSbw
It Came from Under the Sink
The Irish people have been through a lot and generally we’re quite tough. However, an evil vampire potatoe is enough to have the toughest of the Irish just into the arms of Mammy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eesvrSFCq4w
The Girl Who Cried Monster
Finally, this was a truly terrifying episode. Your grownup not believing you about your greatest fear and you being right. Lord above was there anything more terrifying? Well except maybe the librarian monster dude…*shudder*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5YrqyIflVw
There are LOADS of Goosebumps episodes on YouTube. Think we missed out on one? Or what gave you sleepless nights? Let us know.
It’s that time of year again folks, the rumour mill has begun turning on the iPhone 6s launch date and what new features will come with it. We’ll be keeping an eye on all things iPhone 6s coming up to the big day, so bookmark or email yourself the link to keep up to date.
While technically also a rumour, there is a launch date being bandied about for the iPhone 6s. According to a leaked internal mail from Vodafone, the “new iPhone” will be on sale for September 25th.
We’re now expecting the big launch keynote to take place on Wednesday, September 9th, according to Forbes. Apple went further to pretty much confirm this with a Siri response. Launch Siri and ask “hey Siri, give us a hint”, to which you’ll receive a similar response as is on the left.
What’s New on iPhone 6s
iPhone 6s Design
Here’s the big surprise, let’s get it out of the way early. Unlike other manufacturers who at least tweak the design of their handsets every year, Apple appear to be maintaining the fundamental designs of the current flagship handsets. Apologies is the sarcasm-meters are going off!
Remember “bendgate” and how we pioneered the iPin? Well Apple have learned from the PR nightmare that was the wonky iPhone 6 and more notably the 6 Plus. Forbes have reported upon a leaked chassis design and newer material, aimed at strengthening the device.
Some fundamentals
No-one wants to call this, but we’re going to give it a lash. It will be the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus that launch on September 9th, not an iPhone 7. Whether a 6C will accompany it or not seems to be up in the air, as the 5C was far from a roaring success, but time will tell.
Key New iPhone 6S Features
Force Touch
HTC users will feel quite good about themselves as a similar feature as appeared on their flagship One series since the HTC One M8. Force Touch is basically making the screen pressure sensitive, allowing the phone to detect for how long and how hard the screen has been pressed. This could effectively become like a right click in Windows, and allow the handset to be woken up by a screen press. Motion Launch, the gesture launch system implemented by HTC, saw a major reduction in power button repairs as users preferred to wake the phone with a screen press.
iPhone 6s Specs
Processor
The current A8 chip makes way for the new A9 logically enough. Rumour has it that the A9 chip will see a substantial step up in performance, according to 9to5Mac. If you want to grasp the power on hand here, it will be around the same power outputted from a 2011 MacBook air.
Camera
Ask and you shall receive – eventually! Apple will finally deploy a 12MP camera
Battery
Are Apple tackling the big problems or what! Imagine a world where every USB plug in attempt was correct…that’s the visions Apple have.
iPhone 6c
So it’s been two years since the iPhone 5c launched. Apple, going on the 2 year rotation principal would appear to be gearing up for a colourful launch alongside the iPhone 6s. It’s believed the 6c will have a screen size similar to the iPhone 6 and will also feature touch ID. We’ll get more info as soon as we can.
Queuing for the iPhone 6s
Image courtesy of mashable
No joking. Australian tech journalist, Seamus Byrne (surely an Irish connection somewhere) has started camping out for the iPhone 6s launch. Indeed the phone may not even be announced, but this guy is ready! Like Christmas, the first in the queue comes earlier every year.
That’s it for now, but do check back here as we will be updating this post regularly with cool news prior to the launch of the iPhone 6s.
Basically, every Irish address now has been assigned an Eircode. We’re not going to go into the finer details because, to be fair, you can read about them almost everywhere today. Check out this Irish Times article for all the basics.
How do I find my Eircode?
Your smartphone provides the most efficient way to find your Eircode. As your phone as location services, you can easily locate your phone and then also find your Eircode. This is also great for finding out your other important Eircode locations, such as work and home home.
But I can only check 15 Eircodes?
Yeah, that limit should never be a problem. The 15 check limit is in place to make sure commercial bodies don’t exploit the free address checker service, although…
On that #eircode search limit, if you clear your browsing history, you're reset back to 15.
Are we going to have those stupid Postcode Lottery ads now?
We don’t know anything about the quality of the ads they create, but there is an Eircode Lottery website up and running. It looks just as tacky as the UK ads.
Isn’t Eircode great then?
That’s not up to us. That’s up to the public.
I may be the only person on Twitter that sees #Eircode's launch as a positive! #partyof1
You might read the title “what is a selfie” and think, this is going to be some deep psychological journey into the mind of someone who takes a picture of themselves. Don’t worry it’s not. We’re keeping things a little more simple to start.
What is a selfie?
With the dawn of the smartphone, came a dramatic increase in media creation. We just recently watched a pre-smartphone documentary on the 9/11 attacks called 102 Minutes that Changed America. The documentary had rare and never before seen footage from multiple angles. Could you imagine the amount of footage that would be available should this have happened today?
Your face when your front facing camera is on
Well pointing your camera phone at landmarks, dinner and events quickly became boring for the people of earth, who demanded a front facing camera on their smartphones. Born was the age of the selfie. People have never been so aware of their own faces. Once upon a time, when your brushed your teeth in the morning was one of the few times you’d see your face. Now when ever you load your camera on the phone, chances are you are shocked at your own face appearing – example left.
Eventually man went on to further develop the selfie to include such abnormalities as the “duck face” selfie, the “slightly famous person behind me” selfie and the “I’m on the toilet, I better WhatsApp the guys” selfie.
The front facing camera wasn’t enough though. Our arms weren’t long enough for the perfect selfie, so we constructed one of the most recognisable smart phone accessories – the selfie stick.
The selfie stick looks ridiculous, but it’s very practical for an impractical act. However, just this week a selfie stick was used to save a young girl’s life. Erynn Johns, 16, was pulled out to sea by a riptide. She was carrying a GoPro attached to a selfie stick, which her quick thinking Dad was able to grab and pull her back into shore.
Selfie sticks save lives.
What’s not a selfie?
Yes, this is pedantic and it’s minute and it’s nitpicking, but it’s also correct. A selfie, as obvious as it seems, should be taken by one’s self – not someone else. Getting this wrong were UniLad, covering the great news that WWE and TNA start Kurt Angle has had a tumor successfully removed. While it’s fantastic news, it’s not a selfie.
Every day, photographs are incorrectly identified as selfies. This is a growing epidemic, already brought to public attention by John Oliver. The media does indeed to be one of the main perpetrators in titling images incorrectly as selfies.
Next time you see a picture defined incorrect as a selfie, do the right thing. Briefly mutter to yourself “but that’s not even a selfie” and go on about your day.
Ever fancied yourself as a bit of a Ian Dempsey, Joe Brolly or Vogue Williams but just don’t have the platform to be heard? Boast just may be the app you’ve been waiting for.
Boast is an Android and iPhone app which provides you with a platform to have your voice heard, quite literally. Speaking recently at the Irish Pavillion of Expo in Milan, Edward Wallace of Boast described the app as being an “audio driven social network that’s been compared to Twitter“. You’re given 20 seconds to record your audio before it’s broadcast on your stream.
Your voice will then be heard by others on Boast. Your face when you listen back to your voice…
Boast currently has some interesting streams, such as the celeb gossip focused “The Grapevine”, but also has a huge sporting following. As an Irish App, there is also a massive GAA following being encouraged by Eircom. So for the time you can’t make the pub to shite talk about the GAA, you can still get your fix over on the eircomGAA stream in Boast.
So do you feel like your opinions aren’t heard? Or maybe just that you need to get a rant off your chest that the Summer transfers for your club are crap.
We recently introduced you to WhatsApp Web, an app you can use in your computer browser to send and receive WhatsApp messages. The world’s favorite messaging app have made a few tweaks to their web interface.
Chances are if you play weekly 5-a-side or have had a family event, you’ve been involved PTSD inducing rally of WhatsApp notifications.
Much like typing on your phone can be a little head wrecking, the new WhatsApp Web improvements allow you to control the little annoyances from your computers browser. Yup, you can now abandon ship from WhatsApp groups using WhatsApp Web. If abandoning ship is a little extreme, you can also simply mute the chat.
Other improvements include updating your profile pictures and status bar. While this are all small improvements, the really exciting bit is that WhatsApp Web is undergoing constant change. It’s genuinely a great service for Android and Windows Phone users, so if you haven’t tried it yet, get on it!
After scrolling through Netflix a few days in a row you could be forgiven for wondering if it’s ever updated. The good news is that a load of new stuff has made available on Netflix. Unfortunately, it’s really hit and miss.
Let’s start with the positives. Riding the wave of popularity that is the Minions movie, Netflix have brought Despicable Me 2 on board. Needless to say, this makes us happy.
Netflix does have a few Irish movies on board now, with Castletown’s finest now joining the billing. Yup, The Hardy Bucks Movie is now on Netflix, trekking across Europe to following the Republic of Ireland’s European Championship exploits. The Hardy Bucks Movie is a far cry from being a blockbuster, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s a good flick to pass a few hours.
Things take a slow turn for the worst with Pain & Gain, starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. A true, but mad, story that’ll deliver one or two laughs. Equally middling is Liam Neeson’s A Walk Among the Tombstones. Both movies rank around 6.5 on IMDB, are are unlikely to set the world alight. Ranking much higher, but in truth not reaching the quality of it’s compatriot movies is The World’s End. One thing we will ever do is put people off watching a Simon Pegg and Nick Frost movie though, so it’s worth a go.
There are some more great Irish flicks new on Netlfix. Calvary is an unusual movie that will most likely take a few views to fully appreciate. Calvary is the story of a anonymous man vowing to kill a priest (Brendan Gleeson) in confession, simply because the priest is a good man.
A more strange, but no less brilliant, entry is Frank. Michael Fassbender, one of the planet’s most recognisable stars, so of course this movie sees him wearing a giant paper mache head while making music. Yes, it’s that weird, but genuinely enjoyable.
Finally, back on the international stage, Johnny Depp gets into a jangling costume and runs around playing a crazy character. Unfortunately, this character and film are awful. On the other hand, a brief search will return Pirates of the Caribbean, so even if you have seen it a hundred times you’re better off going back in for seconds.
The Germans have a word for pretty much everything, but this word and this video just go hand in hand.
Owing largely to the exploits on the roads of Russia, dashcams have grown in popularity. The great byproduct for us is that there has also been a sharp increase in the documentation of piss poor or stupid driving. We’ve all been there. You see someone driving like a gobshite, and you just wish to the high heavens that they’d be caught out.
Let us introduce you to Dublin’s stupid Audi driver. This lad/lady couldn’t handle the waiting behind a truck and tried to overtake on a narrow road within oncoming traffic. That oncoming traffic just happened to be an unmarked Garda car. Lovely.
It’s impossible not to share a certain curiosity with a new service launching, as one half of Ireland’s brand new MVNOs announced their name. iD , powered by Carphone Warehouse, has been created as part of the Three and O2 merger, which required Three to support two new MVNO operators in the market place. iD will be followed by UPC’s MVNO, which has yet to be announced.
The design of iD Ireland follows 18 months of market research to bring what the people really want in a network to life. General Manager of iD Ireland, Hamish White stated “over 65% of the market are pre-pay mobile customers who have not committed to a mobile operator. We’re planning to fill the gap.”
No further details have been announced, but launch is expected in the coming weeks. You can register to receive the latest updates on the iD Ireland website, like them on facebook, or follow @iDMobileIreland on Twitter.
Yes, this is pedantic and it’s minute and it’s nitpicking, but it’s also correct. A selfie, as obvious as it seems, should be taken by one’s self – not someone else. Getting this wrong were UniLad, covering the 
