Today we take a look at Three’s mobile broadband offering, which is offered in direct competition with both O2’s and Vodafone’s  mobile broadband services.

Three differentiate themselves from the pack right off the mark by offering both a prepay (dubbed threepay…urgh) and a subscription based service (for which im sure the marketing department were sorely disapointed, since they couldnt figure out how to inject the brand name into another already existing, perfectly usable word) which runs at approximately €25 per month and €20 per month respectively. Though it should be noted the prepay can only be topped up in increments of €10 - so you could easily find yourself with a misterious €5 credit that always just seems to hang around every second month or so. lovely.

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Ok so everyone knows about the different CMS (Content Management Systems) that are out there in the wide open world of the interwebs. The main ones you might have heard of would be Wordpress (Hey this site is made using that one), Joomla, Drupal (personal thought: Its awful) and finally e107 (also awful IMHO).

We now have a new one to wow us all. Its called Diferior.

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Ok so we decided that people should have a chance to converse with us here at IG in a more direct fashion. As such we have set up a room on DALnet where we can do just that. So for all you IRC users out there the details are as follows:

irc.dal.net

#irishgeeks

For anyone unfamiliar with irc clients and the whole irc thing I would reccomend downloading a stable version of xchat as it is a solid open source irc client and has an easy to use interface. If you dont wish to do this then dont worry. In the coming days we will be adding a Java applet to the site that you can access the room from.

we look forward to hearing from you all soon. Cya in the room and remember people. Keep it geeky.

So right now the boys over at bittorrent.org are working on ways to bypass the filtering set up by Comcast. The socalled Sandvine stuff that they use that is. Now this is going to be a very tough thing for them to get done but if they succeed then things could get very interesting.

Personally I believe that theyre right to try and bypass these security measures. I think they should because I dont wanna wait longer than i have to to download the several gigs that makes up the latest Fedora Build. I salute their vigilence and their dedication to the ways of bittorrent. Now read on for details on their plans.

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At present the IrishGeeks website has two part-time writers, producers, bloggers - whatever you want to call us, there are two of us writing the content for the website, but thats not nearly enough -we want more! IrishGeeks aims to be a portal to the world of tech news for Ireland, and such a lofty goal is unlikely to be achieved with merely the two of us on staff part time.

So we are calling out for any geeks (…or nerds) out there who live in the republic, which have a good level of english (we’re not asking for shakespear here, but dublander in written form wont suffice either), and a passion for technology to contribute and become a member of the IG family.

Whats in it for you, besides the esteem of becoming an IrishGeek? well, you’ll have your articles posted on Irelands best technology blog, in addition to which we offer a fair revenue share of the GoogleAd’s presented on any article you post.

If your interested, drop us a line via our contact page. If you do so, naturally telling us about yourself, and giving a sample of your written work will work wonders.