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• Carzone.ie - Trader Media - Car For Sale

Just few minutes ago, got an alert email that a new car has been advertised on the Cars For Sale section… Nothing weird about that as I do get quite a few of them every day, but it is my policy to check them out, making sure that all the images and descriptions are relevant to the ad itself. This [...]

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• MOTORCHECK.IE BLAMES UK IMPORTS FOR MAJOR ROLE IN 16% DROP IN IRISH USED

MOTORCHECK.IE BLAMES UK IMPORTS FOR MAJOR ROLE IN 16% DROP IN IRISH USED CAR SALESSecond Hand Car Imports Up 86% The Irish used car market has been hit badly with latest figures for July 2008 revealing a 16% drop in sales compared to the same period last year. This latest data compiled by Car History Check website, Motorcheck.ie reveals that [...]

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• VRT on imports inflated - definitely RIP-OFF

IMPORTERS OF second-hand cars to the Republic are missing out on millions of euro each year in vehicle registration tax (VRT) reductions, figures obtained from the Revenue Commissioners have revealed. Reductions in VRT are available to those who successfully appeal the level of VRT calculated by the Revenue Commissioners, which are based on what the Revenue [...]

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• FluffyLinkulator.com has gone live

Its with great pride I announce that www.fluffylinkulator.com has gone live. The team (James, 4 cans of Kick and the cat ) involved on this project took great satisifaction getting this one out the door. (probably cus its a non work site for a change) The site may be developed at a later date to include more [...]

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• M50 barrier-free toll is operational

Barrier free tolling on the M50 motorway in Dublin has become operational after the highly anticipated system was activated just after midnight.Motorists can no longer pay at the toll plaza for using the section of road between Junctions 6 and 7. Vehicles will instead pass full speed under a gantry, which will collect their tolls electronically. Motorists [...]

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• Good News For Car Sales - July 2008

The number of new cars licensed in July was up by almost 3% on the same month last year, official figures show. This was the first rise since January, though it had been expected as it was thought many buyers were waiting for the introduction of the new car tax system on 1 July. The Central Statistics [...]

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• Irish Webmaster Forum Meetup 2.0

Yes Yes I know shameful .. use of 2.0 there but as its the second meetup thats going to be happening  … Anyways looks like a fair few of the faces from the last meetup will be attending this one. I’ll be there from Forbairt Media. It sounds a lot bigger when I put it like that [...]

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• Trader Media - Carzone.ie - Car For Sale

Just few minutes ago, got an alert email that a new car has been advertised on the Cars For Sale section… Nothing weird about that as I do get quite a few of them every day, but it is my policy to check them out, making sure that all the images and descriptions are relevant to the ad itself. This [...]

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• A New Search Engine - Cuil.com

I’ve heard on the news that a new search engine has been launched www.cuil.com, so I visited the website to see what is all about. Owned by few ex-Google staff, I thought is going to be good, so I gave it a run searching for “Used Cars Ireland” and I was delighted to see that they [...]

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• How to get your unread email in gmail google apps

OK not that groundbreaking a post I know but its something that slightly annoys me … I’ve about 9000+ emails in my gmail account purely cus I’ve never needed to delete them. Recently with the amount of mails I’m getting from various forums and renews things I’ve found I’m having to go back a few pages [...]

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• Don’t throw out your road atlas

The days of paper maps may not be numbered after all as one in five motorists say their satellite navigation system has been taking them the wrong way. More than a third of users said satnavs caused them uncertainty or confusion, with 11% reckoning they led to lost concentration, a survey of more than 2,000 people [...]

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• Go&Pay New Payment System

FunkyMotors.ie, Car Parts & Used Cars For Sale, is happy to announce the new Go&Pay payment system implemented into the website, powered by allpay.net What is Go&Pay? Go&Pay™, powered by allpay.net, is a revolutionary new system that enables customers to buy goods and services online and then pay offline at any participating outlet using cash or debit card. Eliminating [...]

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• My Wordpress upgrade has left Tiger administrator backend dead

Tiger-Administration http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/ Well surprise surprise when I upgraded my Word Press install to 2.5.1 I didn’t bother checking if my admin console would work on the back end. (I upgraded it as I wasn’t happy with the version before 2.5. This left me stuck … able to log in but not seeing a hell of a lot of [...]

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• New VRT scheme comes into effect

Changes to Vehicle Registration Tax take effect from today 1st of July 2008, with cars producing more CO2 emissions attracting higher rates. Up to now the amount of Vehicle Registration Tax a car attracted was based on it is engine size - the smaller the engine, the less VRT charged. But from today VRT rates will range from [...]

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• Last Day For Unaccompanied Drivers

The law requiring learner drivers on a second provisional licence to be accompanied by a fully qualified driver comes into effect from midnight tonight. The change in the driving licence system, announced by Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey last year, affects up to 92,000 people. Holders of all other provisional licences are already required to be accompanied. Drivers [...]

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• Fuel Prices Rocketing - What Can We Do

This is a copy of an email I got today. Keep reading and you will realise it makes a lot of sense. The email came from UK, so is targeting petrol stations across UK mainland, but if WE (here in Ireland) could do the same thing, it might work…. See what you think and pass it on [...]

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• New car tax labels to be revealed

A labelling system showing consumers how much Vehicle Registration Tax and motor tax they will pay on new cars will be published by Environment Minister John Gormley today. The system follows the Government decision in the last budget to link the taxes to a car’s carbon dioxide emissions, rather than its engine size. The aim of the [...]

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• Random thoughts from the last few months …

1: Its going to take a hell of a lot more for me to become a regular blogger   2: New York really changed my views of America .. maybe it was the people … maybe it was the apple store either way its a place I’d recommend to anyone to visit at least [...]

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• Mission Impossible - Where are my emails …

It has come to my attention that I’m not receiving one or two emails in the last few days … where they are going to I’ve no idea. Its rather worrying though as its work related not to mention more importantly blog related Two of my hosting companies don’t seem to play well when [...]

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• vodafone free txts calls on prepay …

I said I’d throw this in as it seems rather good if anyone is on a prepay phone. Just saw it over on boards this morning. You can get free calls / txts to all vodafone mobiles from 11th Feb -  30th Apri http://www.vodafone.ie/offers/prepay/freetxtwknd/  Might be of use to someone …

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