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A ramblings of a 25yr old Internet junkie from Cape Town.
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Google Chrome mailto: email fix
One problem, which has been spoken about, is that you cannot click on mailto: links with Google Chrome and then send an email, as you can imagine, this is quite a big problem for thousands of not-so-s...
The latest malware, vulnerabilities and programs to avoid
I was doing a clean up on my machine, getting rid of malware, potential spyware and just double checking that my antivirus software is up to date, when I came across some interesting lists of things t...
Firefox Plugin, Read it later, Save articles to read later!
I must admit, I’m a huge Firefox fan, and when I stumbled across this plugin, I was even happier. Now, I know it’s not new and I’ve seen it before, but this time I had a reason to in...
Even the blind can access iTunes now!
Most teens listen to their music on digital players, but Cory Cadlik, who is blind, had to ask for help when he wanted to buy songs for his iPod from the online music store iTunes. To Cadlik, a self-d...
Project 10^100 - May Those Who Help The Most Win
Project 10^100 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. 1. Send your idea by October 20th - Simply fill out the submission form giving them the gist of your idea...
Google recognises Heritage day in South Africa
I think this is really awesome.. Good for Google!...
Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that helps you organize your flooded inbox.
Xobni is a San Francisco, California based startup that is revolutionizing the way people manage email relationships. The name Xobni, which is the word “inbox” spelled backwards, is an aff...
Busuu helps you learn languages online, easily.
Busuu is a start-up, based in Madrid, which runs an innovative online community for learning languages. What got the team started was the annoyance of trying to learn a new language the traditional w...
Buy and sell Wordpress templates for your blog!
ThemeForest is an Envato Marketplace. At ThemeForest you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five doll...
Twitter launches several interface changes
As a Twitter addict, I ventured onto the Twitter website to have a look at what was up, etc, and noticed that they’ve made some changes. The changes are mostly visual this time around. Moving t...
Cuil isn’t so cool is it?
Cuil search engine, started by several ex Google employees broke out onto the interwebs with a massive blast. It was the hottest topic of discussion for many days, but this all seems to have cuiled of...
Read it Later Firefox extension
This Firefox extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. There’s a lot more to it than ...
Will Facebook be the Windows of the web?
The other day I was doing a presentation where I explained that many Internet users think that Google is the Internet. It makes perfect sense, if you’ve not been a web junkie, logging onto most ...
5FM.co.za reported as attack site?
I’m not a huge security person, in fact, I just run a standard anti-virus and a standard firewall. Today when I popped over to 5FM.co.za I was warned that the site was an attack site?! Now, I un...
Traffic monitoring webcams for Cape Town
A friend of mine popped me a tweet just now, pointing me to a website, which has webcams all around the place, which allow us to see what’s happening with the traffic. I need to head to the Sout...
Free Windows bandwidth monitoring tool!
As most of us know, bandwidth is really important and with the number of web services we all run, it’s important to have control over the amount of bandwidth we’re sending out and receivin...
What do you want to do before you die?
Before I Die, I want to is an interesting website, which basically accepts photographs of people with little tag lines as to what they want to do before they die. There’s really not much to the ...
Did Google.co.za really get hacked this morning?
I saw this screen shot on Deshantan’s website earlier today and decided that I would throw it out there and hope to hear back from anyone who knows more. The screen shot shows that Google.co.za ...
Ubiquity not compatible with the latest Firefox 3.0.1?
Ok, this is extremely weird! I am running Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1, which is the latest version of Firefox - I ran the update checker just incase. I downloaded a copy of the Mozilla’s latest tool -...
Convert your picture into ascii art
Ascii Convert is a neato little website, which allows you to upload an image or point to an image on the Internet and then it returns the Ascii for the image, like so: Nothing overly special, but it&...
Introducing Ubiquity
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Novice - What’s the deal with Twitter and hash tags?
If you’re the type of person who installed Twitter and then wondered what the real point was, as you just saw it as another messaging system, then this explanation will hopefully help you out a ...
GetWine.co.za provides brilliant service!
Last week I noticed that I had a huge collection of white wine, and very little red wine. This concerned me, as I’m a big red wine fan! I was planning on heading to the bottle store but got caug...