Endlich wieder neue Bücher bestellen, stöbern und online bestellen – es gibt wieder einen deutschen Buchladen in Kapstadt, wie schon auf Englisch berichtet. Zwar is Gruffel.com komplett online, ...
Hurray! Finally there’s a German bookshop in Cape Town again, albeit online. Gruffel.com allows you to order German books anywhere in South Africa and ships them to you. Or allows you to pick up your ...
You can access the load shedding lookup tool for Cape Town to your mobile phone so that you don’t have to type the link, open a browser, or even navigate! You can simply add the page to your hom ...
You may have discovered the Cape Town loadshedding lookup tool, with geolocation, areas, suburbs, stages and more that has been referred to in previous posts. With its home at http://ldsd.co.za or, if ...
Some images from the N7 – 800km along the highway, with only a 40mm pancake lens. And a camera. But you knew that already. ...
It’s so simple, it’s almost not worth typing, but for the sake of those of us who need this as a reference point, capturing the screen and saving it as a file, or to the clipboard to use t ...
Repeatedly getting this error on this Twitter.com site: ...
It’s been a rocky start to the year of DSL connectivity with EASSY and SEACOM, among the major uplinks from Southern Africa, all were affected by outages. After a network outage between Abu Tala ...
Touch surfaces and ubiquitous computing. I’m going through the exercise at the moment with portable touchscreen communicators and business enablers. I’ll relate my experiences with the Sam ...
On 3G and outgoing mail not sending? Chances are, you need to set the SMTP server specific to your network. Here’s the list that may grow over time: ...
As one of the elements of modern society, family life and meeting etiquette, the mobile phone has become that always-on irritating device that, like the traditional land-line telephone, often times ge ...
A new product over at x-pire.net (which redirects to x-pire.de) was unveiled in Germany today, with the aim of embedding expiry times and information into images so that they cannot be viewed after a ...
From the WordPress Development Blog: Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your sites ...
For what it’s worth: an alleged SEACOM cable break a few kilometers from Alexandria – eta of 2.5hrs or so… ...
Don’t forget to upgrade inplace or download! It is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions, and upgrades are easy 🙂 ...
Seems like there is an upstream cable fault (being investigated) that has caused international browsing from South Africa outward to fail. Pings reveal failing terminations on the entry points into co ...
There are two irritations when it comes to the Kindle. First of those is your collection of PDFs you bought or own that you’d like to read as a ‘book’ on the Kindle (without going t ...
Here’s something fun: use Firefox 3.6.9 to have a set of Javascript code in a child frame append HTML code to a text box in the parent frame, and content of the string is modified: what was < ...
Last time, generator maintenance in Johannesburg took everything offline. There was just notification with the subject line “unknown” (referring to the categorisation of the issue) at 14h2 ...
So – Afrihost ADSL uncapped… the promise of “Pure Internet Joy” is part of the offering’s headline. On a 4Mbps line, the offering of the uncapped account is quite good. T ...