Category Archives: Internet

Podcasts and Walking

Posted on August 20, 2009 by dale

I try every morning to go for about an hour walk with my Fiance’, it helps wake me up for the day, gets the blood pumping and hopefully ease me into the whole exercising everyday thing. I’ve found having something … Continue reading →

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Capetown – Traffic Webcams

Posted on August 19, 2009 by dale

I stumbled across this site with a bunch of web cams pointed at various major roads in Cape Town. Great for checking traffic on various routes before heading out.

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Proxy servers in Google Chrome

Posted on August 13, 2009 by dale

At the office we have a weird Windows 2003 install running the ISA Firewall/Proxy which sits between us and the outside world, for some as yet unknown reason we get brown “Network Access Message: The page cannot be displayed” error … Continue reading →

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Wine & Twitter

Posted on July 3, 2009 by dale

Twitter is pretty weird, I follow a few people… people that I actually want to hear from or that mention things that interest me. For me Twitter isn’t a marketing tool or anything like that because at the moment I … Continue reading →

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Bookmark All addon for Firefox

Posted on June 23, 2009 by dale

I use Firefox alot, its open all day and by the end of the day I normally have between 20 and 40 tabs open. Often I would like to bookmark the tabs, especially when doing research on stuff, so that … Continue reading →

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Uploading Pictures to Stuff.za.net

Posted on June 20, 2009 by dale

My new phone (Nokia N78) has the ability to upload pictures taken to Flickr, so this morning I created myself a flickr account, configured the phone and tried it out. It’s pretty cool, I can take a photo with my … Continue reading →

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Note book Applications

Posted on April 24, 2009 by dale

Not Notebook as in Computer… note book as in a thing you write your notes in.

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Generating PDF’s using Javascript

Posted on April 23, 2009 by dale

Stumbled across this code to generate PDF’s clientside using Javascript. It works, although it didn’t work in Firefox 3 correctly, perfectly in Google Chrome though. The idea is pretty awesome though, I wonder what other formats could be created this … Continue reading →

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Google Image Search – Similar Images

Posted on April 21, 2009 by dale

If you visit Google Labs often, then you’ve probably seen the new Similar Images Image Search entry. I use Google Image Search alot, normally to find an image of something quickly or to see what a person, car, item etc … Continue reading →

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Can you make money with a Social/User generated content Site?

Posted on April 16, 2009 by dale

I was reading this article from Slate about user generated content and the cost of running “social” sites or other sites that contain user generated content. I’ve always wondered about the costs of running something like YouTube or Facebook and … Continue reading →

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