Category Archives: Computers

Google Street View – Now in Cape Town

Posted on June 8, 2010 by dale

Google Street View is now enabled for Cape Town, probably because of the World Cup. So go ahead and waste hours and bandwidth walking through the streets of Cape Town. View Larger Map

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The uncapped ADSL experiment

Posted on June 2, 2010 by dale

I’ve decided to give uncapped ADSL a try for my home connection, I’m not sure yet if it’ll work or if it’ll save me any money or bring on more frustrations… After asking around amongst my friends I’ve decided to … Continue reading →

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On Demand Book Printer

Posted on May 11, 2010 by dale

I found this via MakeZine but I think its one of the most awesome things I’ve ever seen. It’s a standard Laser printer and what looks like a Canon Inkjet printer combined with a fancy bit of mechanics to hold, … Continue reading →

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SPAM info graphic

Posted on March 30, 2010 by dale

I love this info graphic on SPAM from Rackspace.

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PayPal now in SA

Posted on March 30, 2010 by dale

If you’re a South African FNB online banking customer then you probably already know this, if not you can read more about it here on FNB’s Website. This is particularly cool for people who want to sell goods and services … Continue reading →

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“Literally”

Posted on March 29, 2010 by dale

Watching “How I met your mother” again, I was reminded about the correct use of literally as Ted spends a lot of the show correcting people’s use of the word. I know that I’m often guilty of mis-using the word … Continue reading →

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Super Secret Project Pt 2

Posted on December 22, 2009 by dale

As I explained in Part 1, I’ve been working on a super secret project (Christmas present for my wife). Don’t worry my wife hardly ever reads this site so I doubt she’ll read all this and anyway she’s unlikely to … Continue reading →

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Super Secret Project Pt 1

Posted on December 11, 2009 by dale

I’ve been working on a super secret project (Christmas present for my wife), the coding for the project has been done in C# using Mono on my Windows Vista laptop, although the plan is to run the code on Linux. … Continue reading →

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There, I Fixed It

Posted on December 10, 2009 by dale

If you’ve never seen this website do yourself a favour and go check it out. There, I Fixed It – Is a website that shows off some of the more “creative” fixes that people have done. Not all of them … Continue reading →

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Quickbooks 2006 on Windows Small Business Server 2003

Posted on December 9, 2009 by dale

This morning we had a problem and needed to get Quickbooks 2006 running on Windows Small Business Server 2003, after the install we kept getting the following error when you tried to launch Quickbooks. A bit of searching online only … Continue reading →

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