The uncapped ADSL experiment

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 give Afrihost’s Uncapped 384kbs connection a go and see how things go.

Unfortunately Web Africa (my favourite ISP) doesn’t offer anything like this in the same price range.

I’ve only just signed up for it, so I can’t really give an accurate review of it… but the wife and I will give it a good test over the coming weeks and I’ll report back here and let you know how well it works.

PayPal now in SA

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 overseas.

Obviously there is is a lot of “legal red tape” and hoops you’ll need to jump through, in particular with SARS (South Africa Revenue Service) and the South Africa Reserve Bank, but who cares SA has now finally got PayPal.

Now to come up with some new cool service that I can receive millions of dollars for. I wonder how many people are going to switch to FNB because of this service?

For More info
Simple FAQ on FNB’s website
PayPal website info.

Super Secret Project Pt 2

Sketch_upAs 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 puzzle out what I?m up too, but because I don?t want her to know what I?m building I?m going to stick to describing the technology and tools I?m using and show snippets of code but try not give it all away.

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There, I Fixed It

joe-wIf 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 are?ridiculous?occasionally?there is a good smart one but most of them you’re just waiting for it to go completely wrong.

Nokia OVI is awesome…

Nokia OVI is awesome.

Sorry just had to say that, after the wedding I needed a place to upload photo’s… Flickr’s free offering unfortunately has a limit and so does Picasa (Google’s offering) but while I was playing around on my Nokia N78 I found OVI. It doesn’t appear to have a limit and comes with features that allow you embed a little flash applet that has the photo’s in it.

You’ll see them on the Honeymoon page on our wedding website. One of the other cool features is that I can Sync my phone’s calendar, address book, notes and other items on my phone with the OVI website which is an awesome feature, it allows me to maintain the address book and calendar on any PC which is very nice and means that I have a backup of my contacts if I ever loose my phone.

You can also take photo’s and upload straight to the OVI website the same as with the Flickr integration.

If you have a recent Nokia phone I highly reccomend that you go and look at the OVI website.

FNB Online Banking – Still Down :-(

Any FNB customers out there? I’m sure you’ve noticed that their online banking is still down… I first checked it yesterday around 9am and it was down and still down now, 24 hours later. After doing more reading up I see its actually been down since Sunday’s scheduled maintenance.

**Just a quick update it appears that debit cards were also affected by the downtime.

**Another update you can follow this twitter (@rbjacobs) feed to get live updates on the status of the FNB banking site.

They’ve got a little link telling you to use Cell phone banking, but of course I can’t remember my cell phone banking pin.

You can find more info on the My Broadband forums and on this news item from MyBroadband.

I wonder if FNB will be paying out for lost interest or bounced debit orders etc because of the site being down and people unable to transfer money? I know I can go to a bank, but are they going to pay the fees associated with doing banking at a real bank?