This blog is now officially obsolete, you can catch me on my new blog where I will focusing more on technology and internet with a splash of lifestyle added.
Go to www.igeek.co.za and check out the latest in the tech scene.
Ever wanted to live your dream of becoming a real pirate? Well Facebook just made it one step closer for you. You can now get to terms with real pirate speak by setting you languange to English(Pirate).
To do this simply do the following after loging into Facebook:
Its that simple to becomming one step closer to a pirate.
Kalahari.net has gone crazy with the prices on some of their games. The local online store has cut prices to some of their games to almost 70% off.
Titles such as Race Driver GRID was R400 and is now available for only R90 for the pc version. Even the XBOX version is marked down from R700 to R190.
So who said that buying orginal games can be expensive, go check out Kalahari.net for all the titles available.
Wikipedia has been blacklisted by a British online child pornography watchdog, causing almost every internet user in Britain to be blocked from contributing to the site anonymously.
The British Government-backed Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted Wikipedia over an article on the 1976 album Virgin Killer by German heavy metal band Scorpions.
At issue was a screen shot of the album cover, published with the article, that featured a naked, young girl with her genitals obscured by a simulated tear in the photograph.
After hearing of the blacklisting, Britain’s six main internet service providers blocked their users from accessing the article.
But the method they used means users of each provider now access Wikipedia as a whole through the same IP address.
Usually all internet users have a unique IP address, allowing Wikipedia to block users who vandalise the site or otherwise break its rules.
Wikipedia dubs itself the “free encyclopedia anyone can edit”.
As a result, Wikipedia, which contains 2.6 million articles all written by its users, has instituted a blanket ban on anonymous edits from the six ISPs, which account for 95 per cent of British residential internet users.
Sarah Robertson, spokeswoman for the Internet Watch Foundation, told the Associated Press that the picture was flagged by an internet user late last week. The foundation concluded, after consulting British police, that the picture could break child abuse laws.
Wikipedia administrators have refused to remove the album cover on the site, saying they do not censor articles.
This from http://www.smh.com.au
Been on Google lately and wondered what that icons next to you results are? Well its part of Google’s all new SearchWiki functionality.
Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you’re an avid sports enthusiast and the site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it’s not there at all and you’d like to add it. Or maybe you’d like to add some notes about what you found on that site and why you thought it was useful. From now on you can do just that.
SearchWiki enables you to customize your search results by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on it. With one simple click you can easily move the results you like to the top and next time it will be there. You can even write a little not about the site to help you remember why you must visit it again.
The changes you make to the results will only affect your search result, but the SearchWiki is also a great way to share your insights with other searchers. You can see how the community has collectively edited the search results by clicking on the “See all notes for this SearchWiki” link.
A few ways to use the SearchWiki.
For those wanting to try out the beta version of Google’s all new browser Google Chrome, it can be downloaded here. Currently the download is only available to windows users for beta testing, so the linux guys will have to wait a bit longer for this one.
Google will today launch it beta version of Google Chrome, a open source browser to go head to head with Firefox and the likes.
So why are they launching Chrome? Because they believe they can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.
Google’s aim is to provide a fresh new browser built from scratch, in fact the first multi threaded browser. Under the hood, they were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, they were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. They improved speed and responsiveness across the board. They also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.
Apparently this is just the beginning, Google Chrome is far from done, this beta is only being released to Windows clients to start a broader discussion and to get input from the public as soon as possible.
For a comic explaining Google Chrome go here
As soon as the donwload is available I will post a link and info here.
After doing my daily morning routine of getting coffee and reading a few forum post on mybroadband.co.za I came across a interesting post.
For those of you that know about the One Red Paperclip this is something similiar. This is about a young 21year old student wanting to make his dream come true of being a pilot.
The site www.abadge.co.za is where Itai Etzman has placed his first trade option online. What he is aiming to do it trade item for item as till het gets to say a fully paid flying coarse or something of the likes that can send him off to flying school.
Itai placed his first item, a F16 badge, up for trade. If you have anything worth while of trading please go help the guy out.
First Item up for trade is this F16 Badge.
Today I discovered a new site dedicated to listing broaband packages. Its brand new as ISP’s are still adding their packages on the site as I am writing this entry. The site www.broadbanddeals.co.za looks like it is a MyBroadband.co.za site. The goal of the site is to list all types of broadband packages available by ISPs for the 6 types of broadband services offered in South Africa. The site has a nice control panel for ISP to log into and add packages and details about them in a convenient way. So if you are a ISP feel free to register on the site for free and help make the site a success.
So lately some peeps cant seem to get the hang of connecting to a irc server, luckely i stubled across a nice thing called mibbit. Users can now connect to the CTWUG channel with the push of one button. To check it out or use it follow the CTWUG IRC link at the top of my site. Happy irc’ing noobs.
