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How many times have you wanted to know what some foreign phrase or word meant? Maybe you just wanted to be able to understand a document or book written in a language that you do not read / speak? Well fret no more - this is not really new but a lot of people do not know about Google Translate. Now...

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The Telkom Phonebook online - save some paper and some time :)

Do you still go the Post Office annually to pick up your new phonebook for the year? Well if you want to save some paper and some time, rather make your way to http://phonebook.yellowpages.co.za/ - the online version of South Africa's White Pages. You can search for residential subscribers by...

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Need a compact yet powerful laptop...? Look no further...:

Looking for a decent laptop and wanting to try out the new Windows 7? Well here's a deal that you should seriously consider - the Dell Vostro 1320 comes pre-installed with Windows XP Pro (in case you don't want to switch to Windows 7 just yet), but it ships with the Windows 7 DVD as well, and the upgrade...

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Some South African GOOD NEWS...! :)

The late Douglas Adams, in his "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, comically noted that spacecraft should be powered by bad news, because nothing travels faster :) Too true - how often in our day do we get stuck into a really juicy piece of bad news, but fail to pay any attention to the Good News? Perhaps we even fail to acknowledge the existence of Good News, in our life, our workplace, our...

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Right-click, Refresh. Right-click, Refesh. Right-click, Refresh... no it doesn't make things happen any quicker!

Have you ever seen a guy / girl sitting at their PC, frantically right-clicking and refreshing their desktop repeatedly in Windows XP / Vista? I am not sure exactly what people think the point is here, but the big news is... wait for it... NOTHING HAPPENS WHEN YOU REFRESH YOUR DESKTOP A MILLION TIMES IN SUCCESSION!! Ok well that's not entirely true. Refreshing your desktop does cause Windows to...

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Nybbles and Bytes gets a makeover...

Today I took the plunge and installed a brand new template to give Nybbles and Bytes a new look and feel. My old template (the default Blogger "Minimalist" template), got a bit cluttered and left me very little space to do anything with, especially down the sidebar. So thanks to btemplates.com, I now have a cool 3 column layout which allows me a lot more in terms of "screen real estate"...

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Arnie digs Vista baby...

So Microsoft have offered Arnold Schwarzenegger a free upgrade to Windows 7...His reply?"I still love Vista, baby!"Ouch that's bad!Yet somehow funny......

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Get up close and personal with some wildlife...

Next time you head out to Harties (Hartebeespoort Dam for the non-locals :) ) or the Magaliesberg, why not stop in at the Ann van Dyk Cheetah Centre (formerly or otherwise known as "De Wildt"). The Cheetah Centre was established in 1971 by Ann van Dyk (who still works at the centre daily) and has...

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Sorry for the messy Christmas background...

Okay okay - so I used a really busy background for my blog these past few days... It did make the text pretty much unreadable, I must admit. And so, without further ado... I present my new background! Courtesy of www.crestock.com :) Looking for some decent Blogger / Twitter backgrounds? Check out: http://www.ekmedia.com/free-custom-twitter-backgrounds.php http://allfreecountry.blogspot.com/200...

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Time for some funky foosball...

Who doesn't love foosball? Okay that was a rhetorical question, because everybody loves foosball. Think I'm wrong? Well sorry for you, because it's true. :) One of the great companies I work with, 24 Carrots, recently organised 18 branded foosball tables for an event they were managing. Check it out...

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Free Professional Blogger Templates

I have been toying with the idea of giving Nybbles and Bytes a bit of a makeover, although it is only a scant 2 - 3 months old... I think I will save it for later though, because the thought of having to rebuild all of my widgets and custom links is a rather tedious one. Surely there is a way to simply port widgets etc. into a new template? In any case, I came across these really decent sites in...

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Compaq 610 Laptop on Special - nice specs at a decent price :)

So by now you have surely heard of Windows 7... Your colleagues have mentioned it, no doubt you have heard it mentioned it on TV somewhere. Maybe you read about it in Popular Mechanics... Now you can get it for yourself with this special on the Compaq 610 Notebook, and if for some reason you decide...

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Erdinger - this beer will change your life! :)

Here's something a bit different - beer has nothing to do with the usual content of my blog, nor can I claim to be any kind of authority on the subject. Even so, I must post something about my own personal favourite - Erdinger. Erdinger is a wheat beer - and true to my non-beer-authority-ness,...

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Is Avast! producing false positives?

I got a bit of a shock yesterday morning when I received about 5 calls within the first hour of the day, all reporting similar PC virus infections, all diagnosed by Avast! Anti-Virus. Now Avast! is actually my current anti-virus package of choice, and the one which I recommend to all of my clients...

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Bugatti Veyron vs. McLaren F1 drag race...

Ok so this is going back a little - not sure which season exactly, but Top Gear aired an episode featuring this epic "clash of the titans" as they call it - a drag race between the technological genius of the Bugatti Veyron, and the "ultimate road car", the McLaren F1. Back in the late 90's, the...

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