Some more money savers that I conjured up... :)

I posted this article a short while ago, outlining a few simple tips to save a few bucks each day. For any international visitors who are perhaps a trifle confused at this point, I am not talking about wildlife conservation here. Bucks = South African Rands. :) Since then, I have picked up on a few...

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Cell C has upgraded JHB... finally!

I never thought I would see this day...A bit earlier today, my phone started showing a small 3G icon just below the network signal. "Could it be?"... I wondered in a cautious, yet ever so slightly hopeful manner...So I quickly located a 3MB song online on my phone, and downloaded it... in 10 seconds flat! That equates to roughly 300 Kilobytes (or 3 Megabits) per second, and that means that Cell C...

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Cell C update - latest cities just upgraded to HSPA+ data network...

Cell C are in the process of upgrading their data network locally in a big way - to the point that a new city is being added every 2 days in some cases. This is the current situation as regards their rollout - for some obscure reason, JHB and Pretoria are not yet featured as red dots on this map......

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It must have rained glue last night in JHB...

Were the roads in JHB coated in a thick layer of glue this morning? No? Strange then, that every possible road in existence here was a traffic nightmare this morning... and I didn't see a single prang or broken down vehicle anywhere - nothing to indicate what was actually causing the congestion. -...

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I thought Pretoria was supposed to be "the Jacaranda City"...

Indeed, I have always associated Pretoria with the purple wave of Jacaranda trees that inundate the city in springtime - a truly beautiful sight!These photos, however were snapped this weekend in Houghton, Johannesburg - and this was just the tip of one truly gargantuan floral iceberg...In areas with...

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Alex and Twitch on SYTYCD - a hip-hop routine you will want to watch over and over again...!

If you watch So You Think You Can Dance (the American series), then you would no doubt have been blown away last night, by this gem of a routine by Alex Wong (a trained ballet dancer) and Twitch (SYTYCD Hip-Hop All Star from a previous season). The routine was choreographed by "Nappytabs" - Napoleon...

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I wonder if Cell C thought of this...

A Cell C riddle to start the day :) If Cell C's new broadband offering is running at full speed, i.e. 21Mbps, how long would it take for a user to max out their monthly 5GB cap if they are on the 60GB data bundle?Let's also assume that we are talking about someone who likes to download a lot of stuff...

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Mid-November is the ETA for Cell C to upgrade JHB and Pretoria broadband speeds...

I must be one of the most ardent followers of this one - for years now South Africans have been sitting on Cell C to upgrade their outdated EDGE data network, to one that can compete with the likes of Vodacom and MTN. While some South African cities have already been upgraded to the HSPA+ 900/2100...

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Amazing picture of the Chilean mine rescue...!

;) hat tip to Patricia for this...

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Can you be TOO secure when it comes to internet banking and viruses?

Of late, South African banks have stepped up their efforts to stop internet banking fraud, by introducing a number of 3rd-Party applications that are supposed to protect the end-user from potential threats. The ones that I have encountered include Prevx (FNB) and Rapport (Nedbank), and they add an...

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Dear Cell C - is Johannesburg one of South Africa's less important cities?

Here comes some more Cell C ranting from my corner of the world... Every few days now I am hearing news of another South African city being upgraded to Cell C's new "4Gs" network. The order in which they are rolling out though, seems rather odd I have to say. One would reasonably expect that Cell C...

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Got a Flash Animation that mysteriously shrinks in Firefox? This might help...

This one plagued me for months, literally.I was tasked with fixing a website that contains Flash - the problem is that the Flash displays 100% correctly in Internet Explorer and in Google Chrome.Throw Firefox into the mix and the Flash suddenly shrinks to about 20% of it's full size, tucked up against the top margin of the browser. Very odd - especially considering that I had checked and double checked...

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Overheard at the site of the Chilean miner rescue: "Oh crap, I forgot my wedding ring down there..."

After watching the Chilean miners bringing up rocks and other such terrestrial memorabilia from their deep dark home of 69 days, one would hope that they remembered to bring up some of their more important belongings as well...It's not like they can just pop back down there if they forget something: "Um sorry Mr Foreman, could I quickly hop back in the capsule and have another go? That was one fun...

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Spare a thought for the Chilean miners as they prepare to be rescued...

This topic has already generated so much buzz and media attention, and now here we are - apparently mere hours away from the first miner being rescued. According to news sources all over the web, rescuers will begin pulling up the first of the trapped miners anytime within the next 24 hours. Now I...

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Nybbles and Bytes becomes an Authorised Netgear Reseller

If you ever need anything network-related, be it a router, switch, ADSL modem, 3G Router, Wireless Access point, Wireless Extender... (you get the idea!), drop me a mail for a quote, because Nybbles and Bytes cc is now an Authorised Netgear Reseller. Over the years I have used a lot of different brands...

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Could that be the sound and smell of rain in JHB?

Wow - a 5 minute drizzle just got me all excited and hoping that more is to follow here in JHB.Alas, though, it seems that the drizzle is already over.Seriously now - we are in dire need of some good soaking showers up on the Highveld.Now I don't know if there is any truth in this, but someone told me this week, that the longer our first rains are delayed, the more likely it is that their arrival...

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Got an old Fujitsu Siemens Amilo V2010 that keeps on shutting down? This might help...

Fujitsu Siemens generally make good solid laptops - one model that I have dealt with a fair amount, was the Amilo V2010. This is what solid looks like... Although it is now totally obsolete, I still see clients who use them as trusty workhorses - they just keep going  it seems... until all of...

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Do you toss your garbage on the ground...?

We all do things everyday that we may not be proud of - be it swearing at someone in traffic, or talking behind someone's back... whatever it is, there are little vices that try to catch each and every one of us out at some point in our lives. Most of these, though, are excusable and we will generally...

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