Google gets all festive and colourful as 2012 approaches...:) Happy New Year everybody!

In true Google style, a new doodle is up for today, New Years Eve... and here it is: Thanks to all our readers for your support in 2011, and may 2012 be the best year ever :) Happy New Year all!...

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Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review

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Woolies vs. Frankie's... do they really look so much alike?

I thought I would jump onto this bandwagon right about now, given the amount of attention that the subject is getting. Hey, it will do my visitor stats good at the very least :) What I will not do, is go into the finer details of who copied what, and how they may or may not have done the same thing...

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Type "let it snow" into Google...

Thanks to David for pointing out this cool easter egg on Google... just type in "let it snow": "Let it snow...!" Try it out and watch your screen frost over :...

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Looking for a great freeware audio converter? You just found it...

In an attempt to batch convert a whole lot of music folders from WMA format into MP3 format, I recently stumbled across this fantastic freeware audio converter for PC (sorry Mac users...): A very original and decidedly obvious name... :) Sure, the program name "Any Audio Converter" might not be...

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Google doodle today celebrates the 84th Birthday of Robert Noyce (co-founder of Intel)...

If you have used Google today (and who hasn't...), then you would have noticed the cool Google doodle - in commemoration of the 84th Birthday of Robert Noyce. Robert Noyce co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, and subsequently co-founded Intel in 1968. You can read more about him he...

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Will we see the iPad 3 in Feb 2012? Seriously?

Historically, Apple have been very good at releasing new iterations of their products at a rapid-fire rate. It makes sense that they would want to keep competitors on their toes by doing this. The problem with this (and this is not only my opinion - just Google it), is that each new product version is not really ground-breaking, so much as it is a general improvement over the outgoing version. Historically,...

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Ditching Facebook and waiting for something to happen on Google+...

A few years ago, I deleted my Facebook. It was a bold move, but I haven’t once regretted it.  Ok, I regret it occasionally when I forget someone’s birthday because I don’t have Facebook to remind me anymore. But the occasions in which I miss Facebook are rare.  I first created a Facebook account in 2006, the year I started college and used an HP coupon for a new HP computer.  Back...

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Nybbles & Bytes gets a new guest writer...

One of the writers over at the Blog Content Guild read my post on Rain Spiders last week, and he got in touch with me afterwards and offered to send some fresh content my way. So without further ado, Nybbles & Bytes welcomes Logan B as our newest guest writer! To find out more about the Blog Content Guild and possibly see how they can add value to your blog, check out their website...

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FNB's business tips for the holidays.

FNB are always at the cutting edge of banking nowadays, and one of the ways that they keep up to speed, is by sending out informative mailers at certain times during the year. I just received this one from FNB, outlining 5 business tips to bear in mind as we wind down for the upcoming holidays. Check...

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Have you ever tasted Hershey's chocolate...?

I love chocolate. Let me get that out of the way right off the bat. Cadbury's, Ferrero, Lindt, Toblerone, Nestle... I am now busy drooling on my keyboard, and these are just the readily available retail brands... don't even get me started on the crazy "gourmet" chocolate brands out there. That...

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This is why snow globes should be made out of plastic...

"Oy! Where's my globe gone?" You would think that ornaments would be made tough - after all, they will eventually find their home somewhere in plain sight for you show off to family and friends alike. Add to that the logistics of getting said ornaments from their place of purchase, to your home...

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Where did all those damn Rain Spiders come from...?

Growing up in the 80's and 90's, on the more fashionable "Upper East Side" of Johannesburg (i.e. the East Rand ;), I was always one who would rather run away from little spiders, than man up to them and either remove or "deactivate" them... Occasionally I would be forced to face up to my sissy boy...

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Incredible HD footage of Planet Earth - Time Lapse View taken from the International Space Station...

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.Related articles, courtesy of Zemanta:Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISSISS time-lapse makes Earth look incredibleJAW DROPPING Space Station time lapse!NASA Captures the Earth at NightThis Astounding...

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Christmas spirit is in the air...

Johannesburg malls and shopping centres are looking colourful and bright as we head into the festive season.I snapped a few shots recently on my travels - more to follow:...

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Who the hell is Spencer Dale anyway?

If you are reading this, then chances are that you have an email account. I mean who doesn't these days?Having an email account then, also means that you have to defend yourself against the constant barrage of dodgy emails, being sent from apparently credible and legitimate sounding humans, who magically...

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An easier way to manage your Blogs using Scribefire... Now let's see if it actually works :)

So I got stuck into the Chrome Web Store today when I had a few spare minutes on hand.This is a great place if you are looking for add-ons, tweaks and plugins for Chrome - but you could literally spend days browsing all of the apps available for Chrome. From games, to productivity apps, to music and...

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The perfect Christmas gift - never run out of power again :)

How many times have you come to the middle of a busy workday, only to discover that your cellphone is running on empty? Given that we tend to rely on our cellphones so much these days, it can be rather inconvenient to be left with a dead cellphone, especially if your business depends on it. Enter the...

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Italy's Cinque Terre devastated by flooding

Several years ago, in 2006 to be precise, I was lucky enough to visit a part of Italy along the Ligurian coast, called the "Cinque Terre" - a breathtaking piece of the Italian Riviera where the land meets the sea in quite a dramatic way: "Cinque Terre" is Italian for "five lands" - a reference to...

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Is this how we show our national pride...?

While parked at a shopping mall on the weekend, I noticed another car parking nearby. A young guy then got out, beer in hand. He then proceeded to down the contents of the bottle, and walked away while casually tossing the empty beer bottle into a flowerbed nearby. Clearly sensing that he had been...

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The Case of the Smoking Computer...

Charlie was a customer care technician at a small computer store. One afternoon, a frazzled-looking lady—my 62-year-old aunt—came in with a large box. Inside, she said was a broken computer that she had brought in from her office at work. She claimed that the computer was under warranty and produced...

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Unboxing the New Samsung Central Station Wireless Hub Monitor...

Check out the unboxing of the new Samsung Central Station Wireless USB Hub Monitor below. This awesome product includes a wireless USB 2.0 dongle that connects to a USB port on the portable computing device. The monitor then ‘comes alive’ if your computer is within 3 feet of the ‘Central Station’...

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Look what I found in Duty Free at OR Tambo...

One of the coolest recollections that I have of my childhood, is this: If you are part of my generation, then you probably know what I mean.This was the original "chocolate-egg-containing-a-toy" - the forerunner and inspiration for all of the copycat chocolate eggs that you can pick up at Woolies...

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New Nokia app lets you look straight "through" the Earth...

When Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced earlier this year that the company would be abandoning the Symbian OS platform, nobody would at the time have predicted the kind of stuff that we are now seeing on new Nokia handsets. Quite the opposite in fact - being a long time Nokia supporter, I got nicely...

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It's raining cats and dogs in JHB... watch out you don't step in a poodle... :)

Ok ok I know that joke was totally lame, and right now I imagine that a whole whack of people just unsubscribed from my blog due to shockingly bad humour... Image via Wikipedia Regardless, Johannesburg is getting its first real taste of summer rain. Complete with crazy lightning and booming thunder,...

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Damn you, hot pies!

As I type this, my delicate tongue still feels the after-effects of the wrath of a tasty but well over-heated pie, which I consumed yesterday afternoon. Yummy as chicken and mushroom may be as the innards of a pie, their yummyness is severely hampered when said pie is only slightly cooler than the...

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How many exhaust pipes have you got?

Nowadays when you venture out onto our roads, it's all about the number of exhaust pipes on a car isn't it? Back when I was a kid in the 80's, if a car had 2 exhaust pipes, it was a big deal. Today, this is a pretty common sight (the number of exhausts, not the car...:): Most other cars only get...

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Smelly feet and other attractive human qualities - just how do Doctors and other medical people deal with such things?

Having recently had to visit a biokineticist (which involves exercise sessions, sometimes after a long day at work), it occurred to me that it cannot be too pleasant for such practitioners to have to deal with the first item mentioned in the subject of this post.I mean smelly feet are just the pits...

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