Business Email is not broken My social feeds are constantly flooded with people sharing links on how to combat email. Seriously, combat it? Email is the way clients contact you, it is asynchronous and it is super efficient
Business Simple Backup Plan The beginning of the year is a perfect time to implement a new disaster recovery plan. All businesses rely on computers in some way or another these days, so it's imperative that you
Technology I'm talking at Net Prophet 2013 Just got an exciting mail from the Richard Mullhand at Missing Link, that I'll be doing a power talk at Net Prophet 2013. Now I need to take that massive presentation and all
Technology Two months without Android When we opened up the office for the new year, Nicholas told me he had dropped his HTC Sensation in the Ocean, on a family trip to the Beach, over the holidays. He
Technology Trying something new for Hardware Night Rudie and I were talking and decided we should do something differently at G3ECS to try and get everyone engaged and ensure we're catering for the different levels of skill within the group.
Technology Free roam at G3ECS Tonight was free roam night, basically a do what you want as long as it is geeky, kind of night. On the gaming front, we had a group playing Minecraft, another group playing
Technology A week with Moves I saw a post from Robert Scoble, mentioning Moves and I was interested to give it a try. First off, this app is super easy to get started with. You don't need a
Technology Hardware Night at G3ECS Tonight was our first Hardware focused night at G3ECS. It was great to have a full house again and it was lively as ever. Rudie led the group through building LED Throwies and
Technology First G3ECS coding session complete We had a great turn out an G3ECS tonight. Tonight's session was focused on getting everyone up to speed with the basics of the web and HTML. We're basing our first phase programming
Technology iStore and the new iMac We're on a bit of a mission to find a super thin sleeve for Amelia's MacBook Air, but there are little options in George so we always pop in at an iStore when
Technology Apple product protection In the past few weeks I have become border-line obsessed with leather and felt iPhone, iPad and MacBook sleeves. There are really quite a few companies making some awesome natural products for protecting
Business A long day in Gauteng I got an early start to the day and dropped Pieter at the airport. I then decided to park and head into the airport in search of some good coffee, from Woolworths. After
Social Social with Pieter Cloete I headed up to Gauteng for another meeting of the Credit Technology Association. After landing at OR Tambo, I headed to where I stay when I'm in Midrand and was surprised to find
Reviews Hyunny the Hyundai After the test drives, some internet research and some heavy decision making, I made up my mind and decided to go for the i30. I collected the car today and it is fantastic.
Technology Adobe CS5 Master Collection I have always wanted to know what people were on about, when referring to PhotoShop or Illustrator, so I finally got myself CS5 Master Collection today and personally feel lost. For the past
Reviews Dell Studio 1558 I have had my new Dell Studio 1558, for just close to two weeks now and it is great. The new Studio 1558 features, 500Gb 7200RPM HDD, Core i5 CPU, 4GB 1333 Mhz
Business Office 2010 First Windows 7 and now Office 2010! Microsoft has really come to the party with a higher performance and truly worthwhile business productivity suite. For quite some time now, I have not been
Business The Airport We flew up to Gauteng for a meeting that lasted about two hours. Considering our meeting ended early and we were catching a lift to the airport, we decided to go to the
Business Trip to Midrand I haven't been in a plane for quite some time, so the take off had me a little nervous, but before we were even all the way off the ground I was staring
Development Desktop Collected my new PC today and busy getting it configured. This is my first desktop so I'm seriously stoked. It's no super computer, but it's a darn lot faster when it comes to
Social Google Buzz I'm one month older and Google launches Buzz. I think this is what many of us have been waiting for. Buzz is integrated directly into Gmail and can import a numerous amount of
Business MyEcommerce is Growing Today sees our team grow to ten. MyEcommerce now has a dedicated hardware and networking team, Social Media Management and SEO team and a lot of fresh project ideas. Welcome to <a
Business Windows 7 Got my Windows 7 upgrade DVD from the states a few days ago. Why it had to come from the states I'll never understand. The DVD was free but the transport was flipping
Development Google Chrome Frame My first thoughts when reading about Chrome Frame in one of Google's developer newsletters, was "Awesome we can now ditch support for IE". IMHO I feel that as a development community
Development Bing Anyone who knows me will know that I am a Google Supporter, but will also know that I am a Microsoft partner and believe that Open and Proprietary software can coexist and should.