Technology - Nathan Jeffery

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 if you use it properly. A big problem is very few people know how to use email

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 ensure your data is backed up in case of system failure. Not only should you have a

Technology

I'm talking at Net Prophet 2013

Just got an exciting mail from the Richard Mullhand [http://richardmulholland.co.za] at Missing Link [http://www.missinglink.co.za], that I'll be doing a power talk at Net Prophet [http://www.netprophet.org.za] 2013. Now I need to take that massive presentation and all of the boring

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 did his best to save it, drying it out, but it was too late. He had lost

Technology

Trying something new for Hardware Night

Rudie and I were talking and decided we should do something differently at G3ECS [http://g3ecs.co.za] to try and get everyone engaged and ensure we're catering for the different levels of skill within the group. Tonight Rudie split everyone into four groups, each focused on a different level

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 Call of Duty and a few playing World of Warcraft. On the programming front, there were a

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 user account, you literally just download the app and it does the rest. It became nearly addictive

Technology

Hardware Night at G3ECS

Tonight was our first Hardware focused night at G3ECS [http://g3ecs.co.za]. It was great to have a full house again and it was lively as ever. Rudie led the group through building LED Throwies and getting started with Arduino. I'm looking forward to seeing the group building some

Technology

First G3ECS coding session complete

We had a great turn out an G3ECS [http://g3ecs.co.za] 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 sessions on the Code Academy [http://www.codecademy.com] framework. I really like

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 we get a chance. I also use the opportunity to see some of the gadgets we don't

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 our expensive and beloved Apple goodies. Some of the brands that are making some great sleeves include:

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 calming my craving, I hit the road off to centurion, for a short meeting with Marius from

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 Pieter Cloete from inikak.co.za [http://inikaka.co.za] at the house. We had a great

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. Amelia didn't know that I was collecting the car today, so when I fetched her from work

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 few years I have been using a combination of Inkscape and Gimp, but I am looking forward

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 DDR2 and an ATi Radeon HD 4570. So far battery life is about three hours and the

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 using MS office at all and have been an advocate for Open Office and all things open

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 airport early, that way ensuring we won't get stuck in traffic. We had some fish and chips

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 out of the window. What an awesome view, we live in a beautiful country. The flight from

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 rendering than my notebook. I'm running Core 2 Duo 2.93 Ghz, 4Gb RAM, 500GB HDD -

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 other life streams. Buzz is new and will probably take a while to stabilise but already it

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 Craig Moss, Ryan Shipton, Dereck Bester, Donald Chipppendale, Gerard Mopp, Nicholas Hoffmann and Kobus Beets. Gregg, Deon and I

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 ridiculous, don't Microsoft know that they have an office in South Africa and it would be cheaper

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 we should simply not support IE, but according to W3Schools stats on browsers http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.

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. When Bing was released I was not super impressed and didn't like the whole image background and