A reminder to the blogging community to upgrade to WordPress 2.6, which was released 3 days ago. Today I upgraded 26 WordPress-based websites or rather blogs that I am hosting at Hostgator. It has been years since I bothered hosting websites inside South Africa. And the Fantastico script manager allows you to seamlessly install open…
Last weekend, I spent some quality time with my best friend, Bradley Minnaar. His mother passed away recently and has now moved back in from a granny flat into the main house. All his sisters are married with kids, and his one brother is married with kids, while the other became a missionary after his…
Facebook is a social networking website dedicated to user-generated content and global connectivity. At its heart is the individual user, who creates a profile and then searches for friends already on the network. Complements to that initial concept include groups dedicated to a multitude of interests, including religion, sport or even profession. Applications on Facebook…
After almost 20 years of using computers, I have come to appreciate the importance of computer security. That irritating obligation you may feel to run an anti-virus check on your system once a day just to feel more secure, the wish to eliminate those nagging spam emails permanently from your Inbox, and more recently, those…
At the end of 2006 I was contacted about a new mobile message company iTXT, that claimed to launch safer chat rooms on cellphones. This was at the height of MXit’s initial negative publicity. I investigated the company and signed up on my cellphone to evaluate the service. I immediately found some usability problems and…