[tech junkie]

Watch classic movies for free

I thought this was pretty awesome when I stumbled upon it a few days ago. What the site has done is provide a smart interface to a library of classic movies that no longer have any copyright issues and are available on Google Video. You can search for specific titles or browse through a genre. The old school movie posters are a laugh and they feature a different set of movies based on the time of year or season. So whether you're in the mood for some classic animation or some really ba...

Silicon Cape overview video

An overview of what happened at the Silicon Cape event in a short Zoopy video. You can also see Helen Zille's and Dr Mamphela Ramphele's presentation on the Zoopy site.

iWarrior: an African iPhone Game

I love seeing stuff like this ! East and West Africa collaborating on game and then distributing it via the App Store. More of the same guys. Keep it up. Maybe for their next project we can temporarily relocate them to the Silicon Cape ? iWarrior: an African iPhone Game: "There aren’t a lot of African gamers, as would be expected due to the general lack of access to gaming technology and platforms in Africa, relative to other parts of the world. There are even fewer game developers on ...

ZA News turns to technology to work around SABC bull$h!+

Although this is not directly technology related, I thought it was a great example of how technology and the Internet were able to bypass a quagmire of political bull and get a "controversial" TV show "on the air". ZA News was created by local cartoonist and satirist Zapiro (Jonathon Shapiro) and is a satirical view on South African politics. It was supposed to air on the SABC earlier this year (link to the front page article on the Star) but due to all kinds of political bumbling at ...

With top speakers, Silicon Cape generates a ‘real buzz’

I was going to write something about the Silicon Cape launch event yesterday myself, but I've read so many articles already this morning, that writing another one that says the same thing would just be a waste of time and space on my blog. Of all the ones I've read I think that Ivo Vegter from Tech Central summed it up best. Excerpt below and click the link to read the rest of the article. With top speakers, Silicon Cape generates a ‘real buzz’: "Many innovation hubs have been propose...

Do you Poken ?

I've been looking at getting one of these for a while, but never got around to it. Now I've won one in a competition and I'm keen to see just how useful these are. The primary challenge that "early adopters" will have is that if you don't have anyone to "Poken" with, you basically just have a small piece of plastic with an LED that never goes on in your pocket. The idea is simple, you store all your online contact information on the Poken and then when you are at social or business...

Billion take it to the next level

You heard it here first, but now Billion have taken it to the next level. With this device you can have the best of both worlds - Wifi and EoP (Ethernet over Power). You are pretty much guaranteed to have every inch of your house covered either with wired or wireless connectivity without the hassle of having to lay (and hide) Ethernet cable all over the place. Billion is supplied locally by Nology and is apparently ready to be ordered from them. I've been scouring the local e-tailers b...

Automate getting your RSS fix

Over time I've messed around with a number of OS X applications that automate the finding and downloading of content that I subscribe to with RSS. Some of the applications that I have been using have not been updated in a long time and they have begun to become more and more unreliable. Fortunately I recently came across "Automatic": Automatic allows you to set up subscriptions for virtually any content linked in RSS feeds: podcasts, videocasts, torrentcasts... Rule of thumb: if i...