Monthly Archives: July 2009

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ADT Security – USELESS SERVICE

July 25, 2009 12:35 by Marc in Personal

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I don’t often rant on my blog, but today I’m going to be used to expose the MOST useless company in South Africa. I’m actually just fed up with them and the service they offer. I am cross posting this from a complaint I made on Hellopeter.com

Since we moved into our new house in December, we have had endless problems with ADT. With monthly call outs to repair our system, equiment breaking and alarms going off at random times of the day and night. We have had the technical team out here, at least 7 or 8 times to try and ‘sort’ out these various issues.

Last month, we received a notice under our door, to say that the NEXT day they would be pulling out their patrol vehicles in the Ballito area, and sub contracting to a local company, who would send out a patrol vehicle in case of an emergency. Today, this was put to the test.

We had a family day outing today, and on our way home we recived a call to say the alarm had gone off. By the time we got home, there was still no one here.
When I started investigating times, I found out once again how useless ADT really was.
Alarm signal recieved at ADT control room: 11:44
Call made to me to tell alarm had gone off: 11:50 (6 minutes)
Call made to sub contracting company in Ballito Afres: 12:03 (13 minutes !!!!!)
Sub contractor patrol arrived at premises: 12:06

Thank you ADT for being the offering the most useless service in the whole of South Africa. FED UP !!!!!!!

If you are looking for a Security company in South Africa, I would really like to recommend that you NEVER EVER  consider ADT Security.

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The Grid iPhone App

July 20, 2009 10:56 by Marc in iPhone

Vincent and his team from Vodacom have *finally* released “The Grid” app for the iPhone. I know they have been working on it for quite a while now, so it’s great to see another SA app finally hit the App store.

The Grid is a location-based social network, that Vodacom has developed. It uses location based services based on your proximity to the closest cellular towers and plots those on a map

From The Grid site: The grid is a mobile social network that allows you to chat to friends, see where they are on a map and share photos or videos with them. You also get to view photos and videos relevant to the area you’re in.

The iPhone app allows you to:

  • Explore your vicinity on a map
  • Chat with friends & bots
  • Track your friends location and activity
  • Share your photos and thoughts as blips
  • Discover blips from other users,
  • Join a group with shared interests
  • Update your status’s to twitter

Click here to download the app from the app store

*pics coming soon*

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Worldwide PhotoWalk Durban

July 19, 2009 21:48 by Marc in Uncategorized

Durban City Pano

Yesterday we went down to the 2nd Annual Scott Kelby Worldwide photowalk at the Durban Harbour. It really was loads of fun, with around 50 photographers, with some even coming as far away as Pietermartizburg. This was our first photowalk, and I will definitely be signing up for next years one, when it comes around again.
We had a rather early 5:30 am start, which meant we needed to be up at 4 to get the show on the road. The walk was led by Durban photographer  Jone Mackay.
The weather was perfect, and the harbour in Durban is a real treat at that time of the morning. We managed to get a couple of cool sunrise shots, as well as a couple of the boats in the harbour. At the end of the day, we all gathered around for some well deserved coffee and muffins. A big big thank you to Jone for organising a fantastic day out.

These are some of the photos I took on the day, for more, check out my Photowalk set on Flickr, and if you would like to see a couple other South African’s shots, be sure to check out the South African Photowalk Flickr Group here

Shadowed Reflections

Ulundi

Yachts in the Harbour

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Durban 2010 Stadium Time Lapse Video

July 7, 2009 13:00 by Marc in World Cup 2010

My First attempt at a time lapse video of the new 2010 stadium in Durbs. I grabbed the images from the Durban 2010 Fifa World Cup site’s webcam.

This vid is only 100images, taken at 5 minute intervals. I’m trying to work on getting more… :)

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Free data on Vodacom

July 6, 2009 15:30 by Marc in iPhone

vodratesI know the last couple of posts have been all Vodacom/iPhone/Vodacom/iPhone….(you get the point, sorry :)), but I came across an awesome deal on Vodacom today.

They are currentley running a promotion called “With Vodacom the internet is Maklik” where they are giving up to 2 gigs of data away for free. So I did a couple of calculations around these figures, and found an simple & easy way to save yourself up to 500% on your data costs.

Basically the deal is Vodacom will either give you 25MB or 10% of your data package back to you up until the end of August. Now the easiest way to do this, and score is to activate a 5MB Add-On Data package. Usually this package costs R9.25, and you get 5MB of data. Fair enough, works out to R1.85. BUT, if you do this before the end of August you get another 25MB of data valid for 60 Days. This means you get 30MB of data for only R9.25 which works out to a staggering 31 cents, per Megabyte. THAT is a bargain. I have attached a screen shot of the calcs above (click to enlarge), which show the savings. This is an awesome deal, so if you are a Vodacom subscriber & use data on your phone, this is a MUST.

To activate the packages you can either call 082 111 from your phone, or you can activate it on http://www.vodacom4me.co.za

Disclaimer: I am in NO way affiliated to Vodacom, if you have any questions on this promotion, please call them :)

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