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Check out the Property Index from Private Property

September 6, 2011 08:45 by Marc in Personal

 

At Private Property we launched a brand new product last week, called “The Property Index“, which allows you to see your property value AND all the properties around you. I have been playing around with it for the last couple of days, and I am amazed at what properties go for in various areas. I went past my childhood home, and am shocked to see what it is valued at today. The site still might have a few little niglys which we sorting out, but it’s def a first in South Africa.

This from the Property Index FAQ’s:

The Property Index is a set of tools to help the general public get in touch with the property market. Get to know towns and suburbs across the country, find out what your home may be worth or check out the estimated value of anyone else’s home. The information is continually being refined and updated, and you’ll see new features being added over time.

Check out this video for a bit of a visual overview on what it is all about:

This is really handy if you are looking to buy property, or just want to see what your property is worth. Let me know what you think in the comments below and I’ll pass it onto the relevant people.

 

 

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iPhoneographySA exhibition a SUCCESS !

September 5, 2011 11:15 by Marc in iPhone, iPhoneography, Personal

 

I know this is a couple of days late, but I have been trying to come off of the high of the 1st ever iPhoneography exhibition that was held on Thursday evening at the iStore in Sandton.

After 5 months of planning, emailing, choosing photos, getting images, hanging & sweating, it all culminated in an awesome event. From all the comments we had, both on the night and after, everyone only had good things to say. We had around 200-250 people come through the exhibition on the night, and have had requests to do another event, possibly in Cape Town. All I can say, is that it “should” happen, but probably only in a while. There were a lot of lessons learnt, and loads of planning for this one, so if we end up doing another one, it can only be better. If anyone has suggestions, complaints or compliments, I would love to hear them in the comments below.

The event trended on Twitter during the course of the evening as well ! We also got some awesome coverage in The Sunday Times Lifestyle section & iMaverick. Also check out Jeanette Verster’s blog post & Matthew Arnold’s post for some pics on the eve.

Shaun Lavagna also put this cool walk through video together of the whole exhibition.

I am also busy putting together an iPhoneography blog – www.iPhoneographySA.com where I will focus just on iPhoneography apps, events & profiles. Stay tuned :)

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Road Closures Sandton 1 Sept 2011

August 29, 2011 19:44 by Marc in iPhoneography, Personal

 

If I wasn’t such a loyal and patriotic fan of the Springboks, I would have been more upset that I am already, but luckily, luckily, I’ll (try to) forgive them this time round. Well, that and today I found out that it’s not as bad as I expected.

You see, for the last 6 months, I been been planning the iPhoneography exhibition at the Sandton iStore, and yesterday I found out that the Springboks are having a little going away party, for the World Cup, on the SAME night as the exhibition !! With road closures around the whole Sandton area, I started panicking a little.

So, if you are attending the iPhoneography Exhibition on Thursday eve, please make sure you give yourself a bit of extra time to get there, as there will more than likely be congested traffic. If you coming from Rivonia Road side, try and avoid it, by coming around and approaching from Rosebank side. Or alternatively coming from William Nicol side. The iStore itself isn’t too affected as it is on the complete opposite side of Nelson Mandela Square, where the Springbok do is. Another alternative is to to perhaps use the Gautrain, bearing in mind that the last train from Sandton leaves at around 20:30. Check the timetables here. 

On a side note, today I looked at the map again, and realised that someone had been very lazy, and confused the heck out of people.

At first glance you would think that all the yellow roads were closed off. But look again. Only West street is closed. You see they have 2 black lines at the end of West Street, and only the 2 thin black lines on the other side of west street. Given that the standard colour for showing a major road on a map is yellow, these guys decided to just use Microsoft paint and draw in 2 lines, and colour in the other side of the road red. Silly people !

It’s only 3 more sleeps, and I’m really really excited. And nervous. A bit :) See you there

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Check out my awesome instagram canvas

August 23, 2011 09:35 by Marc in iPhoneography, On The Marc, Personal

Remember a while back I told you about Printwild. Well, I decided to get myself an A2 canvas of a collection of mine and the wifes instagram pics we have taken over the last couple of months. I saw Dean on Twitter did this a while ago, and I was really keen to do something similar.

We picked it up on Friday and am really stoked with the results ! Check…

A few people have asked me how I did it, so here is a quick rundown. Can’t promise it will work, but I played around quite a bit to get it to look the way I want

  • Download all your images from instagram using Copygram. An awesome awesome tool that allows you to download every single instagram pic you have ever taken.
  • Once I had chosen which images I wanted, I opened them in Adobe Bridge which comes with Photoshop. In there, I sorted the photos in the order I wanted, and then exported it to a PDF. I worked out the size of the canvas, and then how many images I could get across & down. As you can see above, using the standard 612×612 instagram resolution, I managed to get 80 images on the A2 canvas
  • Once I had the PDF, I opened it in Photoshop, made slight changes here and there, and then exported to JPG
  • Uploading to Printwild was seriously a breeze. It took less than 5 mins, and I had my canvas printed in my hands within 4 days. Very cool
I am hoping to take this up with me to the iPhoneography exhibition, so you can have a look see there if you are attending (Don’t forget to RSVP if you are )
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Printwild – Order your Canvas Printing online

July 29, 2011 08:30 by Marc in iPhoneography, On The Marc, Personal

 

I came across quite a cool service the other day who are also based in Ballito, where I live. The service, called PrintWild,  is an online service that allows you to order a whole wide variety of photographic canvases & photographic prints.
The process is pretty simple, you chose your image, upload it, chose your canvas size & they deliver it to you anywhere in South Africa for free (for orders over R300). Easy !!. They also do standard glossy prints which start at R23 for an A4 print. The stretched canvas prints start at R323 for an A4. Check out their full price list here.

Here is more info on the service from their site:

PrintWild takes your favourite image and turns it into a wide format canvas, acrylic or glossy print. PrintWild uses only the highest quality machine, ink and paper to produce exceptional canvas prints, acrylic prints and glossy prints in full colour, sepia or black & white.
The output quality is second to none and the canvas print or photo print is guaranteed not to fade in 75 years. We will arrange delivery of your canvas print or glossy print to anywhere in South Africa free of charge for orders over R300.

I am busy putting together a collage of some of my instagram pics (thanks to Dean for the idea) and want to have it printed on an A2 stretched canvas. As soon as I have it done, I will post a pic up here of what it looks like. Can’t wait to see the final results. If you keen on seeing some of the services that PrintWild offer, check out their site @ www.printwild.co.za

 

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