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Month: May 2010

  • Google Building Maker comes to South Africa

    After Google launched 3D buildings in South Africa a couple of weeks ago, they have just rolled out their very innovative and cool product, Google Building Maker, to 11 cities in South Africa.
    The cities include:

    • Bloemfontein
    • Cape Town
    • Durban
    • Johannesburg
    • Nelspruit
    • Phokeng
    • Polokwane
    • Port Elizabeth
    • Pretoria

    Google Building Maker allows the community to contirubue and build 3D buildings for Google Maps, using Googles model maker, Sketchup to build these buildings.
    The user interface is really simple to use, and with a couple of clicks and drags, and working off images of the buildings taken at different angles, you have a complete building.

    Here is one of the buildings I just did in Durbs:

    To read more about it, check this post on the Google Lat Long Blog – http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/05/five-continents-and-counting-new-cities.html

    This also means that Google Streetview is JUST around the corner.

    To check out Google Building Maker, go to http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/buildingmaker

  • Mweb to offer DSTV on Demand to ADSL Uncapped customers

    Mweb announced this morning that they will be offering DSTV on demand to all Uncapped ADSL customers with effect from today. This means you will now be able to stream live sport and movies on your PC.

    Here is the press release from Mwebs Free the web Facebook Page:

    MWEB is again taking the lead in the internet market in South Africa, this time by becoming the first ISP to offer DStv ON DEMAND to its subscribers via on online portal. DStv Premium subscribers that have an ADSL account from MWEB will now be able to experience this free service at www.DStv.com where they can stream or download premium video content online. MWEB is currently the only ISP currently accredited by DStv to offer this service and that meets its stringent quality of service and technical requirements.

    MWEB’s launch of affordable uncapped ADSL in March this year was the first step in changing the internet landscape in South Africa. In April, the company then called for further liberation of the industry by becoming the first of the large network operators to offer open peering agreements to all ISPs. This latest development is a further step to enabling South African users to access and download content on a scale never seen before, and on a par with the rest of the world.

    Rudi Jansen, CEO of MWEB, said the company is proud to be first to offer this content online to its subscribers in an easily accessible way. “DStv ON DEMAND offers easy access to quality, locally-available online video content that users can watch using their MWEB ADSL service.”

    The DStv ON DEMAND online offering provides 80 hours per week of premium content including blockbuster movies, award-winning series, sporting action, kids’ shows and documentaries. The online service is well suited to DStv Premium subscribers who do not have a PVR.

    “MWEB has a top quality, reliable network that has been engineered to world-class standards and is able to support the demand for this service,” said Jansen. “We operate and manage a high capacity and highly redundant carrier grade network with sufficient bandwidth allocation to enable the streaming of video content online. Importantly, MWEB also does not throttle its ADSL service which is a requirement for delivering DStv ON DEMAND.

    “For users still on a capped service, this product offering also provides a compelling reason to switch to uncapped ADSL. Users enjoying this product won’t want to be restricted in how much online TV and video entertainment they can watch and uncapped ADSL will help avoid high internet costs,” he added.

    Jansen said that MWEB customers will enjoy the benefits of optimised viewing of DStv ON DEMAND. “For content that can be downloaded from the DStv.com website, any ADSL line speed can be used. However, certain video content can only be streamed (and not downloaded) because of the content rights associated with it. For streaming this content we recommend a 4Meg line speed. While a 512kpbs line could be used, the experience will not be optimal.

    “Watching DStv ON DEMAND online on your PC or laptop effectively also gives you an additional viewing channel in your home,” added Jansen.

    The product will be available from 5 May 2010, and MWEB ADSL subscribers with a DStv Premium subscription can go to www.dstv.com to register for the DStv ON DEMAND online service.

    If you haven’t got MWEB uncapped ADSL yet, you can sign up here.

  • Jack Parow Cooler As Ekke lyrics

    After writing about the new Jack Parow CD the other day, I had a good listen to the lyrics of the Cooler As Ekke song. The lyrics are hilarious, and I have managed to find them and decided to post them up. Check them out below. Lakka.

    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ekke, want jy rook Yves Saint Laurent sigarette
    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ekke, want jy’t ‘n tattoo van ‘n slang op jou tette.
    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ek, want jy’t ‘n plakkaat van Led Zeppelin bo jou bed
    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ek, want jy’s elke jaar by die J&B Met.

    Jy’s ou nuus, ek kom met rou beats
    Jy lê en wag, ek gan soek iets
    Jy’s ice tea, ek’s witblits
    Jy’s lite bier, ek’s spirits
    Jy’s die ou met die new fresh look
    Ek’s die ou met die Pep Stores broek
    Ek watch jou, jy koekeloer oukes
    jy forward nog Vernon Koekemoer jokes
    Ek’s fantasties, jy’s spasties
    Ek vat an poppies, jy raak an klein kids
    Jy’s Tim Voster, ek’s Chris Edwards
    Jy’s innie bosse, ek rol innie vet shit
    Jy’s boring soos liedjies ommie kampvuur
    my styl slick sneak suutjies soos ‘n vampier
    jou styl kak sag soos ‘n pink marshmallow
    meisies skree vir net “one night in parow”

    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ekke, want jy hang saam met models en ek hang saam met slette
    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ekke, want ek’s ‘n rapper en jy sing in falsette
    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ek, want ek ry op met die bus en jy vlieg op met ‘n jet
    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ek, want jy ry in ‘n Peugeot twee nul ses

    Jy rol met ‘n selfoon in jou pen
    Ek rol nog met ‘n 3310
    My styl gooi sexy korrek
    Jy dra nog fokken Mr Price Red
    As ek instap skrikkie hele fokken bar
    Jy kry nog fokken geld by jou ma
    Ek los die hele jol papnat
    As jy instap begin die hele jollie pad vat
    ek’s Amerika, jys Irak
    ek bomb jou lat die kak slap spat
    Ek’s ‘n Bic pen, jy’s ‘n Mont Blanc
    Jy loop rond met fokken skuim op jou mond-rand
    Ek’s original jy’s gecopy
    Ek’s ‘n flash drive jy’s ‘n floppy
    Jy maak of jy alles het ma jy’s fake
    Jack Parow bra ek lewe soos n straatmeit

    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ekke, want jy drink by Ku De Ta en ek drink by De Dekke
    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ekke, want jy’s die gentleman, bra eksie prette
    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ek, want ek hou vakansie in Hartenbos en jy hou vakansie in Quebec.
    Jy dink jy’s cooler as ek, omdat jy die nuwe issue van One Small Seed het

    Jack Parow bra ek’s n poes woes
    Jy eet caviar en couscous
    Ek drink Klipdrif, jy drink Peroni
    Jy’t vriende in Swede, ek het vriende in Benoni
    Ek koop al my klere by die local Pep Stores save more
    Jy koop al jou fokken klere by a store
    Jy dra net fokken Polo shirts
    Shame, jy luister na die Dirty Skirts
    My naam’s Parow, dik heavy uitgeskollie
    Jy lyk soos Jeremy de Tollie
    Jack Parow, die life van die party
    Jy dra net fokken Issey Miyake
    Jy’s too cool for school, eks mos kief
    Ek’s grasshopper, jys Lacoste sportief
    Jy lat die koek flop, ek lat die huis rys
    Jou meisie het ‘n foto van my piel op haar Space Case

    Ja well no fine :)

  • Add Facebook Like buttons to your WordPress Site

    You may have noticed the Facebook Like button at the top of this post. This is a new feautre from Facebook, which allows you to like any site on the web. If you click the “Like” button above, it will post a message to your Facebook wall, which your followers will see.

    This is a great way to generate traffic from Facebook to your site, as well as allowing readers of your site to share your posts. I been doing a bit of research on some of the plugins that are available for the Facebook Like button, and eventually settled on is called FaceBook Like Button Plugin for WordPress (Download link)

    The options are pretty straight forward as well:

    One you have the plugin installed, it is just a matter of activating it, and you will have Facebook Like buttons on each page and post.

  • Nigerian football team pull out of Ballito Hotel

    It seems as if there is a bit of drama unfolding in the Nigerian football team less than 6 weeks before the World Cup.

    The Nigerian press seem rather unhappy with the Football association choice of the Hampshire Hotel in Ballito.

    Originally a Nigerian newspaper called NEXT sent some of their journalists to South Africa to check out the hotel, and were unhappy, citing the new hotels lack of gym and swimming pool as reasons not to stay there. After a couple more investigations, Nigeria then sent their sports minister, Ibrahim Isah Bio, to South Africa, along with the coach to see the hotel for themselves.

    And now, it looks like the whole deal has fallen through and the Nigerians will be staying in a hotel in Richards Bay, almost 2 hours from the closest regional airport. The team have also apparently been fined $125,000 for breach of contract. But, thats not all. The school, Ashton College, where the team were supposed to train, have re-laid their soccer pitch, at a huge cost, and put up 6 rather expensive looking floodlights.

    Although it doesn’t seem like all of this has been 100% confirmed, it looks like Nigeria may have a tougher campaign ahead of them, given the amount of travelling they will be doing during the World Cup