I came across this really cool personal Twitter data-generated infographic via Syllable, called Visual.ly.
Just login with your Twitter account and you will see that you are what you tweet. You can compare yourself to someone else if you want, but I selected the solo option. I cropped out a little bit of boring info. This was my result: Read more…
Last week I contacted @RSAWEB to find out if I could purchase a t-shirt from their geek gear ‘collection’. It was a shirt that read “I’m huge on Twitter”, which I wanted to wear to this event. I couldn’t get it in time but the person behind the Twitter account offered to send me the t-shirt, free! This is what arrived yesterday:
With the following note: Read more…
Yesterday was one of the best days of my working career (it was also the first time I found myself on the highway at 06h20)!
All thanks to Nokia, who flew ten Johannesburg-based journos down to their Cape Town event to meet the “masterminds” behind Ovi Maps (NAVTEQ), show us the behind-the-scenes of building the mapping database, let us see the N97 mini in the flesh and the highlight – letting us participate in a mini Amazing Race.
We were put into teams of four and sent off in BMW’s and Audi’s, using the Nokia N97 mini as a GPS. I was lucky enough to be in a team of 3 locals, who knew what the clues meant. Read more…
I came across this service via Lifehacker that lets you control your Mac via Twitter. It grabs screenshots for you, tells you what your IP address is, starts torrents remotely and can shut down your Mac, amongst other things. It is recommended you create a separate account for this and protect the updates, unless you want anyone to control your machine.
I gave it a quick test to see if it actually works. I just had to; and these were the replies I got:
So it passed the test but I don’t think it something I’d use because my Mac goes home with me. Best if you use one at the office and forget to logout or need it to perform certain tasks, which can be found here with a list of commands.
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