This is the movie every geek are waiting for, the movie that portrays how Facebook became what it is today and what Mark Zuckerberg had to go through.

The Social Network or otherwise known as The Facebook Movie is based on the book The Accidental Billionaire, which portrays how Facebook came to what it is today, from the dorm room of Mark Zuckerburg to a $700 million enterprise.

So what are your thoughts on the teaser? Will you be going to see The Social Network when it comes out in cinemas in October?

Director: Jim Field Smith Screenplay: Sean Anders, John Morris Cast: Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, Mike Vogel, Krysten Ritter Time: 104min Age Restriction: 13SL

Genre:
Romantic Comedy

Summary Review:
She’s Out Of My League is a raucous, laugh-out-loud romp with a great sense of humour and a deeper message about believing in yourself.

Synopsis:
Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is the archetypal nerdy loser with spidery arms and legs, an apologetically goofy face and dorky friends. He works a dead-end job in airport security and, although he dreams of becoming a pilot, he has accepted the fact that it will never happen.

By chance, he does a good deed for Molly (Alice Eve), a gorgeous and accomplished entrepreneur, and they begin dating. But Kirk and his friends are baffled at Molly’s interest in him and are sure that it won’t last.

Yes, we’ve seen many odd-couple romances in the past, but She’s Out Of My League has an off-beat humour, which takes familiarly plausible situations and pushes them just over-the-top, as well as charming and disarming performances of Eve and Baruchel respectively, which set the film apart.

Besides being hilarious, She’s Out Of My League also has a well-placed and relevant message about the importance of self-esteem and believing in oneself.

A new website has silently launched the past week which allows its users to send free SMS messages.

The new site called FSMS allows its users to send free unlimited SMS messages through its web interface and recipients can even reply to the SMS messages and you will receive it in your inbox on the FSMS website.

“There are absolutely no restrictions on the service at the moment, provided you do not abuse it by spamming others or performing otherwise illegal or unethical tasks” said Daniel Schwartzkopff, CEO of LaunchPresence.com

Currently FSMS is not making any money from the service but there are plans to add a small text advertisement at the end of each free SMS sent or inbox SMS received from the service. The free SMS service is currently advertisement free until they reach a 25000 user mark, from there advertisements will be based on user demographic.

FSMS will allow you to send free unlimited SMS messages to any of the South African networks namely MTN, Vodacom, Cell C and Virgin Mobile.

What are you waiting for, register now and start sending free SMS messages to your friends anywhere in South Africa.

So say you are a small new startup and can’t afford to rent office space each month, then Geekspace might just be what you are looking for. Geekspace is a first for South Africa and personally I think this is a great idea. So what is Geekspace? Just as the name states, a space for geeks.

Geekspace is a hotdesking concept geared towards local tech people, with a special focus on online tech, those that need to be available 24/7.

The idea is to offer a fun, friendly and productive environment for freelancers, solo workers and small startup companies who are not yet ready to commit to a dedicated office.

For a mere R1000 per month users get 24/7 access to the Geekspace, use of meeting rooms and free bandwidth, they are even throwing in some free coffee because we all know geeks can’t function without that.

Geekspace has struck a deal with Yola, and will be opening up Cape Town Geekspace first. Yola was kind enough to give the whole second floor of the Yola offices in Cape Town at a special rate and even threw in some free bandwidth to sweeten up the deal.

If you are a freelancer or small tech startup in Cape Town looking for a nice geeky working environment with some pool and foosball tables then look no further. There is also 20 permanent desks up for grabs at R2000 per month, so if you are interested hurry and register now.

Visit the Geekspace site for more information on Geekspace and what they have to offer.

Director: Lee Unkrich Screenplay: Michael Arndt Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty Time: 103min Age Restriction: All

Genre:
3D Animation

Summary Review:
Toy Story 3 is a fun and triumphant ending to a well-loved children’s film series, making good use of the new 3D technology.

Synopsis:
The first Toy Story came out when I was in primary school and, although I went to watch it at the cinema, I never much liked it. The characters, especially Woody the Cowboy, just seemed too boring and neurotic – come to think of it, they seemed too adult.

I don’t know if it’s because I’m older now, or if Toy Story 3 is in fact a better film, but I definitely enjoyed it more than its predecessors.

Andy is all grown up and is leaving for college in a few days’ time. His toys are worried about their fate, as they haven’t been played with in years and more and more of Andy’s old belongings are being thrown out.

When they end up being donated to Sunnyside daycare, through an unfortunate mistake, the toys are quick to see the bright side and are overjoyed at the prospect of being played with once again. But they soon realise that things at Sunnyside are not quite as sunny as they seem.

With Woody’s ever-dorky leadership, the toys hatch an escape plan to get them back to Andy before he leaves home.

Toy Story 3 is a real treat for the kids who have grown to know these characters through the first two films. All the old favourites are back, with some brilliantly caricatured new characters adding to the fun – including a toy telephone that speaks in a distinctly South African accent!

The plot is well thought out, with every scene adding a new aspect to the storyline and the 3D effects bringing new life to the familiar characters. With some special humour for the adults too, Toy Story 3 is the perfect ending to a profitable children’s movie franchise.

We have all grown to love it and some of us hate it very much, but no matter how you feel about the Vuvuzela it is here to stay throughout the 2010 World Cup tournament.

I have come to the conclusion that it is usually those that do not have a Vuvuzela or has not had the chance to blow one that gets upset with it, I mean it is just so much fun. Even if you do not have a Vuvuzela you get applications for your phones that simulates the noise of a Vuvuzela blowing when you touch the screen.

Thats all cool, but how about having a Vuvuzela as your ringtone? Now wouldn’t that be awesome? Surprising everybody with the Vuvuzela horn blowing when your phone rings will just make their days so much better.

You can now download the Free Vuvuzela Ringtone for your phone, yea free no strings attached. Just download the mp3 file of the Vuvuzela and put it on your phone and set as ringtone.

So what are you waiting for? Go and download the ringtone already and start surprising the people around with a Vuvuzela horn when your phone rings.

Smartphones are currently taking the world by storm and is becoming the norm when it comes to choosing a phone. The only problem is that these phones are relatively expensive, but Vodacom is set to change that soon with the release of the Vodafone 546 smartphone.

Vodacom will be launching the cheapest smartphone available in South Africa soon with a price tag of a mere R400, but don’t expect too much for that price.

The Vodafone 546 features a TFT display with 256K colours running at a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. It also has a 2MP camera, FM radio, full QWERTY keyboard and SD card support. Data capabilities include GPRS, EDGE and Bluetooth 2.1 support.

So these features may not look very attractive to you if you are used to a iPhone, Blackberry or Android phone, but for those looking for a cheap phone that can do allot for a next to nothing price, this will be their first choice.

At only R400 this is surely the cheapest smartphone available on the market, not the most attractive, and there are talks about a touch screen version to be launched as well for between R500 and R600.

Leaf is also set to introduce a lower end smartphone to the market by the end of June 2010 called the HTC Wildfire, whether is will be as cheap as the Vodafone 546 I doubt, but it does pack allot more.

Every avid blogger out there has been waiting for this day and it is finally here, the release of WordPress 3.0 aka Thelonious.

Like announced on the official WordPress blog, arm your Vuvuzelas and go and download WordPress 3.0 or alternatively you can upgrade it through your WordPress dashboard.

It took half a year of work by over 200 contributers to get WordPress 3.0 ready for release and what a release this is.

Some of the new major features included in the release of WordPress 3.0 is a brand new default theme called Twenty Ten, there is also brand new APIs available to theme developers that will allow them with more customisation options with regards to backgrounds, menus, headers, short links, post types and taxonomies.

No need to install a separate WordPress installation anymore to make use of a Multi User blog interface, the new WordPress 3.0 incorporates single and MU blogs from just one WordPress installation.

For more information about the release of WordPress 3.0 check out the official WordPress blog.

Twitter is clearly set its aim on starting to make money from the social networking service. Previously Twitter has taken allot of flack from media for not having a business plan and worrying everybody that its future may look bleak if it could not generate any revenue.

Twitter then launched what they called promoted tweets, which showed us that there are plans to generate an income. Promoted tweets is a service where advertisers can buy top search result on certain Twitter keywords and then when users search for it their tweet will be shown right at the top.

Today upon logging in to Twitter I noticed something new, something that wasn’t there before. Its called promoted trending topics and Disney/Pixar is the first to utilise it for their new up and coming movie Toy Story 3.

Twitter normally only displays the top ten trending topics, but if you look now you will see an 11th one added called Toy Story 3. Next to it in a big yellow box it clearly states that this trending topic is promoted.

The new promoted trending topic works in the same way as normal trending topics in the sense that if you click on it, it will display all results of users tweeting about the topic.

Its clear that Twitter is testing out different ways to monetise the social networking service, if it is enough only time will tell, but one thing thats for sure is that its a very unique way of advertising.

A red card to Khune, South African goal keeper, in a match between Bafana Bafana and Uruguy left many fans in anger.

What do you think? Should South African goal keeper Khune have been red carded?