Forrst is a new online community where developers and designers can share inspiring code, links and screenshots. Think of it as a social network for developers and designers out there.

Forrst is currently only available on invite and I am lucky enough to be part of this great community, checking in daily to see what interesting things like-minded peers are up to.

Forrst recently released a, lets call it API, with limited functionality where you can look up user info and posts for specific users. It got me thinking seeing as I am such a big fan of WordPress, why not have a nice widget where you can showcase your latest Forrest Post and this is where Forrst WP was born.

Forrst WP is a WordPress plugin that enables you to place a WordPress Widget on your site showing your the latest Forrst Posts for the user you specified. Forrst WP currently has limited functionality seeing that the Forrst API is very restricted at the moment only allowing you to look up posts and user information for specific users.

To use Forrst WP, simply download the file below, extract and upload it to your WordPress plugins directory. In you WordPress dashboard under the Plugins menu, activate Forrst WP and then head over to your Widgets and simply drag the Forrst Widget to where you’d like it and enter the options as desired.

Download Forrst WP v1.0

I was one of the lucky few South Africans that had access to #NewTwitter only a few days after it went live, and since then I have been playing around with it and discovering all sorts of new “hidden” features.

The #NewTwitter was created with ease of use in mind, no more navigating away from your main timeline to view images or videos, or going from page to page to follow a conversation between Twitter users, everything are now displayed on one page with the use of nifty slide out panels.

Apart from the fancy sliding panels there is a hidden features that I stumbled upon by accidentally hitting the R key on my keyboard. #NewTwitter has a handy set of keyboard shortcuts you can make use of.

After some playing around I found the above screen detailing a list of all available keyboard shortcuts for #NewTwitter. The shortcuts range from replying to tweets, retweeting, compiling new tweets, to going to certain user profiles with just the push of a button.

If you are enabled for #NewTwitter you can just press the ? key on your keyboard and it will bring up the above shortcut screen, now go test those shortcuts.

If you are on Twitter you can follow me at @diekloon

The battle of the tablets are heavily underway with the Apple iPad leading the race being first to the market selling more than 3 million units in the first 80 days of being available, however Samsung and RIM are not just going to let Apple rule the tablet market, both these manufacturer introduced tablets of their own, the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the BlackBerry Playbook.

Here are some comparisons between the BlackBerry Playbook, Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab:

The tablet market suddenly just got a whole lot interesting with the introduction of the BlackBerry Playbook. Although there are still some features that RIM failed to announce, it is pretty clear that with all that power under the hood the Playbook may just be as good as the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab, if not better.

Which one of the above tablets would you prefer?

Up until now the only real tablet set to take on the Apple iPad was the Samsung Galaxy Tab, but now RIM is set to change that with the introduction of their very own tablet called the BlackBerry Playbook.

The BlackBerry Playbook is an ultra portable tablet with a 7″ LCD display capable of 1024 x 600 screen resolution. The Playbook offers games, media, apps and everything the real Internet offers including support for Flash 10.1 and HTML 5.

The Playbook runs the new BlackBerry Tablet OS with on-screen keyboard and true multitasking capabillities powered by a dual-core processor. Apart from all the power under the hood the BlackBerry Playbook also has 2 HD cameras, a 5MP back-facing and 3MP front-facing camera, enabling you to make video conference calls with rich stereo sound.

The BlackBerry Playbook looks as if it is more aimed at the business market than the comercial market which its integration with other BlackBerry devices. All in all the BlackBerry Playbook does look like a good contender for the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy Tab.

What do you think about the BlackBerry Playbook?

Every now and then we hear about another startup that made it big online, but rarely we see or hear of the people behind these ventures in the lime light, usually its just celebrities that gets all the attention.

Well watch out, Geeks are here to rule the world and they are slowly making progress. Out of the top 20 richest persons in America, eight are Geeks from technology companies like Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Amazon and Dell.

In fact out of the top 5 richest people, 2 of them are Geeks, the number one position belonging to Bill Gates from Microsoft and number three to Larry Ellison from Oracle, while Social Networking giant Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, hold the title of the youngest Geek billionaire on the list at number 35.

Here is a list of the top 20 richest geeks in America.

Nice hey? Who knows, maybe your name could be on that list, so start that startup.

Both Vodacom and MTN officially launched the Apple iPhone 4 here in South Africa last night and since midnight consumers could get their hands on the device at selected flagship stores.

A previous screenshot leaked to the Internet of what was believed to have been official MTN iPhone 4 pricing was however not accurate but did in fact give us a great overview as to what we can expect to pay for the iPhone 4 here in South Africa.

Vodacom users can expect to get the iPhone 4 on all existing Vodacom tarrifs with it being free on the iPhone Talk 500 and Talk 1000 packages. The flagship Vodacom offer is the iPhone Talk 500 priced at R925 per month which includes the 16GB iPhone 4, 250MB data, 100 free SMS messages and 500 talk minutes a month.

MTN certainly means business and has undercut Vodacom heavily when it comes to pricing for the iPhone 4 in South Africa.

MTN users can expect to get the iPhone 4 starting from R379 per month which includes, R200 airtime, 150MB data, 25 free SMS messages with the 16GB iPhone 4. There is also an option with 300MB data for R429 per month. The 32GB iPhone 4 is available at R429 per month which includes 150MB data or R479 for 300MB of data.

You can get the iPhone 4 at 36 selected MTN stores and all 84 participating Vodacom outlets from today.

MTN and Vodacom are set to launch the iPhone 4 tonight at midnight but up until now the big question on the lips of consumers was at what price will the iPhone 4 be available.

A photo was leaked earlier of MTN contract pricing for the iPhone 4, the prices are as follows:

Please note these prices have not been confirmed by MTN.

Official Pricing for Vodacom and MTN has been released.

Every local Apple fanboi have been waiting for this moment for a very long time, and it has finally arrived. MTN and Vodacom are set to officially launch the Apple iPhone 4 in South Africa tonight at midnight.

MTN yesterday announced on a blog post that the Apple iPhone 4 will be available from midnight at the V&A Waterfront, Sandton City and Gateway MTN stores. During normal trading hours from tomorrow the iPhone 4 will be available at a multitude of selected MTN stores nationwide and by mid October the it should be available at over 250 MTN stores.

MTN is however not the only company set to do a midnight launch of the iPhone 4, Vodacom has also notified media and consumers about their plans to launch at midnight tonight with a launch party at its Vodaworld campus in Midrand.

It is still unclear as to what consumers can expect to pay for the iPhone 4 here in South Africa, but in the past the price of the iPhone was quite hefty, maybe we will see a drop now that MTN will also be stocking the iPhone 4.

For a detailed list of what MTN stores will be stocking the iPhone 4, see here.

HTC last week unveiled two new smartphones to the market, the HTC Desire HD and the HTC Desire Z. Both these phones are built on top of the HTC Desire’s success.

Here is a closer look at the HTC Desire Z, a lower end model of the HTC Desire with a QWERTY keyboard.

Earlier this year MWEB started the broadband price wars by bringing affordable uncapped Internet to the South African market, a few months in and just about every other ISP out there are offering these uncapped accounts undercutting MWEB with a few rands here and there but nothing big.

Axxess has now introduced a brand new Uncapped Internet offer to the market aimed at the average household user that would just like to surf the Web, watch Youtube videos, Skype with their friends and family and download the odd file now and then.

The new package from Axxess is called Just Surf and offers the average household user Uncapped Internet at a mere price of only R99 per month for 384Kbps. There are also 512Kbps and 1024Kbps Uncapped Internet packages available at R149 per month and R249 per month.

Managing Director of Axxess, Andrew Simpson, has however warned that the Just Surf packages are not meant for heavy downloaders and even though there are no Fair Usage Policy on these new Uncapped Internet accounts, users making use of bulk downloading protocols like BitTorrent or any other Peer 2 Peer service will be slowed down.

Other ISPs are however not sitting back and within hours of Axxess announcing their new Just Surf Uncapped Internet packages, OpenWeb has already hit back by introducing the exact same Uncapped Internet packages undercutting Axxess by a mere R1.

OpenWeb’s Uncapped Internet are priced as follows:

1. R98 – 384Kbps
2. R148 – 512Kbps
3. R248 – 1024Kbps