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Twitter SMS notifications

Gerhard — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:06:18 +0000

I have been putting blogging off for a couple of days due to my latest private project taking all my time. A while ago I read a message by Rafiq owner of Web AddiCT(s); where he asked if anybody was willing to write a Twitter notifications to SMS app.

After some investigation I found 2 current services of which one was closed down and the other one really expensive, almost R1 per sms. This lead me to investigating all the viable methods to send out sms messages from South Africa and having played with the twitter api before stared coding on some basic functionality.

I introduce to you TweSMS, TweSMS will allow you to receive SMS messages for different twitter notifications. Currently TweSMS only supports sending SMS messages for Twitter Direct Messages but will soon have functionality to be able to receive replies and even friend updates via SMS.

I am really proud of this project and would like to thank Web Addict(s); for the inspiration and support with this project aswell as Clickatell. I see big things in the pipeline for TweSMS and we are already testing away on the system.

For more info on TweSMS read the Web Addict(s); post, follow @twesms on twitter or visit www.twesms.com

Very busy lately

Gerhard — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:07:55 +0000

Some of you may have noticed that posting is a bit on the slow side the past 2 weeks, this is due to the enormous project I’m busy working on. We are working our asses off just to get the project to go live by the end of this week. This will be a soft launch and at the participating stores but with no stock on the shelves only certain staff getting some products to test out.

So you are propably wondering what it is? Well unfortunatly I can’t give out any details, but what I do can tell you is that a voucher revolution is comming to stores near you very soon.

I’ll give out more information when I’m allowed to.

My Pigeon Race shirt has arrived

Gerhard — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:54:55 +0000

A while back I entered a competition to win a Pigeonrace 2009 T-shirt, and was lucky enough to be one of the winners.

The competition was ran by Springleap which gave away 50 free Pigeonrace 2009 T-shirts to the first 50 people that commented on the shirts design.

Pretty cool tee, just sad that we didn’t get it earlier to wear it on the day of the race. Big thanks go out to the guys at Springleap and Winston and his owner for giving us these free tees. If you like the design be sure to check out Springleap’s site for more awsome designs like these.

CapeTownVibe.com

Gerhard — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:41:50 +0000

A few month back I decided it’s time to go more global with domain names and started looking for a suitable .com domain name.

I went on search without knowing what I wanted to do with the domain name, but as soon as I discovered the domain CapeTownVibe.com I just knew I had to register it. I registered through WebAfrica my ISP of choice and was lucky enough to discover they are running a special for only R90 for a dot com domain. Registration was quick and painless, five minutes after requesting the registration, the domain was registered and active.

I’m still contemplating what I want to do with the domain, I was thinking something along the lines of a guide to Cape Town with whats happening in and around the city aswell as maybe some accommodation info. What do you guys think?