Lets be honest, most of us are cash-strapped when we near the end of the month, but that does not necessarily mean you can’t go out and do something fun. This is where everything.to.do comes in.

everything.to.do is a new site where you can find and share affordable and fun things to do in our beautiful country South Africa. The site was developed by Jako van Rensburg after he was frustrated to not being able to find good affordable stuff to do with his girlfriend.

everything.to.do works of a crowdsource model where you the user submit info regarding places you visited. The nice thing about the site is, is that it is proudly South African allowing you to explore things to do in our beautiful country, be it from finding a nice coffee joint to finding that perfect picnic spot.

The site’s layout is clean, simple to navigate and have a nice modern look to it. Jako plans on adding a commenting system as well as a media section to the site that will allow users to comment on their experiences with listed places and also allow them to upload photos or videos. everything.to.do currently also has support for GPS devices by allowing you to download gpx files and viewing the places on your GPS, and for those without GPS you can also view the map on the site.

Go check out everthing.to.do and start adding your favorite things to do in South Africa, also join the Fan Page on Facebook or follow them on Twitter.

In just three days us South Africans will host the biggest sporting events the world has, and this will be the first time that the World Cup will be hosted in a society where Social Media and Internet is part of our daily lives.

Google is known for changing their logo’s for events like this, and they have a competition running where you the Google user have the choice of the Google Doodle for the World Cup, but apart from this Google are even adding some nice unique World Cup results to its search pages.

Upon searching for the phrase “World Cup” users will now be greeted with a result showing the next couple of matches being played as well as all the teams and the groups they play in.

Also if you missed it check out the Google Street View for South Africa where you can tour the World Cup Stadiums.

[UPDATE]

If you search for “World Cup” from the .com version of Google you are also presented with the Gooooooooal Google page navigation.

Thanks Duan

I am just loving all the World Cup spirit at the moment, all the flags on the cars and in the streets and shop, everybody blowing vuvuzelas and even Google adding Street View inside the stadiums.

Cape Tonians can not help but notice the Giant Vuvuzela that is mounted on the famous bridge to nowhere in Town, and rumour has it that it will be blown each time a goal is scored in the World Cup.

So it seems the rumor was true, and in this video they are doing a sound test of the Giant Vuvuzela.

I am so glad I don’t live or work near that bridge

Google launched Street View for South Africa this morning that allows you to view streets as if you are driving around in them.

Google Street View come just in time for the Fifa World Cup 2010, where visitors can now view certain places in our beautiful country without actually traveling there.

Getting with the spirit of the 2010 Fifa World Cup, Google also added a Street View tour to the Soccer City Stadium in Gauteng. The Street View of Soccer City where the opening and final matches of the World Cup will be played, allows you to walk around inside the stadium and on the pitch. Doesn’t look like there is one for the Cape Town stadium as this was the first thing I checked this morning.

Go check it out Street View of Soccer City.

South African geeks have been waiting a long time for this, and then when Google was set to launch Street View for South Africa they decided to postpone it a bit. Finally Google Street View for South Africa is live and I must say it is amazing.

Google Street View for South Africa allows you to visit places in our beautiful country as if you were traveling by car, I have been playing around with it a bit this morning and I am hooked.

I first tried to visit the new Cape Town stadium but unfortunately there was no tour of the stadium, but I must admit coverage of Cape Town and its surrounding suburbs are really good.

Image visiting a place in our beautiful country without the need to travel? Now you can, check out how easy it was for me to visit Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town.

Go ahead and start exploring South Africa with Google Street View.

Most of you probably heard the rumor about the R200 South African bank note that is not being accepted anymore.

Please note that this is kind of true, the South African Reserve Bank is recalling all R200 notes due to it having a high volume of counterfeit bank notes available out there, it is just the old series R200 notes that are being recalled.

Allot of businesses are already not accepting the R200 notes, good news is that you can trade in your old R200 notes.

The South African Reserve bank has urged all South Africans to urgently exchange their R200 bank notes at their local bank before the 1st of June 2010. The R200 note will not be discontinued but rather a new version of the note will be made available that is not that easy to counterfeit as the current R200 note.

Do you still do large transactions with cash? When last did you get a R200 notes from the ATM or Bank teller?

Since yesterday the net has been a buzz with the phrase “Touch me on my studio”. The touch me on my studio phrase followed after the eTV interview with AWB General Secretary, Andre Visagie.

Visagie stormed out of the eTV offices during a live prime time discussion during which political commentator and guest Lebogang Pheko kept interrupting him.

During this time where Visagie lost his tempter, Chris Maroleng kept saying the phrase “Touch me on my studio”. Since the footage aired a trend started on Twitter #TouchMeOnMyStudio and all is history after that. There are currently a few remixes doing the rounds and currently my favourite is the one bellow.

If you missed the footage of Visagie’s outburst and Chris Maroleng’s “Touch me on my studio” here is it again.

Here is the Fifa World Cup song that currently has everybody talking. The song “Stand as one” is currently not backed by Fifa or SAFA but the public is loving it.

Stand as one has got a nice African vibe to it, and must say this will do a good job as the Official 2010 Fifa World Cup song. What do you think?

The past couple of days news has gone viral on social networking sites and blogs about the new range of Julius Malema online accounts that was opened.

Bloggers and twitter users spread the word like a wild fire stating that ANC Youth League President Julius Malema has opened an official Julius Malema blog as well as twitter and Facebook accounts. The news was spread without people trying to verify that if this was in fact real accounts of Julius Malema himself.

On another local blogger’s site he wrote an article about Julius Malema turning to wordpress for his own personal blog, after reading the article I got very suspicious and checked out the whois information of the domain juliusmalema.co.za. The first sniff in the nose I got was with the email address that was used to register the domain with, then there were some other factors in the registration details that convinced me that this was definitely a hoax.

After searching twitter for Julius Malema I came across multiple twitter accounts claiming to be the real Julius Malema.

The ANC Youth League later today came out firing against reports of the Julius Malema twitter account, blog and Facebook account and told news24 that the accounts are fake.

“That’s a fake account and Comrade Malema doesn’t even use Twitter,” said Floyd Shivambu, spokesperson for the ANC Youth League.

Shimvambu said that Julius Malema will not be taking action against the creators of the accounts, and they won’t lodge complaints with social networking sites twitter and Facebook as they have better things to do with their time.

There you have it, looks like Julius Malema isn’t that tech savvy after all.

In what I believe is another attempt to take away market share from the bigger ISP’s like WebAfrica, Afrihost has now launched several high-cap ADSL accounts.

At the end of last year Afrihost started the broadband price war by introducing ADSL accounts at a mere R29 per GB, way lower than what the other ISP’s at the time was asking. Now they are targeting the power users, the guys using 50GB+ every month.

Afrihost today launched their ADSL Power Plans which allows purchases of high-cap accounts for only R9.50 per GB. This price compared to WebAfrica’s high end packages is a steal, WebAfrica charges R44.50 per GB for their high-end caps, that is even more than the normal Afrihost accounts.

Heavy users or businesses interested in obtaining one of these high-cap ADSL Power Plans from Afrihost can sign up here and get a all time low rate of only R9.50 per GB.