YouTube has launched a whole new section on their site dedicated to full length movies. The new movies section on YouTube feature over 400 full length movies users can watch free of charge. This may just be part of Google’s plans to launch its WebTV set top box. The new section on YouTube does not [...]
It’s not often that I post some code here on iGeek, which is a pitty because coding is a real passion of mine specially PHP, but sometimes you just write something you need to share with your fellow enthusiasts. Here is a function I wrote in PHP that validates South African ID Numbers based on [...]
Just got the Samsung Wave, my first thoughts after playing around with it for a few minutes: Screen clarity and colours are just amazing Camera takes pretty decent quality pics Bada may just be errm… amazing Browser seems to pixelize web page images Asks me for sim card to be able to use Twitter client, [...]
With the official launch of Microsoft’s new browser Internet Explorer 9 only a few weeks away, allot has already been said about all the great new features it boasts and how impressive it is, but until now nobody has actually had an idea how the new browser will look. The question is will the new [...]
Normally when you use Google Voice it requires for both parties to be logged onto a computer with headphones, but not any more. Starting today users can now call any phone right from Gmail, yes no need anymore for both parties to be signed in on a computer. Google has struck some great deals with [...]
For long gambling boards in South Africa has been fighting against online gambling in South Africa, and it looks like the scales have finally tipped in their favor. Business Day has reported that the North Gauteng High Court has ruled in favor of the Gauteng Gambling board making it now illegal to gamble online in [...]
A few weeks back the City of Cape announced their new online vehicle registration website which enable motor vehicle owners to renew their registrations online without the need of going to their local traffic department and filling out forms. Initially when I heard about the new online system my thoughts was another failed online system by [...]
When it comes to paid mobile applications, South Africans are normally way at the back of the queue when it comes to getting access to them, resulting in most people normally registering accounts with US addresses or downloading modified firmware to get access to these premium applications. Good news for South African BlackBerry users is [...]
Yesterday I was lucky enough to have had a hands-on session with the all new Nokia N8. I must say that I was really impressed with the device and consider the Nokia N8 as the next level in multimedia smartphones. For those of you interested in whats going on under the hood of the Nokia [...]
Three months ago Nokia announced that they will be introducing a new revolutionary phone to the multimedia cellphone market, and today I got the chance to have a hands-on with the soon to be released Nokia N8. My initial impression was WOW, carved from a solid block of anodised aluminium the Nokia N8 has it [...]
