Imagine being able to flip through pictures, links and articles just like you would with the pages of a book? No need to imagine anymore, this is just what Flipboard is all about.

Flipboard is a personal magazine based on content you care about, and how does it know what content you care about? By gathering these information from your friends.

Flipboards connects to your social networks like Facebook and Twitter and gathers all the stuff your friends are sharing like blogs, articles, photos and videos. Flipboard also has content you can browse through and view content from interesting sources on the web.

The nice thing about Flipboard is that you can’t just only browse through the content, but you can also interact with it and share it with the world because Flipboard is connected with your social networks.

Flipboards is currently only available for the iPad, but I must say it looks real promising and makes me want to own an iPad now!

Check out the video about Flipboard.

The Internet is, well it’s really huge. Just to show you how huge it is, the guys from Gizmodo has put together a nice Infographic to show us just how crazy huge the Internet is, and what 210 billion emails, 3 million Flickr images, 43 million gigabytes (on phones) sent on an average day really means.

So by now a whole lot of Capetonians made plans to head out to Ceres this weekend to go watch and play around in some snow on Matroosberg.

If you are interested in seeing what it currently looks like up there, the people of Matroosberg nature reserve has set up webcams, you can have a look at the images here. It contains images of photos taken by the webcams on Matroosberg. Images are updated frequently so check back often to see if its worth going up to Matroosberg in Ceres.

A friendly reminder to people heading to Matroosberg, Ceres please keep it calm on the roads. Do not drive fast as roads are slippery and be aware of pedestrians alongside the roads. There will be long queues up to the mountain as allot of Capetonians are heading up to go have some fun in the snow.

See you there, and watch out for the snowballs.

Classes have been suspended at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) city campus following three days of often violent protests over proposed fee increases.

Earlier on Wednesday students were forced to flee and 37 were later arrested as police opened fire with rubber bullets.

In a terse statement on Wednesday night, university spokesman Thami Nkwanyane said: “The executive management this afternoon decided to suspend classes on the Cape Town Campus as well as at the Thomas Patullo Building (satellite campus) following three days of protest action by students.

Anda Bici, a member of CPUT’s student representative council which had called the strike on Monday, was equally terse on Tuesday night: “We’ll do whatever it takes to make our voices heard even if the university is closed.”

Here are some photos of the students causing havoc inside the buildings, vandalising property and stealing