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The OpenOffice.org Project has unveiled that it is separating itself from Oracle. OpenOffice’s development and direction will be decided by a steering committee of developers and national language project managers. Driving home the changes, the OpenOffice.org project is now The Document Foundation, while the OpenOffice.org suite has been given the temporary name of LibreOffice. I [...]

Twitter is launching their new design soon and they gave us a sneak preview of what it will look like and all the functionality they plan to rollout. For those that do not know, Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., that enables its users to send and [...]

google has just launched thier call phones from gmail service. you can call any phone from gmail or gtalk when you install the plugin. the only thing is, it is free in the USA and Canada but in South Africa it will cost you $0.05 to landlines and $0.17 to cellphones. this is USD (dollars) [...]

*MIND BLOWN* Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 – Teaser from Thiago Costa on Vimeo.

so i decided to take the plunge and upgrade to WordPress 3 “Thelonious”. i firstly and most importantly backed up my wordpress and database before i started the upgrade. i have heard alot of people upgraded their sites to version 3 but never backed up their site and it broke badly. whenever you update anything [...]

Downloaded the wordpress app on the blackberry apps site and testing it out from my blackberry to see how posting from it goes. Very nice and easy to use and still all the normal funtionality barring one or two things.

we are running keepass to store our password for servers, weblogins and anything that has a password. now a while ago we started using keepass version 1. it was light and linux had version 1 in the repositories of the distros. then we decided to move over to version 2 as it had way more [...]

earlier today, if you are a facebook addict you would have noticed that the chat functionality was disabled. this was because people discovered a bug that allowed users to eavesdrop on their friends’ conversations. i for one don’t go much on facebook. i simply just promote my blog and catch up with family over seas. [...]

this is just so cute! at least there is one usefulness for the ipad!

when sony release the new update on 1 april for the PS3,  the “Install Other OS” option will not be available anymore sony have decided to remove that from the PS3. opting out will bar access to the playstation network, newer games and blu-ray movies, copyright-protected videos streamed from a media server, and any other [...]