Real Social Networking

Everywhere you look now days there is another social application. From Facebook to Friendfeed if you are not a member of at least one social network you are not spending enough time on the Internet. But every so often there comes along something that looks really interesting and that is also free. Remobo may just fit this category. Its billed as “Social Computer Networking” and although it is still in beta it looks really interesting. If you are an early adopter give it a whizz…

Windows file manager

Are you constantly at war with the windows file manager? There must be a better solution, right? Well there is, at least one, and its called Xplorer2 .... but the best news is that its free for private use.

It comes complete with support for tabbed file browsing, bookmarks, FTP access, advanced file filtering and will show copy of an image file right in the pane or play your music file without your having to open a player. Its well worth a look.

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Koeburg down again

With Koeberg nuclear power station down and Eskom predicting that it could be three weeks before it is commissioned again what are the chances that we will see a return t load shedding?

"Any loss of generating capacity places strain on the national grid. During the next few weeks while the unit at Koeberg is out for repairs the risk of load shedding is increased," Eskom said in a statement on Thursday.

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Do you Twitter?

If not, just perhaps you should be giving it some thought as a way to stay in contact with people in your social circle. Twitter is a simple way to broadcast short messages, of not more than 140 characters, across the Internet and even to cell phones via sms or to instant messaging applications.

Twitter can be accessed from a browser by going to the URL but there are many more interesting and more functional ways to send your Tweets. Here is a link to a page which will give you some ideas.

Friendfeed

Would you like an easy way to share your life on the Internet with your friends? Do you have documents, photos, blogs, tweets and more scattered about on the net with no way to consolidate the way in which you distribute them to your friends? Well help is to hand with Friendfeed which is taking the net by storm.

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Google Docs - with gears

Google are in the process of rolling out Google Gears for Google Docs and if you are one of the lucky first users, you will see a small green arrow that appears on the menu bar. You can then choose to enable Google Gears which will make it possible for you to use Google Docs off line to edit and create documents, a real boon for users who cart their laptop about with them.

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/03/bringing-cloud-with-you.html

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Yzerfontein

Yzerfontein is the sleepy west coast village where I live.

Eighty kilometres up the west coast road from Cape Town, it is the most beautiful beach hide-away with wide stretches of snow white sand running down to a turquoise sea.