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Congress of the people releases their policies

December 8, 2008 by evl

Most South African bloggers are from Cape Town

December 7, 2008 by evl

That's strange. I would not of thought that most bloggers would be from Cape Town that blog and live in South Africa. My guess would of been Johannesburg. According to "Sake 24" something like 88% come from Cape Town.

I guess its called the laid back city for a reason but this is also the silicon valley of South Africa.

Cape Town as far as I know also has the best internet connections and most people that live here are not obsessed with work. At least the ones that I know.

Interesting.

GTA IV (4) will use DRM

December 2, 2008 by evl

Here is part of the FAQ on the installation process and it says

- Activation via Internet (1x per system, no limits, Fallback for systems without web access)

- Copy protection Securom: The original disc is required for playing (Execpt: Download version of GTA 4, for example from Direct 2 Drive)

- Requirements for playing (singleplayer): Games for Windows Live account for saving/achievements (1x free creation), original disc, Securom runs in the background

- Requirements for playing (multiplayer): Active internet connection, Games for Windows Live account, For uploading videos: Rockstar Social Club Account.

- If you don't have web access or don't want to connect your gaming PC to the Internet, Rockstar wants to offer a not yet specified system to activate GTA 4 via another PC with web access. Details are supposed to be available on launch.

- For the normal GTA 4 (PC) version with disc installation, activations are unlimited. But the original disc is required for playing.

- This does not apply for legally downloaded versions of GTA 4: Depending on the vendor the following is possible: Five parallel installations with the possibility to revive a "free

eMarketing blabber

October 31, 2008 by evl

Yes, eMarketing sucks. If you dont like what you are doing it sucks. Blogging on the other hand is fun and not so boring. Now I personally enjoy emarketing but for most people learning the ways to market something on the internet takes years and then you have the competition. That is why you should always find the right people to do eMarketing for you. On the internet you mostly have only one shot at making a great impact with your product or service per person. So making the most of every visit or person you come in contact with on the internet is the best way of building a community but if you are only doing it for the sake of selling a product or getting people to go to your site they pick up on that quickly. If you are however passionate about a service or product and you can blog about it for days on end and you make connections that way you will find it easier to spread your brand. I think i need sleep or coffee. I am just bored.

68 Twitter tools to satisfy your twitter addiction

October 26, 2008 by evl

I like twitter. So, i decided to do a post about twitter. Here it is :) Twitter tools for Firefox Twitterfox - Twitter app for firefox, sits in the bottom. Twittermore - Firefox extension that lets you post longer than 140 characters Twitterbar - Post directly to twitter from your address bar Twitbin - Twitter communication from firefox. Twitkit - A entire sidebar dedicated to Twitter. (has other features as well) Dashblog - Collect media and post it to twitter / blog TwittyTunes - Post your currently playing songs to twitter with one click Tinyurl Creator - Shrink urls quickly for twitter BlogRovr - Twit about the site you are on Feedly - Rss reader integrated with twitter as well Yoono - socialize your Firefox includes twitter tools PingFire - post to ping.fm (thereby updating twitter) Twitter tools for Mac Twitterrific -
Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website. The application's user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac's desktop.

LaCie 4big Quadra Sets a New Standard in RAID Technology

September 19, 2008 by evl

With 7 RAID modes, max capacity of 6TB, and a versatile hot-swap feature, the newest addition to LaCie - the 4big Quadra - proves to be a heavy hitter in performance. Creative professionals will be impressed with stackable, space saving versatility, and a revolutionary ultra-reliable cooling system. For green thinking professionals the 4big is almost 50 percent quieter and saves 30 to 80 percent more energy that traditional RAID towers. Portland, OR - LaCie today announced the 4big Quadra, the most complete four-bay RAID solution for small servers, creative pro workstations or offices that need large storage and backup capacity, superior speed and advanced security.

Disconnected again. What are my options? Telkom sucks, twitterfox works offline

September 15, 2008 by evl

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Yes yes I know twitterfox can not possibly work offline but somehow its the only thing that seems to work with my connection at the moment. Nothing loads, only twitterfox. Must be the port no or something not entirely sure why twitterfox would work while i have no internet connection.

Anyway, in South Africa i am not sure one can successfully run a business or blog online without being interrupted all the time. For the past week we've had a slow connection and I am now fed up with it.

Our ISP was friendly enough to let us pay the old price and keep the package but being disconnected all the time it does not seem like such a great idea anymore.

I need to be connected since my entire career is online, if there is no internet i have no job. That sucks. I guess I am just ranting now while being offline but thanks to this dumb communication system and laws we have in South Africa I can not be as successful as i really could be.

How to save battery life with a Laptop or Notebook

September 10, 2008 by evl

Sometimes we need to go places and actually use that laptop without a cord. I go to friends quite often or wherever I go I want to be connected. But then there are those times that I overdo it and my Laptop's battery seems to not make it. That is when I do some things to save that extra power and suck the battery entirely dry. First of all, when you are not using your laptop and you want to save power switch off your monitor. Most laptops has a shortcut for that. Mine is the blue button and F11. The blue button is specific to mine, yours would be something else. Remember to read the manual and find it. When you are copying stuff or download big files from another computer, put the screen or monitor off. It will save power. Set your screen the darkest you can. The darker the monitor the more battery power you will save. Switch off Antivirus. Just trust me. It saves a lot of power. Using the usb mouse is much easier than using the touchpad on your laptop, but unplugging all usb devices will give your laptop even a further boost. There are more ways to get some extra battery life, these are just some I though I'd show.

Things you need to make money online

September 8, 2008 by evl

I just thought of a few things needed to make money online and would like to share it. Patience Working on the internet takes time, you have to wait for affiliates to come back to you, you have to wait once you've signed up at a place for them to approve you, you have to wait for search engines to scan your site and then you even have to wait for the search engines to send traffic. (if you dont socialize). You have to wait for Google to give you a pagerank and then you have to wait for a Alexa rating to get more advertisers to make you wait more for the money you will get in 3 months time after you waited for the advertisers Waiting is part of the daily internet life. Especially in a country like South Africa where we have the worst internet connections in the world. Having a fast connection might help you a bit but you still need a lot of patience to be a full time money making blogger because things just dont happen overnight. Anyone can make money online if they have enough of this thing called patience. Most blogs only last 3 months because people dont have patience. There are so many examples why you need patience to make money online. Traffic Without traffic you might as well write a decent post on a piece of toilet paper and keep if for when you really need the toilet. Traffic is what drives money on the internet. The more traffic a site gets the more the site is worth. No traffic, no money. No matter what you have on your site, if you get traffic you can make money. Traffic is humans visiting your site. Not those nice people who leave you random links in your comment sections. No they are called bots. What you want is humans reading your content. And for that you need great content which I will come to later. Time Apart from patience you need time to write, socialize, comment, learn, research and once more write again, seo, analyze, get motivated. Domain Please get your own domain. Read this post why:------ Plan If you dont have a plan, you wont know what to do next. Where you are going with your blog is a important thing to know. If you dont know where you are going how can you get there? What is your target or if you plan making a living online, how do you plan on getting there? Stragedy Stragedy is different from plan. Stragedy involves planning with a roadmap, how will this be done? The plan is the path to the end result but you still need a stragedy to get there. Niche Having a niche gives you something to target as well as a reason to advertise. If you have no niche you cant really advertise and get your blog branded. You need a slogan that says: this is what I do and what this blog is about. Other bloggers Without other bloggers you will not make any money online. Networking with other bloggers helps your blog grow as well as their blogs. Networking is what makes blogging work, without this one thing blogging would be kind of dull. Content This will determine if you have a great blog or not. How you write it, how much time you put into your articles. Is it original? You need to make your content stand out from the rest. Having ordinary content will not give you a job on the internet. Having ordinary content will make your blog melt in with the rest of the crowd. It's not a bad thing but if you want to make a living from your blog you really do need original content. Endurance This is different than patience. To make money online you might have to struggle sometimes and even make no money at all. The thing that might make it work at the end is endurance. Keeping on when things are not going well with your blog is always a good idea. Design The design of your site matters. Are your ads well integrated? Can people find your rss button easy? Another thing that matters is how well your ads are camouflaged to not make your site cluttered. Your logo is also important for branding your site. Rankings Rankings do matter, this is because most affiliate companies use rankings to choose who they would go with. The better your rankings the more work you will get SEO Search engine optimization matter because that might be the only way people will find your site and also the only way to turn those visits in clicks on your ads. Knowledge and Passion I would love to write about Tech stuff because I really like gadgets and stuff like that. But the problem is my knowledge of certain things that I like is not enough to write articles about the certain topic that would stand out. Thus I would be able to blog about it but not make a living of it. So there might be more things, maybe I missed something. Feel free to add it in the comments. Thank you for reading.

Make money online, in South Africa. It is possible just harder than other countries.

September 8, 2008 by evl

It is possible to make money online if you live in South Africa. Today I tried to sign up at cx digital and my site got denied due to the fact that I am from South Africa. Now while there are a lot of places that let us South Africans sign up, like Google Adsense, there is still a lot of people that think only the USA has internet connection. For instance; Yahoo publisher network is only available to people from the USA. That is probably why Google is better than Yahoo because they realize that the rest of the world can also connect to the internet and they also want to make money online. Not just people living in the US