Category: General

Neat Google Labs ideas

Google Labs is the playground where some of Google’s most popular and successful products are born, e.g. Gmail and Google Calender. While some of the ideas might just be “plain crazy” (their words not mine) it’s still a great place to find the prototypes of the engineers who work at Google. Google Sets Google Sets…

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40 best real life cheat codes

Real life cheat codes or life hacks are the equivalent of entering the Konami code in Contra. From Wikipedia: Today, anything that solves an everyday problem in a clever or non-obvious way might be called a life hack. The term became popularized in the blogosphere and is primarily used by geeks who suffer from information…

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Let me wiki that for you

LMGTFY or Let Me Google That For You is an interesting site that lets you make a short link for all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than Google it for themselves. LMWTFY takes the idea further for people who might do the Google query, but then…

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Online stores with free international shipping

South Africa has its fair share of online shopping sites like Kalahari and Take2, some even providing free delivery if you buy goods over a certain amount. However, sometimes you would like to buy something from Amazon that you just can’t find local, and it’s usually the shipping that makes the item pricey. Here is…

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Install multiple programs at once

Ninite is an awesome website that allows you to silently install multiple programs at once. If you ever had to do a clean format you will understand how useful this is to do! You can select from web browsers, messaging, media, imaging, documents, security, runtimes, file sharing, utilities, compression, developer tools and other applications. After…

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