Author: Arné Klopper

Great news to all to pub dwellers in Gauteng, Mitchell‘s beer is now available in Johannesburg.

Experience the all natural taste of Knysna, now available in Gauteng. Mitchell’s brewery, one of South Africa’s most loved beer brands, is proud to be able to offer our world famous draught and bitter beers to bars, restaurants, bottle stores and direct to customers. Register with or contact us to keep up to date with products and parties, including mobile party packs for your events at work and at home.

Check out their various sites:

• Mitchell’s Johannesburg
• Mitchell’s Cape Town
• Mitchell’s Knysna

 Another new feature you can test drive on Gmail, works very nicely and increases the manageability  of you mails.

Original Gmail blog post :

I’m seriously into filters and labels. All the email I get related to Flash goes under my “flash” label, everything about paragliding goes under “flying,” and they all skip my inbox because that’s how I like to stay organized. But when new email arrives I have to switch to the “flash” label first, then click on “paragliding,” etc. I wanted a way to see it all at once.

So when I heard about Gmail Labs, I started implementing a Labs feature in my 20% time that would help me (and you!) spend less time monitoring important messages that may end up getting filtered away. Starting today, you can try Multiple Inboxes, a Labs experiment which makes it possible to have more than one ‘inbox’ in your default Gmail view.

An image is worth a thousand words, so here’s what my inbox looks like:

In addition to a quick view of my important labels, I also like to keep all my starred and draft messages in separate panels.

After you turn on Multiple Inboxes from the Labs tab under Settings, you can configure what you want to see, as well as set the number of messages displayed and the positioning of your panels from the Multiple Inboxes section under Settings.

However you choose to use it, let us know how we can improve the Multiple Inboxes experiment — all feedback is welcome.

 If you cannot view this video, you can try viewing it here.

If you are old as I am and was around when DOS 3 came out, and you used to format you hard drive with PCTOOLS, or were you around when Windows 95 was launched.

The most user friendly operating system launched with a wide variety of games, obviously all limited demos though.  One of the games I remember very clearly of all the CD packs they shipped with PC bundles was a demo of  You Don’t Know Jack.

So feeling a bit down and overworked, I started looking for this old  high ‘octane’ game and found that they’ve gone the online route.

Check it out.  If you are a trivia master, and love it with a dash of humar, you definitely must have a look at You Don’t Know Jack’s website, where they now have Flash games daily with new set of questions to grind your teeth on.   They also have their online shop where you can buy the full software games as well.

I would recommend just play one of the rounds, it is totally addictive after a while.

After last week when my shared web hosting started to reach the feared CPU limit, I took the advice from the staff at PulseHostings and started looking into using  WordPress Plugins to improve the performance of my blog, an dusing much more resources.

The first plugin I looked into and implemented is WP-SuperCache.

I’ve run with this plugin for almost and a week, and so far on average the CPU usage has reduced between 1 – 1.5% .  Very easy installation, and nothing weird to do. Something I don’t like so much, but probably just need to get the way to get past this, is that the pages keeps beigng caches when new comments are added, and only shows the comments if you delete the cached pages, or the cached pages expiry.

Also a new plugin I’m looking into, and read about today is the plugin suggestion by Entropy, called WP-Optimize.

Probably most of you have watched Chris Pirillo‘s videos and read his blog posts.

He’s a very entertaining guy, and also very knowledgeable is a wide range of areas.  He is the “Jack of all trades, master of some”-type of guy.

Anyway, on February 2nd, he was busy sharing his screen on his Live video, and showing the user avatars on the screen, when on of the users he was sharing his screen with changed their avatars to a exposed boob picture.  Chris totally cracks himself and tries to hide the image as soon as possible.

Good save Chris !

Another new offering launched by Google.

Google Latitude

Google Gmail Blog Post

With Google Latitude, a new feature on Google Maps for mobile and a gadget for iGoogle coming out today, we’re kind of turning that idea on its head, making the “where” matter again. Latitude allows you to see where your friends are located in real time on a map, anywhere in the world.

Use your Gmail account to join Latitude and you can specify which of your Gmail contacts can see your location. You can choose to automatically detect your best location, share city-level information only, set your location manually, or hide your location altogether.

Google Mobile Blog Post

Latitude is a new feature of Google Maps for mobile, as well as an iGoogle gadget, that allows you to share your location with your friends and to see their approximate locations, if they choose to share them with you. You can use your Google account to sign in and easily invite friends to Latitude from your existing list of contacts or by entering their email addresses. Google Talk is integrated with Latitude, so you and your friends can update your status messages and profile photos on the go and see what everyone is up to. You can also call, SMS, IM, or email each other within the app. Check out the video below to see Latitude in action

My first understanding was something really stupid : “A company with more than x(assuming 1000) number of employees an various offices nationally and internationally”

OR maybe enterprise is a name for a ….

HAHA, one can see that I’m originally Afrikaans .

The real definition goes more like this:

The entire organization, including all of its subsidiaries. It implies a large corporation or government agency, but it may also refer to a company of any size with many systems and users to manage. It depends on context. A corner candy store is “someone’s enterprise.” The terms “enterprise,” “company,” “corporation” and “organization” are used synonymously.

#FAIL to myself !

For the last week I’ve been listening the some Internet Radio whilst working.  First I tried local radio stations like Highveld, Jacaranda FM and 702 Talk Radio, but wasn’t in the mood for all the talking.

I then found Live365, which provides FREE music 24/7, from a wide variety of genres.

This is a FREE service, but after about a few hours of listening they require you to register though, BUT still FREE. They also have a premium payed service for better quality sound and a few other advanced features, but according to me the free service is already very high quality(for ‘radio’).

I tried to figure out how the guys from Live365 make money.  Seems like their business model is based around basically 4 main income streams:

• Adsense and other Ads
• When listening to the radio station it shows what the songs’ name is that is playing, and also has a ‘BUY’ button where you can then buy the track.
• Subscription fees of the premium service
• Ads on radio stations

My favourite station is the Chillout Beats and Remixed! stations.

I’ve been waiting for this feature for quite some time now, since they started exploring with Google Docs Online with Google Gears I knew this was due to happen.

Source : Office Gmail Blog Post

Today we’re starting to roll out an experimental feature in Gmail Labs that should help fill in those gaps: offline Gmail. So even if you’re offline, you can open your web browser, go to gmail.com, and get to your mail just like you’re used to.

Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you’re connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with Gmail’s servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer’s hard drive instead of the information sent across the network. You can read messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you’re used to doing while reading your webmail online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection. And if you’re on an unreliable or slow connection (like when you’re “borrowing” your neighbor’s wireless), you can choose to use “flaky connection mode,” which is somewhere in between: it uses the local cache as if you were disconnected, but still synchronizes your mail with the server in the background. Our goal is to provide nearly the same browser-based Gmail experience whether you’re using the data cached on your computer or talking directly to the server .