The Silicon Cape events are always interesting and the last one, entertaining. With FNB as the official sponsor, PayPal made their presentation to their would-be clients and gave away an iPad as incentive to create the growing community. PayPal has only recently made its way onto local shores and the process of setting up an [...]
Read more →I’ve decided to separate my techno ramblings from my personal site and voila, http://blog.onyxinterweb.com is born. Welcome and join me as I uncover the coolest, most efficient, effective, creative tools and apps to simplify our lives. Automate. Simply.
Read more →New tools and applications are released daily. Tools for work flow, design, development, security etc, how does one keep up? Who can say. What is key though, it to learn the art of “spontaneous review“. By this I mean that if we see a tool to automate or improve the way we task life and [...]
Read more →So you’re in MS Word (usually) and you need to “print > save as .pdf” to protect the information of course. You start the process, File > Print > Save as PDF > Save to “Desktop” and voila! It splits your one document into many documents. Don’t panic! Open the very 1st .PDF Ensure that [...]
Read more →Someone recently mentioned the Palm Pilot, my how it brings back memories. My dream was to have my very own. Since then I have acquired an iPhone, which everyone knows I am in love with ツ. These Smart Phones have enabled us to connect and work more. Catch 22 situation, but a choice we make [...]
Read more →The most amazing piece of technology I have seen in action was in the jounalism hall of fame at the Newseum (http://www.newseum.org/) in Washington DC. Picture the Minority Report (starring Tom Cruise), where he investigates the “about to be-murdered” on the transparent board, using his hands to navigate, yes, it really does exist. This discovery [...]
Read more →The IBM Smart Software Symposium was held in Cape Town this week and Maxxor attended both days of the event. Attending the event were IT Managers; Software Developers; Software Specialists; Sales People; Project Managers; Analysts; Other IT ; Other Specialists; Engineers; Architects; Developers; Strategists; other software and Business Partners. The event was held at Lagoon [...]
Read more →If you are a member of the ICT Community, then CeBIT is no stranger to you. If you are not, CeBit is the no. 1 marketplace for digital solutions, trends and innovations – plus the biggest and best conference program for the ICT community! (Source: www.cebit.de).This years highlights looks at Trendspots, Webciety, other business summits, [...]
Read more →IT Conferences are great! We meet interesting people, network and get to hear about the latest tech crazes, and in some cases, we leave the event inspired and motivated to test and try them on. In the case of the Africa Rise event, there were tons of delegates and interesting presentations, a few of them [...]
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