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G'day all I hope I can benefit from someone's experience. I would be interested in a Bluetooth dongle, probably USB, that would allow an older Linux PC to easily share files with a cellphone. 1st prize would be one that plug-n-plays seamlessly without external drivers. Does anyone have eyes on...

Greetings, wise sportsball event consumers. Is it still a true fact that in order to conveniently, reliably, and legally view the above sporting events on one's tv in South Africa, a DStv subscription is the only game in town? I understand that convenience, reliablity and even legality, like...

Can anyone recommend a shop or technician in Cape Town (or surrounds) that can help with a Kindle Paperwhite charging-port issue? (Preferably for less than the price of a new Kindle.) It will probably need some really precise soldering. The device was bought from Incredible Connection a few...

Hello. Recently, I have been offered an XBOX One S in a 'family emigration sale'. I've been able to play with it a bit, and found that it seems to function acceptably as a games console and a Netflix player. These are both appealing characteristics. However, I wondered if it can also perform...

I usually don't care to get to know my musical 'faves'..... But this article about a book about some pictures of Lady Day was mildly diverting. Though I have not really explored her work...

http://www.carscoops.com/2017/02/super-rare-perana-z-one-zagato-pops-up.html Not sure how 'local' it is, but it sure is purty.

Hi peeps Changing my ISP soon, so changing email addresses. I wondered if anyone was aware of potential problems receiving credit card statements via free accounts like yahoo or google mail. Are they any more dangerous than using a private (i.e. paid-for) ISP email?  I feel that someone like...

Hi peeps I'm doing a little lifestyle rightsizing, and looking for cheap-enough-good-enough Internet (cegei?) - Currently classified as 1Mb ADSL. Axxess had an appealing offering of 10Gb anytime data + unlimited 'after midnight' data (holiday promo) on a bundled 1M line , for R99. Their Unique...

For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing that they like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dgAJur6of4 It seems to involve making a cello almost entirely with hand tools. I'm sure they were kidding about those little planes, though.

>>>> After an 18-month investigation, the European Commission on Thursday decided to file antitrust charges against US movie studios 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, Paramount, NBCUniversal, and Sky TV. . . The problem ? as the Commish sees it ? is geo-blocking. <<<<...

I don't really follow these developments, so I don't know if this is interesting. http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/117384-its-official-netflix-is-coming-to-south-africa.html Might save the lazy, like me, a bit of uncertainty and technical hoop-jumping? And money, maybe? I think there...

http://www.makro.co.za/computing-and-mobile/nextbook-8-nextbook-windows-8-16gb-wi-fi-tablet-283304EA Does anyone think this is interesting? I believe this is an Intel x86 Bay Trail processor - I heard  a rumour that it was difficult to load linux on these - is this still the case? For reasons...

Hi linux peeps I don't know where to ask this? Does anyone else try to update their Ubuntu or Mint *nixes , with success from late evening to mid morning, but failure at any other time? This is the sort of error that rewards my efforts in the 'day' sudo aptitude update: Err...

Hi avforums peeps, I have a pair of very tatty QUAD II monoblocks, which appear to have metal tubes in place of the expected GZ34. It seems they may have been converted to solid-state rectification?  The metal tube on one of them bears an inscription which looks like CE612D 50uFX2. 500V. -...

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/i-cant-have-enough-of-these-metal-milling-videos-1643409863/+caseychan Admittedly, it seems to be an advert for the machine, but man, it looks cool.

http://www.dionwired.co.za/portable-storage/seagate-3-5inch-expansion-1.html R1,300.00 3.5'' Desktop HDD  (it seems to be an external, with case and power supply) 3TB Hard Drive USB 3.0 AND USB 2.0 CONNECTIVITY 1 year limited warranty Is it vat inclusive? Can I just walk in, hand over R1300...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/05/14/1459235/your-old-cd-collection-is-dying I've always worried that I will not be able (or rich enough)  to revive my rather nice CD player when it shuffles off this mortal coil. But maybe my CDs will fail first? OK, maybe it will be my hearing that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVeo6QMcbW4&feature=player_embedded Despite close study, I still can't work out how she does it. Research is ongoing.

This seems like a quite pleasing development I don't know if it has been on the news, have not seen it myself. http://mg.co.za/article/2013-06-20-holy-petaflops-sa-students-are-supercomputing-champions Go Team ZA!

Hi guys I don't know if this is of interest, but....I recently saw an advert in the window at Yebo Electronics in Plumstead: It seems they might be looking for someone with Matric, basic electronics knowledge and experience in retail. Use it....don't use it....you know. I wonder if they get...