The Popular Science magazine in conjunction with Google have made their entire archive of 137 years available online through Google book search. Every page has been converted to digital text allowing for text searched of specific articles from within the archive. “We’ve partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It’s an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology’s incredible potential to improve our lives. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.” says popsci.com read more… »
Entire Popular Science Archive Made Avaliable Online
Facebook Plans to Grow Out of Facebook.com
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the hugely popular online social network site Facebook.com, recently announced a proposal that will allow Facebook to in essence expand off of facebook.com. By implementing the Open Graph API, web developers can make their pages function like native Facebook pages. Allowing Facebook users to become fans of these pages, which will then be displayed on their profile. read more… »
Confirmed: Paypal To Reach South Africa
FNB has recently confirmed the rumours of bringing PayPal to South Africa, amidst a buzz of online hype regarding the speculation of PayPal in South Africa. FNB CEO along with PayPal senior executives are to hold an official press conference with journalists regarding the PayPal FNB deal.
South African consumers until now, have not had proper access to PayPal services as the service has not been fully supported by the South African monetary system. Consumers may now look forward to accessing and participating in more online commerce as access to PayPal will make it easier for international online payments and money transfers to be processed. read more… »
Google Maps Adds Experimental New Features
The Google Maps service just recently got a ‘labs’ section, much like Gmail and other Google Services. Along with the introduction of labs to their maps offerings, Google has released a collection of nine innovative labs features the Google maps service. read more… »
Download More Ram Prank
Do you curse the low ram capacity that your computer has?? Your days of frustration are over, just header over to downloadmoreram.com and increase your computer’s ram, absolutely free! A clever prank set up that will probably catch a few non computer savvy people out there. The whole website is a joke as stated in it’s footer and means no harm. The concept of being able to download and install additional ram is rather humorous! read more… »
Facebook Chat Goes Jabber Friendly
The Facebook chat platform went jabber friendly today, meaning that one can connect to the Facebook chat service from any jabber enabled messaging client. “Every day people send more than two billion chat messages to each other on Facebook. Today we’re making it easier for people to extend those conversations with their Facebook friends to instant messaging clients beyond Facebook.com. Facebook Chat now supports Jabber/XMPP, the open standard for instant messaging. Now developers can integrate Facebook Chat with their Web-based, desktop, or mobile instant messaging products.” say the Developers at Facebook. read more… »
Facebook To Introduce Email Services
It is rumoured that Facebook will soon start offering email services which will give it’s 350+ million users access to thier own Facebook webmail account. Code named project Titan, Facebook plans to rival popular and established email providers such as Gmail with this new service. In an effort to unify and streamline thier current messaging system, the new Facebook mail will incorporate the messaging and instant messaging offerings currently avalaible. read more… »
Paypal In South Africa via FNB??
Could it be that FNB will be bringing Paypal to South Africa later on this year? Online retail has long groaned at the lack of a full Paypal service in South Africa. Rumours have recently surfaced on Twitter and the Popular online technology news site MyBroadband that thanks to FNB this may all change. FNB has failed to comment on this, either comfirming or dispelling the rumour. read more… »
Step Aside Facebook, A Social Google On The Way
The internet Giant, Google is looking into adding social features to their Gmail offering. With the recent explosion of social media, it seems as though Google has decided that they want a slice of the pie. The new social service will be tightly integrated into Gmail’s existing interface and into other Google products. The social service will probably take advantage of the Gtalk network and probably Google’s own social network, orkut. read more… »
The Fail Whale Strikes
The Twitter Fail Whale Strikes again. It has been some time since the Fail Whale was spotted. For those who are unfamiliar with the Twitter Fail Whale, it is the whale that indacates Twitter’s servers are under strain from an overload in internet traffic or that the site is experiencing down time. read more… »
The Breathing Earth
The Breathing Earth is an interesting web simulation that demonstrates quite clearly and impressively the human impact on our Earth. Designed by David Bleja, the simulation tracks the amount of CO2 in tonnes released be each nation and how often a death or a birth occurs. Bearing in mind that it is a simulation is not 100% percent accurate however the author states that the simulation was built using reputable data sources, read more… »
Top SMS Spammers Outed By MyBroadband.co.za
SMS spam has grown into a profitable industry in South Africa, as SMS has a further reach than email due to our economic and technological climate. Spam is a growing concern amongst users and security advisors. As SMS’s are also continually used in phishing scams, which trick users into revealing confidential data such as banking details. read more… »
Another Blow To Internet Explorer’s Reputation
Another blow has been dealt to Internet Explorer’s credibility as a reliable and safe browser recently. Using an undocumented browser security flaw in all versions of the browser the Chinese government was able to hack into several Gmail accounts. read more… »
