‘Technology’ Category

The one thing I love on the internet is seeing how people can creatively portray boring old data in some amazing ways. This post covers some interesting infographics relating to our industry and some funny ones too.

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South Africa has the highest number of blogs in Africa then Nigeria and Kenya, a firm indication of the nation’s increasing IT literacy.
The main African blog aggregator — Afrigator — says South Africa has 9,183 while Nigeria has 1,351 blogs and Kenya’s 739.

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Google has just announced their Instant search, but how can you test it out?

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After a short while, developers will find that they prefer some tools more than others. Similarly, I have a group of tools and frameworks which I have found to be suited to my personal development environment which I use on a daily basis. Read on to see what they are and be sure to outline any tools that you have found to be helpful in your Web development projects in the comments.

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I have noticed, over the last couple of projects I have worked on, as well as in general within the Web Development industry, some frequently-asked-for features on Websites. The most frequent of these feature requests, is Facebook integration. In this article, I thought I would list a couple of these perceived necessities, and similarly, mention better alternatives where applicable.

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With the recent announcement of Google integration their Caffeine index as their primary index we can look forward to faster search, more accurate search and fresher results.

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Will websites feature Flash in 5 years time? Will we be seeing some innovation from Adobe or will the alternatives to Flash come and take all the glory?

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The Search Engine giant has been busy over the last few months, with some projects like: Google TV, Simplified Fonts on the Web, The Chrome Web App Store, Google Chrome Version 6, Google Wave Now Open to All & the introduction of the WebM Video Format.

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Apple is no longer the only software giant on the mobile scene. Both Google, with a large number of phones already taking advantage of its Android operating system, and Microsoft, who are planning to introduce their new Windows Phone 7 operating system later this year, mean business, and the public is starting to take notice. With the iPad’s recent release, and the (intentionally?) leaked photos of the iPhone 4G, will Apple have enough firepower to hold the throne?

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Google has just released a fantastic video demonstrating the speed of the new beta of its Chrome web browser. Speed has always been one of Chrome’s greatest features and the latest beta really up’s it’s game, and the video is also a great short watch.

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