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A blog by minnaarpieters

Blog description:

Thoughts on current international tech issues, from a South African perspective

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Mpieters.com ranks 127 in Africa and 77 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 211, and 239 according to page views:

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Review: Powertime for iPhone

Many South Africans have been in that sucky situation where your power goes out late at night, and you have to somehow find a way to buy prepaid electricity. This usually necessitates a trip to the nearest shop or garage which requires you to pay cash…. Blah, blah blah,

Published on Feb 9, 2010, 10:39 am

So is the iPad a computer for Mom? Not really.

So what is my opinion on the iPad? Well first off, I do like it. Despite all its shortcomings, I think it might be a game changing device. I read somewhere that iPhone should be renamed the iPad Nano. And that might be a very apt description, seeing

Published on Feb 5, 2010, 3:23 pm

Have a Windows Home Server? Here is how to drop its power usage..

IF you are one of the people who is using Windows Home Server, you might have been wondering what you can do to make the server use less electricity. While there are many innovations that people want from the next version of Windows Home Server, power consumption

Published on Jan 27, 2010, 5:58 pm

Review: Apple Magic Mouse

At the end of 2009 Apple surprised everyone with the stunning new iMac - bigger display, more horsepower, and perhaps more significantly, a new (good) mouse. Apple has never really been able to make a decent mouse up to now - true, they have always been cool

Published on Jan 16, 2010, 6:42 pm

Review: Amazon Kindle International Edition

Once in a while a game changing product comes along that makes you rethink conventions which are pretty much hardwired into our routines. This is immediately apparent in the consumption of media – be it music, movies or print. With the dawn of the internet our

Published on Jan 14, 2010, 11:29 am

Tips for improving Windows 7 performance in VMWare Fusion

If you want to build a Windows virtual machine, it is easy enough. However, if you want to make the machine run well, there is a few things you can do to make it run well. If you are running Windows 7 and a

Published on Jan 11, 2010, 9:36 am

Guide to switching email from Outlook to Apple Mail (or Entourage

I have always been a big fan of Outlook. Why? Because I liked the idea that it was a integrated app for running all my PIM data – email, notes, calendar and contacts. Also, when I switched to another computer, it was as easy as simply moving over

Published on Dec 17, 2009, 8:18 am

Think ebook readers are so great?

I have recently got hold of a Amazon Kindle International Edition (review coming in the next few weeks), and I have to agree, it is a very impressive little piece of hardware. While its basic hardware is not really all that incredible (except maybe the e-ink screen), the device

Published on Dec 14, 2009, 7:54 am

Tech tip: Get Panda USB Vaccine

These days a lot of virusses and worms spread through the use of USB devices like Flash disks and external harddrives. I would go so far as to say that most viruses I encounter these days use this method. Seeing as you cannot really avoid them, somehow

Published on Dec 11, 2009, 7:42 am

Out with the old, In with the new

Seeing as I am changing jobs in 2010, I had to go ahead and buy myself a new Macbook Pro (ouch), which will replace my year old Macbook Unibody. To be honest, I have loved the Macbook since the moment I got it, but I have to give it

Published on Dec 10, 2009, 9:15 am

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