Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
No I’m not talking about the fruit although I do find similarities between the fruit and the people who represent Apple in South Africa. The first thing to note is that Apple products have one authorised distributor in South Africa and they are the Core Group. The same company ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Scott Hanselman is a well known blogger and owns the podcast Hanselminutes. He works for Microsoft as a DevDiv Community Liaison and he has offered to spend some of his vacation time with the SA Developer .NET community. He will be in Johannesburg on the evening of Monday ...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
Last night a couple of us gathered for the final Johannesburg 27dinner for 2008, namely 27-31 Jozi. I think Garsen’s Cappello restaurant has got to be the best venue for the 27dinner as we have it exclusively to ourselves. No rowdy drunkards to compete with the speaker anymore. The presentation ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Last week some South African gamers were a little disappointed to open up their copies of Gears of War 2 only to find that the expected download codes for the Gears of War Flashback multi-player map pack and the golden Lancer in Limited Collectors Edition were missing. Our ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
There is some awesome value coming to the Xbox 360 platform this festive season with family oriented titles like Lips, Scene It? Box Office Smash and finally the awesome new title You’re in the Movies. It works with the Xbox LIVE Vision camera accessory that has up until now ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Congratulations to Ivan Daw and PARANOID365 for being randomly selected from the comments, you each should have received and email from me with a redeem code for the Call of Duty: World at War Xbox 360 multiplayer beta. Sorry Frank, a moving comment, but unfortunately it was a ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
I have two Call of Duty World at War multiplayer beta keys to giveaway. Note that these keys are for the Xbox 360 multiplayer beta and you need a hard drive, bandwidth to download the beta (890 MB) and an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription to play. In my experience ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
I can see flashing red lights on my console Seeing flashing red lights on your console’s Ring of Light is not always a bad thing. A lot of people see flashing red lights and think the dreaded Red Ring of Death (RRoD) has struck and often its just a ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Thanks to the new Google Custom Search functionality I’ve setup a search engine for South African Xbox 360 sites and blogs. Its currently in testing and will improve in time. If you run a South African Xbox 360 related site, get in touch with me and I’ll add your ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
The New Xbox Experience (NXE) update which has been confirmed for release worldwide on the 18th of November 2008 has gotten a few of the local South African users a bit concerned. This follows the news last week that the NXE will require about 128 MB of storage on either ...
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