Category: On the web

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Thanks to CellC, Facebook’s Internet.org will become South Africa’s anti-privacy internet proxy

South Africa’s CellC CEO Jose Dos Santos “proudly” announced that from today, 1st July 2015, CellC in co-operation with Facebook will offer zero-rated internet access to Facebook and a handpicked number of South African websites. In simple terms, you download a Facebook app...

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SSL implementation is poor across South African financial institutions

With the recent security issues across many South African mobile iOS applications, I thought it would be an important exercise to establish how well South African financial institutions have implemented transport layer security across their online financial services. Anyone can run...

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Upgrade your Playstation 4 with a 2TB HDD

The Playstation 4 comes with a 500GB hard-drive and especially as part of the December specials, Sony is releasing discounted downloads which quickly fill up your drive. While 1TB hard-drives are readily available, the choice for cheap, but decent drives...

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Monty, the penguin steals Xmas

The British Department Store John Lewis has produced a sensational short-film about a boy and his imaginary feathered friend – check it out here:   The short-film alone cost about R11m to produce, but John Lewis did not just stop there and...

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Migrating from b2evolution to WordPress

Once you are stuck on b2evolution, it becomes a daunting task to move your content to another blogging engine. I have always envied the WordPress bloggers and the WordPress eco-system of plugins, but never made the transition due to the...

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FNB – Hi?

Today seems to be the day of FNB tech-monkeys messing around with their site – a visit to fnb.co.za shows me a friendly Hi and nothing else: Does not instill much confidence in security – does it….