Are you upset that your coworkers aren’t liking your baby or kitten photo posts? The combination of bad camera angles, shoddy lighting and atrocious styling could be the problem. This infographic offers helpful tips at capturing that growing baby bump or rampaging toddler on your smartphone camera. We reckon it applies to pet photos, too.

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Hitler’s life has been well documented and debated. Many an author and historian has tried their hand at describing and examining the rise to power of the nondescript, failed artist capable of brainwashing millions of people.

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Social media beware, as the saying goes, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Women out there are being given the cold shoulder by the men in their relationships according to recent studies. Men are more likely to share their thoughts to hundreds or thousands of friends and followers, than to the person sitting next to them. Social media’s intimacy with their loved ones has left some women green with jealousy.

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The trial of Oscar Pistorius will be partially televised. Thus spake Judge Dunstan Mlambo at the North Gauteng High Court.

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Forbes lists the outgoing Naspers CEO, Koos Bekker, as having an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion. They rank him as the 24th wealthiest person in Africa. There’s one important fact that you should consider when looking at his net worth, he is a self made billionaire.

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Susie Wolff will drive in two practice sessions for Williams this year. She will be the first woman in more than 20 years to take part in a Formula One event. She will drive in the practice sessions before the British and German Grands Prix.

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With only 1500 grey nurse sharks left off the east coast of Australia, marine life veterinarians and divers rushed to the aid of one particular grey nurse shark in distress. A diver spotted the animal tangled in an elastic cord.

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Keep an eye on things with an IP Wireless Home Security Camera. The camera boasts a high-quality 30mega CMOS image sensor and easy connection to Wifi. With a built-in microphone, the camera records with synced sounds for great footage, which you can access and view through iPhones, Android phones and Windows mobiles. Perfect as a baby monitor, for added security or people making incredibly low budget movies.

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Samsung’s new Gear Fit wristband is the latest pawn on the battle front between the two tech giants, Apple and Samsung. The compact, curved screen smart wristband from Samsung becomes the company’s third wearable device following the launch of the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo.

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That’s right. The first ever PUMA SELECT pop-up store will open in Cape Town on 6 March. PUMA is joining the World Design Capital 2014 party, by opening up its very own pop-up store in the Mother City.

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It will be known has the drum battle of the millennium. Only one man will step away as victor, deciding once and for all who is the lookalike and who reigns cowbell supreme. What started as a comment on a Reddit AMA has escalated into a drum showdown between Will Ferrell and Chad Smith – oh, and it’s for charity.

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Posh Spice touched down in Cape Town over the weekend. Victoria Beckham is here to support the charity Born Free Foundation Africa. Born Free is an initiative that aims to end the transmission of HIV from mothers to their children by December 31, 2015.

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For years a local doctor from the mining town of Springs, on the East Rand, has been prescribing patients with brain damage a sleeping tablet called Stilnox. In 1999 Dr Wally Nel gave the sleeping tablet to the comatose Louis Viljoen. He awoke from a seven year long coma.

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Not content with their eco-friendly courtesy car and equally planet-saving earthworm farm, the Mount Nelson hotel has another climate-change-reversing offering for Cape Town visitors and locals alike – electric bicycle rentals!

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The 80’s had Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ to bust a move to. The 90’s had the Macarena and the Spice Girls – cringe. Check out these three guys as they bring back Spice Girls’ dance moves from the grave on the streets of Paris.

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Well, so says one band calling themselves UB40 (let’s call them Original40). The other band also performing under the name of UB40(henceforth Diet40) will still be touring SA. But what’s the deal with both bands claiming to be UB40?

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Tiger on the loose in hospital. Comedy legend dies. Uganda signs controversial bill. Baldwin to quit showbiz. Soldier tells Prince Philip he’s fucked. Sad Schumacher news. MtGox CEO quits. Bronx Nightclub murder accused threatened.

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This year Design Indaba turns up the volume with a host of South African sound masters taking to the stage in the music circuit. From Afropop to Jazz, no genre will be spared with 38 acts, across 10 venues, for two nights in the Mother City. It’s about clashing together with local talent, promoting collaborations, […]

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Remember that scene from ‘The Dark Knight’ where Bruce Wayne mapped a building using a smartphone? Well that shit just became a reality.

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Look, it’s the day’s almost over. This animated compression of Pulp Fiction in 60 seconds will delight and titillate you.

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Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev, leaving his luxurious compound unoccupied. Opposition protesters found this to be the perfect opportunity to go and take a look at the ousted president’s residence.

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I spent a large portion of Saturday night consuming generous amounts of Haute Cabriere pinot, accompanied with some quality cheese and my newly acquired Louis Vuitton City Guide box set. Hours drifted away as I engrossed myself in New York, Paris and Hong Kong. Just the tip of the iceberg..

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HBO, who have a habit of launching awesome series (Thrones, Boardwalk, Sopranos, Girls etc.), have a new one about to drop and it’s called ‘Silicon Valley.’ It looks pretty damn funny. Click through to see the trailer.

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In one week’s time, Oscar Pistorius will stand trial for murder. Beeld newspaper have put together 21 burning questions that need to be answered.

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Even God has a Twitter account, so why not Pistorius’s PR team. A week before Oscar Pistorius goes on trial his public relations team have set up a Twitter account, that claims to reveal the truth about the trial’s proceedings.

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Taking over the reins of the family business after the person who was running it kicked the bucket is a daunting task. But it becomes a much greater feat when you have to dance with your father’s killer. On top of that, your dance partner is a snake.

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The Sochi Winter Olympic has provided us with a couple of momentous fails that we will cherish until the next games. The couple that stand out were the no loo fishing allowed sign, the double toilet fiasco and the Opening Ceremony’s Olympic ring mechanical failure. The Russians however did show they saw the comedy in their errors during the Closing Ceremony.

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Don’t know if we should be more impressed with Miley Cyrus kissing Katy Perry during her performance at Los Angeles’ Staples Center or that she kept “singing” during the kiss. Here is the proof that Miley kissed a girl and she liked it.

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Leave it to the tax man to get the job done. An investigation by the SARS elite Tax and Customs Enforcement Investigations (TCEI) unit has linked members of the Zuma family to organised crime. Two of the companies under investigation had employed Zuma’s son, Edward, and his nephew, Khulubuse. They are thought to have been employed as “political insurance.”

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If english isn’t your home language in South Africa, there is a very high chance that you speak more than one language. And if you do, take this moment to bask in the glory that is your superior brain.

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