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This Is How Much Time We Waste At Work [INFOGRAPHIC]
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Many of us feel like we can’t get any work done because we’re politely replying to useless emails, watching our nails grow in boring meetings and trying not to shout at our co-workers for showing us another baby photo (and by baby, we mean kitten/ puppy). If you’ve ever wondered how much all of this takes away from your actual productivity, Australian enterprise company, Atlassian, created an awesome Infographic for your viewing pleasure.
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Chef Gets Fired, Still Has Access To Restaurant Twitter Account, Goes Rogue
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
No one needs to be reminded about the transformative power of Twitter. It can incite protests, end regimes and mobilise the masses – but it’s also just as useful if you want to get back at the company that just fired you.
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Make It A Merry Christmas With Jack Daniels [COMPETITION]
13 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 42 Comments
Maybe it’s been a hard year and you deserve a treat for surviving. Or maybe your bank account is looking a bit empty and you still haven’t done your Christmas shopping. Whatever the reason, fear not: we’ve got your back!
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Why Didn’t I Think Of That? Genius Local Start Up Makes Plasters For Range Of Skin Tones [VIDEO]
13 Dec 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Cape Town entrepreneur, Lize Hartley founded Plasta – a company dedicated to providing first aid plasters, waterproof plasters, assorted boxes, sports tape, and micro pore in a range of skin tones.
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Catch Bailey Schneider’s Epic Year-End Show – She Interviews John Edwards
13 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
From 12hoo to 14hoo today, Bailey Schneider will take you on a trip down the 2013 memory lane with a wrap-up of the biggest hits and best stories of the year.
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Susan Sarandon: ‘I’m Usually Stoned At Award Shows’
13 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Aah Susan Sarandon. Ye of the luscious auburn hair and hypnotizing smile. Ye of class, elegance and dagga stompies. Yip, you read it. Snoop Dogg isn’t the only celebrity who likes to light up, Susan Sarandon admitted on the Andy Cohen show that she’s attended most Hollywood events stoned – except for the Oscars.
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WTF? – Please Enjoy This Video Of Arnold Schwarzenegger Riding A Toy Horse [VIDEO]
13 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Good old Arnie. The world loved him as robot-killing machine, and they loved him as the Governor of California – and he will endear our hearts even further with this little clip he posted on YouTube this week.
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Please Enjoy These 26 Facts About Beer #KeDezembaBoss [VIDEO]
12 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Did you know that hops, the plant that forms one of the crucial ingredients in any beer, is very closely related to marijuana? You didn’t? You probably don’t know a lot of things.
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Watch: The Definitive 1994 Pop Culture Highlights Reel [VIDEO]
11 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A lot of incredibly important stuff happened in 1994. South Africa became a real country thanks to the anti-apartheid movement spearheaded by Nelson Mandela’s ANC, and many others. 1994 also brought us many special pop culture gifts like Timone and Pumbaa from ‘The Lion King’, the immortal quote “Run Forrest run!”, and Radiohead’s ‘Creep’.
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Apps For Free! Please Enjoy Apple’s ‘12 Days Of Gifts’
11 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple just loves spoiling us, and that’s why we love Apple. The company is giving iPad and iPhone users the opportunity to download FREE apps, with its end-of-year promotional app, “12 Days of Gifts”.
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Obviously They Use Actual Cannons To Train Their Goalkeepers In Slovenia [VIDEO]
11 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Goalkeepers have it hard, harder than most sub-groups of athletes. Regardless of the context, if you let that ball slip in, you WILL get a bollocking from your whole team. Which is presumably why these Slovenian footballers in the fourth division team SD Gorisnica decided to use actual cannons to launch soccer balls at their keeper.
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Forget Drones, Groupon Are Using Catapults To Make Deliveries [VIDEO]
11 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While Amazon plans to use ultra-modern drones in their Prime Air service, Groupon are going full-medieval with plans to launch a catapult delivery service.
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TIME Magazine’s ‘Most Surprising’ Photos Of 2013
11 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
2013 will be remembered for many reasons. It was the year of the Reeva Steenkamp shooting, Mandela’s passing, and Miley Cyrus’ twerking. All-in-all, it was a year with moments that left us shocked, bewildered, amazed, and heart-broken. In honour of this crazy year, TIME has put together a collection of the ‘Most Surprising’ images of 2013.
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Caprice Partners In Free Wi-Fi For Camps Bay Initiative
10 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
It seems the Internet gods have heard our prayers. It was just announced that Skyrive, in partnership with MacroLan and Café Caprice, will launch free Wi-Fi for Camps Bay! Skyrove is aWi-Fi company in Cape Town that specialises in software solutions, and we would like to thank them dearly for the free Wi-Fi. Internet-junkies will be able to use 100MB of data per device per day for free, and, after that, extra data can be bought from Skyrove or one of its partners.
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Check Out The Mandela Laser Display They Did On Table Mountain [PIC]
10 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Tata Madiba is being honoured by the Western Cape provincial government with laser projections that will be shone onto Table Mountain this week.
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Now You Can Make Your Own Street View On Google
10 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has just dropped their very own DIY-street-view-tool that lets you contribute to their global network of images with your own camera.
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You Gotta See This: The First Interview With Nelson Mandela From 1961 [VIDEO]
10 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We’ve found this one knocking around in the basement – it’s Madiba’s first-ever TV interview.
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First Coffee Machine Ever To Roast, Grind And Brew [VIDEO]
09 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sure, we have those coffee-makers that grind, brew and spit out coffee at the push of a button, but what if we really wanted to roast our beans too?
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Attention Truffle Fans – You Can Adopt A Truffle Tree In France Now
09 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Truffles are the diamonds of cuisine – exquisite, much desired worldwide, and hard to come by. Which makes adopting your very own truffle tree a fairly epic prospect.
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Uber Will Drive You To And From Your Office Christmas Party – For Free
06 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Calling all party animals! Uber will transport you and your colleagues FOR FREE to and from your office Christmas party. Now you can get as festive as you like, without worrying about the consequences.
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Here’s The “Fastest Growing iPhone Game Ever”
06 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This game is absolutely tearing it up on the app store charts. In just three weeks, the trivia game ‘QuizUp’ has amassed 3,5 million registered users. It reached its millionth user in just eight days. QuizUp is being called the “fastest-growing iPhone game in history.”
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This New iPhone Zoom-Lens Will Blow Your Mind [IMAGES]
06 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Smartphone cameras have come a long, long way since those crappy little one-megapixel cameras on the back of old Motorola clam-shells. And thank God for that. But if we’re honest, there are limitations to a any smartphone camera. But that’s where gadgets like this one fit in.
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Watch Nelson Mandela’s One And Only Movie Cameo Here [VIDEO]
06 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A man who is as well-known and distinguished as Nelson Mandela has obviously been credited for dozens of on-screen appearances, but surprisingly, he’s only been featured in one major motion picture.
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SCIENCE: Crickets Sound Like People Singing When You Slow Down The Playback [VIDEO]
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
You’ll never guess what humans and crickets have in common – and it’s either amazing or completely terrifying. Composer Jim Wilson recorded crickets, slowed down the track and produced what sounds like human voices singing.
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This Is Where The Power Logo On Your Device Comes From [PICS]
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You see and use these symbols every day – but do you have any idea where they come from? Believe it or now, many of the UI symbols that have become second nature to us actually have a meaning derived from nature, history, and psychology. Some of these symbols were specifically designed with the user […]
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Massive: The World’s Biggest Ship Has Just Launched [VIDEO]
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s the largest structure ever sent to sea – and it’s hella big. The Prelude is as long as the Empire State Building is high, plus another 150 feet.
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Finally: South Africans Can Book Doctor’s Appointments Via This Website
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For most of us, finding a new Doctor that is competent, caring and close by is near-impossible. Finding the time to actually call to make a booking is even more difficult. Asking around often proves fruitless; online directories only supply contact details. And even if you find a doctor with a web booking form, how do you know if they’re any good?
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New Space Station Cameras Let’s You Watch Your Neighbourhood Live [VIDEO]
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A few HD cameras were recently delivered to the International Space Station, and they’re all set to start streaming live images from space.
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Here’s How To Never Have Tangled Headphone Cable Again [VIDEO]
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The headphone-cable-tangle. Possibly one of the most common tech afflictions, and also one of the most mysterious. It plagues us all relentlessly. Even if you put a pair in your pocket, and remain completely still for an hour, the cheeky buggers still tangle themselves up in the most intricate and complex way imaginable.
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Here It Comes: Google Is Getting Serious About Robots
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While Amazon was shooting its mouth off about drones that can deliver packages, Google was quietly acquiring several technology companies in a bid to create a new generation of robots.
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