HTML 5 and digital generative art ALA Joshua Davis

Heard the name Joshua Davis? If you’ve been into any kind of digital creative for some time you might have encountered the legendary digital artist who’s inspired some of the biggest brands out there to make use of his computer generated abstract art in their marketing efforts. Some of these Brands include – BMW, Motorola, [...]

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nomadone in the mountains, escaping city madness

I’m a true nature lover, which is strange considering the majority of my time is spent huddled in front of a screen and bashing away at a keyboard day and night. I suppose it’s what’s kept me appreciating what nature has to offer. The last few months have been really taxing on my mind and [...]

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Our relationship with water needs a Refresh

It’s that time of year again when bloggers get together in force to spread the word about Blog Action Day and the topic of the moment. This year’s focus is on Water, such an essential element of survival that many of us take completely for granted. In less developed parts of the world, and, in [...]

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WordPress “Custom” Post Types, Taxonomies and Write Panels

The WordPress developer community is a buzz with a new “Custom” set of lingo which seems to be dominating the airwaves of late. With the release of WordPress version 3.0 a whole host of new custom features have been added to our favourite Content Management System(CMS) platform taking it way further along the line towards [...]

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Faith 47 & the South African Reality

Many of us who have spent the last few years in Cape Town may have come into contact with the street art of Faith 47. I’ve always wondered about the purpose behind these activists and their semi-subliminal messages which are scattered about on the neglected walls of our society. Faith 47 being one specific artist [...]

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New WordPress site for 2010 WorldCup Fan Accommodation

The fani.am website promotes fan accommodation in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup Soccer event, using WordPress, some great plugins & flutter custom fields.

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Embrace Technology, Save the Earth – Join Blog Action Day

My environmental action plan is simple, keep what I do simple, don’t use more than I need and work from home embracing digital technology. What’s your approach?

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New tools for my digital nomad belt

For the longest time now I’ve been agonising over how to manage my collaborations with partners and clients online. Many of the popular web workers swear by Basecamp, and I believe it is a great product. I’m not big on the monthly payment model for software as a service(Saas) and have instead opted for using [...]

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Web Guru Spotlight #7 – The WordPress Heavyweights

They are the ones pushing the boundaries, delivering fantastic themes, tutorials and frameworks for the rest of us to work with. They are the ones talking about the latest theme development techniques and inspiring the rest of us to up our game.

As a relative newbie to the WordPress platform, but an absolute WordPress junkie, I owe loads to guys like these for the sterling work they are doing out there. I wanted to pick their brains a little and basically just get them all together in one place for a chance to fire a few questions at them.

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WordPress Meetup – 28 September 09 – Bandwidth Barn

For way too long I’ve been talking to alot of the WordPress guys in Cape Town about organising the next WPCPT meetup, but it seems everyone is completely snowed under and we’ve put it off for more than 8 months now. So Joe of Frogfoot networks has given us a jump start and gotten the [...]

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Locked out of my Twitter Account!!!

A quick warning to all. Yesterday I followed a link to an app posted by one of my tweeps to something called TwitViewer. When I supplied my twitter login details I realized there was something “phishy” about the app. I saw another message shortly after that warning those who logged into Twitviewer to change their [...]

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Twitter Power User Series – Part 1

By now most people have at least heard of twitter.com, though don’t assume that everyone knows what twitter is or how it can be used. Research has shown that most twitter users rarely tweet and usually have very few followers. Mention the word twitter in a public space and you might still get a few [...]

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