How to send free SMS from Gmail (except to Zimbabwe)

Log in to Gmail, then go to Settings and click Labs. Enable ‘SMS (text messaging) in Chat’ and then Save Changes. And you’re done. Now you can send SMS messages to your contacts’ mobile phones using Gmail chat. Enter your contact’s name in the ‘Search, chat or SMS’ box in Chat (which is now Chat and SMS). Select Send SMS [...]

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Should you check your email?

This flowchart by talented illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, while slightly tongue-in-cheek, is a splendid guide for our ever-connected times. My advice? Don’t.

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Pizza Inn Newlands charge Large, serve Medium
Whaaaaaaaat?

via Twitter No. That is wrong on so many levels. And this, after I sang Innscor’s praises and even name-dropped Pizza Inn as doing a good job. This is not cool. I’m forwarding this to them right about …. now.

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Ministry of Environment & Tourism website hacked
Turkish delight

The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has had a severely ugly website. That website has been hacked. I can’t tell if this happened recently, but the contact email address the hacker left suggests this may have happened sometime last year. MusLim HaCkeRs Virtual Soldier returns/ The Game Started Close the holes. mailto : hacker.2011@w.cn Following the Ministry of Finance incident [...]

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World Consumer Rights Day – March 15th
World Consumer Rights Day

Apparently tomorrow is World Consumer Rights Day. According to the release by Consumers International, a “world” consumer-rights advocacy group (and group of groups) based in London, these guys do this every year, across the world.

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Gideon Gono “stole public funds” – Kereke
I make it rain

Munyaradzi Kereke is a former lieutenant of the current Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Gideon Gono.

Munyaradzi Kereke has written a letter to Gideon Gono, making a large number of sensational allegations. It makes for interesting reading, but as with any matter of dispute, we take the allegations with the requisite scepticism.

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How to Remove Your Google Search History Before It Spreads
Do no evil ... at first

On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google’s other products. This protection was especially important because search [...]

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Ministry of Finance website hacked
Hacked!

The Abs0lution group has hacked the Ministry of Finance’s website. One of the top stories reads as follows: Robert Mugabe & Morgan Tsvangirai reportedly dead after being attacked by mole people, At approximately 3pm the two presidential candidates were set upon by a gang of vicious mole people. It is unknown from where these mole people originated from, Some say [...]

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Call for Contributors
Blogging!

Candid Consumerism, a blog that seeks to give voice to consumer issues and promote dialogue between consumers and service providers, seeks contributors from people based in Zimbabwe. Following the blog’s mission, we will be a platform for the exchange of ideas, projects, news and information between ordinary people, business operators and audiences across Zimbabwe, its diaspora and the rest of [...]

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Facebook Timeline: Make Old Posts More Private
Faces - smiley!

So. Facebook finally rolled out its much-anticipated Timeline feature, which brings a snazzy new interface to your profile, not to mention the ability to see every post anyone’s ever made back to their first day on Facebook. Every. Single. One. You can get the Timeline feature right now, but Facebook gives you seven days to adjust the look of your timeline before it goes public. Chances are, you’ll want to tweak a few things before you publish it.

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