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[ 22 May 2011 | 2 Comments ]
Dax in Monte Carlo

The Amazing Race…
I jumped at the idea of having an adventure through Europe like a fat kid loves a cupcake. There was little time to save cash for this epic journey… but, I knew, if there wasn’t a date looming over us, my trusty brother Marc Frost and I may never have felt the pressure and pulled this off. There’s no time like the present! And with 2 months till launch date (April 12 2011), we went through the extremely tedious process of aquiring Holiday Visas – which was fairly …

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[ 12 Oct 2010 | 4 Comments ]
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MXit’s cool… and you’ve always wanted a MXit shirt like you see some of the MXit Team or other celebrities sporting around right?
Well now’s your chance to finally get some official MXit branded clothing. MXit have decided to launch a clothing line branded as MXit Gear.

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[ 2 Aug 2010 | 144 Comments ]
MXit join the evolution logo

A forgotten or lost MXit pin – struggling to remember that clever login name? You’re not alone, and there seem to be an abundance of forgetful MXit users out there, just like you! :)
I’ve had a lot of people asking for help with this and I thought I’d try put it to rest once and for all – so here are some solutions…

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[ 1 Aug 2010 | One Comment ]
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A trusty old bass playing friend of mine was doing some rough recording earlier this year for a few projects in Cape Town’s City Varsity Sound Engineering…

Not my usual vocal style (At All, so no laughing! :rotfl: ) …but I agreed to helping him out. It was fun and funny…

Here’s snippets of what he and I managed to track in a very rough 2 hours or so vocal session…

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[ 18 Jun 2010 | 24 Comments ]
dp

MXit on your desktop
A new pc client written entirely in Java, daxtop is a lightweight multi-protocol instant messenger geared originally for MXit on the desktop but holds support for multiple other protocols like Google Talk, Skype, Twitter and many more.

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[ 13 Jun 2010 | One Comment ]
tdd

TDD in the Cape
Most conventional forms of development developers use in their day to day efforts – are in the form of design first, develop after or develop and design as we go or some sort of mixture of the two. Then, just maybe – if you haven’t already juiced the tiny bit of time you have left before the deadline – you might have enough time to write a couple tests.

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[ 11 Jan 2010 | No Comment ]
tom

Blink 182 finish touring
If you have been following their progress, you may have heard Blink 182 have just finished touring the US and surrounding states. Although it is over, they’re excited, and it’s time for another full length album like we have never heard before.

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[ 10 Dec 2009 | 25 Comments ]
MXit Setting Login Names

MXit released a new service that can be used to set the name you use to login to MXit… so no more remembering those long mobile numbers.

Here’s how it works…

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[ 6 Dec 2009 | One Comment ]
2012 - California

After watching 2012, I was ready for the apocolypse. I knew I would survive easily… :evilgrin:
Because all I have to do is travel east to the Drakensberg mountains, and wait it out… eventually those Ark ships will arrive and I’ll be the new founding father and possibly the president if I play my cards right! :yes:

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[ 28 Nov 2009 | No Comment ]
MXit Mad Hatter

Last night, the 27th of November 2009, was the annual MXit team party, and what a party it was!

Everyone who knows MXit as the mobile instant messenging giant, with its sleak design, and more than customizable look and feel -also know that MXit are more than just a tech company… they know how to rock hard, and if MXit was human, it would have to be a “man of the people”

The event was a fantastic success, on a fantastic day. The glitz and glam of the occassion swirled together with …

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