Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | Entertainment, Music Related Links, Useful | 2 Comments
The 16th annual MTN South African Music Awards will be held on Saturday, 17 April 2010.
To qualify for entry for the award, the album must have been released between 29 November 2008 and 27 November 2009.
Nomination entries will open on Monday 2 November 2009 and interested participants will have one month in which to enter before the closing date, being Friday 27 November 2009.
New Award:
“International Achievement Award.
This Special Category award will recognise the South African recording artist who has achieved the most success with the development of their recordings outside of South Africa in the year of the award in question.”
Anxiously anticipating to see who this one goes out to!
The official Rules for the Award ceremony has not yet been uploaded to their website. Be sure to check back.
The show will be broadcasting LIVE from 20:00, on Saturday 17th April 2010… just 166 days to go!
The official MTN SAMA #16 website : http://www.samusicawards.co.za
Friday, June 26th, 2009 | Entertainment, Music Related Links, Personal, Questions, Tips / Learning, Useful | No Comments
Made a new last.FM image chart using the chart builder. The my recently played tracks can be seen in a chart style and updated automatically. The purpose was to have a image chart inserted as html onto the sidebar of this site; instead of a plain rss on as previously. A preview of the image is shown below – Click on the thumbnail for a better view:
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | Entertainment, Fun, Opinion, Review, Tips / Learning, Useful, food | No Comments
Nearly two years since I first went to see what the buzz was about at this Caribbean restaurant down the road. I remember driving by that place (that was once a house) and seeing all the renovations being done and wondered what the place would eventually turn out to be.
Was thrilled to hear that it was another restaurant and it had such a cool name: Jamaica me Crazy.
Tonight after probably attending for the fiftieth time, I described the food as Heavenly and simply felt the need to compliment their amazing food and also for always making want to go back there again. Hell I even got a very fussy friend liking the place so much, he decided to have his 30th birthday there!
We all know what Mondays can be like at the office; that’s right, 
Monday, June 8th, 2009 | Opinion, Social Media Networking, Tips / Learning, Useful | 3 Comments
I have been using the AnyFont WordPress plugin for a while now and I think it is by time I raved about it.
At first I was irritated by the amount of updates that became available but these days I can’t wait for the next update, as each time there is a newer, better, more easier add on to the plugin, which makes it all the more fun to use.
The AnyFont plugin is made by a South African guy named Ryan Peel. This plugin makes an image of your text into whatever font you feel like using at the time.
At this stage, you can customise your blog title, description, widget headers, your post titles and recently added, text within your posts that you write. › Continue reading
Saturday, May 30th, 2009 | Education, Tips / Learning, Useful | 4 Comments
There are currently four Mobile Network Providers in South Africa namely Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Virgin Mobile.
The services offered are alike; so are the service numbers. It can be quite a tedious task trying to remember or finding out which is the correct three digit number to use for whatever mobile service, you wish to use at the time. › Continue reading
Sunday, May 24th, 2009 | Music Related Links, Social Media Networking, Tips / Learning, Useful | No Comments
I tend to forget birthdays and depend on a list or some sort of recuring appointment in my Google Calendar, to serve as a reminder. In turn the scheduled event will send an sms reminder to my mobile phone.
I found a way to add birthdays from the Facebook Birthday Calendar application, to your Google Calendar.
Step by step instructions:
Friday, May 8th, 2009 | Education, Opinion, Questions, Tips / Learning, Useful, thoughts | No Comments
‘Aweh’
pronounced ‘Ah-wear’
This South African word, in real context would mean:
Newsfusion describes it as A Greeting “Aweh my bru” (Hello my friend)also “howzit“, “yooit“, “hoesit“, “yo“.
Urban Dictionary describes the word as A South African slang word used to acknowledge something or greet someone. (Hey guys) , “Oh aweh man!”
The other day, I ordered my meal at this restaurant, the waiter then listened, wrote down what I wanted and “aweh’ed” me. › Continue reading
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 | Entertainment, Fun, General+Life Stuff, Life Lesson, Tips / Learning, Useful | No Comments
Two great documentary releases, Zeitgeist: The Movie and Zeitgeist: Addendum, is currently screening at the Labia theatre in Cape Town.
As reviewed by the Labia theatre “…is the mind-blowing documentary by Peter Joseph, and is the most viewed motion picture on the internet …The award-winning movie takes a staggering look at the lies sold to the world via media, politicians, bankers and those standing to benefit.”
“Its follow-up, ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM, focuses on the shocking truth behind the monetary system, and › Continue reading
Sunday, April 12th, 2009 | Education, Entertainment, Music Related Links, Social Media Networking, Tips / Learning, Useful | 9 Comments
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Last Updated 2010-02-08
The South African Music Industry community, is slowly waking up to the powers of internet marketing and starting to utilise the services that Twitter has to offer.
By Following¹ these musicians on Twitter, you can read about their upcoming gigs and last minute cancellations or venue changes, band website updates, their new blog posts, new music releases, studio sessions, new music they are working on, concerts and touring, get their links to free downloads and to the minute news updates.
I can’t think of a simpler way for bands to keep in touch with their fan-base. . .
List of South African music-related Tweeple² on Twitter thus far (including artists and bands that have relocated elsewhere):
- The Rudimentals: Afro-Ska Reggae Band (Cape Town)
- GoldFish: Electronic Duo
- 7th Son: Rock Reggae Band (Cape Town) › Continue reading
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 | Entertainment, Fun, Music Related Links, Review, Social Media Networking, Tips / Learning, Useful | Comments Off
I was messing around on last.fm looking at all the various APIs , badges , charts etc when I found this little treasure…
It is called Last.fm Spiral and gives you a visual image (chart) of your weekly artists you have listened to…
I always knew that I had very little compatibility with half my friends on my last.fm list. All the years I was never able to answer the question: “So what music do you like” and the usual is: “A variety” and these days I just refer people to my profile … so I thought I would spend some time there today pimping it up. . .
My Spiral:
2008_10_2_anaschoons.jpg (JPEG Image, 790×819 pixels) – Scaled (72%)
You can then paste the url of your spiral into Your Account Settings in the section ‘
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