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Info ZoneInfo ZoneTechnology focused blog with an extreme focuse on african technologies. Interviews Big IT Gurus In My Country 
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A Fetish Priest With A Website
2008-05-22 16:49:00 This is so cool. I stumbled upon this website when I was reading an article in a forum post about a pastor being mad at people because he had an issue with a fetish priest. I’m so impressed about this man-Kwaku Bonsam the fetish preist, taking his job a step further by getting a website to ... More About: Website , Fetish , Priest
E-zwich-Easy Banking For Everyone
2008-05-20 12:10:00 The current hype on the media now is the e-zwich payment system. Quoting from their website, e-zwich is the brand name for the common platform (the National Switch) that links the payment systems of all banks, savings and loans companies and rural banks in Ghana.It is an electronic platform that enables LOADING and SPENDING of e-cash ... More About: Banking , Easy
The Programming Way Of Proportionally Resizing An Image
2008-04-26 07:55:00 One of the project I baby sit lately is The Kamusi Project; an online swahili dictionary. One feature we needed on the website was a slide show [ which we use to have before when the project was hosted at yale ] so we can play a slide show of the images submitted by users. ... More About: Programming , Image
Why Vista Sucks
2008-02-18 02:58:00 Yes this video tells it all. Now after watching that clip consider yourself convinced that Vista sucks big time and also understand why people keep downgrading after few hours interaction with Vista. Yay Vista sucks!!! period. microsoft, vista, windows, xpShare This More About: Sucks
Implementing Captcha With A Challenge Or CSS
2008-01-21 01:58:00 One of the huge challenges facing online forms is automated script filling it up, then submitting it. A way spammers use to high jack a website then posting unsolicited content. A smart way of fighting these automated scripts is to implement CAPTCHA on your forms that way you can detect humans from scripts. Implementing CAPCHTA on your ... More About: Challenge , Captcha
MackBook Air Video
2008-01-20 20:57:00 Check this video. It says it all. mackbook air, thinnestShare This More About: Video
The Macbook Air
2008-01-18 00:36:00 Oh so I finally joined the Mac world and my first ever track of the yearly Macworld keynotes by Steve Jobs. This year’s Macworld ended with cute new technologies from Apple. The most fascinating among them all is the new Macbook Air, not only is it fascinating but the most revealing technology ever as it ... More About: Macbook Air
How To Know New Features In Gmail
2007-12-11 19:16:00 If you want to know new features rolled out or announcement made by the Gmail team, when login to gmail, just look at the upper right corner, just after where your email address appears, there is a red link which states the new feature or the annoucement. A quick way to know what has been ... More About: Google , Features
Faneshi The Programming Group.
2007-12-10 04:07:00 If you have read my previous post, you could see I made mention of Faneshi. Faneshi is a Ga word which means foundation or basis according to Lorenzo’s Ga dictionary. Faneshi is a small group of programmers who help each other to build up on their programming skills. How is this done, we setup ... More About: Programming , Group
Init Script For Alfresco
2007-12-10 02:36:00 One of the challenges posted on the Faneshi mailing list was for someone to write a startup script for Alfresco. I took the challenge to write it, not because its so trivial to write such a script but a way to kill time and shut down all IM activities. It took me a few minutes ... More About: Script
Installing Gutsy Over The LAN
2007-10-30 09:59:00 Today, I finally made a really clean install of my ubuntu system. Most times, I have been upgrading from one release to another. This chain of upgrades caused my system to be horribly slow to the extend that, I really couldn’t do anything with my machine.I also had issues with sound so I therefore ... More About: Gutsy
The School I Attend
2007-10-20 14:31:00 This is something off what I normally write about but I need a space to air my feelings of a school I attend. I attend a school that is really pinching on my freedom, interest, comfort and everything that will make me enjoy life as a student at the school. I know I’m not the ... More About: School
Creating A Secure Password
2007-10-11 06:44:00 Most often, I do get the chance to get access to people’s passwords, especially to their email accounts and I have noticed, most of them use personal information for their passwords, Yes we all know its hard to be memorizing passwords but using such means to generate passwords with the intension of easy memorization and ... More About: Creating , Password , Secure
Gmail not so secure
2007-09-09 00:44:00 How do you login to Gmail , normal http or https? If normal http then I’m afraid you’re at risk as your session could be hijacked by hackers. Recently, Robert Graham, the CEO of errata security demonstrated on how he hijacked a victim’s ( co-worker ) gmail session using a simple tool ( yet to be released ... More About: Google , Secure
iPhone has been unlocked
2007-08-25 23:14:00 In case you’ve not heard, a 17 year old New Jersey hacker has unlocked the extraordinary locked down iphone and used it on T-Mobile. According to the hacker, the unlocking takes 2 hours with some skills in software. I wouldn’t comment much, just check it out from here. I’m amazed how quickly it ... More About: Iphone , Unlocked , Has Been
How to build Cantenna
2007-08-25 11:49:00 I had a wireless training some few weeks ago courtesy IICD and GINKS at Winneba. It wasn’t quiet an advanced stuff as I expected, it seems to be for beginners and on the beginners level I must say it was quiet intensive just that organization and planning of the workshop was quiet poor. Last day of ... More About: Build
Using The Internet Beyond Email
2007-08-15 13:25:00 Ever since I got addicted to the internet, the way I use the internet has changed significantly. I remember my rookie days when I was on the internet, the only things I could do was just check my email and browse few other sites I come across as a result of reading the newspaper ... More About: Internet , Email , The Internet
How To Install Ubuntu Within A Running Windows Box
2007-08-09 10:57:00 There is this unofficial installer for Ubuntu called Wubi, which lets you install ubuntu (with your own choice of desktop to choose from, be it KDE,GNOME and XFCE it all depends on your taste ) from a live running windows installation. Wubi, is so intelligent that, it only ask you to specifiy the first user, the ... More About: Windows , Running
Day 8 at SIMPA Open Summit
2007-08-08 21:31:00 Today is the 8th day we have been at the SIMPA Open Summit . The day went quiet tiring because we went on field site to test if there is a signal between an access point we mounted here at wodiv and an access point mounted at Winneba Community Nurses Training school about 1km ...
Day 6 SIMPA Open Summit Workshop
2007-08-06 21:28:00 Today is the 6th day of the SIMPA Open Summit wireless training. The day started a bit disappointing because we went off schedule to go over a session we thought we have finished. Mr Kwabena Boadu of Arrow Networks took us through the theories of wireless networking and this was a session had on our ... More About: Workshop |
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