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Letzte Wanderung im Jahr in Stellenbosch 2. Dezember 2012 Photos: Peter Perrin ................................................................................................................................................................................... SPONSOR A CHAIR New Chair with cowhide seat and a plaque with your own choice of name - R750 Refurbishment of an old chair - R250 All the work is done free of charge and is meant to be a fundraiser for the joint clubs. Contact: Ernst Tobler 021 531 5779, 083 508 7906 .......................................................................................................................
www.techienews.co.za February 2013 Dear Members and friends! Welcome to one and all in 2013. Glad you made it past the 21 st December 2012, the day the world was meant to end. Gosh, and some folk actually believed this nonsense. Goes to show how vulnerable some people out there are. So, here we are again, new year, new article heading, same topic – techie stuff – you know, the stuff that makes the world go ‘round. Let’s see what the specialists will grace us with this year. You can be sure that many new items will be offered once again, from cameras to TV’s, computers, laptops, notebooks, ultra-books, smart phones and the new ‘animals’ on the block, the phablets, the abbreviation for a combination of a phone and tablet such as e.g. the Samsung Galaxy Note II, a masterpiece of technology. It’s a gadget that just about does anything, short of making coffee for you, and you can probably do that too with it, I just haven’t learnt how as yet ☺. You can of course also combine other gadgets with each other such as the dude in the picture below did. By the way, this is not a mock-up This guy got pulled over by a traffic officer who took the pic and published it. One other interesting stat that I read over Xmas was that YouTube is the third biggest TV channel in the UK? I must confess that I watch a fair number of videos on that channel as well as some of the clips are truly hilarious and highly entertaining. At the time of writing this article, one of the most important computer fairs just ended in Las Vegas, Nevada, the CES, short for Consumer Electronics Show, a spectacle run for 4 days where just about every company of note exhibits and showcases their newbies – in other words, a techie’s dream show, subject to having a wad of high value currency in your back pocket !!! One interesting, although not so new idea anymore, but becoming more and more affordable, is Corning’s bendable glass called Willow Glass which shall be used in the future for phones and other displays. Corning is also well known for its Gorilla Glass which is used extensively these days by the likes of Apple, Samsung etc. for near scratchproof cell phone displays on the iPhones and Galaxy’s. The Willow Glass is as thin as a business card (about 0.1 mm) and can be curved into a serious arc without breaking. Displays can literally be ‘wrapped around corners. The first commercial products are expected to enter the markets in 2014.
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