Ismail Dhorat

Google Reader, has a feature where it recommends new feeds. It continues to surprise me (as well as freak me out) at how good the recommendations sometimes are.
Previously, it recommended people from the local SA blogosphere, that i had been following on twitter.  This morning, it recommended me the twitter stream of Umair Hague who [...]

I have just been back in South Africa for a little over one month now, my mobile number has been permanently on after a 2 year hiatus for just a month. In that time, i have received 3 cold calls from Altech Autopage, offering me special deals on contracts. Right now, i am using prepaid [...]

I have been using my vodacom 3g data bundle for about a month now. I use the modem with cheetahwatch a great application for mac, that adds a signal strength icon in your menubar. I was finally cut off for having hit my 2g cap yesterday, but cheetahwatch showed i had used in excess of [...]

So for the first time, in the many moons i have been using Gmail. I got back a “Server Error’ message. Anyone else facing similar issues? See below:

Something i have wanted to do for a while was distribute TED talks and Video tutorials on DVD to people who do not have access to the internet or who cannot afford the bandwith costs to download them. I can truly say that i am where i am today in part due to the power [...]

So muti in the last few days has been in flames. It all started when someone posted a link on muti to a screenshot from Coda of apparent spam from blueworld. Imod stirred the pot asking a few questions on his blog in response. Both the submissions to muti hit around 35 votes very quickly, [...]

Doing a search earlier i came across something interesting. If you search for “CellC Ussd Recharge” the top most link is MTN which is actually a direct competitor of Cell C. Jeremiah Owang say’s Google is actually your coporate homepage. Considering that, do you really want to drive people doing searches for your brand to [...]

I wrote a post about a month ago on getting the Unlocked 3G Iphone without a contract, it seems a ton of people are searching just for that “3G Iphone without a contract” and “Importing 3g iphone”, it would be a good idea to follow the advice in this post at imod. Have a [...]

So, I innocently followed the top most link on muti hot and i get thrown this:

“The page you are trying to access may contain content that is not consistent with the moral, social and cultural values of the UAE” Does the site contain pr0n? Hate speech? Hacking? What? If you know respond in the comments!

I have been using a desktop app based on fluid and the iphone twitter client hahlo to access twitter. Fluid is a SSB (site specific browser) that converts a site to a native mac application, that you can add to the doc/menu bar, it even allows for dock badges(Those little numbers that show new messages). [...]