With so many many amazing apps for Mac, everyone is sure to have a favourite or two. I decided to list a few stemming from my own meandering experiences. Some of them might be familiar to you too, but on the off chance that they are not, I felt compelled to share them. If you have other favourites you simply cannot live without please feel free to share them in the comments.Sparrow - http://www.sparrowmailapp.com Minimalist and beautiful, with special attention paid ...

All rising economies need a helping hand to achieve greatness. Economies that wish to thrive in today's fast-paced world of changing commerce and enterprising initiative need enterprising people. Entrepreneurship is a crucial part of any society on the rise, especially where technological infrastructure is lacking.The Entrepreneurship Guide website will go live on 12 May, in conjunction with the project launch at the Net Prophet conference in Cape Town.The South African entrepreneurial landscape is fast becoming a busy one. A sizeable ...

Tablets are fringe gadgets.Once we acknowledge this simple truth, Apple’s dominance with the iPad makes perfect sense. In 2011, we still tend to debate the necessity of a tablet computer in our lives. It’s an auxiliary device that we may choose to aspire to beyond the foundations of our basic gadget pyramid of needs: smartphone and laptop/desktop computer.What beggars belief then, is the fashion in which the world’s most powerful technology companies continue to approach tablet production. Unlike Apple that ...

World of Warcraft, created by Blizzard Entertainment, is the single most successful MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) ever produced. The game now has more than 12-million subscribers, each of whom pays not only for the boxed software but also a monthly subscription that averages at about €13.At the heart of the game is an avatar created by the user that starts at Level 1 and can cap at Level 85. Each level takes longer to reach the further ...

In yet another case of online security being breached, US computer security firm Symantec has said that Facebook accidentally left a door open for advertisers to access profiles, pictures, chat and other private data from the social network.The California based social-network said that there was no evidence anyone stepped through that door and swiped any information from the accounts of its more than 500 million members.Symantec discovered that certain Facebook applications leaked tokens that essentially act as "spare keys" ...

Beyond being something that constantly comes up on my Twitter feed, which I used to view as irritating, location based services (Foursquare in particular) were something to be forgotten and vaguely risky. However for both myself, and many others across the web, that opinion regarding these services is slowly changing.It is to be expected that, although Foursquare is the location service buzzword, Facebook Locations dwarfs it; or that privacy concerns are stalling the adoption of these services. However, beyond those ...

Private clouds built on the right foundations can help IT organisations meet their companies’ demands for more agile services – and allow them to carry forward current investments as they adopt public cloud computing.That was one of the big takeaways from the first day of the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), which is being held in Johannesburg for the first time this week. The event, which drew some 400 IT professionals from South African businesses and other technology companies like Intel, ...

Herman Chinery-Hesse, commonly known as "The Bill Gates of Africa", is to speak at the upcoming Tech4Africa conference in Johannesburg later this year. He will join a world-class line-up of international and African technologists that will present at the conference in October 2011.The conference will features speakers from leading international tech companies that include Amazon, Mozilla, SimpleGeo, Clearleft and a number of African speakers from SOFTtribe, SwiftRiver, the African Institution of Technology, Motribe, and Ultinet Systems.The two-day conference runs ...

With very little fanfare, the office of the South African Presidency, in a fitting move -- not via a press-conference or a press release but via a tweet - announced that Jacob Zuma had joined Twitter. His first, and at the time of writing, only tweet was:His "lack of activity" since then has not slowed his rapidly growing follower count however - after being live for just four hours, his follower count stood at close on 4000.Presidential spokesperson, Zizi Kodwa ...

LinkedIn announced on Monday that it plans to offer 7.84 million shares priced at between $32 and $35, as it becomes the first landmark US social network to go public.The California-based social network for professionals is expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange within the next month and will use the symbol "LNKD."LinkedIn, which has more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories, is seeking to raise as much as $274.4 million from the ...