defza :: def – ZA

Dam, now google wips up a free home page / website for all it’s account holders!

pages.google.com
OR
googlepages.com

Check out mine at jddcef.googlepages.com… (everyone gets their own subdomain)

So, anyone can have a free page hosted by googlepages.com…

It’s a WYSIWYG editor, so you don’t need to know any HTML, just point-and-click.

You get 100MB of webspace.

Google really has got almost everything in the bag already.
This means, you can make something available to your friends/family pretty easily.

A few years behind Yahoo!’s Briefcase, where you can make files available across the web to your self or to friends.

Yahoo! also has photos.yahoo.com – where you can share your photos in a nice album.
All free of course.

This web page creator is still in beta in the Google Lab’s, but it’s in working condition of course

Go ahead, create your own page! Remember to link to defza.com

You need a google account of course. If you need a free google account invitiation, comment here.

Want to create an online photo tour of your vacation to Bali? An overview of the South American precipitation cycle for your science class? A shrine to your pet ferret?

Now’s your chance. We’re testing a new product that makes creating your own web pages as easy as creating a document in a word processor. Google Page Creator is a free tool that lets you create web pages right in your browser and publish them to the web with one click. There’s no software to download and no web designer to hire. The pages you create are hosted on Google servers and are available at http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com for the world to see.

Light, water, cooking, heating/cooling, and communication.
OK, rolling blackouts are no fun. Which of these big 5 can you do without electricity?

Not having power / electricity is just not nice. And it’s going to be happening often here since the one power station is down for a while.

So, it got me thinking… what can you do without electricity?
Finding things to do or alternative stuff to do can be quite difficult…

So, I want to compile a list of things to do when there is no electricity…

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If you are on the road… with your mobile cellphone… you might just need something that requires a PC & internet connection.

Luckily your mobile cellphone has a GPRS internet connection & a web browser.

Sooo, I’ve created a WAP page that you can access when you on the road. It lists the things that I find useful for when I am on the move.

So far I’ve got mobile email, maps and za sms.

wap.defza.com

And, the same page viewed in WML:
http://wap.defza.com/index.php?hawoutput=wap

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Vodacom free sms.
Added National Lottery results (South Africa)
International news
Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Gmail
MSN chat.
CellC sms wap.
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Necessity…
Well, here in South Africa there aren’t any PriceRunner za or Froogle za type websites.
The kind of sites that allow you to search for the best prices across a lot of different online stores/shops.

…is the mother of invention
So, I searched and didn’t find anything that allows to me to find the best/cheapest price without having to visit each and every online shopping site and search for the item I am looking for one by one…

Search those prices
So I was thinking…. automatic search… automatic search… must create…
I put the idea off for a while….
until… Jason and I had a chat… and he spoke about starting an online shopping site/blog for ZA!
And this was the perfect reason for me to actually create a price comparison engine.
With Jason’s design savvy… I wouldn’t have to worry about creating a good looking site

Afraid of not being able to pull it off…
Then, when I heard that the jonga.co.za search engine was created by ONE man I knew that anything is possible.

So…. in a while… you will be able to search for the best price on the products/stuff you need throughout South Africa, without as much as a double click.
Unbiased results.

ShopIt!