Colin's IT Technology Blog

Algerian Flight  # AH5017  has crashed with no survivors. Click here to read more:   http://wp.me/p4JuYV-1Y

Cape Town – A Zambian national, Miyanda Siamoongwa, flying to Hong Kong on SAA flight SA 286 was terrified when the flight suddenly hit massive turbulence half-way through the 14 hour long haul flight from Johannesburg. Despite SA 286 being a large Airbus A340-300, the aircraft was tossed around like a toy in the sky and dropped like a stone for several hundred feet before finally gaining stability once again. Read more here

The FAA has banned U.S. Flight Routes Over Region and other nations’ air carriers have also adjusted flight routes to avoid the region: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has officially sent a Notice to all US flight operators barring all operations within the Simferopol and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Eastern Ukraine following the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The plane is though to have been shot down over the war-torn area. Read more here

This is a truly incredible opportunity for charities. I am sure that all of you know loads of charities and not for profit organisations that could benefit from this? Read more here... Google Grants

Christmas in Zimbabwe is the time of soft sweet litchis, plums, mangoes and peaches. It's the time to eat small, sweet purple grapes straight from the vines and to take turns with the birds for pawpaws and figs. It's the time when its hazardous to sit, stand or put anything under avocado trees as the high up, unreachable fruits ripen and crash to the ground at the most unexpected times. Christmas in Zimbabwe means towering purple rain clouds, sausage flies and flying ants. It means rhino beetles and chongololos, large spiders and even larger snakes. Christmas is that alluring time when flashes of red, crimson and scarlet tempt you into the ever thickening bush to discover wild and beautiful flame lilies? It's the time of year for mahobohobo fruits: sweet, juicy and oh so more-ish and for mushrooms of all shapes and sizes - so tempting to pick but so lethal to eat. Christmas in Zimbabwe is that first green maize cob scalding hot from the pot: soft, tender and swe...

If you use any Apple devices from an iPhone to MacBook Pro then read on... Apple actually produce their own professionally produced documentation to help both administrators and users find the help they need. Here’s where to find it. While reading documentation is never fun, (especially for men) sometimes we have to resort to reading the manual! Click here to read the full blog

What do you do apart from panic when your Internet drops out...? Click here to read the blog entry...