Attie Heunis's Journey

The ramblings of a Caucasian African American

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Originally from South Africa’s magnificent Eastern Cape, my family and I now reside in Pennsylvania in the United States. To earn my keep I’m an executive for a multinational company in the Healthcare sector. I’m also a serious amateur photographer. Pro-environmental and conservation views.

Category: Tech

  • The best personalised homepage on the ‘net?

    I heard about ProtoPage from TWiT, my favourite techie podcast, and decided to have a look. I must say I was very impressed. It almost exclusively uses AJAX and is therefore very slick. Google do something similar, but Protopage is miles ahead (for now). You can setup pages to be private or public for instance.…

  • My home town (on Google Earth)

    Thanks to Google Earth I can show you where I grew up and my parents still live. Click on the image and it will open the full sized version.You’ll see two rivers in the centre of the picture. Bushman’s River Mouth is the village to the left (West) of the Bushman’s River (the more Western…

  • Joze Gonzalez/Sony Bravia advert

    I don’t know how many people have seen the new Sony Bravia advert, but I think it is fantastic. See the Sony Bravia advert. The music is one of the things that make it. The song is called Heartbeats and it is off the album Veneer by Joze Gonzalez. You can buy it from iTunes.

  • Anger towards Sony gains momentum

    I first heard about this on the excellent Security Now! podcast and it really pissed me off! Sony – yes that previously reputable company – has taken a positive step to alter your operating system without you being aware of this! No this is not some alarmist statement thrown out there to get ratings. This…

  • Hacking the IPod Nano up to 10,000 songs.

    Have you been interested in an Ipod Nano, but thought that 20GB isn’t enough. Check out how to increase your Nano to 200GB.

  • 10MB Broadband upgrade!

    I’ve just been informed by Telewest, my ISP, that my connection will soon be upgraded from 2MB to 10MB for downloads and from 256KB to 384KB for uploads! The best thing about this is that the upgrade is 100% free. Is this the time to start thinking about hosting from home?

  • Podcasting: A step by step guide from c|net

    The good guys at c|net have put up this very helpful Weekend Project on how to Create your own podcast. This project has it all. From the planning right through to publishing. They also go into the hardware & software requirements. The Sennheiser headphones and the sound loops link really interested me. There is also…

  • Adam Heunis tech talk, my techie blog

    As some readers may already know, I am a software consultant in London. If you want to check out my techie thoughts and practices, check out Adam Heunis tech talk. I’ve written some popular articles. The most popular being the MySQL & the Ajax ones. Any feedback is obviously very welcome.

  • Google is still pushing the envelope

    If you can (they limit downloads per day), try downloading Google’s Earth application. This is an absolutely brilliant piece of software. I suspect it uses a lot of the Google Maps technology, but as a stand-alone thin-client application it provides for a much slicker user experience. Like me, you’ll find that time flies by when…

  • Afrikaans podcast site coming to life

    A while back, my wife and I started an Afrikaans podcast site at Gesels.NET. We have now done three episodes and we’ve just recently been asked by someonse else to add their podcast to the site. Sofar we’ve only had good feedback and lots of it. I just wish more people would create their own…