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    Mid 2000's ExactMobile Content Catalogs

    Hello People of the Broadband! If you may or may not remember, in the mid 2000's in South Africa, there was a weekly (or monthly) Cataloge that we used to download ringtones, moving screensavers, ect. This was called "ExactMobile" I think? Does anyone have any history or memories of this...
  2. T

    Old Radio / radar dishes on Umhlanga Ridge (1980's / 90's)

    Does anyone remember / know / have any photos of the old 'radar' / telecom dishes (there used to be x2 giant ones) which used to be visible on Umhlanga Ridge in Durban? We used to visit my grandmother out that way in the 1980's / 90's and i distinctly remember seeing x2 massive parabolic dishes...
  3. carstensdj

    Scientists find human footprint in a mammoth track

    Article Here
  4. Budza

    Extract WhatsApp chat history from Android

    There're a few options available via Googling but most are outdated or require rolling back to an old version of WhatsApp in order to work. Has anyone done this recently? How? TIA :)
  5. Rouxenator

    Are these coins worth anything?

    Cleaned up and found these. Are they worth anything anymore? 1965 5 cent 1977 5 cent 1972 10 cent
  6. J

    Traffic light are 101 years old today

    We love to complain about things, and one thing we love to complain about is traffic and how many chicken brained inbreds rush over a red light, forcing you to wait another cycle, adding a good few minutes to your trip. We love complaining about congestion when a traffic light does not work due...
  7. I

    Online call history for prepaid Neotel CMDA phone?

    Hi to all. Does anyone know if there is a way to download the call history from a Neotel prepaid landline CDMA phone? Is there an online portal where you can view call history, or perhaps a way to sign up for email reports? If not, is there a way to export the data directly from the phone...
  8. A

    History Channel - I THINK NOT

    Hi all, I find it shocking that the History channel on DSTV has no historic merit whatsoever. Shows like American Hot Rod revival playing on repeat doesn't really blow my historic skirt up. The content that guys in the States get vs what we get is totally different (go check the...
  9. LazyLion

    Warsaw Marks 70 Years Since Ghetto Uprising

    Warsaw city authorities on Thursday recalled the ghetto uprising here 70 years ago as a doomed but "dignified" bid by hundreds of young poorly-armed Jews to throw off their Nazi German oppressors. "The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first instance of an urban revolt in Nazi-occupied Europe,"...
  10. LazyLion

    Justin Bieber Hopes Anne Frank 'Would have been a Belieber'

    Teen idol Justin Bieber faced withering criticism Sunday after he visited the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam and wrote that he hoped the Jewish girl who died in a Nazi death camp would have been a fan. The museum said on its Facebook page that Canadian singer Bieber, 19, had visited the Anne...
  11. LazyLion

    No Quarrel About Apartheid: Zuma

    There is no contradiction between what President Jacob Zuma and Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel have said about the legacy of apartheid, the presidency said on Thursday. "Stating that the apartheid legacy and impact still exists and will linger on for a long time does not mean that...
  12. Nod

    Command history timestamps

    Ever tried to find out what people did on the server? Have you found the offending command, but do not know when it was done? Set the following environment variable: export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T - ' When you execute `history`, the output will will now look like: 1072 2013-03-25...
  13. LazyLion

    American Gets Back Art Taken by Nazis During WW2

    Tom Selldorff was 6 years old when he saw his grandfather's prized art collection for the last time in 1930s Vienna, before it fell into Nazi hands. Now, he's 84 - and in a ceremony in Paris on Tuesday, the American was finally given back a piece of his late grandfather's memory: France has...
  14. Rouxenator

    Old Cape Town

    Would love to see more of these if anyone has some.
  15. mercurial

    How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's Privacy Policy Takes Effect

    Who's gonna do it?
  16. G

    How to build a good ITC profile and what is it?

    Hey all I applied for a credit card last week with Discovery card because I am a Discovery Vitality member and get good discounts to gyms and what not if you pay using your card. They contacted me today and informed me that I was not accepted because I didn’t have anything on my ITC...
  17. A

    Could this be the biggest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls?

    Seventy metal books found in cave in Jordan could change our view of Biblical history Not sure if this has been posted before, but I found it quite an interesting read...
  18. LazyLion

    Wicked Leaks: A lesson from history.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2010/12/wicked_leaks.html Click on the link above to see the video of the documentary. For the record, I don't think we should be comparing Julian Assange to any figure from past history... since we don't actually know yet what the outcome of Mr...
  19. d0b33

    Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns

    US Christian conservatives drop references to slave trade and sideline Thomas Jefferson who backed church-state separation link Republic of Gilead
  20. P

    Old Photography

    Old 19th/turn of the 20th century photography In the late 19th and early 20th century, enigmatic photographer T. Enami (1859-1929) captured a number of 3D stereoviews depicting life in Meiji-period Japan. These were converted to animated GIFs, the presentation is here...
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